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It's back and forth between Microsoft and Sony, while Nintendo trumps both with more Wii sales than Xbox 360 and PS3 combined. Xbox 360 won the latest round in the monthly battle with PlayStation 3 hardware sales, according to figures released by NPD Friday. Of course, both figures--195k for Xbox 360 and 185k sold of PS3--pale to the nearly half a million Wii consoles Nintendo |
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Yahoo Inc. is preparing to tweak several popular sections of its Web site, including its home page, during the next few months to accommodate more material from rival services as the Internet company tries to polish its tarnished franchise. The makeover outlined for reporters Thursday represents a key step in Yahoo's push to regain the momentum that it lost while being outmaneuver |
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SanDisk on Thursday introduced a 32 GB CompactFlash card, the company's largest CF storage device for professional digital photographers and videographers. The latest Extreme III CompactFlash is double the size of SanDisk's previous largest product. The new card has read and write speeds of 30 MB per second. The device is not the fastest CompactFlash card SanDisk makes. The compact |
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After falling behind rival Google in the online realm, Yahoo is looking to turn things around in the quickly growing mobile phone market. The Internet company used the CTIA Entertainment & IT cellular show in San Francisco Wednesday to share a few announcements that it hopes will lay the groundwork for a successful expansion into mobile, including a new social communications |
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The battle for control over the internet is intensifying with Google, Microsoft and even the network providers trying to gain a bigger slice of the pie. This battle is, however, not only limited to trying to create or own internet properties like the most successful search engine, the biggest web mail platform or the largest video hosting website. The war has spilled over into the |
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There's a fresh crop of BlackBerrys out this week, and we have a big handful of 'em. I got some quality time with the BlackBerry 8220 Pearl Flip and the Nextel BlackBerry Curve 8350i at the CTIA trade show this week, aided by Research in Motion Product Manager David Smith. The Pearl 8220 is a decently sized flip phone when closed�it doesn't feel particularly big or small, and it |
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September 10, 2008 (Computerworld) Intel Corp. is expected to release its six-core Xeon 7400 chip Monday, just as VMware Inc.'s big annual show begins in Las Vegas. And the timing is no coincidence. Intel's chip is aimed at users seeking a consolidation and virtualization server platform, analysts say. Moving multiple virtual machines (VMs) to a six-core chip will improve |
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A lawsuit filed in a California court on Tuesday alleged Nvidia violated U.S. securities laws and concealed the existence of a serious defect in its graphics-chip line for at least eight months "in a series of false and misleading statements made to the investing public." The lawsuit charged that Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and CFO Marvin Burkett knew as early as November 2007 about |
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Research In Motion Ltd is launching a flip version of its popular BlackBerry Pearl smartphone, a move that reasserts its push into the retail consumer market. Like RIM's original Pearl model, the first-ever flip BlackBerry comes loaded with multimedia features such as a video and music player and a 2-megapixel camera with flash, as well as a Web browser and an abridged keyboard. |
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Everyone who has owned a cellphone over the last ten years should at some point pour one out in thanks to Cliff Kushler, one of the inventors of the T9 text entry system that knows you mean "DONKEY" when you type 366539 in an SMS. Now Cliff is smartly shifting his focus on touchscreens with Swype—a way to type blindingly fast on a touchscreen by tracing your finger or stylus over |
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A day after the recirculation online of an old newspaper story caused a temporary collapse in the price of United Airlines stock, Google and Tribune Co. offered sometimes conflicting versions of events while failing to pinpoint what started the bizarre occurrence. Tribune Co. said the Google News search engine caused a spike in traffic by adding a Sept. 6, 2008, date to a 6-year |
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Hewlett-Packard says it has achieved a mobile-computing milestone by getting the HP EliteBook 6930p to operate continuously for 24 hours on a single battery charge. The laptop used in the test is, however, rather different from those consumers would pick up at the store, at least for now. The machine's equipped with high-end components including Intel solid-state hard drives (SSDs) |
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Internet firm Google (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and Europe's biggest bank HSBC (HSBA.L: Quote, Profile, Research) have thrown their weight behind an ambitious plan to provide cheap, high-speed Web access to 3 billion people in Africa and other emerging markets. Google has joined forces with the bank and cable operator Liberty Global (LBTYA.O: Quote, Profile, Research) to |
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There’s been a lot of confusion about what Jobs meant when he set that sales target for the iPhone in January 2007. The giant screen behind him showed “10M units” — 10 million being roughly 1% of the nearly 1 billion mobile phones sold worldwide in 2006. But did Jobs mean that Apple would try to sell a total of 10 million phones in 2007 and 2008? Or did he mean 10 million phones in |
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AMD’s triple-core Phenom X3 processor was designed as the firm’s answer to Intel’s 45 nm Core 2 Duo CPUs and as a buffer to protect the tray prices of its quad-core Phenom X4 models. However, since the launch in April, AMD has cut Phenom X3 prices nearly in half since their launch in March and has repositioned the chips to compete with Intel’s entry-level Core 2 Duos and dual-core |
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