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 Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 3 has
been outsold by Nintendo Co. Ltd.’s Wii in June in Japan. Wii game console has outsold
Sony’s product by a ratio of over 6 to 1. The leading position of Wii is a
normal fact, as Nintendo’s game console have seemed to be in a continual run
for top places since its being released in Japan last year....
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 Google and Intel are just two of the members of a new green alliance that comprises high-profile names like HP, Dell, IBM, Microsoft or Lenovo, poised to fight against climate change.Called Climate Savers Computing Initiative, the alliance will be focused on energy-efficient policies and the reduction of greenhouse gases, by setting...
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 Nokia, the Finnish telecom giant who invented a “variant” of the Bluetooth technology called Wibree, announced that the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) will “absorb” the ultra low power wireless technology in the near future.Wibree is an open industry initiative extending local connectivity to small devices. This new radio...
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 On April 18, Web-search behemoth Google filed an anti-trust complaint against Microsoft, alleging that the Redmond-crafted Vista OS is interfering (i.e. impairing) its own software.In 2004, Google introduced the highly praised Google Desktop Search, bridging the Web-search and the offline search and thus gaining more ground on...
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 Microsoft’s patent deals signed with Novell and Xandros were not enough: LG also joined the boat, on June 6.The patent-agreement frenzy at Redmond seems endless. Barely had they announced a deal with Linux vendor Xandros this week that another deal, this time with LG, was already on the table, ready to be served.Allegedly, Microsoft is...
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 Have you ever imagined your cellphone, laptop or PDA recharged without wires and without sockets? This is what scientists from MIT have dreamed of and the first step they’ve taken is represented by a simple light bulb.Their invention promises even more: slimmer, lighter devices that will work without ever needing a battery at all.A team...
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 Last week’s high definition battle has a winner: the Blu Ray. The much anticipated HD versions of the first two movies in The Pirates of the Caribbean series and the entire The Matrix series have been met with quite an enthusiasm.The Bly Ray versions of the first two PotC films were released on May 22, in the eve of “At World’s End”, the...
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 Despite the fact that their companies are fierce rivals on the apparently still flourishing PC market, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were quite cozy together last night at Wall Street’s D: All Things Digital.The two appeared to be overwhelmed by the importance of the moment and from their body postures one could deduce that both Microsoft’s...
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 The commercial availability (and possibly the viability) of SED TVs is again sitting under the sign of uncertainty, as two of its main promoters, Toshiba and Canon, have again delayed the first models.Canon invoked as a reason for the delay legal troubles it faces with Nano-Proprietary Inc. On May 3, Nano-Proprietary, Inc. had announced...
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 Toshiba, currently the world’s fourth largest laptop producer, decided to end the exclusive partnership signed with Intel 6 years ago and to offer laptops based on AMD’s processors.According to spokeswoman Junko Furuta, which spoke with Bloomberg, Toshiba will use Advanced Micro Devices' CPUs in about 20 percent of laptop models sold in...
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