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It's been a long wait, but for fans of the super popular first-person shooter series "Halo," Tuesday was a very good day indeed. Not only were gamers just hours away from the launch of the multiplayer beta for the highly anticipated game, Microsoft finally announced the game's release date -- Sept...
MySpace won't comply with a request by eight state attorneys general for it to supply information about sex offenders registered on the site, the company announced Tuesday. Citing the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, MySpace said it is prohibited by law from turning over the information withou...
Motorola announced a series of new phones Tuesday, and while all of them have interesting form factors and compelling features, only one -- the Razr 2 -- has the potential to compete with Apple's upcoming iPhone. The reasons? There are three: form, function and sex appeal. "People buy this class of ...
Consumer electronics will become an exploding market over the next six years for chipmakers who incorporate security features into their silicon, according to a research report released last week. While hardware's role in protecting content on consumer devices is small today, that won't be the case ...
Citing limited bandwidth and potential security issues, the Pentagon has cut off U.S. troops' access to several social networking and other high-volume Web sites. Soldiers can still post to MySpace and YouTube -- two of the banned sites --but only from outside networks. However, most overseas milita...
In response to a Supreme Court ruling that found carbon dioxide qualifies as an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act, President Bush has called for changes designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2008. "Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA must take action under the Clean Air Act...
DirecTV could test a high-speed Internet delivery service over power lines within the next year, chief executive Chase Carey said Monday. Carey's comments came during the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit in New York. DirecTV is just one of several companies in talks with provider...
Windows Vista is selling faster than any of its predecessors and exceeding Microsoft's own expectations, Chairman Bill Gates said as he kicked off the annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday. One hundred days after Vista launched in January, the latest version of Win...
Microsoft will literally place its stamp on a new wave of qualified mobile phones that are designed to be compatible with its main communications products. The software giant unveiled 15 phones made by a variety of vendors including Samsung, LG-Nortel, NEC, Plantronics, Asus, GN, Polycon, Tatung and...
A number of firms have recently launched remote home monitoring services. Are they able to do so because of widespread broadband adoption or consumer demand? The answer is both, but to examine this issue in more depth, we should explore both sides and see what conclusions can be drawn. First, always...
Competition is pushing all types of businesses toward greater mobility as companies ready plans to adopt mobile applications for core business activities. Business mobility has gone mainstream, according to a global survey conducted by Nokia and the Economist Intelligence Unit in cooperation with th...
Attorneys general in eight states announced Monday that they have sent a letter to MySpace requesting information about sex offenders using the site. Last December, MySpace said it had hired Sentinel Tech Holdings to check the site for registered sex offenders. That search uncovered thousands of off...
For the makers and fans of the blockbuster games "Halo" and "Halo 2," Tuesday will be almost like Christmas Eve. "Halo 3" is set to go live with its public beta Wednesday. For two years, gamers have been counting the days until they could get a glimpse of the game in action. Their wish was granted F...
Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled plans to replace its Athlon processor line with a new quad-core chip for desktop PCs in an effort to keep pace with chief rival Intel. AMD will launch its quad-core desktop processors under the name "Phenom" later this year, shortly after the company unveils its q...
The Defense Department is blocking access to 13 Web sites. Personnel use of popular social networking and entertainment sites is siphoning too much of its network bandwidth and creating too many security holes, the department said. The Defense Department has seen too much of its vast network's resou...
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