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Entries Tagged as 'Wall Street Journal-Tech'

Videogames morph to TV and the movies

August 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments

©Eneas
Comic book, TV, movie, action figure, videogame. That used to be the typical lifecycle for  entertainment. It seems now this might have changed, or will change.

The WSJ reports that Electronic Arts, Inc. will be teaming up with Hollywood’s United Talent Agency to help [...]

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Videogames based on intelligence

August 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments

©Dan4th
www.ArmorGames.com www.AdditctingGames.com www.NewGrounds.com www.Kongregat.com [...]

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Webbing telcom companies

July 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

©roney

In an attempt to compete with Cisco on a grander scale, Brocade is poised to buy Foundry Networks for nearly $3 billion.
As a maker of hardware and software that connects corporate servers and data storage, Brocade is thinking that the acquisition can [...]

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Windows 7 - Are we ready already?

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

©My Boy Dodger

What’s all the hype about anyway?   Isn’t Windows 7 at least two years away? Guess since most of us are still on XP and probably won’t upgrade to Vista, we should really start thinking about Windows 7 as the next Windows [...]

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Amazon? .com? — Here come the TAX-man

June 25th, 2008 · No Comments

©Michael Karshis

Did you know there are only 8 states left in the U.S. that allow dot-coms the ability to not collect sales tax. The move to start collecting taxes in those last few states could bring, and will bring, huge amounts of cash. [...]

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Are laptops safe from border paTROLLs

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

 
©meshmar2

Traveling abroad? Want to come back into the country (U.S.)? Own a laptop? Have a business partner coming to the U.S.?
You just might want to re-think traveling with a laptop!

If you haven’t heard, travelers entering the U.S. with laptops or other storage devices could just have the device searched and potentially seized for fear [...]

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Sun Microsystems - Turning IBM-BLUE?

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

 
Here is an interesting twist to in the battle for computing platforms. Sun and IBM have gotten together to supply systems for Themis Computer of Fremont, California.

If you want to take advantage of the UltraSPARC T2 chip technologies but need an IBM blade server, this just might be the solution for you. Developed for both [...]

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Salary and Company Review Website

June 12th, 2008 · No Comments

©AMagill

A new website www.glassdoor.com offers a peek into salaries and corporate culture. Given anonymously, users can register at this site, provide current and past salary information, along with a company review, and have access to salary and review information given by others.

This [...]

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click, click, there’s no place like Google

June 10th, 2008 · No Comments

©sabandija

comScore Inc. reported a significant growth in the number paid clicks for Google in April.
Meanwhile the paid clicks for Yahoo and Microsoft declined.
Was Google able, through some un-known mechanism, to persuade Internet users to click on their ads instead? 

Just for background, [...]

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Internet Police are Alive and Well

June 7th, 2008 · No Comments

©ThunderChild the Magnificent

Revision3 Corp.,is an Internet TV company that "gets it, born from the Internet, on-demand generation. Unlike aggregators, mash-ups, and user-generated video sites, Revision3 is an actual TV network for the web, creating and producing its own original, broadcast quality shows." 
MediaDefender [...]

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