Details have been released of the games that will accompany the 23 March launch of Sony’s much anticipated PlayStation 3 European launch.
The Japanese behemoth confirmed that its five disc-based launch titles, including the highly acclaimed Motorstorm and Resistance: Fall of Man, will sell at a recommended retail price of €59.99 (£39.99). Good news for […]

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Big technology companies using the MP3 format could be hit with a hail of legal claims after Microsoft was fined a whopping $1.5bn (£800m) by a San Diego court in a move that casts confusion over the future of digital downloads.
The US software group was yesterday ordered to pay two awards of $760m […]

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Within the next 10 years the net will be able to deliver smells as fast as it does data, predicts a report.
The forecast came in a wide-ranging survey produced by the South Korean government to find out what consumers demand from future technologies.
It also predicted that by 2012 mobile phones batteries will […]

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Increasing development costs and small user bases mean games developers are unlikely to make a profit on new titles until 2008, according to a report.
The report by media analysts Screen Digest said that the complexity of next generation games made it difficult for publishers to cover production costs.
Long development times and large […]

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Apple and Cisco Systems have put their toys back in their pram, with both parties agreeing that each can use the name iPhone for their products.
Last month Apple announced its forthcoming iPod-based mobile phone would be called iPhone, but Cisco had registered it way back in 2000.
Under the deal, they will also […]

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An Egyptian blogger has been sentenced to four years’ in prison for insulting Islam and the Egyptian president.
Abdel Kareem Soliman’s trial was the first time that a blogger had been prosecuted in Egypt.
He had used his web log to carp the country’s top Islamic institution, al-Azhar university and President Hosni Mubarak, whom […]

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