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Billboard
In the two months since MTV Networks and Harmonix released the music-based videogame "Rock Band," players have purchased and downloaded more than 2.5 million additional songs made available after the game's initial distribution.
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A Middle Ages assassin is helping game maker Ubisoft stand up to bigger competitors.
The France-based company said Thursday it was revising its targets for this fiscal year upward and was able to delay release of several high-profile games due to to un..
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Instead of being driven to extinction by death from above, dinosaurs might have ultimately been doomed by death from below in the form of monumental volcanic eruptions.
The suggestion is based on new research that is part of a growing body of evidence..
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Los Angeles Times
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Stung by the recent success of rival Blockbuster Inc., online DVD rental pioneer Netflix Inc. battled back in the third quarter with lower prices that revived subscriber growth and catapulted its profit well beyond analyst expectations.
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Video-game publisher Electronic Arts (ERTS - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr - Rating) said it plans to buy two game development studios for $860 million in a bid to strengthen its position in one of the games industry biggest genres: online role-playing games..
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CNN
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Google Inc. is bankrolling a $30 million out-of-this-world prize to the first private company that can safely land a robotic rover on the moon and beam back a gigabyte of images and video to Earth, the Internet search leader said Thursday. If the competit..
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BBC News
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Nokia is offering to replace 46 million batteries for its mobile phones after reports of overheating while charging.
The problems are confined to BL-5C batteries made by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006.
More than 250 million BL-5C..
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New York Times
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By almost any definition — except his own and perhaps those of his neighbors here in Silicon Valley — Hal Steger has made it.
Mr. Steger, 51, a self-described geek, has banked more than $2 million. The $1.3 million house he and his wife own on a bl..
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Los Angeles Times
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Motorola Inc. said it would cut 4,000 jobs in addition to the 3,500 it announced earlier this year. The new cuts will help save an additional $600 million, the company said.
The company said it expected costs of $300 million, or 8 cents a share, in the..
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Declining microprocessor sales as well as dropping average selling prices for its microprocessors have pushed AMD deeper into the red. The company reported a net loss of $611 million on revenues of $1.233 billion, which is more than 20% below the guidance..
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CNN
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If you Google the word Darfur, you will find about 13 million references to the atrocities in the western Darfur region of Sudan -- what the United States has said is this century's first genocide.
As of today, when the 200 million users of Google Eart..
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Yahoo News
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Two of YouTube's founders stand to divide shares of stock now valued at around $650 million, Web search leader Google Inc. said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday detailing the payout from its $1.65 billion acquisition...
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Yahoo News
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Software maker Novell Corp. (Nasdaq:NOVL - news) said on Tuesday Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) will make two separate up-front payments totaling $348 million to the company under an agreement to allow Novell's open-source..
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CNN
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Are your Web surfing fingers getting tired? There may be a reason. Netcraft, an Internet monitoring company that has tracked Web growth since 1995, says a mammoth milestone was reached during the month of October...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has put down $5 million toward a flight to the international space station with the company that has sent millionaires and even a billionaire into orbit.
Virginia-based Space Adventures announced the identity of the future..
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BBC News
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The number of viruses, worms and trojans in circulation has topped the one million mark.
The new high for malicious programs was revealed by security firm Symantec in the latest edition of its bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report.
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Money lost in Internet crimes hit a new high last year, topping about $240 million, according to a government report showing increases in scams involving pets, check-cashing schemes and online dating.
The number of reported Internet scams dropped sligh..
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BusinessWeek
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Shares of the software outfit soared Thursday after its profits handily beat Street estimates. But a weakening economy could slow its momentum
The outsourcing of information technology management functions by businesses has been a boon for on-demand so..
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BusinessWeek
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By 2010, the mobile technology that boosts 3G network coverage indoors could have more than 21 million subscribers in Western Europe
Femtocell technology -- which boosts 3G network coverage indoors by piggybacking on a broadband connection -- could fin..
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BusinessWeek
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After cashing in big with PayPal, Max Levchin could be at it again with his social network tool. The latest funding values Slide at a half-billion
When Max Levchin started Slide, the popular tool that lets users create slide shows and other bling for s..
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