For videogame publishers the start of 2009 marks a new phase in gaming with the release of new titles no longer confined to the top holiday sale months but spread throughout the year.
Traditionally about half of annual videogame sales were rung up in November and December but last year Take Two Interactive broke this pattern [...]
The scammers began to see serious problems with their phishing scams sometime around April.
That’s when they started realizing that more and more of their phoney “phishing” e-mails were being blocked. Security researchers had spent the previous year closely studying botnet networks of infected computers and they were getting pretty good at blocking many of the [...]
M2Z Networks’ proposal to build a free wireless broadband network is not the only controversial part of its business plan. Just as contentious is its intention to filter the content delivered over that network to block any material deemed inappropriate for children.
Free-speech advocates on the left and right have expressed alarm at M2Z’s plans to [...]
Virginia’s attorney general asked the nation’s highest court Thursday to revive a state anti-spam law struck down by a lower court as unconstitutionally overbroad.
Virginia’s Supreme Court ruled in September that the law violates the free-speech protections of the First Amemdent because it prohibits anonymously sending any type of unsolicited bulk e-mail, including political and religious [...]
Intel on Friday said it is researching technology to harvest free energy from the environment, which could lead to devices such as mobile phones running for indefinite periods without recharging.
The company is working on tiny sensors that can capture energy from sources such as sunlight and body heat. In the future, such energy could be [...]
Check is the single most important document used to pay the amount of money written on it. Therefore, in order to be free from any hindrances or legal issues, it is important that the check paper is of super fine quality, and incorporated with complete security features. Moreover, the paper quality used should be such [...]
A scarcity of cheap Blu-ray video players combined with the effects of a recession are expected to delay take-up of the new, high-definition Blu-ray DVD format in Europe, according to media research firm Screen Digest.
Screen Digest said on Wednesday that supply problems early in the year had led to a shortage of affordable Blu-ray players, [...]
While superheroes may have taken over Hollywood, the video-game world has been harder for them to conquer. Sure, recent games featuring Iron Man and Spider-Man have sold well, but they haven’t fired up gamers the way that a typical “Grand Theft Auto” or “Madden NFL” release does.
Maybe that’s because video-game protagonists are already superpowered. A [...]
Individual gamers and console makers could significantly reduce energy use from video games, according to study that identified the Nintendo Wii as the industry’s most efficient “juice sipper.”
Gamers waste a lot of energy simply because they don’t turn their machines off when they’re not playing, according to environmental advocacy group the National Resources Defense Council [...]
Online dating service eHarmony has agreed to create a new website for gays and lesbians as part of a settlement with a gay man in New Jersey, the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General said on Wednesday.
The website will provide a dating service with “male seeking a male” or “female seeking a female” options, [...]