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Sony Aims to Return TV, Game Businesses to Profit by End of Fiscal 2010Sony Corp. said Thursday its new management team will aim to restore profitability to its core television and game businesses by the year ending in March 2011 by tapping into demand in emerging markets and strengthening three-dimensional products. |
NASA Gives Hubble Hardware to SmithsonianNASA has given the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum two key instruments from the Hubble Space Telescope. |
DJ Hero Brings the Party to Your Living RoomDJ Hero, recently released by Activision, is a musically charged game, similar to Guitar Hero, where a player must keep things moving via pressing the right combination buttons. Unlike Guitar Hero, where the weapon of choice is naturally a faux guitar, DJ Hero comes with a special controller shaped as a close-to-life-size turntable. |
New iPhone App 'Balloon Boys', EmergesA U.S. software developer said it has created an iPhone application inspired by the hoax story of a Colorado boy trapped in a balloon. |
Astronomers Discover 22 Additional GalaxiesU.S. and Japanese astronomers say they've discovered 22 galaxies, and confirmed one galaxy formed as early as 787 million years after the Big Bang. |
My Week with DroidThe longer you live with someone, the more you notice their quirks - both good and bad. The same goes with tech gadgets. Since I first got my hands on Motorola's new Droid smart-phone, I've found some things I really like about the device - and some things I really hate. But my overall opinion since I reviewed it last week hasn't changed much. I still think it comes up short against the iPhone, but I also think the Droid, now on sale, is probably the best smart-phone choice out there other than Apple's iconic gadget. |
New Handbook for Google, Droid UsersBefore buying one of the new Google-powered "Droid" phones from Verizon Wireless, you may want to read the manual. Not the setup directions in the box. No, the essential guide for Droid owners - and anyone else moving their life onto Google technology platforms - is a 384-pager written by The New Yorker media writer Ken Auletta. |
Microsoft's Bing Inks Deal With Wolfram AlphaMicrosoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Web search startup Wolfram/Alpha announced today that Microsoft's new Bing search engine will be one of the first customers for Wolfram/Alpha's Web service. |
World's First iPhone Worm Spreading Rick Astley's ImageIT security and data protection company, Sophos, has warned iPhone users of the world's first iPhone virus. The virus breaks into iPhones, changing their lock screen wallpaper to an image of 1980s pop star Rick Astley. |
Does Twitter Have an Information Overload Problem?Simply put, there is way too much information on Twitter. Lately, it defies navigation. In January, there were 2.4 million tweets a day, according to Alessio Signorini, a researcher at the University of Iowa. By October, he reports, there were 26 million tweets a day. |
Google Books Deal Postponed AgainGoogle, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers have asked the U.S. District Court in New York to extend a deadline for settling a dispute over plans for the world's biggest online library. |