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Sony has bet its PlayStation 3 (PS3) fortunes on some 380 new games coming to store shelves in 2008 Kaz Hirai reportedly told just over 7,000 shareholders Thursday at the company's 90th annual shareholder meeting held in Tokyo ...

Gateway, in conjunction with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), announced the recall of some 14,000 notebook computer batteries. Laptop PCs with the defective batteries can overheat and pose a fire hazard for consumers, the organizations said ...

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) on Tuesday put the kibosh on the scheduled July 13 release of "Manhunt 2" in that country. The independent board, established in 1912, rejected the video game headed to Sony's PlayStation 2 (PS2) and Nintendo's Wii because of its "unrelenting focus on stalking and brutal slaying and the sheer lack of alternative pleasures on offer to the gamer."

Linspire has become the latest Linux vendor to sign a deal with Microsoft, the two companies announced Wednesday. The pact promises a closer working relationship between the two software makers. For consumers, it brings greater interoperability and a technical collaboration that also includes intellectual property assurances, Microsoft said ...

More than 12 million small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) operate in the U.S., and unlike larger enterprises, few of them have the cash to pay a marketing firm to launch an online advertising campaign. In world where the Internet has become perhaps the most powerful tool that companies can use to attract customers, what's an SMB to do? ...

The European Union's Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner, Franco Frattini, gave a thumbs-up to Google's offer to cut the time it keeps identifiable search user data down from 24 months to 18 months. Frattini's comments came Wednesday during a news conference in Luxembourg ...

Just a few years ago, picking broadband services and a pay television provider consisted of going with dial-up or DSL to access the Internet, and cable or satellite to get TV access. Consumers trying to make that decision today, however, have multiple options for a whole host of broadband, telecommunication and pay TV services ...

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), an 8,000-member trade association, announced Tuesday it will make Wibree, a low-power, short-range wireless technology developed by Nokia, the foundation for a new form of Bluetooth. Wibree could be used to connect devices like heart monitors and watches, according to Nokia ...

Sony, maker of the PlayStation line of gaming consoles, is reportedly in hot water with the Church of England, which has accused the company of desecrating one of its churches through its representation in a video game. At issue is the depiction of the Manchester Cathedral in the video game "Resistance: Fall of Man." ...

Fulfilling its May promise to provide more details in its "Security Bulletin Advance Notification," Microsoft unveiled the new format in an advance alert issued last week. The upcoming "Patch Tuesday" on June 12 will include six security bulletins for Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Windows, Vista's Windows Mail and Visio, according to the release...

Intel and Taiwan firm Asus have teamed up to produce a line of low-cost mobile PCs with at least one coming in at under US$200. The two companies made the announcement this week during the 2007 Computex computer trade show held in Taipei, Taiwan ...

Sony, maker of the embattled PlayStation 3 (PS3) video game console, said Thursday it plans to lay off employees of its U.S.-based game unit. The job cuts, according to Sony, are part of a corporation-wide restructuring effort ...

At the end of 2006, more than 100 million households in the United States subscribed to Internet services, cable or satellite television and other telecommunications services. By 2012, the number of new subscribers will increase by some 50 million households ...

It is perhaps one of the most distinctive sounds in video game history -- the "wakka, wakka, wakka" of 1980s pop culture phenom "Pac-Man." Now, 26 years after the game was first introduced, Microsoft has kept the beloved sound but flipped the script on Pac-Man, Blinky, Inky, Pinky and Clyde with the game's first revamp since its worldwide release. Game designer Toru Iwatani, who brought the world the first "Pac-Man," was also behind the creation of the latest game...

The high-def DVD format wars took a turn Monday when Sony, backer of Blu-ray DVD technology, announced it has cut the price of a Blu-ray disc (BD) player by US$100. The company's latest model, the second-generation BDP-S300 available next week, will now sell for $499 ...

The push for high-definition (HD) radio received a vote of confidence Tuesday when Sony unveiled the latest additions to its line of audio consumer electronics: a tabletop HD radio and an in-car audio adapter ...

Starting Thursday, PlayStation 3 (PS3) owners in North America will be able to add some new capabilities to their gaming console with the release of the latest PS3 firmware update. The regular system update from Sony bumps up the appearance of standard definition PlayStation (PS) and PlayStation 2 (PS2) games as well as DVDs to HD-quality. It also extends the PlayStation Portable's (PSP) Remote Play functionality...

Members of the European Union approved a measure Wednesday that would scale back the roaming charges Europeans must pay when using their mobile phones to dial home during their travels across the continent ...

Speculation surrounding a new Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) model sporting an 80 GB hard disk drive has gone into overdrive once again after the company's South Korean unit announced the arrival of the newest addition to the console line on its Web site. The system, according to Sony Korea, will become available on June 16 and cost 518,000 South Korean won (US$557)...

AMD executives began spreading the word Friday about the company's code name for its new next-generation mobile microprocessor, named "Griffin," as well as its new platform for notebook computers, known as "Puma." ...