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From Tom's Hardware: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is 2009's entertainment juggernaut. In its first 24 hours, the game sold 4.7 million copies in North America and the UK, scooping in $310 million. Infinity Ward's latest cash cow shooter isn't only a champion in the legitimate... |
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From X-bit Labs: Amazon.com, the world’s largest online store, has announced that Kindle e-book has become the most gifted item in Amazon's history. On Christmas Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books. "We are grateful to our... |
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From InfoWorld: Windows 7, just two months on the market, is accelerating the pace of corporate computer buying, market research firm ChangeWave said. Part of the reason may be that 93 percent of the IT professionals polled said that their company is satisfied with the new operating... |
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From PC World: Adobe Systems' Flash and Acrobat Reader products will become the preferred targets for criminal hackers in 2010, surpassing Microsoft Office applications, a security vendor predicted this week. "Cybercriminals have long picked on Microsoft products due to their... |
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From CNET News.com: A decade-long lawsuit pitting a tiny company called Convolve against Seagate Technology has taken an unexpected turn after a whistle-blower claimed that Seagate had appropriated Convolve technology and later destroyed evidence in the case. The whistle-blower, a... |
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From CNET News.com: Verizon is looking closely at "slate" computers as it plans to expand its portfolio of offerings in 2010. In an interview, Brian Ullem, who heads emerging devices for Verizon Wireless, discussed slate computers (aka tablets) and Netbooks and what these mean--and... |
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From DailyTech: The search market is a very lucrative business for those involved. In America, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft's Bing are the clear leaders in the search business. The Chinese search market is a very different landscape from what the major players in America are used to... |
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From DailyTech: For 21 years, the same encryption algorithm, A5/1, has been employed to protect the privacy of calls under the Global Systems for Mobile communications (GSM) standard. With the GSM standard encompassing 80 percent of calls worldwide (AT&T and T-Mobile use it within... |
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From CNET News.com: AT&T has resumed selling iPhones through its Web site to New York City customers, with no indication as to what prompted the halt. Over the holiday weekend, New Yorkers who tried to order an iPhone through AT&T's Web site were left out in the cold. Making matters... |
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