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“The new consoles will get the lion's share of the spotlight, for obvious reasons. But software publishers have a few surprises up their sleeves that may shift the focus back to games by the time theshow wraps up. (Before you start planning your trip, I should point out that E3 is closed to the general public. We'll have full coverage next month here at CNN/Money, though.) Microsoft has the most riding on this year's… Read More

“IAC will issue 1.2668 shares of its stock for each share of Ask Jeeves. That would represent a premium of about 16 percent for Ask Jeeves shareholders, based on Friday's closing prices. Shares of Ask Jeeves gained $3.41, or 14 percent, to $27.65 in pre-market trading on Inet following Monday's announcement, while shares of IAC lost 60 cents, or about 2.5 percent, to $21.69. “ Ask Jeeves owns the popular advertising… Read More

Quote from the column: “Be backward compatible: Look, I know replicating technological capabilities and performance is tricky when you've switched hardware vendors. Gamers don't care, though. They just want it done. If the next Xbox launches and people aren't able to play “Halo 2″ along with their new titles, you're going to have a riot on your hands. Given how heavily you marketed that title,… Read More

“The stock is up a bit on the fact that nobody liked Carly's leadership all that much,” said Robert Cihra, an analyst with Fulcrum Global Partners. “The Street had lost all faith in her and the market's hope is that anyone will be better.” Fiorina, the only female CEO at a company in the Dow Jones industrial average, had been with HP since 1999. But the company's controversial deal to buy Compaq in… Read More

Under a new authentication program, Windows XP user will have to prove their copy of Windows is legit in order to receive “greater reliability, faster access to updates, and richer user experiences” from the Windows XP operating system. If you have a pirated copy of the OS, then you should still be able to download security updates, you just will not have access to add-ons and performance enhacing patches according to… Read More

“The IFPI said research firm Jupiter expects the $330 million online music market to double in 2005. The increasing popularity of online music stores is welcome news to a music industry that blames digital piracy for more than two years of precipitous sales declines.” The article says there are more than 1 million songs available for download on the net at this time. Read more at CNN/Money

“With the explosion in popularity of digital photography technology, providers are scrambling to create a foothold in the growing market for managing, editing, printing and sharing photos. Among Picasa's new editing features is a “fill light” tool that brightens dark, backlit photos.” Read more at CNN Money

“Apple Computer Inc. could decide to sell a lower-priced version of its Macintosh computer to attract consumers already enamored of its iPod music player and annoyed by security problems with Windows PCs, according to an analyst at Piper Jaffray. “We believe that it is not out of the question that Apple would try to capitalize on this opportunity with a more widely accessible product,” analyst Gene Munster said… Read More

“As of November 2004, AOL received an average of 2.2 million complaints daily from its more than 24 million subscribers, down from 11 million complaints in the same period last year. The daily average number of e-mails blocked by AOL's spam filters fell 50 percent to about 1.2 billion e-mails in late 2004 from a peak of 2.4 billion in 2003. “ Read more at CNN/Money MSNBC also posted the same story, but claims that the… Read More

“NDS Group, the company behind the new technology, plans to deliver its DVR software to DirecTV by April, USA Today said. But DirecTV remains tight-lipped about the NDS-powered DVR. Spokesman Bob Marsocci told the paper that DirecTV plans to introduce “an alternate DVR product and service in the first half of next year.” But the company won't disclose who's making decoders – the satellite receiver/DVR… Read More

“Support from U.S. film studios is seen as vital in this format battle, just as it was when the VHS standard prevailed over Sony's Betamax two decades ago. “After extensive research and careful consideration … we have determined that HD DVD has the highest quality of performance and offers key advantages in the areas of durability and reliability,” Warner Bros. said in a statement. “” Things are… Read More

The Securities and Exchange Commission gave the final go-ahead for the IPO Wednesday afternoon, and the stock was expected to begin trading today. As of this writing, the stock does not appear to be trading yet. On Wednesday, Google slashed its planned IPO by nearly half, cutting the expected price to $85 to $95 a share from its original range of $108 to $135 a share. It later confirmed its initial going-public price… Read More

“Speaking to CNN/Money's Chris Morris at QuakeCon last week, Hollenshead said that while a 2004 release for the SKU “could happen,” “that's not our focus right now – our focus is on the gameplay.” “Doom 3 is a game that on the PC is very finely tuned,” he explained. “There was a lot of play balancing. The stuff that was supposed to be tense resulted in a lot of tension for… Read More

According to the criminal complaint, Jason Smathers of Harpers Ferry, W. Va., used his inside knowledge of AOL's computer system to steal a list of 92 million AOL customer account “screen names,” and then sold them to Sean Dunaway, who is not an AOL employee. Dunaway, of Las Vegas, NV., was accused of using the list to promote his own Internet gambling business and also sold the list to other spammers for $52,000,… Read More