ShareBy Alice Hill
RealTechNews
It makes sense. CDs are looking like VCR tapes when you compare them to digital downloads and MP3 players. Why carry around a scratched up disc with a few songs on it, when you can transport 20GBs of music and have everything you own at your fingertips? Cars are quickly trying to integrate [...]
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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Not sure which side of the law you want to be on? Now you can play either side.
Oct. 31, 2005—NCsoft® North America announces that City of Villains™, stand-alone sequel to the hit massively multiplayer online PC game City of Heroes®, has gone live in North America. Developed by Cryptic [...]
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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Class-action lawsuits against wireless telephone providers and manufacturers over radiation emissions will be able to go forward, after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by the companies.
The high court rejected hearing an appeal by companies like Nokia and Cingular Wireless challenging a decision [...]
ShareBy Mark Evans
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Eleven years ago, Microsoft held an “Internet Strategy Day” in Redmond to discuss how it was about to finally get serious about the Internet after choosing to pretty much ignore it despite the Internet’s move into the mainstream and the emergence of Netscape. In some respects, Microsoft has lost some of [...]
ShareBy Nicolas Fogelholm
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
A recent survey shows that people want camera phones. Maybe you are planning to buy one as a Christmas present? Here´s some basic facts and advice.
Most cell phones have a built-in camera, but if you are serious about taking photos and would like to order prints and fill the family album [...]
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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Well! It looks like BlizzCon attendees will have a chance to sign up for a Beta of an unannounced Blizzard game – just hop over to the website and enter the code on the back of your BlizzCon pass. The notice on the site [...]
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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
If you’ve watched television shows like “Law and Order” you’ve seen detectives ask officers if the area had been “canvassed” … meaning, had someone gone and done a door-to-door search of the area … for witnesses and information, not necessarily for culprits. As technology advances, there are twists on this [...]
ShareBy Mark Evans
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Another much-anticipated Web 2.0 beta has been released: Sphere, which has an ambitious goal of bumping aside blog search rivals such as Technorati and Mark Cuban’s IceRocket. So what is Sphere’s secret sauce? Apparently, relevance rather than the most recent posts. My first take is it’s intriguing but there’s plenty [...]
