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Computer geeks who've quietly longed for the ability to play "Guitar Hero" on their PCs and Macs can stop fretting. A company plans to release a personal computer version of the addictive pseudo-guitar-playing game, currently available only on video game consoles Austin, Texas-based Aspyr Media said it has partnered with Activision to create a PC/M...

A group of states is asking the judge overseeing the 2002 antitrust judgment against Microsoft to extend portions of the sanctions and monitoring provisions for another five years The six states -- California, Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota and Massachusetts -- as well as the District of Columbia, are especially concerned about the part of th...

Siemens and BMW are the latest enterprise-scale customers stepping up to the Microsoft-Novell alliance plate Under the Microsoft-Novell alliance, business customers pay Microsoft for certificates that get them Novell Suse Linux and services....

In the latest x86-based server processor war between Intel and AMD, both companies are on the offensive. Last week, Intel preemptively launched the first strike with its Xeon 7300 series, and Monday, AMD rolled out its Quad-Core AMD Opteron series Both claim the quad-core name, but Intel's version is built with two dual-core chips bundled together ...

While watching "Who Wants to Be a Super Hero" with my six-year-old the other night, I became intrigued by the way the show segued to commercials. It froze the video and transformed the freeze frame into comic book art That kind of metamorphosis can be performed on digital photos, too. Some photo editing programs include "art" filters that let you c...

Online advertising by the pharmaceutical and the health care industry will reach US$2.2 billion by 2011, but the sector's approach to the Web leaves something to be desired, according to a market research report released last week "The pharmaceutical industry is in a state of flux or siege, depending on your point of view," maintains the report fro...

Cruising the Web on a smartphone is about like cruising for a date on a tricycle -- the basic concept is there, but the delivery is laughable. If you are using an iPhone, then it's more like cruising in a Volkswagen Beetle -- better, but still short of the Lamborghini speeds we're used to on the open cyber-highway Considering everyone -- from carri...

Lenovo introduced on Wednesday its newest energy-efficient desktop line with the ThinkCentre A61e, an ultra small form factor PC that combines a small footprint the size of a telephone book with 45-watt AMD Athlon 64 X2 and Sempron energy efficient processors The ThinkCentre A61e takes up 25 percent less space than previous models and weighs eight ...

News that there may be a link between implanted RFID (radio frequency identification) chips and cancer in mice and rats sentVeriChip shares plunging by as much as 14 percent on Tuesday. The company's troubles began over the weekend when results of three studies in the United States and Europe detailing the increased risk -- which was found to range between 1 percent and 10 percent in rodents that received implanted chips -- were published by the Associated Press...

L'Oreal has begun legal action against eBay in four European countries for the online auction site's alleged role in allowing the sale of counterfeit cosmetics and perfumes As of press time, eBay had received writs from L'Oreal in England, Belgium, France and Germany, Nichola Sharpe, an eBay company spokesperson, told the E-Commerce Times. Other me...

CentricCRM, a developer of open source CRM aimed at larger enterprises, is set to release an update of its flagship product, CentricCRM 5.0, next month, CEO David Richards told CRM Buyer "This will be a very significant release for us," he said, pointing to new platform-level support for third party developers including a plug-in architecture based...

Video game maker Take-Two Interactive managed to dramatically improve its financial performance in its fiscal third quarter, with net losses down significantly from a year ago even though revenue declined slightly Best known for the controversial "Grand Theft Auto" game series, New York-based Take-Two said it lost US$58.5 million, or 81 cents per s...

The Wii Zapper, a plastic gun-shaped casing for the Nintendo console's Wii-mote and Nunchuck controllers, will makes it debut in the U.S. in time for the holiday shopping season on Nov. 19, Nintendo announced Monday The console maker unveiled the add-on in July at this year's E3 Media and Business Summit. It is designed to turn the two controllers ...

Looking to more effectively serve a greater range of corporate customers as part of a larger turnaround strategy, Dell on Monday debuted a new data storage device aimed at the fast-growing small and medium-sized business (SMB) market The solution, known as the "MD3000i," will be easier to use and less expensive to set up and maintain than solutions...

Technology similar to that which propels tiny droplets in inkjet printing might soon be used to painlessly inject medicine into the skin with a patch Inkjet pioneer HP has created the drug delivery patches and is allowing Ireland-based medical device developer Crospon to sell them. The patches are being described by the companies as the world's fir...

Weeks before hearing that Apple had cut the price of its iPhone, the gadget's first buyers were met with a different surprise: an AT&T phone bill that in some cases was almost the size of a Stephen King novel. The wireless carrier meticulously detailed every connection and every data exchange. Some customers received bills several hundred pages thick, delivered in cardboard boxes...

Although some people are still trying to enjoy the last of the summer weather, the retail holiday shopping season has begun. With that, inevitably, comes the peak e-mail marketing season The holiday e-mail season started last year on Sept. 6 with a Christmas reference in a Sam's Club e-mail, according to a report by the Email Experience Council (EE...

The stakes are rising in the race to develop multimedia search engines capable of searching, indexing and cataloging the growing amount of music, images and video available on the Web The challenges are substantially more involved and complicated than traditional text searching. A lack of resources devoted to tagging and marking up content for use...

IBM has announced that it is moving closer than it has ever been to the OpenOffice.org community with stepped-up support in its Lotus product line of collaborative software and a commitment to contribute code The announcement suggests a win-win for IBM and OpenOffice.org, a seven-year-old project created by Sun Microsystems and widely recognized as...

Aspect Software has introduced a series of software modules under one suite aimed at optimization performance in the contact center. The modules are for workforce management, recording and quality management, performance management, campaign management and coaching and e-learning Called PerformanceEdge, the suite provides integration to most of th...