Blogs Posts in E-Industry category; 178 blog posts

Sony's new service includes Windows Mobile

Sony announced it is expanding its service to include a Windows Mobile platfrom via a gamma version of Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 on Windows Mobile powered devices. The service will enable consumers to use the platform on 75 Win [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2007 | Comments : 0

NASA fires troubled astronaut

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Astronaut Lisa Nowak was fired by NASA on Wednesday, little more than a month after she was arrested on charges that she tried to kidnap a woman she regarded as romantic rival for the affections of a space shuttle pilot. [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2007 | Comments : 0

Microsoft vs. Google: More at Stake Than Books

Microsoft attorney Thomas Rubin on Tuesday accused Google of taking a "cavalier approach to copyright" and of using its Book Search project to make money off other people's copyrighted creations. His comments have stirred up a deb [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2007 | Comments : 0

TiVo and Amazon Unbox Movie Download Service Launched

Although both companies have officially announced their partnership last week, initially the beta test phase of the service has been taking place since September 2006 on a limited basis, which was confined to a small number of users. On Wed [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2007 | Comments : 0

LittleBigPlanet won't be out until 2008

LittleBigPlanet won't be out until 2008LittleBigPlanet and SingStar will help Sony bring the "Game 3.0" vision into reality$HOME$ Along with leaked information about PlayStation Home were hints of a social networking aspect to [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2007 | Comments : 0

Microsoft attacks Google over book scanning

Microsoft is taking aim at Google's rival book-scanning project, saying the search company "systematically violates copyright." In prepared remarks he was scheduled to deliver Tuesday to a publishing industry group, a Microsoft l [...]

Posted On : Mar, 07 2007 | Comments : 0

Wikipedia ire turns against ex-editor

NEW YORK: In a blink, the wisdom of the crowd became the fury of the crowd. In the past few days, contributors to Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia, have turned against one of their own who was found to have created an elaborate f [...]

Posted On : Mar, 07 2007 | Comments : 0

512MB Xbox 360 Memory Units, Larger XBLA and $40,000 from MS

Microsoft kicked off this year’s edition of GDC with the announcement of two upgrades- one for the Xbox 360 memory stick and one for the XBLA- and with a $40,000 contest. During the Game Developers Conference that debuted this week i [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2007 | Comments : 0

McAfee Names EMC Operations Head DeWalt Its New Chief (Updat...

March 5 (Bloomberg) -- McAfee Inc., the world's second- biggest maker of security software, named EMC Corp.'s David DeWalt chief executive officer after its own CEO stepped down over a stock-option probe. The appointment of DeWalt, 42, EM [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2007 | Comments : 0

Microsoft to accuse Google on copyright

A Microsoft Corp. lawyer plans to say in a speech today that rival Google Inc.'s book-search service "systematically violates copyright." Thomas Rubin, Microsoft's associate general counsel, will make the comments to the Associat [...]