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Nokia Ships One Million N-Gage Game Decks

Nokia announced that it has shipped its one millionth game deck globally since the sales of the N-Gage platform started eleven months ago. According to Nokia, the sale of one million N-Gage and N-Gage QD game decks marks a significant milestone in the world of portable gaming. "We're proud to have r...

A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of some of the smallest planets yet detected beyond our solar system: two worlds that represent a new category of extra-solar planets. Each of newly discovered planets is roughly comparable to the planet Neptune in our own solar system, says Geoffrey...

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Blu-ray Adds Microsoft's VC-1 Codec

The Blu-ray Disc Association and Microsoft have agreed to include the VC-1 advanced compression video codec, the proposed SMPTE standard based on Windows Media 9, as a mandatory codec in Blu-ray Disc's BD-ROM specification for video playback equipment. Video codecs are used to compress video images ...

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

What Downloading Market?

It's the dripping tap principal. Eventually, you can't hear anything else. Repeat something continually and people -- including the mainstream print and electronic media -- will start to believe it, particularly if what you're saying comes nicely wrapped in a study. "The paid-for music downloading m...

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Skype Beta Version Released for Mac OS X

Skype Technologies today launched the beta version of Skype for Mac OS X. The software can be downloaded for free and is available immediately. "We celebrated Skype's first anniversary on Sunday (August 29) with more than 9 million users from every country in the world," said Niklas Zennstrom, Skype...

Skype Technologies today launched the beta version of Skype for Mac OS X. The software can be downloaded for free and is available immediately. "We celebrated Skype's first anniversary on Sunday (August 29) with more than 9 million users from every country in the world," said Niklas Zennstrom, Skype...

AMD announced this week that with the help of server market leader HP, it would be demonstrating the industry's first x86 dual-core processor in an HP ProLiant DL585 server powered by four dual-core Opteron processors for an eight-way server. A day after Intel announced a march to more efficient, 65...

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Opera Browser Goes Mobile

Opera Software announced that its Opera smartphone browser will soon become available for Microsoft Windows Mobile software.

SPECIAL REPORT

Traditional Telcos Rallying Around Cable Services

Telecommunications service providers are adding a new item to their product lines: cable TV services. Carriers view this as a natural addition to their ever-expanding service lines, which include local service, long distance communications, Internet access, and wireless capabilities. While video pro...

Circuit City and Verizon Wireless have signed an agreement to create a Verizon Wireless store within each of more than 570 Circuit City stores around the country.

Plans were announced today for the Data Center Markup Language (DCML) Organization to become part of the global OASIS standards consortium. Through this shift in proprietorship, the DCML Organization could benefit from the OASIS membership base -- more than 3,000 participants representing over 600 o...

Aruba Wireless and Ortronics today announced they have developed a WiFi wall outlet. Financial details of the strategic development agreement were not disclosed. The new Wi-Jack WiFi wall outlet will be marketed and manufactured by Ortronics and will integrate Aruba's enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) ...

Pushing the number of transistors it can cram onto silicon, chip giant Intel announced a step forward in its advance to the 65-nanometer manufacturing process, a move toward further miniaturization to boost chip efficiency and performance. In a sign it is on course to begin manufacturing computer ch...

I had a chance to chat with the recently promoted director of IT from Cummins awhile back on a large deployment of Windows XP machines. She saved her company around US$10 million, which resulted in promotions for her and her team. I thought it would be interesting to explore this because it represen...

Computer users, faced with never-ending security attacks from surfing the Internet and opening e-mail, are showing increased interest in switching Web browsers. Downloads of popular non-Microsoft Web browsers have doubled this summer, software makers say. The trend toward considering alternative bro...


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