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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 ...
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 ...
Study: Online Games More Captivating
October 18, 2007 7:44AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Joshua Smyth, a Syracuse University psychology professor, noted that most of the public debate on video games has centered on their often violent ...
Tomb Raider Coming to Nintendo Wii
The decision by SCi Entertainment to develop a version of Tomb Raider for the Wii is driven by the platform’s unique game controls, said Kathryn Clements, the senior brand manager for Tomb ...
New York Mulls iPod Ban on City Streets
New York Senator Carl Kruger’s proposal to ban gadget use on the streets of major New York cities is based on the notion that he calls “iPod oblivion,” which Kruger says leads ...
Samsung Develops Marathon Fuel Cell
Samsung expects to release the new fuel cell for mass production by the end of 2007, and has begun research on a second, smaller fuel cell that can use only a coffee ...
P2P Traffic Still Dominates the Net
A new study that looks at the impact of peer-to-peer traffic on service-provider networks shows file swapping forges on unabated. CacheLogic of Cambridge, England says the practice shows no sign of slowing ...
Google Unveils Personalized Search Beta
Google said that a fishing enthusiast, for example, would now get different results than a musician when entering the word “bass” as a search query. The service builds on the My Search ...