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Hillcrest files patent suit against Nintendo
U.S. firm Hillcrest
Laboratories has accused Japan's Nintendo Co of infringing four
of its patents to make the top-selling Wii game console, filing a
complaint with a trade panel, and a lawsuit.
Olympics set the stage for emerging Web tech fight
As the world's best athletes
competed in Beijing, the summer Olympic games set the
stage for a battle between Microsoft Corp and Adobe
Systems Inc over the Internet's next big competition.
Imaging industry seeks broader U.S. PET coverage
The medical imaging industry
called for the Medicare government health plan to broaden its
coverage of PET scans to additional cancer types, asking an
advisory pane to recommend wider payments.
Slideshow: Behind the scenes at Intel Developer Forum
Intel Corp. and heavyweight multimedia partners like DreamWorks Animination and Yahoo! made a big splash at the chip maker's annual developer forum.
An EA merger with Take-Two gets US antitrust OK
U.S. antitrust authorities
would approve a combination of Electronic Arts Inc with rival
video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software, according
to letters from the Federal Trade Commission posted on the
agency's web site.
Web TV wins media Olympics; mobile TV gets silver
Doomsayers predicted it would be
the Olympics of piracy.
Shake-out looms for world's unsung gadget makers
A shake-out is brewing
among the world's top manufacturers that toil anonymously to
make the latest cellphones, iPods and other gadgets for big
names such as Nokia and Apple
And the Emmy winner is... H.264
One month ahead of the famous 'Emmy' awards show for actors and directors, the US Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has awarded the Emmy awards for technology and engineering. The 'Prime Time Award' went to an international team for the development and establishment of the H.264/MPEG 4 standard on Advanced Video Coding (AVC).
Apple updates iPhone software to fix glitches
Apple Inc has issued
a software update for the latest iPhone to help fix connection
problems that led to a flurry of online complaints from
customers, a European mobile service provider said Tuesday.
DTV chips: No longer prime time market
Digital TV chips are no longer a prime time market.
U.S. FCC moves to publicize digital TV switch-over
U.S. communications
regulators will be fanning out around the country during the
next six months to inform television viewers about the upcoming
switch-over to digital TV.
EA drops hostile Take-Two bid, enters talks
Electronic Arts Inc
will drop its hostile $2 billion bid for rival video game
publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc
and instead pursue private talks with the company.
IBM demonstrates light-emitting nanotube
Researchers at IBM Corp.'s Thomas J. Watson Research Center have brought silicon photonics one step closer to reality.
Commentary: Is Internet TV yet another would-be wedding?
A marriage of TV and Internet has been on the minds of many for more than 15 years. Why should we believe Intel's Canmore is better positioned than others to solve the fundamental Internet TV problems the CE industry couldn't figure out for years?
Corel says private-equity firm pulls buyout offer
Consumer software developer
Corel Corp said its majority
shareholder has withdrawn its offer to buy out the rest of the
company.
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