the world’s largest maker of smartphones that use Microsoft’s Windows Mobile software, launched the Touch HD handset in Taipei on Wednesday, a 3.8-inch touchscreen mobile phone that more closely matches up to the iPhone 3G.
Earlier this year, HTC launched the Touch Diamond, a sleek 3G (third generation mobile telecommunications) handset meant to rival Apple’s hit [...]
Blockbuster Inc. will start renting movies and television shows through a new gadget that may give consumers another reason to bypass the struggling video chain’s 7,500 stores.
The new system announced Tuesday relies on a small box that connects to television sets and stores video after it’s downloaded over high-speed Internet connections.
The player, made by San [...]
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 [...]
“World of Warcraft” has become a phenomenon among role-playing interactive online games with its unrivaled success leaving competitors racing to draw gamers into new virtual worlds.
Fans of the massively-multiplayer online (MMO) game by Blizzard Entertainment, a unit of Vivendi Games, lined up outside stores around the world this month to get the game’s second expansion [...]
Recognizing the limits of traditional advertising, established technology companies are diving headlong into the sometimes chaotic landscape of social media to promote their products.
Companies ranging from PC maker Dell Inc to storage equipment maker NetApp Inc are increasingly turning to outside blogs, viral videos and websites such as FaceBook, Twitter, FriendFeed and Digg — and [...]
Spansion Inc. wants to block U.S. sales of iPods, BlackBerry gadgets and other devices because memory chips made by Samsung Electronics Co. and used in those products allegedly violate Spansion patents.
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Spansion, the world’s No. 3 maker of flash memory chips by revenue, sued South Korea’s Samsung on Monday. Spansion claims more than “100 [...]
With the holiday season approaching, the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child is looking to use advertising and an alliance with Amazon to provide more low-cost laptops for children in developing countries.
To promote this year’s version of its Give One/Get One (G1G1) program, the Cambridge, Mass.-based OLPC has arranged for donations of television time, billboards and [...]
Google Earth has launched a 3D reconstruction of ancient Rome as it may have been in 320 AD.
The virtual traveller can now see every building as it stood in Rome at that time. In reality, just 300 buildings of classical Rome have survived, in most cases in ruins.
The 3D model is visible on [...]
The BlackBerry Storm 9530 will be available in Verizon Wireless stores and online for $199.99 starting November 21.
That $199.99 pricetag includes a $50 mail-in rebate and new, two-year customer agreement, so it’s really $249.99 up front, or a lot more if you’re not eligible for a new contract.
The Storm features a clickable touchscreen, the first [...]
Microsoft Corp is moving closer to an agreement with Verizon Wireless to become the default search provider on the wireless carrier’s cell phones, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the discussions.
Under the terms being considered, Microsoft would share with Verizon revenue from ads shown in response to cell phone Web searches, with [...]