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Samsung May Buy SanDisk, Consolidate Flash Market
September 5, 2008 1:52PM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Memory maker Samsung is considering an offer for SanDisk to save #350 million a year in flash-memory licensing fees and consolidate the market. ...
Study: Online Games More Captivating
Joshua Smyth, a Syracuse University psychology professor, noted that most of the public debate on video games has centered on their often violent content, while the “enthrallment” potential, which can have both ...
GTA IV Helps Boost Sales of Video-Game Consoles
The popular Grand Theft Auto IV is proving to have strong coattails, driving sales of Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video-game consoles. Microsoft insists its Xbox 360 is getting the ...
CIOs Battle Hackers Using Olympic-Themed Attacks
Hackers are changing tactics, with e-mails identifying with the Olympics but hiding malicious Trojans that elude most antivirus programs. Where hackers formerly favored Microsoft Word documents, now they are turning to other ...
Father of Java Promises ‘Mind-Blowing’ Blu-ray Experiences
March 6, 2008 10:48AM Sun Vice President James Gosling, known as the father of Java, says the next-generation Blu-ray Profile 2 will offer “mind-blowing” experiences. Demonstrations of Blu-ray Profile 2 are scheduled ...
NTT DoCoMo, Google To Partner on Mobile Internet
January 24, 2008 2:44PM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us DoCoMo and Google will also continue to study the possibility of bringing Android-based handsets to the Japanese market. Android was announced by the ...
Time Warner Trial Could Stifle Online Movies
The actual cost to Time Warner of additional bandwidth usage is unclear, since Net access providers do not provide a breakdown of costs, but some industry observers have said that the majority ...
Network Solutions Slammed for New Domain Policy
Many are saying that Network Solutions is “front running” — a scheme used by domain-name scammers to register domain names only to sell them later for higher prices than the initial fees. ...
OpenSocial Faces Off with Facebook
December 14, 2007 11:13AM Facebook’s announcement that it would license its platform has renewed speculation about the impact of social networking for the enterprise. The momentum for interoperability of applications between consumer-based, ...
Ask.com Gives Privacy Control to Users
December 11, 2007 8:58AM Following news that Ask.com has introduced a new tool, called AskEraser, that can prevent Ask.com from storing any search data, EPIC’s Marc Rotenberg said Ask.com’s AskEraser is a ...