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Fountainhead Entertainment and Id Software, the developer behind the "Doom" and "Quake" video game series, have announced they have come together to create a new division at Id Software: Id Mobile. The software developer's new arm will create games for cell phones, the handheld Nintendo DS and Sony'...
A new startup company has created an online dating demo that conducts searches based on the facial features of desired celebrities and returns results showing potential mates that look like, for example, Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt. To use the demo, called "Eyealike," a user simply uploads a photo t...
The Los Angeles Auto Show is painting the town green this week, with its emphasis on hybrid vehicles and the first showing by Honda and GM of hydrogen fuel cell cars. Honda, in fact, will begin leasing the fuel cell FCX Clarity model to a limited number of drivers in the southern California area at ...
Touting its long history of supercomputing and grid computing expertise and citing the "extreme scale" potential of highly distributed processing, IBM is unveiling a series of cloud computing offerings based on open standards and open source software. Called "Blue Cloud," a reference to IBM's "Big B...
Incompetent and rogue employees at small and medium businesses take note: AT&T has released a new remote video monitoring solution packed with big-business features for a small-business price. The company's new AT&T Remote Monitor Service includes video cameras and a range of environmental s...
A group of researchers have successfully cloned primate embryos for the first time and used them to create stem cells, opening up the possibility that the same could potentially be done with humans. Using a technique called "somatic cell nuclear transfer," the researchers produced rhesus macaque mon...
Microsoft's monthly security update contains only two advisories -- not a bad number for the vendor, which in the past has rolled out fixes for a dozen or more flaws at one time. Another positive thing about this Patch Tuesday was the absence of any vulnerabilities in Vista. Still, the relative scar...
Video has been a perk packed with digital point-and-shoot still cameras for some time, but judging by the quality present in many offerings, it's a perk that has been treated as an afterthought by many digicam makers. Not so by Kodak. The chief of film stock -- now remaking itself as a dean of digit...
IBM's Blue Gene/L System once again ranks as the fastest computer in the world, coming in at first place on the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites, an organization that ranks the world's most powerful systems. The results were announced Monday at the SC07 Conference, held in Reno, Nev. Located at the Lawren...
Marvel Comics is opening its archives to the public with the launch of an online subscription service called "Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited," the company announced Tuesday. Curated by Marvel editors, the company's Super Hero adventures collection is now available in one digital location, giving fa...
The Open Handset Alliance made good on its promise to deliver a software development kit for the new Android platform Monday, and Google sweetened the offering with a new $10 million developer's challenge. The Android SDK is now available as an early look release, enabling developers to both start w...
Microsoft revealed specific details about its upcoming Windows Server 2008 Monday at this year's Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona, Spain, including packaging, pricing and licensing information. One major difference from previous iterations of Windows Server, the software maker announced, are t...
Intel announced Sunday it has made two important leaps with its new server and high-end PC processors: They are the first to use Intel's Hafnium-based high-k metal gate formula for the hundreds of millions of transistors inside the processors; plus, they are the first to be manufactured on the comp...
Probably the biggest announcement last week was Google's entry into the cell phone space. Regardless of whether it is successful or not, the entry will likely change dramatically what we will be using, even in the PC space, in a few years. For me, one of the most fun things I did was test-drive the ...
Children in developing nations who receive the XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation can exercise their imaginations and build their own cities with the original "SimCity" video game. Electronic Arts announced Thursday that it has donated the game, originally released in 1989, to the OL...
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