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1. Electronic Arts closes Pandemic Studios

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   ... franchise. Pandemic - formed in 1998 - was later acquired by Electronic Arts in 2007. The studio designed numerous popular action games, including Full Spectrum Warrior, Mercenaries and Star Wars: Battlefront. ...

2. Twitter turns UI thinking on its head

   (Software/Software Features)

   Friday, 06 November 2009

   ... basic functions and features, the microblogging service's UI world of clients is like the Mos Eisley Cantina scene in Star Wars. It's crazy, man. First, you have the Web interface to Twitter, which, depending ...

3. Microsoft: Xbox 360 has the "best" FPS games

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 29 October 2009

   ... got the best first-person shooter games out there," Xbox Live Europe general manager Jerry Johnson told VideoGamer in a recent interview. "You will start to see us, though, do things that are broader ...

4. Intel and Apple are at the crossroads

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Wednesday, 23 September 2009

   ... isn’t the same without Bill Gates at the helm, and years ago IBM's slide really started when Thomas Watson Jr - in that instance the son of the founder - retired.Apple almost lost its founder. ...

5. Microsoft, Bungie sued over Halo 3

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Tuesday, 08 September 2009

   A court case started in a California district court alleging that popular game Halo 3 doesn't work with the Xbox 360.A court case started in a California district court alleging that popular game Halo ...

6. Mac clone war sparks fierce debate over Apple tax

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 03 September 2009

   ... ongoing legal battle against Mac clone-manufacturer Psystar. For example, Technophile vehemently disputed the latter's claim that it wanted to peacefully "coexist" with Apple and provide a viable option ...

7. Apple announces press conference, world faints with excitement

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Tuesday, 01 September 2009

   ... of innovation. Now." And before you start emailing in, no, we haven't been invited to the most important event ever in the history of history. Like any other journalists too proud to swallow whatever ...

8. Firefox 4.0 goes Chrome, will arrive with new UI in Q4 2010

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Sunday, 30 August 2009

   ... faster Javascript engine than version 3.5, a faster startup time and will update the Gecko layout engine from version 1.9.1 to 1.9.2. Mozilla also promises Windows 7 integration light weight themes called ...

9. Mark "Netscape" Andreessen backs new browser

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   Friday, 14 August 2009

   ... according to a report in the New York Times, is backing a startup called RockMelt with some of his former colleagues involved in developing the browser. That will bring an interesting twist in the current ...

10. Scientist: Skynet 'just around the corner'

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 03 August 2009

    ... on using robot weapons we're going to put civilians at grave risk and it's going to be much easier to start wars. The main inhibitor of wars is body bags coming home." See also: BBC    ...

11. Pachter: Apple prepping game console for 2013 launch

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 16 July 2009

    ... I'd guess a 2012 or 2013 launch. That means that Microsoft has to get enough of a head start to hold them off, which is why I see Natal and a big hard drive for the 360 next year." However, Pachter ...

12. Some peace breaks out in plasma patent wars

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 01 July 2009

    ... Electronics have agreed to bury the hatchet and settled their differences over a number of technology lawsuits. Hitachi started the patent war in 2007 over alleged patent infringments relating to plasma ...

13. Intel + Nokia: In search of relevance

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 25 June 2009

    ... actually a little stronger, because it puts them in the news as a smartphone player and gives them a chance to start to rebuild an image as a leader in the smartphone segment.   Getting people ...

14. Hard-Core Conduit placates desperate Wii fans

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 23 June 2009

    ... of hard-core titles. As TG Daily previously reported, Hollywood star Shia LaBeouf recently criticized Nintendo gamers and referred to the Wii as an "amateur console." "I'm not into the Wii thing," ...

15. LaBeouf criticizes Nintendo gamers, calls Wii an "amateur console"

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 22 June 2009

    ... play the Wii version of LEGO Star Wars. San Francisco (CA) - Hollywood star Shia LaBeouf has reportedly referred to the Nintendo Wii as an "amateur console.""I'm not into the Wii thing," LaBeouf told BigDownload. ...

16. Rockstar Games preps PSP version of GTA: Chinatown Wars

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 22 June 2009

    Rockstar Games has confirmed that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be available for the Sony PSP this fall. The latest version of the popular title is expected to feature "upscaled" widescreen ...

17. Browser wars: When will the madness end?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Monday, 15 June 2009

    ... by a couple of weeks. Intel then attempted to leapfrog the young upstart contender by launching a 1.1GHz Pentium III, which, rather tragically, didn't work. Anyway, our point was that measuring system ...

18. E3 attempts to resurrect the glory days of gaming

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Sunday, 31 May 2009

    ... While 40,000 is a respectable number, it is certainly a far cry from the 70,000 starry-eyed gamers who attended the show in 2005. Of course, the industry is still reeling from the restricted attendance ...

19. US upgrades Stealth Bomber software

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 12 May 2009

    It looks like a publicity shot for the latest Star Wars film, but this picture actually shows a US military Stealth Bomber approaching the sound barrier. It was released today to coincide with the announcement ...

20. Bethesda confirms Elder Scrolls novels

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 27 April 2009

    ... set in the vast Elder Scrolls universe. Keyes' prior work includes the Age of Unreason tetrology, along with three New York Times bestselling Star Wars novels in the New Jedi Order series. San Francisco ...

21. "Spec" BlackBerry ad shoots Apple through its heart

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 27 February 2009

    ... and BlackBerry tradenames. It starts with a nice, juicy red apple rotating slowly on the screen when a gun shot suddenly cracks the silence. With Pink Floyd Echoes playing in the background, a blackberry ...

22. App Store: Doodle Kids written for iPhone by 9yr old

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 06 February 2009

    ... another project - an iPhone game called Invader Wars. In case you were wondering, little Ding Wen started using computers at the age of 2 and has almost twenty finished programming projects in his portfolio ...

23. The problem with 3D: Where it works and where it does not

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 04 February 2009

    ... with little toy tanks and soldiers battling it out. It really adds that extra something. Kind of like that 3D chess game in the Millennium Falcon in the first Star Wars movie.    For World of ...

24. Professor claims personal robots coming "very soon"

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Thursday, 29 January 2009

    ... robots are far from autonomous or fully mobile. However, after being a Star Wars fan of R2-D2 and C3PO, his life's mission was cast. He says, "My interest in robotics stems from the day I saw Star Wars ...

25. UPDATED: Nvidia takes gaming into full-3D with stereoscopic glasses

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 08 January 2009

    ... starting today from leading U.S. e-tailers including www.compusa.com, www.tigerdirect.com, www.microcenter.com; as well as direct from www.nvidia.com for a suggested price of $199. Worldwide availability ...

26. CES 2009: Xbox Live has 17 million users, Halo Wars coming March 3

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 07 January 2009

    ... to engage more and especially different types of gamers into Xbox Live will be somewhat different than what Nintendo has done. Primetime is one example and another will be Kodu - a project that started ...

27. Microsoft moves to take back the antivirus market

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 19 November 2008

    ... of primary security for Windows from the start. I applaud this move, because it corrects a problem Microsoft created itself. Apple should learn from Microsoft's lead here, because if Microsoft is successful, ...

28. CNN goes Star Wars, debuts live holograms

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 04 November 2008

    ... election events. It all started with fancy Surface tables and a “Magic Wall”, but if there was one technology that completely stood out form everything else, it was certainly CNN’s holograms. Chicago ...

29. Wii, Xbox 360 leave the PS3 behind

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 17 October 2008

    ... The best selling title for the month was Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (610,000 units), which helped lift Xbox 360 sales by more than 75% from 195,200 in August to 347,200 units in September, according ...

30. Lightsabers: Now a Nintendo Wii Accessory

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 06 October 2008

      Video game accessories manufacturer dreamGear has unveiled a new lightsaber accessory for Star Wars fans who own a Nintendo Wii. It is called Dual Glow Sabers and you'll find it pricing around ...

31. AMD’s server and workstation comeback

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 13 August 2008

    ... AMD more aggressively in response.  Microsoft apparently is tuning its virtualization offerings, which have actually started to sell impressively well and really stunned VMware, the firm that really ...

32. Update: The Dark Knight shatters box office records

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Sunday, 20 July 2008

    ... for the first showings alone (the previous record holder Star Wars: Episode III - The Revenge of the Sith brought $16.9 million). That number was later updated to first day earnings of $66.4 million, sailing ...

33. Outrage over physics drivers: Is Nvidia guilty?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 25 June 2008

    ... with graphics. If you own a GeForce 8800, 9600/9800 or GTX 200 series, we can only recommend a download of the latest drivers and PhysX software when they become available and start playing those levels ...

34. Browser war gets uglier as Firefox is set to grab 20% share

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 04 June 2008

    ... changed the Firefox 3 RC1 installation routine in a way that it makes Firefox your default browser automatically, a disturbing break from the usual practice to turn this option to off. Apple started the ...

35. Nvidia's lauches Tegra: A Computer on a chip

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 01 June 2008

    ... Nvidia organizes its product families under very few umbrella trends and new brands typically indicate the launch of a major new product. The company started out with its GeForce line of graphics cards ...

36. Ballmer, Gates show off Windows 7

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 28 May 2008

    ... and Kara Swisher.  The night started off easy for Gates and Ballmer as they talked about their early days of dropping out of Harvard for Gates and Stanford Business School for Ballmer.  But things ...

37. ATI Radeon 4800 launch details: Meet (Terry) Makedon and Trojan (Horse)

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 14 May 2008

    ... feature set and prices. The good news: The new boards will come with “physics processing capability” and prices that will start below $200 for a 512 MB board. The bad news: The 4800 series will launch ...

38. Ubisoft caught in a little Assassin’s Creed scandal

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 07 May 2008

    ... FX series. Assassin's Creed is an Nvidia-branded “The Way It's Meant To Be Played” title, and it didn't take long until rumors about a possible foul-play by Nvidia started surfacing. Some voices on Internet ...

39. Star wars: Hubble’s galaxy collision pictures

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 24 April 2008

    ... interacting galaxies that sometimes produce dramatic collisions triggering the formations of new stars or even new galaxies. According to ESA, the “the first tentative sign of an interaction will be ...

40. The ultimate Star Wars gadget: R2-D2 projector in production

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 23 April 2008

      One of most original products we saw at this years' CES show in Las Vegas was a series of Star Wars gadgets, most notably Nikko’s R2-D2 webcam and almost life-size projector. We've have just received ...

41. Technology bias: Can you avoid it?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 18 April 2008

    ... to form an unbiased opinion on technology? A recent article published on Fox News sparked in me a number of questions about bias: What is it?  How does it start?  Is there anyone really neutral?  ...

42. Nvidia and AMD vs. Intel: A new graphics war that should have been avoided

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Thursday, 17 April 2008

    ...  between Intel and Nvidia that Intel actually started by creating Larrabee.  Many had thought the more likely war would be between AMD and Nvidia once AMD bought ATI, but that sure isn’t what we are ...

43. Are 3D movie theaters finally becoming a reality?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 27 March 2008

    ... of this idea, especially when it announced its ClickStar movie joint venture with Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman. Clickstar appears to be history and despite recent financial turmoil in the movie theater ...

44. Lucas offers sneak peak at Star Wars Episode 2.5

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Friday, 14 March 2008

    Fans never seem to get their fill of “Star Wars,” and George Lucas is happy to oblige. Lucas offered a glimpse into the latest creation in his sci-fi universe at the theater-owners convention ShoWest ...

45. Warner Brothers buys video game publisher

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Thursday, 08 November 2007

    ... more popular films into video games something that has become a trend in the past few years. TT Games is best known for its LEGO Star Wars series that has sold more than 12 million copies. Read more … ...

46. The Xbox 360 takes on the Wii with a struggle

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 02 November 2007

    ... the casual gamer to notice the 360.  Scene It, Avatar, Need For Speed Prostreet, and multiplatform games like Rock Band and the Lego Star Wars trilogy are all slated for the console by the end of ...

47. Mobile quad-core up and running

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 15 October 2007

    During his keynote presentation at the start of IDF Taiwan (October 15-16) Mooly Eden, vice president of mobile platforms group, Intel, demonstrated a working quad-core CPU design which will eventually ...

48. TG Video: X-Wing rocket interview and in-flight disintegration

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 07 October 2007

    A scale replica of a Star Wars X-Wing fighter disintegrated in mid-flight after being launched in Plaster City California.  The ill-fated fighter was powered by four “L” class rocket ...