 "Modern Warfare 2" blows away launch records Arturo Aros (L) and Jonathon Murray of Nevada display their copies of the highly-anticipated video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" at a GameStop Corp. store early November 10 in Nevada.... November 12, 2009 06:56 PM Internet Mobile phone sales rise in 3rd quarter: study Global sales of mobile phones reversed a slide that began late last year and turned positive in third quarter 2009, a trend expected to accelerate thanks to smartphones, a study disclosed... November 12, 2009 05:21 PM Internet Iraq cable project to slash telecom costs: CEO Iraq's Internet connections and international calls are poised for "serious price reductions" when a Doha-based firm establishes a fibre optic cable landing there in 2011, the company's chief... November 12, 2009 04:11 PM Internet Electric cars need government support: Nissan-Renault CEO Electric cars could help China and other countries reduce their dependency on oil but the government must provide incentive to make the shift, Nissan and Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn said Thursday. [...] November 12, 2009 04:03 PM Internet Mobile phone sales rise in third quarter: study Global sales of mobile phones reversed a slide that began late last year and turned positive in third quarter 2009, a trend expected to accelerate thanks to smartphones, a study disclosed on... November 12, 2009 03:27 PM Internet Intel pays AMD $1.25 billion in antitrust case Intel Corp. agreed Thursday to pay Advanced Micro Devices 1.25 billion dollars to settle a series of long-running legal disputes between the two chipmakers on antitrust and patent issues... November 12, 2009 02:53 PM Internet Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion in antitrust case Intel Corp. has agreed to pay Advanced Micro Devices 1.25 billion dollars to settle a series of worldwide antitrust and patent disputes between the two chipmakers, the companies said Thursday. [...] November 12, 2009 01:39 PM Internet Churchill Downs buying YouBet.com Churchill Downs Inc., owner of the horse racing track which hosts the famed Kentucky Derby, announced it has agreed to acquire online betting website YouBet.com. [...] November 12, 2009 01:49 AM Internet Microsoft's Bing teams up with WolframAlpha Microsoft's new search engine Bing, which is seeking to chip away at Google's dominance in Internet search, is teaming up with WolframAlpha, another rival for the Google crown. WolframAlpha, which... November 11, 2009 10:12 PM Internet Al Gore's Current Media cuts 80 jobs Current Media, a cable television company co-founded by former US vice president Al Gore, announced Wednesday that it is cutting 80 jobs as part of a reorganization. [...] November 11, 2009 09:24 PM Internet HP to buy 3Com for 2.7 billion dollars US computer giant Hewlett-Packard announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to buy networking company 3Com for 2.7 billion dollars. The California-based computer colossus said the 3Com purchase... November 11, 2009 08:47 PM Internet Google routes World Bank data to fact seekers Google is adding World Bank figures to Internet results in a bid to make hard facts about countries worldwide easier to find. A "public data" feature launched about six months ago with continually... November 11, 2009 07:04 PM Internet New York Times publishes 'crowd-funded' article The New York Times headquarters in New York City, is seen here in February 2008. The science section of The New York Times contained an unusual article on Tuesday. The story about a huge... November 10, 2009 11:49 PM Internet Google launches online flu shot finder Google on Tuesday launched an online tool for tracking down where to get vaccinations against H1N1 and seasonal influenza in the United States. The flu-shot finder service went live online at... November 10, 2009 11:13 PM Internet Online activists hijack Facebook groups Activists claimed on Tuesday to have seized control of nearly 300 Facebook community groups in a self-proclaimed effort to expose how vulnerable online reputations are to tampering. [...] November 10, 2009 11:10 PM Internet Adobe cutting 680 jobs Adobe Systems, known for its Photoshop editing program and Acrobat document software, announced on Tuesday it was cutting some 680 jobs worldwide, about nine percent of its workforce. [...] November 10, 2009 10:33 PM Internet Twitter links to LinkedIn Twitter on Tuesday linked to LinkedIn, letting people share updates and tweets between the hot microblogging service and the career-oriented online social networking website. Twitter... November 10, 2009 08:27 PM Internet Amazon delivers Kindle books to PCs Amazon.com on Tuesday released free software that lets people read the online retail titan's electronic Kindle books on personal computers. The Kindle for PC application syncs with Amazon's... November 10, 2009 07:57 PM Internet Google gifts US airports with free Wi-Fi Google is giving the gift of free wireless Internet to travelers at a host of US airports this holiday season. The California-based Internet powerhouse said Tuesday that it is working with Boingo... November 10, 2009 06:02 PM Internet Estonians, Russian, Moldovan charged in credit card hack Alleged computer hackers from Estonia, Russia and Moldova have been indicted in a scheme that netted nine million dollars from cash dispensers, the US Justice Department said on Tuesday. "This... November 10, 2009 05:25 PM Internet |
