AP - Microsoft Corp. is trimming the price of its Xbox 360 video game console to make way for a new model with a bigger hard drive. -- read full article
AP - In the upcoming video game "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed," the evil Stormtroopers are smart enough to keep players guessing. -- read full article
AP - Yahoo Inc. has rejected Microsoft's latest attempt to buy its online search operations in a "take or leave it" proposal that Yahoo said would have dismantled its Internet franchise.
Reuters - There were a lot of questions
surrounding the "Guitar Hero" videogame when it first came out.
Would gamers agree to pony up extra money for the special
guitar-shaped controller needed to play it? Would the music
industry agree to license master tracks? Would the addition of
downloadable content be successful?
Reuters - Yahoo Inc on Saturday rejected a
proposal to sell its search business to Microsoft Corp and hand
over the remainder of the company to activist investor Carl
Icahn.
AFP - Yahoo said Saturday it has rejected a "ludicrous" deal with Microsoft orchestrated by corporate raider Carl Icahn, who is bent on overthrowing the struggling Internet search pioneer's board.
AP - Yahoo Inc. has rejected Microsoft's latest attempt to buy its online search operations in a "take or leave it" proposal that Yahoo said would have dismantled its Internet franchise.
Macworld.com - iPhone fans camped out for as long as 3 days with tents, chairs, and pillows. Joe Brown opted for a portable hammock. -- read full article
Reuters - Professionals and amateurs alike
will have the chance to remix the third single from Mariah
Carey's platinum-plus album "E=MC2" via a contest hosted on a
startup social network Web site for musicians, Billboard has
learned.
Reuters - With the "John Madden Football"
videogame franchise nearing its 20th anniversary, publisher
Electronic Arts is pulling out all the stops to celebrate the
occasion.
PC World - The latest iPhone operating system update makes the device usable in enterprises by adding better networked security options and global configuration profiles. -- read full article
PC World - Researchers at IBM's Almaden labs have developed software that lets you created slimmed-down versions of Web sites for mobile... -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Web monitoring firm Pingdom says Windows Update was up 100% of the time in the second quarter, Apple's Software Update was up 99.9% of the time, and Ubuntu was up 98.64% of the time. -- read full article
PC World - Apple's new multimedia handset is the Timex of phones. Here's a blow-by-blow account of how it took PC World's mauling and kept on calling (until we literally drove it into the ground). -- read full article
