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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...
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. I...
A recent study by Neurotech Reports said the market for neurotechnology products is poised to become one of the most dramatic growth areas of the 21st century. Encouraged by medical developments and discoveries that cure disease, alleviate suffering, and greatly improve quality of life, many leading...
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 t...
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, ...
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 Spr...
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, which are image fi...
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...
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 frequen...
Sure, it will be great to have another alternative to iTunes. Urge -- Microsoft's answer to Apple's music store behemoth -- looks ready to go head-to-head with more than 2 million tracks for purchase and an all-you-can-download subscription option. The Xbox 360 also promises to entertain gadget junk...
Developments at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week suggested that the ongoing battle between the competing Blu-ray and HD-DVD next-generation, high-definition DVD formats could become a long, unproductive war. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates upped the ante, declaring in his keynote a...
As the security world awaits yet another Sober variant scheduled to attack today, Sophos revealed the top 10 viruses and hoaxes hindering businesses around the world during December 2005. Sober-Z is atop that list. Sober-Z took the world by storm in December, accounting for a massive 78.9 percent of...
New wireless video processing chipsets that let consumers capture, store and transfer video between various display devices in the home -- TVs or PCs -- debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. The chips were developed by ViXS Systems, a Toronto-based developer of video proce...
After Intel announced its new "Leap Ahead" branding effort to go along with its Viiv technology, it was inevitable that chip contender AMD would soon parade its own digital entertainment initiative. AMD did so at this week's Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, touting its "Live" offering, which a...
Broadcom, a provider of wired and wireless broadband communications semiconductors, unveiled a high definition decoder chip at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show that it says is the first to be fully compliant with both of the dueling Blu-ray and HD-DVD optical disc formats. The chip would enab...
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