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Atari and Saber Interactive on Friday announced a closed public beta test for the upcoming first-person shooter "TimeShift." Gamers are invited to submit an application to participate in the testing The beta test will run in multiplayer game mode. Atari's aim with the test is to get player feedback on game tuning and balance. The classic video game...
The last week of 2005 brought dizzying levels of digital downloads, as owners of newMP3 players rushed to fill those devices with music, and recipients of gift cards from top sites hurried to cash in their chits Nielsen SoundScan said 20 million tracks were downloaded during the week between Christmas and New Year's Day, which more than doubled the...
In a bid to provide more services to mid-sized enterprises in the United States, UK-based Sage Group said it will acquire Verus Financial Management for US$325 million in cash Verus, a Nashville, Tenn.-based division of Financial Technology Ventures, specializes in providing credit-card and check processing services to small and mid-sized enterpris...
Texas Instruments today announced a definitive agreement to sell its sensors and controls business to a global private equity investment firm for US$3 billion in cash Bain Capital, LLC will purchase the Attleboro, Mass. division that supplies engineered sensors and controls to the appliance, climate control, industrial, automotive, lighting, and ai...
Texas Instruments today announced a definitive agreement to sell its sensors and controls business to a global private equity investment firm for US$3 billion in cash Bain Capital, LLC will purchase the Attleboro, Mass. division that supplies engineered sensors and controls to the appliance, climate control, industrial, automotive, lighting, and ai...
Texas Instruments today announced a definitive agreement to sell its sensors and controls business to a global private equity investment firm for US$3 billion in cash Bain Capital, LLC will purchase the Attleboro, Mass. division that supplies engineered sensors and controls to the appliance, climate control, industrial, automotive, lighting, and ai...
According to a McKinsey & Co. survey conducted in June 2005, leading B-to-B companies that conduct collaborative projects with supply chain partners and end customers increase their revenues and profits by more than 20 percent on average. But joint projects are rare in B-to-B because process chain members worry about sharing internal secrets with others, even their partners and customers...
As the first of my three-part report on this year's Consumer Electronics Show, I'll focus on the big companies and a number of the cool products that were announced early in the show. Next week, Part Two will loop in the late announcements and contrast what happened at MacWorld the following week. In Part Three, I'll point out what vendors are missing in their pursuit of Consumer Electronics opportunities...
Nanotechnology is being developed that can read brain waves, communicate them to a computer, and, quite literally, take those thoughts and transform them into actions, experts tell TechNewsWorld There are a number of technology development firms involved in this field, including Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, and privately held NorthStar Ne...
Motorola has inked partnerships with two iconic Internet service providers -- Google and Yahoo -- to provide access to search for Web-enabled phones The company will begin shipping handsets that include one-click buttons on the keypad and carry the Google icon sometime during the first quarter of this year....
Microsoft has pulled a well-known Chinese blogger's site off the Internet -- a dramatic reminder that doing business in the booming Chinese economy comes with significant strings attached Microsoft removed the blog of Chinese journalist Zhao Jing from its MSN Spaces service at the end of December, saying that it was complying with the country's law...
EMC Corporation yesterday said it has acquired Acxiom's information grid software for US$30 million The companies also announced a partnership to combine Acxiom's grid technology with EMC's portfolio of storage, information management and resource management solutions....
Verizon will soon launch V Cast Music, a new service that will enable wireless customers to download tunes to their mobile phones and PCs, the company said at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas The V Cast service, which follows similar offerings from wireless rivals Cingular and Sprint, will provide over-the-air music downloads to p...
In a move that could save it billions of dollars, IBM said it would freeze its pension plan within two years and shift more employees to beefed-up 401(k) programs Big Blue said the shift was part of a "global strategy" of shifting retirement benefits to "the more predictable cost structure" of a 401(k)....
Amid growing consumer concern and increasing media attention,Microsoft yesterday did something rather rare: It released an out-of-cycle patch The company issued the fix for the zero-day Metafile vulnerability five days ahead of schedule. The hole is related to Windows metafiles (WMF), which are image files used by popular applications, such as Micr...
Consumers focus more on style of the mobile phone, rather than technical functionality, when making purchase decisions, experts tell TechNewsWorld A report from Boston-based Strategy Analytics, the global consulting company, analyzes the reasons for U.S. and Western Europe wireless device purchases, including the primary motivating factors for devi...
After two days of consideration, Onyx Software rejected CDC's unsolicited offer to buy a majority stake in the company "Onyx is not for sale, and we consider the matter closed now," Robert Craig, director of analyst and public relations, told CRM Buyer....
Economic forces at work today seem to be favoring the consolidation of currencies. With the creation of the Euro, 11 disparate currencies were merged into one monetary unit. With such forces driving monetary consolidation, will there be one world currency some day? Some of the factors that are influencing currency combination include: Troubled Curr...
A fervent debate over which operating system is safest for users has been raging for years, and it looks like the next chapter has begun, thanks to a report issued this week by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) US-CERT's 2005 year-end index declared Unix/Linux logged more vulnerability reports in 2005 than market-dominan...
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's State of the State address this week reminded California voters that in ten months they'll be casting ballots again, many using electronic voting devices. While popular, e-voting is at risk of being stymied by nervous Nellies and the anti-property lobby One frequently cited concern with e-voting machines, otherwise ...
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