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Comcast Snags Fandango, Plans Online Video Search Site

Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, is acquiring movie ticket sales portal Fandango and launching a new Web site to help people locate online video content ...

Dash Recruits Road Testers for Web-Enabled GPS System

Mountain View, Calif.-based Dash Navigation is recruiting 2,000 drivers to "road test" the company's Dash Express automotive GPS, a unit that automatically connects to the Internet to provide real-time traffic conditions and other information for motorists ...

HP Got Game?

Hewlett-Packard's purchase last year of high-end gaming PC maker VoodooPC is beginning to bear fruit as the computing and printing giant is now offering previews of advanced game technologies it might soon bring to market ...

New Google Map App Lets Users Chart Their Own Course

Google has unveiled a way for users of its popular Maps application to create and share maps they make themselves, creations that can include all sorts of digital content including videos, text and photos ...

Sony Shaves $30 Off PSP Price

In a move framed as an anniversary celebration, not a reaction to competition, Sony Computer Entertainment America is cutting the price of the PlayStation Portable (PSP) game console by US$30 ...

IBM Designs New Web Browser for the Blind

IBM is close to unveiling a new Internet browsing technology that will help the visually impaired enjoy streaming video and animation ...

Sirius TV Climbs Into Chrysler Back Seats

Digital television broadcasts targeted for children will soon be available in Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge vehicles, starting with the 2008 Chrysler and Dodge minivans ...

Microsoft Pumps Up Storage in New Xbox 360 Elite

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the upcoming release of the long-rumored new version of the Xbox 360 gaming console, a system with beefed-up storage capacity, a high-definition port, a black case and more ...

Sprint Slashes Music Download Fee to 99 Cents

Over-the-air music downloads just got less expensive, at least for Sprint customers ...

Helio Promises Smooth Sailing With ‘Ocean’ Smartphone

Helio, the mobile communication joint venture of SK Telecom and Earthlink, has introduced a new device called "Ocean," asserting it is the world's first dual-slider with both a numeric keypad and a separate full QWERTY keyboard ...

Borders Dumps Amazon, Heads for Web

Borders Group is severing its alignment with Amazon.com and will be unveiling its own book-selling Web site as part of a major company restructuring designed to "revitalize, refocus, and ultimately reinvent the company." ...

Social Engineering Blamed for Xbox Live Hacks

Ill-willed players on the Microsoft Xbox Live system managed to gain access to other players' accounts by using pretexting and other forms of social engineering to trick customer service staffers into revealing private information ...

MySpace Aims to ‘Impact’ Presidential Race

Vowing to play a "powerful role" in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, MySpace.com has introduced a portal featuring candidate-created profiles as well as voter-registration tools, job listings, videos, "friends" pages and other political content ...

Is OLPC Putting a Band-Aid on a Gaping Wound?

What does the sitcom "Seinfeld" have to do with One Laptop per Child (OLPC), the project aiming to distribute inexpensive notebook computers to the impoverished, third-world children? ...

PS3 Update Bolsters Stanford Research Efforts

A new software update for Sony's PlayStation 3 consoles includes Bluetooth support, enhanced downloading and the ability to help a Stanford University distributed-computing program hoping to cure protein-related diseases ...

Nintendo’s Still the One

Mario must be feeling super today. The latest game console sales figures for America, compiled by NPD Group, show his creator, Nintendo, outdistancing the competition by thousands of units ...

Study: U.S. Latinos on Far Side of Digital Divide

While the Internet has become a daily part of most American lives, Hispanics with lower levels of education and English proficiency are lagging, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project ...

Vista Gamers to Get Xbox Experience

Coming closer to founder Bill Gates' goal of providing gamers the chance to play online almost anywhere, Microsoft said Wednesday its Games for Windows Live will be activated May 8 ...

Intel Joins Flash Memory Hard Drive Fray

The days of the spinning disk hard drive seem to be numbered as Intel Tuesday joined the growing field of companies offering solid state flash memory drives that claim to be faster, quieter and more power efficient ...

CBS Doubles Bandwidth for March Madness

To help meet demand for online streaming video of the upcoming NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball Championship, CBS SportsLine is doubling its bandwidth reserves and offering preregistration ...

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