Tag archive: award

The sale of Sex.com this past November set the Guinness World Record for “most expensive Internet address domain name.” The domain was sold by Escom to Clover Holdings on Nov. 17 for $13 million, reports TechCrunch. Question is: are you surprised? The sale was brokered by a domain marketplace operator Sedo, which has brokered about $400 million for domain names like Pizza.com and Russia.com. It's obvious that sex is a big buzz… Read More

Apple didn't even show up at Mobile World Congress 2011, which took place in Barcelona, Spain, this week. But that didn't stop the company's iPhone 4 from taking home the show's top prize for a mobile device. Amidst an onslaught of newly unveiled smartphones — many of which run Google's Android operating system — GSMA Global Mobile Awards judges have named the iPhone 4 the “Best Mobile Device” of 2011… Read More

We hear all about the big blockbuster games that sell millions of copies. But there’s a whole ecosystem of independent games, too, that receive very little publicity – except for the one night in the year when they step into the spotlight for the Independent Games Festival Awards. How big is this world? Well, this year saw 226 games in competition for awards, with another 145 chasing the student prize. That’s a lot of… Read More

The people at Activision, the publishers of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, were very happy on Thursday night. At the annual British Golden Joystick Awards, CoD4 scooped the Nuts All-Nighter Award, ESA PC Game of the Year, GamesRadar.com Online Game of the Year and Virgin Media Ultimate Game of the Year. Unlike the other big British game awards, the Baftas, the Golden Joysticks winners are chosen by the public, not experts, and this year… Read More

The winners of the 2007 Game Developers Choice Awards have been announced (if not posted on the awards' Web site yet), and the big winner this year is the first-person shooter Gears of War, from Epic Games and Microsoft Game Studios. Gears of War took home honors for technology and visual arts, as well as the coveted "best game" award. However, other video game developers weren't exactly left in the cold. Clover… Read More

Sony's adventure game “Shadow of the Colossus” won the best game of 2005 award from the International Game Developers Association at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose. Colossus also won awards for Best Visual Arts, Best Character Design, Best Game Design, and a special award for innovation. Majesco's “Psychonauts” won the award for best writing, and its developer, Double Fine Productions, took… Read More

“The award for fees and costs comes in a case in which Microsoft agreed to allocate $1.1 billion for California consumers–after a small San Francisco law firm sued in state court here alleging the company inflated prices by monopolizing the pre-installed software market from 1995 to 2001. The deal enables anyone who bought a computer in California to get vouchers worth $5 to $29 per Microsoft product. Two-thirds of the unused… Read More

To encourage new IT innovations domestically and to assist companies in overseas marketing, COMPUTEX TAIPEI features the annual “Best Choice of COMPUTEX TAIPEI” award ceremony. Through the recognition and awarding of IT companies, in correspondence with the organizers' activities, the award not only assists Taiwan IT companies in global marketing, but also creates new topics for the exhibition. This year, the awards are… Read More

The company highlights a 14.1-inch wide-screen notebook (Joybook 7000) at the show and plans to start marketing the product next month. BenQ is also introducing LCD monitors of 15-, 17-, 19-, 20.1- and 23-inches. The 17-inch FP785 won the 2004 iF Design award. The 19-inch FP783 won the Innovation International CES award. Read more at Digitimes

The award, a euro1 million cash prize, equivalent to $1.2 million, is among the largest of its kind, and was awarded for the first time. It was established in 2002 and backed by the Finnish government. The prize committee on Thursday said Berners-Lee's contribution strongly embodied the spirit of the award, given “for an innovation that directly promotes people's quality of life, is based on humane values, and encourages… Read More