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Video game archive is planned

Tue, 31/07/2007 - 08:45 by MT Bureau

AUSTIN, Texas -- The University of Texas at Austin announced a partnership with several video-game designers to help establish the UT Videogame Archive.

The university said it will have a fundraiser Sept. 4 featuring video-game industry leaders Richard Garriott, Warren Spector, George Sanger and Bill Bottorff.

The university's Center for American History will have the event the night before the start of the Austin, Texas, Game Developers Conference. The fundraiser will feature live music, a silent and live auction, participatory games including Segway Polo, vintage video games and a catered buffet.

Wikia plans "Open Source Search " to rival Google &Yahoo

Mon, 30/07/2007 - 16:45 by Poonam Wadhwani

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, one of the most visited websites of the world, is all set to launch a community-developed web search service that would pose challenge to the top-ranked search engines such as Google, Yahoo and others.

Vista Helps Microsoft Cross $50 Billion Mark

Sun, 29/07/2007 - 13:01 by Daisy Sarma

In a presentation on Thursday, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner said the company had successfully shipped 60 million copies of Vista, its latest OS offering, since its January 30 release. These numbers show

Microsoft cuts price of Xbox 360 HD DVD player, adds 5 free Movies

Fri, 27/07/2007 - 11:30 by Shubha Krishnappa

Microsoft on Thursday announced that it will cut the price of Xbox 360 HD DVD Player by 10% to US$179, and will add five free high-definition DVD movies to the player, in an effort to boost its sale in midst of the Blu-ray/HD DVD formats war.

iOpening Results for AT&T

Thu, 26/07/2007 - 12:39 by Dave Mock
At The Motley Fool, we pride ourselves in being unconventional. It's no surprise, then, that fellow Fool Tim Beyers took the pop media to task yesterday for its assessment that AT&T 's (NYSE: T) earnings report included "disappointing" results on iPhone activations.

Microsoft signs ad deal with Digg

Thu, 26/07/2007 - 10:37 by Shubha Krishnappa

Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that it has signed a deal with Digg, a popular user-recommendation news website that allows people to share and rate favorite news stories online, apparently levera

Facebook founder to be taken to court

Wed, 25/07/2007 - 18:07 by Keerat

Founder of popular social networking site Facebook is being taken to court by a rival web site for stealing software codes, designs and business plans. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder, has been charged b

MySpace kicks out more sex offenders from its Website

Wed, 25/07/2007 - 14:33 by Shubha Krishnappa

MySpace, a social-networking hub and one of the most popular sites on the Internet, on Tuesday admitted that it has deleted 29000 convicted sex offenders from its Website, which is more than four time

My TiVo Gets HD

Wed, 25/07/2007 - 14:32 by Rick Aristotle ...
You won't need to rob a bank -- or bank on your Uncle Rob -- to get a high-definition recorder from TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO) anymore. The digital video recorder (DVR) pioneer is rolling ou

AT&T Data Plays a Number on Apple’s iPhone

Wed, 25/07/2007 - 12:13 by Daisy Sarma

The iPhone, Apple’s latest offering, has flattered to deceive as far as the numbers sold in the first two days of release are concerned, if data released by its carrier, AT&T is to be believed. AT&T

Nintendo Wii scores sixth consecutive win over rivals

Wed, 25/07/2007 - 11:05 by Bithika Khargarhia

Continuing its winning-streak, the Japanese gaming console maker Nintendo once again attained the top position in the latest sales charts after smashing its arch-rivals Microsoft and Sony in the US vi