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Mario must be feeling super today. The latest game console sales figures for America, compiled by NPD Group, show his creator, Nintendo, outdistancing the competition by thousands of units. There were 485,000 Nintendo DS units sold in February and 335,000 sales of Nintendo's newest console, Wii, acc...
When Google announced Wednesday that it will adopt new privacy measures designed to make it harder to connect searches with the individuals who request them, it promoted the move as a big step. Whereas last year the search engine giant went head-to-head with the U.S. Department of Justice over just ...
As Web access becomes more streamlined and efficient, the Internet -- free-floating and nonrestrictive by nature -- may gradually render the traditional office obsolete. Bye-bye cubicles and water coolers. The big mama of Internet connectivity, Google enables searches of the entire globe. It joins m...
The evolution of video gaming took another quantum leap forward this week with the announcement that Stanford University researchers are now enlisting Sony's PlayStation 3 in the fight against diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's and several forms of cancer. The Tokyo-based Sony s...
Internet search giant Google announced Wednesday it will take steps to improve the way it handles data obtained as millions of consumers search for products and information online. Within the next year, the company said, Google will change its privacy policy and begin deleting personally identifiab...
Cybersquatters, typosquatters and domain tasters were targeted by Microsoft Wednesday in a series of lawsuits filed in California, Washington and the United Kingdom. "Domain name abuse is a growing global challenge, and so Microsoft is expanding its efforts in this area for two reasons," explained M...
While MySpace continues to hold a dominate position in the social networking arena, a new survey shows smaller alternative sites are growing in popularity. MySpace commands 80 percent of social networking market share, but newcomers such as Buzznet and iMeen continue to gain more ground each week, a...
While the Internet has become a daily part of most American lives, Hispanics with lower levels of education and English proficiency are lagging, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Seventy-one percent of the non-Hispanic, white adult population in the United St...
Now that IBM and Intel have both created chips using 45nm process technology, it's clear chip technology will continue at least a little longer on the path predicted by Moore's Law, with ever-tinier creations coming out every two years or so. High-k metals, in particular, appear to help solve one o...
Nintendo Wii owners will be able to do battle against each other online for the first time beginning in June, after partnering with a company that specializes in multiplayer gaming technology. Nintendo says it has partnered with GameSpy, a division of Fox Interactive Media, to provide Wii gamers onl...
NBC Universal on Wednesday said it will sell episodes of "The Office," "ER" and other prime time television shows on-demand over cell phone networks throughout the U.S. The company struck a deal with MobiTV, a mobile and broadband TV outfit that since 2003 has worked with NBC on developing a mobile ...
Coming closer to founder Bill Gates' goal of providing gamers the chance to play online almost anywhere, Microsoft Wednesday said its Games for Windows Live will be activated May 8. When that happens, people playing PC games on computers running the new Windows Vista operating system will enjoy many...
Although I may be unappreciative of the value of Post-it notes, I can appreciate the rationale behind them. That's why I can appreciate a program like NotesHolder by A!K Research Labs. NotesHolder reminds me of Google Notebook in a number of ways, but it has a few bells and whistles that make it a l...
As the video game market has matured over the past few years, so, apparently, has its fan base. No longer are video games the exclusive domain of young kids and teens; the age of gamers is on the rise, according to a new study. In fact, more than one in three U.S. adults who go online -- approximate...
For more than a year, the issue of network neutrality has taken up a tremendous amount of time and attention in both Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley. In fact, it may be the single most engrossing subject currently tying together policy interests in these two distinct parts of the country. Unfor...
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