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Wii Won't Budge on Pricing

Wii owner wannabes hoping for a dip in pricing for the holidays will have to wait a while for the Nintendo console to drop below it $249 retail price, the company said Thursday. George Harrison, Nintendo's U.S. marketing chief, quashed any hopes for a lower price citing the continued strong demand f...

Governments, international development organizations and transnational corporations are looking to technology transfers and the growing number of budding green IT initiatives to address economic and social development, as well as concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, climate change and environmen...

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A Conversation About Cryonics

Last weekend, 150 people attended the Alcor life extension conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. The main subject was cryonics, the use of technology to cool and preserve the human body with the aim of future revival. The technology, still speculative, raises many present-world issues. In 2003, a daughte...

Half a year after its first rollout of a passenger imaging security scanner in the Phoenix airport, the Transportation Security Administration is testing another form of this technology there. Its latest security machine is based on millimeter-wave technology, which is similar in function to the X-r...

The House Judiciary Committee has approved a four-year extension on a ban on taxing Internet services, endorsing what would be a mixed blessing to cable, telephone and Internet service companies that want Congress to make the ban permanent. The current moratorium, which is nearly a decade old, will ...

Gaming fans may find that life in "SimCity" suddenly gets a lot more realistic this fall with the release of "SimCity Societies," which has been designed to incorporate some of the harsh realities of global warming. Through a partnership between Electronic Arts and energy giant BP, the next-generati...

Japanese auto manufacturers will show off their hottest, quirkiest and most environmentally friendly automobiles at the upcoming 2007 Tokyo Motor Show later this month. While Honda, Nissan and Toyota have all unveiled boxy, bubbly and undeniably cute exterior designs, the companies are also bringing...

BitTorrent, the company whose Internet file-sharing technology is perhaps best known for the illegal trafficking of copyrighted content, has launched a new service designed to let media companies use its technology to blast out faster streams of online content over their legitimate channels. The ser...

Sony's PlayStation 3 price shakeout spread to its home territory in Japan Tuesday with a price cut on its 20 GB and 60 GB PS3 models, the company announced. In addition, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan said it will make the latest 40 GB model available to Japanese gamers. The announcement comes le...

IBM and Google disclosed on an initiative the two technology heavyweights hope will help computer science students and researchers learn more about and gain experience in what has come to be known as "cloud computing." Ultimately, the goal is to create a new generation of software developers able to...

Australian renewable energy firm Epuron, a division of German Conergy, plans to build what may be the world's largest wind farm in the outback of Australia, the company announced Monday. With plans for between 400 and 500 turbines, the $1.8 billion project in Australia's New South Wales state could ...

Using digitally descrambled images of a suspected pedophile, Interpol issued a global alert Monday, asking for the public's help in identifying the man. The man in the images had posted online about 200 images of himself sexually abusing 12 young boys in Vietnam and Cambodia, but every photo of him ...

It was trouble enough when Sony released "Resistance: Fall of Man," a video game that includes shoot-outs between people and aliens that take place within Manchester Cathedral. To give the game an award is salt in the wound, says the dean of the cathedral. The Very Rev. Rogers Govender is upset that...

It is hard to get around the fact that smartphones are incredibly hot right now, and while the iPhone appears to be suffering from vendor-induced trauma, Research In Motion's financials were impressively good. However, the whole enterprise phone market is about to go through the most massive change ...

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe announced Friday that it will launch a new 40 GB model of the PlayStation 3 in the UK, Europe, in the Middle East, Africa and Australasia. It will also drop the price of its 60 GB model of the video game console. The move, just in time for the 2007 holiday season, ...

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