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Citrix Attains a Higher Level of Xen

Citrix rolled out the fifth edition of its XenServer virtualization software Monday. The platform features more than 130 new features focused on ease of use, performance and security ...

EA, Take-Two Just Call the Whole Thing Off

Takeover talks between Electronic Arts (EA) and Take-Two have come to an end, the two video game software companies announced Sunday. ...

Video Game Market Gets a Case of Summertime Blues

The gains that have made 2008 a blockbuster year for the video game market continued in August; however, the rate of sales showed signs of slowing down for the month. Overall sales growth was held to single digits for the first time since 2006, according to numbers released Friday from market research firm NPD ...

PRODUCT REVIEW

Google’s Chrome Could Use a Good Spit-Shine

Normally, when Google releases a new application, I'm right there standing in line to be one of the first to try it. ...

Nokia Gives Cell Phones a Smart Spark With ActiveSync

Nokia shook up the smartphone marketplace Wednesday with news that it will expand the range of devices supporting Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync, the software maker's corporate e-mail application, to all Nokia devices running the S60 Symbian operating system ...

RIM Makes Foray Into Flip Phone Field With New Pearl Design

Smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM) is flipping the script with the latest iteration of the BlackBerry Pearl. ...

HP Keeps Laptop Going All Day, All Night

In an announcement that could pique the interest of hard-charging road warriors, HP on Monday claimed that its new HP EliteBook 6930p notebook computer is capable of up to 24 hours of continuous operation on a single battery charge ...

Microsoft Lets Zune Users Play Radio Tag

As the tech media and blogosphere focused their spotlights on the announcements coming out of Apple's "let's rock," press event on Tuesday, Microsoft risked being lost in the chatter. The company chose Monday to reveal details about upcoming changes to its Zune digital media player. ...

Will Vista’s Dark Clouds Mar the Windows 7 Horizon?

In a recent survey of its customers running Microsoft's Windows operating systems,Devil Mountain Software found that roughly one-third of enterprises that purchased a New PC with Windows Vista pre-installed downgraded to Windows XP ...

Microsoft Makes Major Move in Virtualization Catch-Up Game

With a host of software and manufacturing partners in tow, Microsoft held its "Get Virtual Now" launch event Monday. It was the official coming-out party for the much talked-about Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V technology, and also served as the occasion for announcing the upcoming availability of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008. The just-released Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 also shared the spotlight, along with a raft of programs and solutions from Microsoft partners...

The Growing Perils of Online Game-Play

As massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs) such as "World of Warcraft" (WoW) and virtual worlds such as Linden Labs' Second Life continue to attract millions of users, they have also begun to attract cybercriminals, according to a recent report from ESET, a software security vendor ...

GAME REVIEW

‘Spore’ Spawns Ingenious New PC-Gaming Style

The final countdown to Sunday's North American release of Electronic Arts' long-delayed and highly anticipated "Spore" has begun. Fans in Europe will get their first crack at it on Friday. Spore will be available at retailers or via pre-download in the U.S. and Canada, selling for US$49.95 ...

Microsoft Gropes for Market Share With Xbox Price Cuts

As the video game industry begins to ramp up for the holiday season, Microsoft announced Wednesday that it has cut the price of its line of Xbox 360 gaming consoles. The new pricing, which goes into effect Friday, starts at US$199 for the low-end console, the Xbox 360 Arcade model, down from $279 ...

HP Aims to Take the Sting Out of Virtualized Storage

HP announced a slew of new products on Wednesday designed to make the deployment of a virtualized solution a greater value for businesses. More than 8 out of 10 companies have implemented virtualization projects, but most anticipate that just 25 percent of their IT environment will be virtualized by 2010, according to HP-sponsored research ...

Survey: DVR Makes Homes Happier

The digital video recorder (DVR) has become a must-have appliance, according to a survey released by NDS, a digital pay TV technology solution provider. More than 70 percent of consumers who currently own a DVR told surveyors that they could not live without it. ...

Celebrities Take a Spin on Spore Creature Creator

Just days before the release of the much delayed and long-anticipated "Spore" -- the latest endeavor of "The Sims" creator Will Wright -- gaming publisher Electronic Arts has enlisted the help of some Hollywood and technology heavyweights ...

Fuel Cells, Part 2: The Future of Power

Part 1 of this two-part feature examines how fuel cell technology works and reviews the applications that have already been developed or are being researched using fuel cells. Part 2 looks at one of the most promising applications -- hydrogen fuel cell-powered cars -- and the problems holding back the technology ...

Mic-Equipped Sony PSP-3000 to Hit Japan This Fall

Sony will launch a new version of its PlayStation Portable (PSP) this fall in Japan, the company announced Tuesday. The PSP-3000, which Sony debuted in August, features a new high contrast LCD screen and built-in microphone ...

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Is Blu-ray a Smart Buy?

When HD-DVD maker Toshiba conceded the high-definition DVD format war in February, Blu-ray's backers may have hoped that sales of the Sony-championed format would see a big boost. However, while Blu-ray may have triumphed over HD-DVD, sales for the device have not exactly skyrocketed ...

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BuyMyTronics: Keeping E-Waste Out of Landfills

The hottest gadgets of today will look old and tired a year from now. Sellers of mobile handsets, smartphones, MP3 players, gaming consoles, camcorders, digital cameras and laptops constantly push the latest and greatest technology, leaving yesterday's choice items in the dust ...

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