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Media outlets have speculated about Grand Theft Auto IV’s spectacular first-week performance since before it even occurred, but Take-Two finally took the lid off its own data on Wednesday to reveal hard numbers. The results: GTA IV demolished not just video game but entertainment records for day one and week one sales by dollar value. Take-Two claims it sold 3.6 million copies of the game within just one day, or roughly 41 games sold… Read More

It couldn’t have happened at a worse time. On the Monday after Thanksgiving, the busiest online shopping day of the year, an outage on Yahoo meant merchantswere unable to process orders.   According to Yahoo, the service went down at 6am Pacific time. It was restored, at a slow speed by 1 pm, but it was 6 pm before everything was once again runningnormally.   Unsurprisingly, retailers using the service were far from happy.  … Read More

For all the belly-aching television executives emit regarding slipping ratings, demographic fragmentation, and the ravages being inflicted on their industry by video games, portable devices, the Internet, music players, Little League, schoolwork, and (horrors!) digital video recorders… …Americans just can't seem to get enough television. Recent figures from Nielsen Media Research say the “average” American… Read More

Are you a dad who got an electronic greeting card for Father's Day this past weekend? Did you find you were having problems loading it? Depending upon which popular greeting card site you visited to pick up your note celebrating your status as dad, you either got your quick love fix or fell asleep waiting, just like that time you started snoring on the sofa during the fourth quarter of a Sunday afternoon football game. Metrics… Read More

“It takes squinting and guesswork to make out the details of postage-stamp-size snapshots displayed on cellphones and digital cameras. But researchers are working on pocket-size projectors so that one day people will be able to see a high-resolution slide show right out of a camera, a cellphone or an organizer. In the future, the miniprojectors may also be attached to DVD players, so people can watch a movie with a TV-quality… Read More

Quote from the review: “It's really quite simple; if you're looking down at a laptop screen day in and day out, you'll develop upper back and neck injuries in due time. These repetitive stress injuries (RSI for short) stay with you for a long time and can take months or years of therapeutic massages to work out. It's not about wrist rests or keyboard rests; these are reactive and not proactive measures. This is… Read More

“We're the biggest spammer on the Internet,” Comcast network engineer Sean Lutner said at a meeting of an antispam working group in Washington, D.C., last week. Lutner said Comcast users send out about 800 million messages a day, but a mere 100 million flow through the company's official servers. Almost all of the remaining 700 million represent spam erupting from so-called zombie computers–a breathtaking figure… Read More

Authorities would not say why they conducted Wednesday's searches, which caused classes to be cancelled for the day at campuses where students were turned away and faculty and staff questioned. Read more on this story at Globe Technology.

There are several sites on the net covering Comdex. We have compiled a list of them for you, so you can find out what is going on this year. Quote from AMDMB.com: “Perhaps the most interesting and controversial aspect of the ASUS suite was the portion dedicated to graphics cards. Asus recently announced that it would be producing cards based upon both NVIDIA and ATI graphics chipsets. As such, it was no surprise to see a… Read More

Metallica is claiming that they want to sell their entire album not just the individual songs. This decision comes after Metallica's public opposition to Napster and other peer to peer file sharingsystems that allow people to swap copywritten music files without paying per download. Apple allows users to buy a limited amount of albums on its iTunes 4 system but representatives from Metallica'smanagement company tell CNN that… Read More