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UK Service Will Allow Customers to Download Films for Keeps

In yet another experiment to leverage legal, digital distribution of Hollywood movies, Universal Pictures and online rental service LoveFilm announced they will begin offering a download-to-own Internet movie service in the UK next month ...

Sony Sets the Stage for PS3 Online Play

Sony disclosed more about its next-generation Playstation 3 console, due at the end of the year, by outlining the company's vision for the product, which includes live, multi-player online play and even digital distribution of games through downloads ...

Samsung Stretches Flash Memory for Mobile PCs

Samsung says it has begun offering a 32 gigabyte NAND flash solid state disk (SSD) drive, a development the South Korean company calls a "historic milestone" for flash memory as it enters the mass market for notebook PCs, which today rely on hard disk drive (HDD) technology ...

Google, Nike Take Run at Soccer-Focused Social Network

Internet giant Google is teaming with athletic shoe titan Nike to prepare the field for soccer fans worldwide with a new multi-language site that coincides with this summer's World Cup competition in Germany ...

Microsoft Throws Weight Behind People-Ready Campaign

Looking to expand itsenterprise reach, Microsoft laid out its latest software and marketing drive late last week, trumpeting its "People-Ready" strategy of software-driven efficiency and collaboration for workers ...

Unique Auction Makes Online Bidding a Game of Chance

A newInternet venture that screams "too good to be true" is testing users' taste for gamesmanship in the online auction space, offering electronics, jewelry and other luxury items at a fraction of their retail prices ...

Homeland Cyber Security Efforts Failing

The U.S. House Committee on Government Reform this week issued its most recent grades for IT security among government agencies, and once again, the division charged with ensuring cyber security for the nation got an F ...

Samsung Banking on Vista-Driven Hardware Upgrades

PChardware upgrades ushered in withMicrosoft's forthcoming Vista operating system should deliver a bump in year-end shipments and revenue for vendors, according toSamsung ...

Sony Puts Itself Under Pressure With PS3 Delay

After weeks of speculation and to no surprise, Sony confirmed this week its next-generation Playstation 3 console will not ship this spring, but instead it will be delayed until the end of the year ...

Samsung Touts Smaller Scale DDR2 Manufacturing Process

South Korean electronics giantSamsung announced that it will mass produce DDR2 DRAM memory using the smaller-scale, 80-nanometer (nm) manufacturing process. The move promises to boost efficiency both for Samsung and its DDR2 customers, who use the computer memory mainly in PCs ...

Europe Signals Broader RFID Strategy

Europe is feeling pressure to boost its efforts to speed the global adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID), a wireless technology already used by U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart for much of its merchandise and shipping operations ...

Intel Gets to Core in Competition With AMD

Intel used its Developer Forum event in San Francisco this week to debut new computer chip technology that the company said boasts energy efficiency alongside performance gains ...

Intel Looks to Transitive for RISC-Enabled Chips

Emulation and translation software company Transitive announced on Tuesday it's collaborating with Intel to drive the migration of older, RISC environments and applications that previously ran on non-Intel hardware to Intel's Itanium 2 and Xeon processors ...

Cisco Broadens IP Communication Coverage

Tech giant Cisco is looking to serve up what could be the holy grail of today's enterprise communications, announcing on Monday its Unified Communications System, a suite of voice, data and video applications aimed at wrangling Internet Protocol (IP) communications ...

Dept. of Justice Probing Digital Music Pricing

The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed this week it is investigating possible price fixing among the major recording labels for online music ...

Viacom Planning to Take on MySpace.com

Viacom is planning to get into the social networking game, the company announced this week, with CEO Tom Freston telling attendees at an industry event in New York that the company has designs on a portal of its own to compete with the likes of News Corp.-owned MySpace.com, the personal Web page service that has become wildly popular among Internet users, especially teens...

China Looks to Master Its Own Domains

The Chinese government this week indicated it was tired of waiting for the U.S.-controlled International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to come up with Chinese character versions of .com and other top level domains (TLDs), and instead will create the domains on its own ...

Fox Mobile Serves Up Mobizzo Media Service

More mobile video is slated to come to the consumer marketplace via a service dubbed "Mobizzo" announced by News Corp.'s Fox Mobile Entertainment this week. The service will offer games, music, mobile phone wallpaper and ringtones, including Fox programming such as episodes of "Family Guy" and films like "Napoleon Dynamite." ...

Ask Jeeves Drops Butler as Part of Rebranding Strategy

The Internet search player formerly known as Ask Jeeves has decided that the butler just didn't do it, announcing today that it will drop "Jeeves" from its name in a massive rebranding effort where it will become, simply, Ask.com ...

Lenovo Aims at SMBs With New PCs

Chinese PC giant Lenovo has made its first set of self-branded computers for sale worldwide, promising worry-free computing in new desktops and notebooks intended for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) ...

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