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Nintendo is looking to revisit its GameBoy days, when the Japanese company was practically the only player in the mobile hand-held market, by including WiFi wireless capabilities in both its next-generation Revolution console and its DS, a dual-screen handheld gaming device. Nintendo President Sator...
You catch the early train and can't watch your favorite morning news show; you work late one night and miss the latest episode of "CSI," or you're stuck sitting in an airport while your favorite team is playing in a championship basketball game. In the past, you had limited options in situations lik...
While Internet piracy and copyright infringement are usually thought of as federal crimes, one University of Arizona student found that that is not always the case. Parvin Dhaliwal, 18, pleaded guilty last month in Maricopa County, Arizona, to possession of counterfeit marks, or unauthorized copies ...
Sony Ericcson has dusted off the Walkman name and attached it to its latest multipurpose device: the W800, which contains a phone, a 2 megapixel camera and a music player. "I'm fairly bullish -- I think people are going to want music on their cell phones," Neil Strother, senior analyst at In-Stat/MD...
Looking to repeat the high score of its Xbox-exclusive "Halo 2," Microsoft has signed legendary Japanese game-maker Hironobu Sakaguchi -- who created "Final Fantasy," one of the most significant role-playing games (RPGs) ever -- to produce two new RPGs for the next-generation Xbox console. Microsof...
Leveraging the buzz around the 77th Annual Academy Awards taking place this weekend, yesterday Google launched its new movie search feature. Analysts said making movie showtimes available is yet another advantage that helps Google compete with search rivals Yahoo and MSN. In addition to rental recom...
Leveraging its partnership with IBM, Opera announced a voice-enabled Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for home media yesterday. The software does away with remote controls and lets people interact with their DVD players, DVRs and digital TV set-top boxes. The announcement signifies Opera's efforts to ...
Microsoft announced today an offer to replace the power cords on 14.1 million Xboxes worldwide because they can overheat, causing smoke and fire damage, the company said. The affected game consoles were made before January 12, 2004, except in continental Europe, where the cutoff date is October 23, ...
Take-Two Interactive Media may not have hit a home run, but the video-game maker swatted a solid double against its major opponent, Electronic Arts, when it cemented a deal with Major League Baseball. Take-Two, developer of the wildly popular Grand Theft Auto franchise, signed a long-term agreement ...
Searching for video content online may be a hard nut to crack, but that hasn't stopped fierce competitors Google and Yahoo from entering the fray, albeit in different fashions. Search engines must consider both the difficulty of searching video using a written medium and the intellectual property ri...
Sony seems to be finding success for its portable PlayStation, or PSP, with nearly a million units shipped in less than two months, but that is not stopping the electronics giant from planning new features for the device. In a recent talk, Sony executive Ken Kutaragi boasted of 800,000 PSP units shi...
After eight years at the helm, TiVo co-founder Mike Ramsey has decided to relinquish the CEO's chair when a successor is named. Ramsey will continue in his role as chairman. TiVo's struggles to gain market share in the digital video recorder (DVR) market that it pioneered are well documented. Last w...
In the doldrums of January, how could it be hard to sell Tahiti? Perhaps that was TiVo's thought when it named the strategy it unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. "Tahiti" is the umbrella term for the company's plans for a host of premium services designed to compete ag...
Gaming console giants Nintendo and Sony are enabling music and video playback on their popular gaming devices in an effort to dominate the lucrative market, expected to account for sales of $2 billion in the United States this year. Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) went on sale in Japan this week a...
With the holiday shopping season now in full swing, video game publishers are seeing brisk sales and offering only a few surprises. Since December accounts for a major percentage of the industry's annual revenues, most video game publishers are playing it safe by promoting sequels to already succes...
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