Tag archive: May

Not content to download episodes from iTunes? Television network ABC has announced it's preparing to launch the Lost Experience, an interactive online game based on its hit television series Lost. Scheduled to go online May 2 in the U.K., May 3 in the U.S., and May 6 in Australia, the Internet-based game will feature puzzles and a parallel plot of events independent from the television show, while offering hints and clues which may… Read More

While Bill Gates may not be losing much sleep over this at this point, his software giant continues to slowly slide in the browser wars, according to the latest data from web traffic monitoring firm NetApplications. Their latest numbers for May 2005 browser share reveal that Microsoft's Internet Explorer gave more ground to open source rival Firefox. FireFox reached 8% during the month of May, up from 7.38% in April. Microsoft's… Read More

MTV: Music Television and Microsoft have announced a global marketing alliance to unveil the next-generation Xbox video game system on MTV channels in the United States, Asia Pacific and Europe, allwithin a 24-hour window — a first for the video game industry. The highly anticipated console will be revealed to video game fanatics, music lovers and MTV viewers via a high-energy half-hourprogram titled “MTV Presents: The Next… Read More

The filing is the latest shot in a legal tussle that began in March, when Hewlett-Packard Co., of Palo Alto, Calif., filed suit against Gateway Inc., claiming that the PC maker was refusing to pay licensing fees on six designs patented by HP. The patents covered such features as laptop hinges, cursors and a keyboard that requires a password. Gateway, of Poway, Calif., sued HP in May over five patents related to multimedia features. Now,… Read More

"Retail graphics cards based on the GeForce 6800 models are slated for release in the next 45 days" - sometime in late May or early June, according to NVIDIA's official statement released on the 14th of May. Albatron's spokesman reportedly officially told that the company's latest graphics cards, the GeForce 6800 and the GeForce 6800UV, will hit the shelves in Taiwan in early May, a lot earlier than NVIDIA said on… Read More

Quote from the article: “Recently, I've been getting e-mail from folks inquiring about whether they should buy a DVI-equipped DVD player for their new HDTVs. DVI, which got its start in the computer world, is an all-digital video connection that enables you, in theory, to receive the best possible picture quality on a TV with a like input. How much of an improvement you'll get over component video depends on a lot of… Read More