Reuters - If "American Idol" and a modern
fairy tale combined to create a video game, you'd get "Boogie
SuperStar" -- Electronic Art's latest game for the Nintendo Wii
system.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Consumers are drawn to the price point, 3G capabilities, and the integrated GPS, a study from RBC Capital said. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The global market share for Linux jumped in the past 10 months, while Microsoft's Windows lost a few points, says Net Applications. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The site runs a script that pretends to do an online security scan of your computer and presents a bogus warning message that your PC is infected with malware, researchers said. -- read full article
NewsFactor - Last month, Apple announced that its new iPhone 3G would cost just $199 for the 8GB version and $299 for the 16GB version. AT&T confirmed that pricing Tuesday, but clarified that those prices are only for certain users -- buyers of any iPhone before the iPhone 3G goes on sale July 11, new AT&T customers, or subscribers eligible for an upgrade discount. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The groups also want to know the number of times the government has sought cell-phone location information without court permission and how many times it has obtained the information. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The company released firmware 2.40 Tuesday, and reports of problems started flowing in soon after on the official PlayStation 3 message board. -- read full article
Macworld.com - Norway is known for many things: Norse gods, the work of Henrik Ibsen, and a second place spot on the United Nations's Human Development Index (unseated just this past year from the top spot by rival Iceland). -- read full article
Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd's (7974.OS) Wii game
console outsold Sony Corp's (6758.T) PlayStation 3 for the
seventh consecutive month in Japan in June, a game magazine
publisher said. -- read full article
Reuters - India's telecoms ministry does not
see any security risk from Research In Motion's popular
BlackBerry e-mail service and has no plans to shut the service,
a top government official said on Wednesday. -- read full article
