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• ndmmxiaomayi

  15 Jan 06, 14:03

  U.S. video game sales up in 2005, masking risks
  
  U.S. retail sales of video game consoles, hand-held devices, games and accessories were up 6 percent to $10.5 billion in 2005, market researchers NPD Group said on Friday.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  15 Jan 06, 14:04

  Web sites for the brave new electronic b@by
  
  Dispatch from the future:
  FROM: Carter Kohl, 34 inches, 30 pounds, 17 months.
  TO: Friends and family.
  MESSAGE: Feel free to contact me. Even though I cannot read just yet, you can still send me e-mail. My parents will read it to me and will help me respond to all your messages. In advance, thanks for getting in touch. I'll be reading and replying back to you before you know it!
• ndmmxiaomayi

  15 Jan 06, 14:05

  Turning up the heat on hybrid cars
  
  Toyota Motor pushed the hybrid envelope further this week by unveiling two high-profile cars equipped with the alternative powertrain at the annual Detroit auto show, but competitors responded by cranking up the volume to promote rival clean-engine technologies.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  16 Jan 06, 09:51

  Record falls as best Rubik's 'cubers' meet in S.F.
  
  SAN FRANCISCO--Think of the things you could do in 11 seconds. Maybe you could walk to the fridge to get a soda. You could change CDs, or possibly put on a T-shirt. But when you think about it, it's a pretty short period of time.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  16 Jan 06, 09:53

  Post-Christmas comes a geek's gizmo-rama
  
  If you're a nerd, geek or gadget freak, what dances in your head during the holidays isn't sugar plums. It's the prospect of the two big high-tech trade shows that kick off the new year with dazzling displays of new electronic goodies.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  16 Jan 06, 09:54

  HP server exec leaves for Linux firm
  
  Pauline Nist, for years a leader of Hewlett-Packard's high-end NonStop server group, has become senior vice president of product development at Penguin Computing, the Linux server maker plans to announce Monday.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  16 Jan 06, 09:56

  U.K. judge frowns on software patents
  
  A U.K. judge has questioned whether software patents should be granted, and has criticized the U.S. for allowing "anything under the sun" to be patented.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  16 Jan 06, 10:11

  Fujitsu to start making 1.8-inch hard drives
  
  Japanese electronics maker Fujitsu said on Friday that it would start producing 1.8-inch hard disk drives used in portable music players and video cameras, entering a market dominated by Toshiba.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  16 Jan 06, 10:12

  Changing times for chipmakers
  
  Intel charts a course for Viiv brand and lands in the Mac, as Dell continues to ponder a switch to AMD.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  16 Jan 06, 10:21

  Newsmaker: Intel's traveling salesman
  
  Anand Chandrasekher has a knack for being in the right spot at the right time.
  
  In the 1990s, he headed up the effort to get Pentium chips inside workstations. Intel went from being a blip in the market to dominating it a few years later. When laptop sales exploded, he ran Intel's notebook division. Centrino became a success story under his watch.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  16 Jan 06, 10:22

  This week in security
  
  A new version of Apple Computer's popular iTunes software is prompting complaints from privacy advocates for sending information about computer users' playlists back to Apple.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  16 Jan 06, 10:29

  U.K. banks off the hook for Indian data breach
  
  British banks will not face any action over an alleged data breach in an Indian call center last year, the U.K.'s data protection watchdog has said.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  18 Jan 06, 11:49

  Salesforce CEO calls site outages unavoidable
  
  Salesforce.com Chief Executive Marc Benioff said on Tuesday that a recent site outage was an embarrassment for his company, but that new technology will soon make its systems more resilient.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  18 Jan 06, 11:53

  Intel's earnings may portend market health
  
  Intel's surprise departure from its own expectations for fourth-quarter earnings and revenue left executives, analysts and investors worried about the state of the PC industry heading into the new year.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  18 Jan 06, 11:54

  Corel revamps office, graphics software
  
  Corel on Tuesday announced an updated version of WordPerfect Office, its rival to Microsoft's dominant Office suite.
  
  The new program, Corel WordPerfect Office X3, adds the ability to import and export its files to Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). The software also has a new interface and promises better support for multilingual characters and an easy way to strip out hidden information, or metadata, from a file.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  18 Jan 06, 12:16

  Salesforce CEO's vision for 'business Web'
  
  SAN FRANCISCO--Salesforce.com has unveiled further details of its new "on-demand" software marketplace, part of an ongoing effort to encourage customers to conduct more business over the Web.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  18 Jan 06, 12:22

  Judge dismisses Siebel shareholder suit
  
  Siebel Systems said Tuesday that a federal court dismissed a shareholder lawsuit that accused the company of inflating performance levels for some of its products.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  18 Jan 06, 12:23

  HP considers open-source services
  
  Hewlett-Packard is considering selling services designed to ease customer participation in the open-source programming community, the company's new open-source boss said.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  18 Jan 06, 12:53

  Earnings alert: Yahoo earnings miss targets
  
  Read the latest in earnings reports and financial news from some of technology's leading players. This page is updated as new reports are filed. Keep checking back for the latest.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  18 Jan 06, 13:59

  Stallman unbending on software patents
  
  CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation, debated proposed changes to the General Public License at a public forum but made it clear that provisions to protect users from patent litigations will remain intact.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  18 Jan 06, 14:03

  Dell exec downplays AMD rumors
  
  The head of Dell in Britain has said the company has no plans to be drawn into the game of producing cut-price "no frills" computers.
  
  He told a group of journalists that there is no "done deal" with Advanced Micro Devices over the use of its chips in Dell products, despite rumors to that effect late last week.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  18 Jan 06, 14:05

  Services buoy IBM profit
  
  IBM, the world's biggest computer company, said on Tuesday that quarterly profit rose, helped by its consulting business and sales of large computers to businesses.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  18 Jan 06, 14:06

  Weak demand, low prices ding Intel earnings
  
  Lower prices and lower-than-expected processor shipments dented Intel's earnings and revenue for the fourth quarter. The company also forecast slower growth in 2006.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  20 Jan 06, 10:39

  ITunes Traffic Skyrockets, Study Says
  
  Traffic to Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes music store surged by 241 percent last year, driven in part by its popularity among teenagers, a research firm said Thursday.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  20 Jan 06, 10:41

  Mentor execs recognized by IEEE
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — Mentor Graphics Corp. said Thursday (Jan. 19) that Dennis Brophy and Dave Rich have received the IEEE Working Group Chairman’s Award for their contributions to the IEEE SystemVerilog standard.