Massive demand for Nintendo’s Wii games console and soaring sales of its handheld DS console have brought record profits for the Japanese firm.
Its net profits grew a huge 77.2% to 174.3bn yen (£731m; $1.4bn) in the year to 31 March, while sales surged by around 90%.
Nintendo had been struggling against rivals Sony […]

Posted on April 30th, 2007 by admin
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Apple has admitted that “some batteries” in its range of MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops have “performance issues”.
The company has issued a software update to fix the issue and has offered to replace those batteries affected.
Importantly the company has said that the batteries pose no danger and people can continue to […]

Posted on April 30th, 2007 by admin
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Responding to customer demand Dell has restarted selling new PCs with Windows XP installed on them.
The decision reverses a policy that begun in January that meant Windows Vista was the only operating system available on almost all new home machines.
The change came after Dell’s feedback site was inundated with calls for the […]

Posted on April 28th, 2007 by admin
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I’ve used a couple of Grease monkey plugins to extract YouTube videos from the site to save to a local drive. Somone has developed a website, Kiss YouTube, that lets you view and save any YouTube video.
You can visit the site, http://www.kissyoutube.com, and paste the url of your YouTube video into the text box […]

Posted on April 27th, 2007 by admin
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Microsoft software will sell for just $3 (£1.50) in some parts of the world in an attempt to double the number of global PC users.
The company wants to bring computing to a further one billion people by 2015.
Governments in developing countries can purchase the cut-price software, if they provide free PCs for […]

Posted on April 25th, 2007 by admin
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According to news from International Herald Tribune, Toshiba - Sony’s deadly rival in the high-definition disc-player war - is licensing its HD DVD techology to Chinese manufacturers for low-cost production.
Although the parallels between the Betamax vs VHS war aren’t precise, it’s important to remember that it was JVC’s decision to widely license VHS that […]

Posted on April 23rd, 2007 by admin
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Via, the pescky people who create desktop processors with the power to rival a Casio Calculator, today announced a reference design for its Pico-ITX motherboard. The board reaches a new low of 100mm x 72mm for an off-the-shelf product. At around 4 x 3 inches it is little bigger than a playing card.
According to […]

Posted on April 23rd, 2007 by admin
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Google has muscled Microsoft off the top spot in the annual Brandz Top 100 Most Powerful Brands ranking.
Google’s brand value of $66.4bn (£33.1bn) was top, ahead of General Electric and Microsoft, which was pushed into third place.
The total value of the Top 100 brands has increased by 10.6% in the past year […]

Posted on April 23rd, 2007 by admin
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Google has seen quarterly profits soar by a huge 69%, beating expectations, boosted by strong advertising revenue.
Net income increased to $1bn (£499m) in the first three months of 2007, up from $592m on a year earlier.
Google’s market share has grown and recently it sealed a $3.1bn deal with web advertising network Doubleclick. […]

Posted on April 20th, 2007 by admin
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Computer Chip Manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has reported a bigger-than-expected loss, as its ongoing price battle with market leader Intel takes its toll.
AMD made a net loss of $611m (£305m) in the first three months of 2007, compared with a profit of $185m in the first quarter of last year.
The world’s […]

Posted on April 20th, 2007 by admin
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