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Most people have heard about the Nintendo Wii Remote, which some avid gamers have allowed to slip out of their sweaty hands and fly into their high-priced big-screen televisions, cracking glass and becoming the catalyst for news stories around the world. In addition to making the news with its Wii v...

In an attempt to capitalize on the PlayStation 3's Cell Broadband Engine computer chip technology, Sony announced Wednesday that it has joined with Namco Bandai Holdings to form a new company to develop games for the console. The new company, dubbed "Cellius," will have Ken Kutaragi, widely consider...

Gamers in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Australasia have two months to save their money for a PlayStation 3 as Sony Computer Entertainment plans to launch the new console in those regions on March 23. While consumers might still be upset about the debt they accumulated during the holidays, Son...

In the ever-intensifying race to deliver the most memory in the tiniest chip, SanDisk on Tuesday rolled out its 8-gigabit, 56 nanometer NAND flash technology and promised to deliver a 16-gigabit version in the second quarter. Both versions of the 56 nm chip use multilevel cell technology to pack mor...

It's is a dream come true for energy seekers: a portable energy source that outperforms the best lithium-ion batteries on the market and produces 10 times the power of lead-acid batteries at half the cost and without the need for toxic materials or chemicals. Is the technology being developed by EES...

January has been very, very good to Blizzard Entertainment. Earlier this month, the game maker announced its World of Warcraft subscription-based, massively multiplayer online role-playing games had surpassed 8 million players. Tuesday, the company said that its "World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusa...

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Video Conversion Confusion? M2Converter Can Clarify

Everywhere you turn these days, someone is pushing video -- on the Internet, on portable media players, even on cell phones. What's omitted by many enthusiastic purveyors of this electronic marvel, though, is that the digital video scene is a jungle of befuddling and confusing formats, a system more...

Intel and Sun Microsystems announced Monday that the two companies have joined to form a "broad strategic alliance." The cornerstones of the newly created partnership are Intel's endorsement of Sun's Solaris operating system and the inclusion of Intel's Xeon processors in Sun's line of enterprise an...

Apple released its financials last week, and 2006 was a very, very good year for the company. However, its forecast suggests that 2007 may be starting out as one of Apple's worst years this decade. Vista is now within two weeks of launching. I've been using it for some weeks now, and there are some...

It's easy to see how some gamers end up spending so much money on accessories when you add up all the special controllers, high-powered headsets, memory upgrades and multiplayer network subscriptions that players use to enhance the experience. "Through the years, gamers have demonstrated a willingne...

After months of speculation, fans of the popular video game "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion" have reason to rejoice following Wednesday's announcement confirming that game maker Bethesda Softworks will release an official full expansion for the award-winning game. "The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Is...

News Corp.'s popular social networking site MySpace.com will soon offer parents a glimpse of what their teenagers are doing online. The site, which is one of a group of social networking sites used regularly by more than half of American teens, has recently come under fire for inadequate security co...

In announcing Thursday the release of its new Prada phone, LG Electronics didn't claim it was competing with the heavily-hyped Apple iPhone scheduled to be released in June. It didn't have to. The media did it on its own with headlines boldly suggesting the iPhone already had a competitor. Indeed, t...

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Gateway's 24-Inch Monitor: Computing on a Billboard

Monitor size is like real estate. You can never get enough of it. That's what I thought until I got a gander at Gateway's mammoth 24-inch HD LCD flat-panel display. Working with this monitor is like computing on a billboard. Once I got my bearings -- I'm used to using a 17-inch LCD, so the transitio...

Electronic Arts, creator of the wildly popular Sims line of video games, announced Tuesday that it will expand the series with new "laptop friendly" games. The first installment, "The Sims Life Stories," will offer younger PC gamers the opportunity to enter a Sims world featuring appealing character...

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