IDG News Service - Microsoft on Friday said it has fully restored its Xbox Live service after problems prevented an undetermined number of users from logging into the online gaming service. At 4:28 p.m. Eastern Time, Microsoft's Xbox ...
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Nintendo said Thursday pre-order sales of its new Wii U console are strong and the console is likely to have shortages this holiday season after its launch. The company also expects a hit on its profits in the short-term from the console, ...
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Foxconn workers are blaming company security guards for Sunday's unrest at a manufacturing facility in China, claiming that the mass riot was the result of an escalating brawl between assembly line workers and security guards. The riot, ...
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The U.S. International Trade Commission said Tuesday it had launched an investigation into wireless consumer electronics devices and components from 13 top technology companies and their subsidiaries, including Samsung, Acer, and Nintendo, ...
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New social channels and the explosion of video content have opened up doors for brands to own the conversation with their audience and bypass traditional gatekeepers (and in the process save millions of dollars in ad spend). goviral ...
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IMages courtesy Usually when one hears the combination of “hacking” and “college students”, it sends shivers along our skin contemplating the damage. In this case, however, when the elite of the MIT geek core pull ...
Author(s): Miriam Berg Give a gift that keeps on giving in the form of energy savings – check out our energy-efficient gift picks for just about everyone on your list! For the DIY-er Cordless power tools like screwdrivers, ...
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With just over a month until Christmas, 57 percent of consumers (and 65 percent of men) have yet to begin shopping, mostly because they think they have plenty of time, according to the latest Consumer Reports Holiday Poll. However, in yet ...
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Nintendo's new games console,the Wii U,has apparently had its user network cracked within hours of the machine's retail release,and by only a regular end user who reached debug menus by accident. A poster going by the name of Trike on ...
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Working with Xsens Technologies, STMicroelectronics next week will demonstrate the world's first wearable wireless 3D body motion-tracking system based on consumer-grade sensors. Advanced motion capture using sensors is already used in a ...
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Free smartphone apps pose huge threats to user privacy by collecting unnecessary information,says a report from Juniper Networks. The network security firm analysed 1.7 million applications on the Android market over an 18-month period ...
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With gas prices on the rise many people have taken to public transportation and bicycles. Bicycles can offer a well rounded speedy way to zip through traffic and enjoy the sights, however they do not offer all of the conveniences that cars ...
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The name Foxconn has become shorthand for the human costs of building the iPhone in China, linking Apple to bad publicity about worker suicides, deaths from a plant explosion and rioting factory workers. But many other companies besides ...
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IDG News Service - Electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group said on Tuesday that students as young as 14, below the legal working age, were found employed at a company factory in China that has been said to make products for ...
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memBrain Licensing,a Beverly Hills based licensing and brand marketing firm,announced that Evy of California,a premier manufacturer of apparel for Girls and Juniors,has been appointed to develop and manufacture an"Emily the Strange"fashion ...