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All together now: The Beatles are getting their own video game. If you’re of a certain age, then the idea of playing a “Rock Band”-esque game featuring the Fab Four’s music will almost certainly make you twist and shout. The big question is this: will younger gamers raised on Metallica and Pearl Jam want to play a ’60s-based game eight days a week, or will they simply let it be?
Motorola announced a new round of layoffs as it reported a 15 percent decrease in revenue during the third quarter on Thursday. “Approximately 3,000 employees will be affected globally across all businesses and functions,” said company spokesperson Maya Komadina. The company also said it will postpone the spinoff of its wireless devices unit until some time after 2009.
The usual pre-holiday ramp-up in cell phone shipments didn’t happen this year because of the feeble global economy, a research firm said Thursday. Manufacturers shipped 299 million phones in the July-September period, down 0.4 percent from the second quarter, according to IDC. The third quarter normally sees a rise in shipments, as stores stock up ahead of the holidays.
CBS said Thursday it swung to a third-quarter loss, weighed down by a hefty $14.12 billion write-down related to a drop in value of its media assets. The New York-based media company reported a loss of $12.46 billion, or $18.58 per share, compared with a CBS said earlier this month that it would record the charge to reflect a decreased book value for its radio and TV stations.
Pokemon, Mario and the Wii are as hot as ever, but the onset of a headstrong yen forced Nintendo to prune its money-making ambitions Thursday. The Kyoto, Japan-based video game and console maker cut its annual net profit forecast by nearly 16 percent because of the stronger Japanese currency, which erodes overseas earnings.
Children in California who want to buy or rent a violent video game without a parent’s permission could have that right taken away by a federal appeals panel, which heard arguments on the case Wednesday. A state law passed in 2005 that tries to limit access to such games is under consideration by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Pity the Patent and Trademark Office examining attorney who gave Dell the green light
propelling its trademark application for the term “cloud computing” toward the home stretch this summer. That particular individual was obviously unaware that the phrase had become, over the course of a year, one of the hottest buzzwords in the tech industry.
Personalization — the purported long-sought Holy Grail of Web content management — just might have finally arrived via Web applications that make Web sites responsive in real-time to the unique needs of individual visitors. At the heart of recommendation and personalization technologies are active, content-based collaborative filtering formulations.
Netflix subscribers who also happen to own an Xbox 360 — and have an Xbox Live membership — learned last summer they’d be able to access streaming video via the gaming console, but what they didn’t know until recently is that some of those titles will be available in high definition. Users of the Microsoft’s gaming machine will see the feature when the console’s “New Xbox Experience” launches Nov. 19.
Struggling wireless phone maker Motorola will cut more jobs and focus on designing handheld devices that run Google’s new open source Android operating system. The company will pare down the number of operating systems for which it currently creates mobile phones to just three: Android, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and Motorola’s proprietary P2K platform.
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