Reuters - Once considered an after-thought to eye-popping video game graphics, console hand controllers commanded center stage this week at the game industry's annual expo and opened the door for a new age of interactive gaming.
Macworld.com - A 28-year-old Ukrainian man, Maksym Vysochanskyy, was sentenced late Monday in federal court in San Jose to 35 months in prison for his role in selling pirated copies of software from Adobe Systems, Autodesk, Borland Software and Microsoft through Web sites he operated and on eBay, according to Kevin Ryan, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California.
AFP - The Internet's regulatory body has rejected a plan for a new ".xxx" domain that would create a red-light district in cyberspace after heated protests from the United States and elsewhere.
AP - Clearwire Corp., which provides next-generation wireless broadband services, on Thursday registered for an initial public offering of up to $400 million in Class A common stock.
Reuters - The French Senate has made changes to a controversial copyright bill that threatens Apple's grip on the online music market by making it open its iTunes store to portable music players other than Apple iPods.
AFP - The European Commission will soon formally tell Microsoft that the US software giant is charging too much for some of its Windows software licences, an EU source said.
AP - Yahoo Inc. has no desire to become a major producer of television-like shows and movies because the networks already do a good job supplying such content, the Internet portal's chief executive said.
AP - Shares of Airspan Networks Inc. tumbled Thursday, after the wireless-communications supplier posted a wider first-quarter loss, citing a revenue deferral for one of its Japanese customers.
Macworld.com - With Samsung set to release the first Blu-ray disk player next month, the Blu-ray Disk Association is confident that it will prevail in the next-generation format battle with rival HD-DVD. Blu-ray Representatives said consumers need to look no further than the companies supporting each format to know which format will ultimately win.
PC Magazine - A Pennsylvania congressman has introduced legislation that would ban minors from accessing social networking websites such as MySpace, and forbid libraries from making such access available.
InfoWorld - Oracle will make software contributions intended to boost AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and Java programming at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco next week.
Reuters - Nintendo's legendary video game maker Shigeru Miyamoto never imagined that he would become a cultural icon or the godfather to a burgeoning industry when he created an arcade game called "Donkey Kong" in 1981.
AP - QVC, the home shopping network, isn't satisfied with just being on TV 24 hours a day. It wants to be everywhere customers are, and plans to offer shopping videos on Internet portal sites and eventually wants to sell goods on mobile phones.
Macworld.com - Apple on Thursday released Security Update 2006-003, fixing vulnerabilities in Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server. In addition to fixing core technologies, the update also includes changes to several of the company's applications.
AP - City Council on Thursday unanimously approved a plan to blanket the city's 135 square miles with a high-speed wireless Internet connection, a measure that mayor is expected to sign soon.
InfoWorld - Sun Microsystems unveiled technology for mixing and matching JavaScript widgets from different AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) frameworks at the AJAX Experience conference in San Francisco on Thursday
AP - The latest round in the video game console wars appears to be a race among Sony Corp., Nintendo Co. and Microsoft Corp. for the flashiest, most powerful system. But that's not how Nintendo President Satoru Iwata sees it.
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday he has a five-year target to gain a bigger slice of the lucrative online advertising market dominated by Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.
AP - If the National Security Agency is indeed amassing a colossal database of Americans' phone records, one way to use all that information is in "social network analysis," a data-mining method that aims to expose previously invisible connections among people.
Reuters - Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s (7974.OS) new Wii video game console, considered the underdog in the console wars because it lacks the high-definition graphics and multimedia features of its rivals, is stealing the show at this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show.
AFP - Legendary gruff movie cop "Dirty Harry" came to virtual life at the world's premier video game trade show in Los Angeles.
AP - Google Inc. shareholders mostly praised management during the online search engine leader's annual meeting Thursday, hailing a company that has created $55 billion in investor wealth during the past year.
AP - The company that developed the lyrics for a ringtone about deportation apologized Thursday after Cingular Wireless LLC pulled it for being offensive.
AP - Google Inc. shareholders hailed management during the online search engine leader's annual meeting Thursday, heaping praise on a company that has created $55 billion in investor wealth during the past year.
