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Britain complains to EU about Microsoft file system

May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | User comments: 3

(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) | User comments: 1

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday, bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a broad audience.


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.


Next generation of business software could get more fun

May 12, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s) | No comments yet

(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) | User comments: 4

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) | No comments yet

(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.


Bringing down the language barrier... automatically

May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 13 vote(s) | User comments: 1

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 ...


Review: Google Earth powerful, though tricky to use, share

May 01, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 11 vote(s) | User comments: 4

(AP) -- Online photo albums I had prepared for family and friends weren't capturing the essence of my travels to the southern reaches of the world. Then a light bulb clicked as I was exploring Google Earth: ...


Adobe plans to give away Flash for mobile devices

May 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(AP) -- Adobe Systems Inc. says it will license its video-enabling Flash software for free for mobile devices to help developers make mobile Internet experiences more closely resemble the experience on computers.


Cheers and fears as Grand Theft Auto IV revs at starting line

April 27, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s) | User comments: 6

"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.


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.


'Sims' creator lets people play god in new computer game

April 20, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 28 vote(s) | No comments yet

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.


Microsoft sues over brand in Dutch programme curbing kids on Internet

April 21, 2008 | User rating: 2.6 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | No comments yet

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. ...


Music file compressed 1,000 times smaller than mp3

April 01, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 57 vote(s) | User comments: 10

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 ...


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.


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