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Today Nintendo released its financial figures for the nine-month period ending December 31, 2008, and the news is mixed. Net sales rose 16.7% to $17.07 billion. However, that was tempered by a 17.9% drop in net profits to $2.36 billion. The company attributed much of the profit fall to the high yen making Japanese exports more expensive. The currency woes mean that Nintendo has revised its financial forecast for the year ending March 31,… Read More

Today, Microsoft announced it has shipped the anticipated Ninety-Nine Nights fantasy action game for the Xbox 360 to retailers across North America. The game was developed by Korea's Phantagram and Q Entertainment, Ninety-Nine Nights,, or N3, represents a collaboration between action-game designers Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Lumines,Meteos) and SangYoun Lee (Kingdom Under Fire). Ninety-Nine Nights was released to Korean and Japanese markets… Read More

Toshiba today introduced (PDF) a new 2.5-inch hard disk drive with a 200 GB capacity. The new MK2035GSS drives boast a Serial ATA II interface and are based on the company's Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) technology: aimed at laptops and other portable devices, the new drives bring desktop-like storage capacities to new platforms “As a leading partner for mobile PC manufacturers, we've listened to our… Read More

Altec Lansing today put out details on a newly released speaker set for PC users. The new VS2321 is priced at $49.95 and available now. The VS2321, said Altec Lansing, is the successor to the company's top selling system in this category. The set consists of three pieces - two satellite speakers and a subwoofer. This 2.1 system sports a contemporary design which is geared towards complimenting today's flat panel monitors and… Read More

“Rumors surfaced today that Kenwood USA is closing their home electronics business. Contacts at Kenwood and their PR firm were not available for comment at the time of publishing. Email correspondence confirmed by sources inside the AV industry imply that the brand manager for Kenwood's home audio division, Dean Hutto, was let go by the company today. Kenwood is likely to stay the course in its car audio business where the… Read More

The agreement will help both companies to achieve their mutual goal of enabling robust media functionality on mass-market mobile devices. In addition, the two companies today announced that Nokia has joined the Helix Community (www.helixcommunity.org). “The new licensing and development model with Real fully supports Nokia's multi-format strategy and our commitment to respond to our customers' needs with best-in-breed… Read More

Quote from the review: “Mp3 players have come a long way from the past to the present. In the beginning most manufacturers focused on incorporating the new technology into their cd players and on creating solid state players. Fast forward to what's available today and the selection can be over whelming. Not only can you store and play back MP3′s, some players can also be used for data storage, incorporate FM radio,… Read More

Today's hard drives retrieve information in the order the PC requests it, so read/write heads fly all over to gather scattered data. New Native Command Queuing technology allows the drive to manage multiple outstanding commands more efficiently. Visit PC World to read their article and see the results.

Today's announcement underscores the fact AT&T left the traditional consumer business years ago when they decided against investing in their own local facilities and networks in order to compete. It also underscores the reality of today's competitive marketplace. Vigorous competition is flourishing and will only intensify as wireline, cable, wireless, satellite and VoIP companies slug it out. Consumers today have more… Read More

From Rambus' press release: Rambus Inc. today announced that it has filed an anti-trust suit in the Superior Court of the State of California. In the suit, Rambus charges that defendants Hynix Semiconductor, Infineon Technologies, Micron Technology and Siemens AG engaged in a concerted and unlawful effort to eliminate competition and stifle innovation in the market for computer memory technology and computer memory chips.… Read More

TechNewsWorld has posted an interesting article about file sharing that features an interview with Sharman Networks' CTO Phil Morle. TNW: What is your general feeling about the RIAA? Morle: Mostly disappointment. I have the benefit of many years thinking about P2P and its potential, and they have not got past the stage of fear. I am naturally disappointed that we are all wasting time and money on futile legal battles when everyone… Read More

USA Today reports that Cingular Wireless has made a formal offer to acquire AT&T Wireless in an all-cash deal that would create the USA's No. 1 cell phone carrier, according to executives with knowledge of the offer at two companies involved in the deal. The offer was submitted to AT&T Wireless' board of directors over the weekend, the executives say. A previously scheduled board meeting began Monday and is expected to… Read More

Nokia has today unveiled seven previously unannounced N-Gage titles for release in 2004 – including the first games to be published by the Finnish giant itself, as well as major new titles from key publishers supporting the platform. The seven games announced in today's statement are Ashen, Operation Shadow, Requiem of Hell, Sega Rally Championship, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm, Worms and WWE, a wide spread of… Read More