 Nintendo's latest game wants you off the couch 9 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Sumo wrestlers were the main inspiration behind Wii Fit, Nintendo's latest attempt at getting you off the couch when you play video games. | |
 Software piracy increases in Asia-Pacific: industry group May 14, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Software piracy increased last year in the Asia-Pacific region, boosted by China's growing use of personal computers, an industry group said on Wednesday. | |
Britain complains to EU about Microsoft file system May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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(AP) -- A British watchdog agency said Tuesday it had complained to European Union regulators that Microsoft Corp.'s new file format for storing documents discouraged competition. | |
Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope blasts off May 13, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday, bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a broad audience. | |
Next generation of business software could get more fun May 12, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Once upon a time, people bonded with their co-workers on office softball teams and traded gossip at the watercooler. OK, so those days aren't gone yet. But as big companies parcel Information Age work to people in ... | |
 Computer game's high score could earn the Nobel Prize in medicine May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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Gamers have devoted countless years of collective brainpower to rescuing princesses or protecting the planet against alien invasions. This week researchers at the University of Washington will try to harness ... | |
 Grand Theft Auto IV video game tops $500M in 1st-week sales May 07, 2008 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(AP) -- "Grand Theft Auto IV" raked in more than $500 million in its first week in stores, selling more than 6 million units worldwide, the video game's publisher said Wednesday. | |
Microsoft signs software deal with Hyundai and Kia May 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. has signed a worldwide deal with automakers Hyundai and Kia to use its in-car software that allows people to use voice commands to control personal music players and telephones. | |
Bringing down the language barrier... automatically May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Progress being made by European researchers on automatic speech-to-speech translation technology could help the EU tackle one of the biggest remaining boundaries to internal trade, mobility and the free exchange of information ... | |
 Cheers and fears as Grand Theft Auto IV revs at starting line April 27, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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"Grand Theft Auto IV" hits streets on Tuesday and is expected to race into record books as the fastest-selling video game ever despite being tailed by critics condemning its violent themes. | |
 Simulating surgery to reduce implant complications April 23, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
A computer simulation breakthrough could mean fewer medical complications and better surgical outcomes for patients undergoing hip, knee or spinal implant surgery. | |
 Microsoft sues over brand in Dutch programme curbing kids on Internet April 21, 2008 | User rating: 2.6 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Software company Microsoft said Monday it is suing a company run by a Dutch mother because it had started using a Microsoft domain title in computer programmes aimed at curbing children's use of the Internet. ... | |
 'Sims' creator lets people play god in new computer game April 20, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Computer buff Will Wright created a multi-billion-dollar franchise with "The Sims" video games that let people play at real life affairs such as dating, working and raising children. | |
 Software tackles production line machine 'cyclic jitters' April 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Electronic commands passed from machine to machine over data networks increasingly drive today’s precisely timed and sequenced manufacturing production lines. However timing irregularities in the signals from ... | |
Music file compressed 1,000 times smaller than mp3 April 01, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 57 vote(s)
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Researchers at the University of Rochester have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file. The music, a 20-second clarinet solo, is encoded in less than a single kilobyte, and ... | |
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