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The evolution of video gaming took another quantum leap forward this week with the announcement that researchers are now enlisting Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) in the fight against diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's and several forms of cancer The Tokyo-based Sony said owners of Internet-connected PS3s will now be able to partici...

Internet search giant Google announced Wednesday it will take steps to improve the way it handles data obtained as millions of consumers search for products and information online Within the next year, the company said, Google will change its privacy policy and begin deleting personally identifiable information 18 to 24 months after it has been log...

Time Warner's AOL unit said it would withdraw its US$900 million offer to purchase the Swedish online marketing company TradeDoubler, saying it had not received enough interest in its bid from shareholders TradeDoubler's management had backed the AOL offer, which was made in January, but several major funds had said they would withhold their shares...

FrontRange has acquiredEnteo, a privately held Germany-based company, at undisclosed terms. The firm's product offerings include applications for patch management, distribution of operating systems and applications, license management and compliance, and configuration management. It has 1,200 customers Initially, FrontRange intends to integrate its...

SWsoft announced Thursday it will deliver its popular Virtuozzo server virtualization software in a new bundle with Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 The SWsoft bundle will be available through the SWsoft channel. Although Novell provided support and resources for the bundle, the company doesn't plan to sell it directly....

Cybersquatters, typosquatters and domain tasters were targeted by Microsoft Wednesday in a series of lawsuits filed in California, Washington and the United Kingdom "Domain name abuse is a growing global challenge, and so Microsoft is expanding its efforts in this area for two reasons," explained Microsoft Senior Attorney Aaron Kornblum in a video ...

While MySpace continues to hold a dominate position in the social networking arena, a new survey shows smaller alternative sites are now growing in popularity MySpace commands 80 percent of social networking market share, but newcomers such as Buzznet and iMeen continue to gain more ground each week, according to online intelligence service Hitwise...

While the Internet has become a daily part of most American lives, Hispanics with lower levels of education and English proficiency are lagging, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project Seventy-one percent of the non-Hispanic, white adult population in the United States currently goes online, the study found, but only a...

Taking direct aim at Microsoft, Cisco plans to acquireWebEx Communications for US$3.2 billion. Under the agreement, Cisco will purchase all of the outstanding shares of WebEx for $57 per share. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2007 The deal dramatically ups the stakes in the competitive Web conferenc...

Former Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, whose decision to aggressively investigate boardroom press leaks led to a scandal and a wave of resignations -- but little collateral damage for the PC maker -- was cleared of all criminal charges Wednesday Judge Ray E. Cunningham dismissed all charges against Dunn, who had been indicted in October o...

I'm an early adopter. I don't just analyze technology from the safety of my own cubicle; I bring it into my home and live with it I find that by doing so, I gain a perspective that would otherwise be lost. I thought I would share some of that perspective with you today....

Do you want revolutionary improvements in IT quality and speed-to-solution with dramatic reductions in cost? Consider an organization-wide Web services delivery strategy Today, businesses demand three key outcomes from IT:...

Now that IBM and Intel have both created chips using 45nm process technology, it's clear chip technology will continue at least a little longer on the path predicted by Moore's Law, with ever-tinier creations coming out every two years or so High-k metals, in particular, appear to help solve one of the biggest problems that have dogged chip designe...

Red Hat announced Wednesday the release of its Enterprise 5.0 Server and desktop/workstation versions of its open source Linux operating system Red Hat also announced the availability of the Linux Enterprise 5.0 Advanced Platform, which provides the architecture to manage end-to-end open source applications run from a single platform....

Microsoft on Wednesday confirmed that it plans to acquire Tellme, a privately held speech recognition vendor. The deal gives Microsoft functionality in Tellme's core competencies: voice-activated nationwide directory assistance, enterprise customer service and voice-enabled mobile search Founded in 1999, Tellme doesn't have the name recognition of ...

In a contentious congressional hearing Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission was accused of overstepping its authority in its recent actions regarding the cable TV industry At the end of 2006, the FCC -- led by Commissioner Kevin Martin -- approved in a 3-2 vote new video franchising rules designed to increase competition in the cable in...

Nintendo Wii owners will be able to do battle against each other online for the first time beginning in June, after partnering with a company that specializes in multiplayer gaming technology Nintendo says it has partnered with GameSpy, a division of Fox Interactive Media, to provide Wii gamers online play functions....

NBC Universal on Wednesday said that it will sell episodes of "The Office," "Heroes," "ER" and other prime-time television shows on-demand over cell phone networks throughout the U.S The New York-based company struck a deal with MobiTV, a mobile and broadband TV outfit that since 2003 has worked with NBC on developing a mobile TV network....

Ever since Dell launched its IdeaStorm Web site earlier this year, the company has been inundated with customers -- and potential customers -- clamoring for Dell to offer Linux preinstalled on desktop and laptop PCs In February, Dell said it would certify Novell's Suse Linux on business desktop and laptop PCs, but stopped short of saying it would o...

Coming closer to founder Bill Gates' goal of providing gamers the chance to play online almost anywhere, Microsoft said Wednesday its Games for Windows Live will be activated May 8 When that happens, people playing PC games on computers running the new Windows Vista operating system will enjoy many of the same online experiences now available to Xb...