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Sony's profits are down, while Nintendo's sales are way up. The Wii video game console is selling faster than Nintendo can keep up with. Following Sony's announcement of its disappointing results Tuesday, which it partly blamed on huge costs for the PS3 launch, speculation is running rampant about the PlayStation 3's position in the video gaming market...

A problem that arose in NASA's Hubble Space Telescope over the weekend means that many of the orbiting telescope's key capabilities may be permanently lost, officials announced Monday ...

With the upcoming release of Apple's iPhone, smartphones are becoming one of the most hyped categories of consumer technology today. The combination of telephone technology with e-mail, Internet access and multimedia -- among other features -- serves many consumer needs in one tidy, sleek little packet ...

At the request of the Software Freedom Law Center, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced Thursday that it will re-examine a patent held by e-learning software company Blackboard ...

In a move sure to bring joy to the hearts of many consumers, Microsoft yesterday announced that it is extending the availability of support for users of Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Media Center Edition by an additional five years over what it had previously announced ...

In the ever-intensifying race to deliver the most memory in the tiniest chip, SanDisk on Tuesday rolled out its 8-gigabit, 56 nanometer (nm) NAND flash technology and promised to deliver a 16-gigabit version in the second quarter ...

Google said Monday it will be expanding tests of its video advertising system by delivering music video clips from Warner Music Group and Sony BMG Music Entertainment along with advertising over its AdSense online advertising service ...

Google is working on a platform to allow users to download the entire content of books in a format that they could read on their computers or maybe even mobile devices, according to a report in this week's Sunday Times ...

Google plans to build a new, US$600 million datacenter in North Carolina designed to help support its online operations, the company announced Friday ...

News Corp.'s popular social networking site MySpace.com will soon offer parents a glimpse of what their teenagers are doing online ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced plans to make Vista, the newest version of its Windows operating system, available to consumers online when the product is officially rolled out at the end of this month ...

Oracle on Tuesday released a new Critical Patch Update addressing 51 security flaws across a variety of its products. The release was Oracle's ninth such quarterly update, and was the first to be preannounced. The release was initially announced last Thursday ...

Research In Motion and T-Mobile on Monday rolled out a new, "pearl white" version of the popular BlackBerry Pearl smartphone ...

Just five months after it issued a massive recall of notebook computers because of defective batteries, Dell on Friday became the target of yet more legal problems involving its notebook equipment ...