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<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>Google's acquisition of a tiny Web word processing maker turns the spotlight on a growing number of so-called Web 2.0 companies struggling to survive--or angling to be Google's next purchase. The Web search giant last Thursday confirmed it had...

<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>A Wall Street analyst downgraded Advanced Micro Devices to "sell" from "buy" Monday, citing reports from Intel supply chain representatives that the chip giant was preparing to launch a price war. AMD, as well as Intel, also received lowered...

<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>GDC Director Jamil Moledina has revealed that quite a bit of PS3 news will be revealed at the event this year. The news will be presented by SCE boss Phil Harrison during his keynote speech. "In general, platform providers have a unique...

<div class='quotetop'>(IgnRevolution)</div><div class='quotemain'>March 9, 2006 - Nintendo's vice president of sales and marketing, Reggie Fils-Aime, recently revealed that more than 1,000 Revolution controller development kits have been sent out to various software houses in order to...

<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>An unknown source leaked a shady list of upcoming 2006-2007 Ubisoft games to Vision PS3. The list goes all the way to Spring '07 and includes 15 Xbox 360 titles, three of them exclusive. If it's to be believed, Ubisoft is spreading the love...

<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>Nintendo WiFi has reached and topped the 1 million mark in record time! Nintendo's wireless gaming service has made a record for the history books as it has recorded its 1 millionth unique user on the service! Nintendo was able to accomplish...

<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>SAN FRANCISCO--Hoping your Intel Mac will easily run Windows Vista? Don't bet on it, one Apple Computer engineer said Thursday. One of the big obstacles is that although both the Macintosh OS and Windows now use Intel chips, the two...

<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>The Mozilla Corp., the commercial arm of the Mozilla Foundation, has said that despite the success of its online applications, it is focused on strong products, not big profits. Responding to online speculation around the company's actual...

<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>The U.S. Justice Department has set a suggested deadline for Google to hand over information about its users' search habits: 21 days. In court documents submitted Thursday to U.S. District Judge James Ware in San Jose, Calif., federal...

<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>Showing that it's more than a little interested in enabling people to handle office tasks over the Internet, Google said Thursday that it has snapped up Writely, a maker of a Web-based word processor. The acquisition was noted on both...

<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>As part of its monthly patching cycle, Microsoft plans to release on Tuesday two security bulletins with fixes for flaws in Office and Windows. The alert for Office is deemed "critical," Microsoft's highest risk rating, the company said in a...

<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>Bill Gates' vision of an ultramobile PC seemed like a winner: a device with all-day battery life, yet small enough to fit in a pocket and much cheaper than a laptop. But as devices begin to come out a year later, reality still trails...

<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>An upcoming version of Firefox will include protection against phishing scams, using technology that might come from Google. The phishing shield is a key new security feature planned for Firefox 2, slated for release in the third quarter of...

<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>SAN FRANCISCO--Intel's "Tukwila" processor will be a significant departure from earlier Itanium models, but bigger changes will come with its sequel, "Poulson." When the Tukwila chip arrives in 2008, the biggest difference will be in how it...

<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>BenQ Mobile continued a product offensive on Wednesday designed to show it has shrugged off problems inherited from Siemens, the owner of the mobile phone business until last summer. The company showed off six new multimedia handsets, taking...

<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>Microsoft is set to launch on Wednesday the beta version of its new Windows Live Search page, which uses the same behind-the-scenes technology as MSN Search but will eventually become the company's sole search offering. "In the future there...

<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie has proposed a way to bring the equivalent of a PC's text clipboard to the Web, a move he said will spur more user-driven "mashups." In a talk at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San...

<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>SAN FRANCISCO--Intel on Tuesday plans to show off the minitablet device at the center of Microsoft's Origami Project. In a preview of Tuesday afternoon's demonstration, Intel Marketing Director Brad Graff showed CNET News.com several of the...

<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>Microsoft is planning to make it very easy for Windows Vista owners to upgrade to a pricier version of the operating system. In the past, such upgrades would have required users to go to a store to get a physical disc to update their machine...

<div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>Gaining root access to a Mac is "easy pickings," according to an individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability. On Feb. 22, the Sweden-based Mac...