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Microsoft, Bungie Studios Release ‘Halo 3’ Public Beta

Marking the fifth anniversary of its release, Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Studios celebrated the birthday of the Xbox video game "Halo" by releasing the beta version of its latest sequel, "Halo 3." The Xbox Live public pre-release precedes the game's final version, which is scheduled for avail...

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Samsung Unveils 10-Megapixel Camera Phone

Samsung Electronics has developed a mobile phone equipped with a camera featuring the world's highest resolution for any camera phone. The South Korean electronics firm said the camera will initially be sold in its home market. Samsung's SCH-B600 model has a 10-megapixel camera that enables users to...

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Wells Fargo Deploys RSS Tools

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based KnowNow, a provider of publish-and-subscribe information services, announced Monday the deployment of two KnowNow systems at financial services company Wells Fargo. The on-site KnowNow Material Event Notification service allows Wells Fargo business managers to continuously wa...

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RNSoft Upgrades Dreamweaver Extension for RSS Feeds

RNSoft on Wednesday released RSS DreamFeeder version 1.5, a free update to the company's Dreamweaver extension for creating RSS feeds from existing Dreamweaver-based content. The product's new version features improved control for connecting pages to feeds using LINK tags, and introduces support for...

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Newsgator, Agrex Will Bring RSS Enterprise Server to Japan

Newsgator Technologies, an RSS platform company, has entered into a multi-year partnership with Tokyo-based, IT services company Agrex to bring a localized, behind-the-firewall version of the Newsgator Enterprise Server to Japan. The Newsgator Enterprise Server, which can be integrated with Microsof...

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EA to Feed Gamers’ Need for Speed

Game maker Electronic Arts has revealed a few details about Need for Speed Carbon, which is slated to hit the streets in November. Under development by EA Black Box in Vancouver, British Columbia, Need for Speed Carbon will challenge players to face the ultimate test of driving skill on treacherous ...

Nokia, Land Rover Create Phone System for SUVs

Nokia and Land Rover have created a Personal Telephone Integration (PTI) System for Land Rover vehicles, the companies said today. The new system offers features such as connection either via Bluetooth wireless technology or via wired connection using a compatible mobile phone holder. Marcus Stahl, ...

NASA Extends Mars Rovers’ Journey

NASA announced Tuesday that the Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have had their missions extended for an additional six months, or as long as the Martian rovers remain operational. Spirit and Opportunity have survived their lowest point in terms of sunlight for their photovoltaic cells, and the ...

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AMD Debuts Athlon 64 3000

AMD has expanded its family of low-voltage mobile processors designed to offer high performance, security and mobility for thin and light notebooks. The new Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processor offers a 32-bit computing environment with a seamless transition to 64-bit computing. Like all the AMD64 process...

Western Digital’s Raptor Outperforms SCSI 15K

The high-performance capabilities of Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives were validated recently, when Western Digital's Raptor 10,000-RPM SATA outperformed 10,000- and 15,000-RPM SCSI drives from two competitors in separate independent, head-to-head comparison tests conducted by and published in the June...

Clearwire To Commence Broadband Wireless Internet

In an appearance at the Wireless Communications Association conference in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, telecom entrepreneur Craig McCaw announced his plans to launch a nationwide broadband wireless network using spectrum and technologies his holding company has been assembling over the last year. McCa...

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Sony Abruptly Ends Clie PDA Sales in US

Sony today said it will stop developing and selling new handheld PDAs in the United States this year, exiting what the company called "a market in decline" and possibly striking a blow to software maker PalmSource. Sony, one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer electronics, said it will ...

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Netherlands Court Sides with Lindows in Dispute with Microsoft

Microsoft's most recent attempt to push the Lindows name out of the marketplace has been thrown out of a Netherlands court. Microsoft had argued that despite the Lindows company changing its product name outside the US to "Linspire", the Microsoft trademark was still violated by the fact that the co...

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Taiwan Programmer Nabbed for Writing Trojan

Police in Taiwan arrested Wang An-ping, a 30-year-old man who admitted to authoring a Trojan application later used to steal information from government computers. Wang reportedly told police that he developed the software as a commercial venture but eventually posted the code for free on the Web, i...

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