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This week, Nintendo once again topped the news in the world of video games, taking a risk with the exclusive release of a violent, Mature-rated game for the Wii, a console that generally supports wares of a more family-friendly variety. Meanwhile, Take-Two announced a big loss for the first quarter of 2009, while Amazon, apparently eager to recess...

Mobile communications on an aircraft are more than air-to-ground interactions that take place in the cockpit. Today, passengers can use their mobile devices at cruising altitude in an aircraft to call, text and e-mail colleagues, friends and family, just as if they were on the ground. In the future, real-time connectivity will offer passengers the opportunity to plan their travels en route, and give airlines a way to improve their customer service while increasing ancillary revenues and reducing costs.

Like cats and mice, security product vendors and cyber-criminals do not care much for each other. Over the past 24 hours, however, cyber-criminals may have just about fallen in love with Symantec, which made a mistake that let crooks launch a flood of malware on the Internet It all began when Symantec issued a diagnostic patch, PIFTS.exe, that was ...

Microsoft on Wednesday revealed more details about how its upcoming Windows Marketplace for Mobile app store will work and its strategy for luring more developers to the Windows Mobile platform The software giant will give developers a 70 percent cut of all sales generated by their applications on the new app store -- the same percentage that Apple...

In Italy, Biesse Systems is a manufacturer of substantial size; its American subsidiary, though, is by any measure a small business, with under 200 employees. Still, Biesse America's communicationneeds rivaled that of a large enterprise. It needed to communicate with its parent in Italy regularly, and though its workforce was relatively small, it was spread across six offices in the United States...

Last Monday at Demo, Zuora CEO and cofounder Tien Tzuo introduced Z-Commerce for Facebook -- a significant announcement that might be looked back on as a turning point in the evolution of on-demand technology Zuora, if you don't know, provides an on-demand billing and payments suite for companies that sell Software as a Service (SaaS). You might t...

Despite the current economics, netbook sales have been growing at double-digit rates. It's one of the few hot spots in the consumer computing space. There are now more than 50 vendors with an offering across EMEA! What's really interesting is the shift toward the importance of the telco channel in accelerating netbooks sales. The decreasing price p...

Messing around with the hard drive's structure is high on my list of the most unpleasant things to do with a computer. However, my basic do-it-myself credo is to never pay a computer shop guy to do what I can handle myself. My corollary to that philosophy is to never pay for software you can get for free With hard drive partitioning, the issue is l...

On Tuesday, HP announced with much fanfare its move into storage virtualization. It unveiled its StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) models 6400 and 8400, and the SAN (Storage Array Network) Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP) 2.1 These will let businesses squeeze more out of their storage resources, which have been sadly ignored in the...

Social networking and blogging are now more popular online activities than using email, according to a new report by the Nielsen Co. The member community category -- which includes both social networks and blogs -- is growing as fast as the four other online sectors in the top five: search, portals, PC software and email.

Online video site YouTube has stopped streaming music videos to users in the United Kingdom due to a dispute over royalties with PRS for Music, the UK entity that collects royalties for music artists The two sides have been locked in a battle over royalties for months, and YouTube, which is owned by Google, claims that PRS wants too much money for ...

It certainly meets the Tom Clancy High-Tech Battlefield Seal of Approval, but it also hopes to take advantage of new stimulus-package spending that should result in new construction projects nationwide. These are the potential markets Dell is targeting with its new XFR E6400 Latitude rugged laptop computer "It is engineered to meet the needs of eve...

"With great power comes great responsibility" is an oft-quoted line from the first "Spider-Man" film. Without torturing the "web" metaphor beyond its breaking point, it also applies to your friendly neighborhood Internet service provider A maze of legislation, regulations and business practices dating back to the 1930s has given ISPs the power to f...

It's been four months since Google announced it would guarantee 99.9 percent system accessibility for users of its Google Apps Premier Edition -- a cloud-based productivity suite of business-oriented messaging and collaboration apps, including integration capabilities and support At the time, it sent a welcome message; although cloud computing was ...

Where is a location-based application that's been around for a while in BlackBerry and iPhone versions, as well as for the Symbian S60 platform. Now, there's an Android version, which is free and available at the Android Market, Handango and MobiHand.Where aggregates content from a variety of content providers, and they're all location-based. Need...

You are ready to purchase your dream SLR (single-lens reflex) digital camera, and like most people, you are unsure where to start. If you want to maximize your fun and creativity, capturing images that will make your family, your friends, and yourself proud, it is crucial you conduct the proper research before making the investment. You are thinking about comparing hundreds of online product reviews, but you know that may very well become tiring and ultimately be unhelpful. You must first have a good understanding of how your hobbies or profession relate to your photography needs.

The revolving door at the Department of Homeland Security's National Cybersecurity Center continues to spin at warp speed, with the announcement late last week that yet another U.S. cybersecurity czar is leaving the agency Rod Beckstrom, who became NCC director a year ago, complained in his resignation letter about interference with his duties comi...

Smartphone maker Palm said Monday that it will remarket shares held by private equity firm Elevation Partners in an attempt to raise more capital as it readies itself for the rollout of its much-anticipated touchscreen phone, the Pre Palm will sell about 18.5 million common shares -- or about half of the shares and warrants that were purchased by E...

Everyone's talking about Google's next big acquisition, but whether the company will actually make it is far from certain. The services the potential target offers are not quite in line with what Google does -- but then again, Google has never followed a straight linear product development road map. It would be a pricey deal -- even for Google, which is sitting on some US$15 billion in cash. Plus, CEO Eric Schmidt has all but denied that such a transaction is in the works...

In the tech industry, there are few careers with a cool factor equal to the title "game developer." For a whole host of gamers, making a living out of creating video games is akin to finding the holy grail, winning the lottery or becoming a renowned actor or musician. For their legions of fans, the best game designers are nothing short of rock sta...