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2 hrs ago | Canada.com

Best Buy plans movie download service with Sonic

Best Buy Co Inc plans to start an online service that allows consumers to buy, rent and download movies and television shows, the electronics retailer said on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Best Buy, Retail, Sonic Solutions, Computers

6 hrs ago | Kentucky.com

Activision Blizzard shares rise after 3Q results

Shares of Activision Blizzard Inc. rose Friday after the video game publisher posted strong third-quarter results and backed its full-year outlook amid a difficult time for the video game industry.

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Related Topix: Activision, Video Games, Virtual Worlds

10 hrs ago | KOMO

Moms learn online tools at Microsoft campus

Despite a sobering presentation about sexting and a Twitter promo from one of the world's most popular tweeters, the main message of the day at the first Wired Moms summit on Friday was pretty low tech: talk to your kids.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Family, Kids, Seaview, WA, Parenting

14 hrs ago | The Sligo Champion

Microsoft Windows 7 smashes sales records

Windows 7 has been a bigger seller than its predecessor, Windows Vista , new industry figures show.

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Related Topix: Microsoft Windows, Science / Technology, Microsoft, Startups, Marketing

Fri Nov 06, 2009

InfoWorld

MS Office battles growing threat from Google in the cloud

Office 2010 will be released into a far different competitive landscape than Office 2007 faced By Elizabeth Montalbano When Microsoft releases the next version of its productivity suite, Office 2010, it will be into a very different competitive landscape than the one Office 2007 faced in late 2006.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Microsoft Office, Microsoft, Startups

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Adobe releases Photoshop.com app for Android

Adobe has introduced Photoshop.com Mobile as an application for mobile phones running the Android operating system.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics, San Francisco Metro, San Jose Metro, Startups, Adobe Systems

San Jose Business Journal

Google Dashboard offers users peek at what it knows

Google Inc. on Thursday unveiled a way for users of its services to see what it knows about them.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups

SlashGear.com

Microsoft Research demo prototype glass screen PC with gesture and eye-tracking control

Say what you like about Microsoft, but their Research arm certainly know how to put together an eye-catching demo.

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Related Topix: Microsoft

Hindustan Times

SFIO will continue its probe on Satyam Computer: Khurshid

The Serious Fraud Investigation Office will continue its investigation into alleged corporate law violations by Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju but other agencies would probe breaking foreign exchange rules, Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said on Thursday.

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Related Topix: Satyam Computer Services

IGN complete

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Multiplayer Beta For PlayStation 3 System Launches November 19

Experience all-out modern warfare open to all players with demo in early 2010. November 5, 2009 - Stockholm, Sweden - DICE, an Electronic Arts Inc.

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Related Topix: PlayStation 3, Video Games, Sweden, World News, Electronic Arts, Startups, Spore (Video Game)

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Newindpress

Infosys sale of shares worth $92 million

BANGALORE: Infosys Technologies, India's second-largest software exporter, said on Thursday its chairman's wife sold company shares worth $92 million for setting up a venture capital fund.

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Related Topix: Infosys Technologies

KTXL-TV Sacramento

'Call of Duty' video game publisher Activision had 3rd-quarter profit, reaffirms 2009 guidance

It's been a rough year for the video game industry, but Activision Blizzard Inc.

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Related Topix: Activision, Video Games, Virtual Worlds, 9

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Smith Micro Software posts profit but cuts outlook

Smith Micro Software Inc. said Wednesday it turned a profit in the third quarter but cut its 2009 revenue estimate, sending shares tumbling nearly 20 percent in aftermarket trading.

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Related Topix: Smith Micro Software

SF Gate

JDA Software to buy i2 for about $434 million

JDA Software Group Inc., which makes inventory management software for retailers, says it has agreed to buy rival i2 Technologies Inc.

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Related Topix: JDA Software Group, i2 Technologies, Scottsdale, AZ, Business News

Freshnews

SourceForge, Inc. Changes Its Name to Geeknet, Inc

SourceForge, Inc. today announced that it has changed its name to Geeknet, Inc. to more accurately reflect the company's business and the growing market it serves.

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Related Topix: Startups, SourceForge, VA Software

Clover Herald

THQ narrows 3Q loss as it lowers costs

Video game maker THQ Inc. said it lost less in the third quarter than it did a year earlier even as sales fell because it lowered its operating costs, sending its shares higher in aftermarket trading.

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Related Topix: THQ, Video Games, Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo Wii, Agoura Hills, CA

Wed Nov 04, 2009

News.com.au

Cisco-EMC-VMware in data centre alliance

TECHNOLOGY titans Cisco, EMC and VMware announced an alliance to peddle the wonders of cloud computing and virtualisation in a $US350 billion business market.

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Related Topix: Telecom, Computers, Cisco Systems, VMware, EMC, Science, Computer Science, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology

The

RELEASE: HTC HD2 ships in Europe and Asia in 2009 - coming to the US in early 2010

Today, during its press event in Taiwan, HTC Corporation chief executive officer, Peter Chou, joined Microsoft Corp.

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Related Topix: CPU, Microsoft, Startups

TwinCities.com

EARNINGS Digital River to cut payroll up to 15% as Symantec departs

Digital River Inc., which operates online stores for software and consumer electronics companies, said Tuesday it expects to reduce its payroll by 10 percent to 15 percent next year as it prepares to lose its biggest customer, Symantec.

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Related Topix: Consulting, Digital River, Eden Prairie, MN

The Register

Brussels readies full investigation of Oracle Sun

Oracle has resigned itself to the likelihood of a full European competition investigation into its takeover of Sun Microsystems.

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Related Topix: Oracle, Startups, Lawrence Ellison

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