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News.blog: Scrabulous returns to Facebook as Wordscraper
News Scrabulous had been taken down by its creators earlier this week when Hasbro, the games manufacturer that owns the rights to Scrabble in the US and Canada, pointed out that Scrabulous was a near copy.
Tags: points, board, facebook, creators
31 July 2008, 10:28
Sony Ericsson cuts 2,000 jobs as profits dive
News On Friday, the handset manufacturer announced a quarterly net profit of just £4.8m, down from £174.6m in the same quarter last year. Sony Ericsson is going to shed 2,000 jobs as a result, although this figure includes contractors and consultants.
Tags: ericsson, sales, ultra, sony ericsson
21 July 2008, 9:56
LG to merge mobile and PC divisions
News LG is to merge its PC and mobile phone divisions, the South Korean manufacturer announced at the end of last week. According to a statement from the company, the transfer of its PC division into the mobile division will "enhance LG Mobile...
Tags: company, technology, wi fi, communications
16 July 2008, 9:00
Photos: Gibson frets over custom guitars
News At the Gibson custom factory in Nashville, Tennessee, the famous guitar manufacturer makes its most expensive and exclusive instruments, including an ongoing series of limited-edition replicas of historic Les Paul instruments.Here are dozens of...
Tags: channels, body, shape, production
1 July 2008, 10:16
Asus Eee Box ready for August release
News Unlike previous iterations in Asus's Eee range, the Eee Box will not initially be made available in a Linux flavour, although the manufacturer's spokesperson told ZDNet.co.uk that such a version would follow the XP version at some point.
Tags: linux, box, operating system, xp
23 June 2008, 10:09
News.blog: iPods get in-air connectivity
News Late in 2006, iPod manufacturer Apple announced that it had struck a deal with the airline -- as well as fellow domestic carriers Continental and Delta and overseas carriers United Airlines has been subject to some pretty bad press recently for...
Tags: connectivity, flight, plane, planes
17 June 2008, 9:43
News.blog: Sony to u-turn on low-cost mini laptop?
News At the WiMax Expo in Taipei, contract manufacturer Quanta Computer showed a mini laptop based on Via's just-released design that will be out in the third quarter of this year. A sharp-eyed reporter spotted Sony as the listed manufacturer for the...
Tags: names, hard drive, laptop, laptops
3 June 2008, 11:02
BlackBerry avoiding touchscreen bandwagon
News The new BlackBerry Bold may have been touted as an 'iPhone killer' despite its use of the familiar Qwerty keyboard, but manufacturer RIM is refusing to be drawn on rumours that a touchscreen BlackBerry is in the offing.
Tags: keyboard, iphone, blackberry, flip
15 May 2008, 9:37
Eee 900 launches with limited stock
News The Taiwanese manufacturer said in mid April that the Eee 900 would hit shelves this Thursday, 1 May, but online retailers and high-street chains do not currently have supplies. Asus has officially launched the latest version of its Eee
2 May 2008, 10:21
News.blog: OLED panels promised for 2009
News But even as production increases from one manufacturer, it doesn't necessarily mean the prices will drop down to where flat panels have sunk. Sony's teased us for a bit with its impossibly thin, 11-inch organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV, and...
Tags: samsung, inch, market, lcd
23 April 2008, 10:12
News.blog: Dell confirms low-cost minilaptop
News According to Taiwanese manufacturer Compal Electronics, Dell will soon enter the minilaptop fray. You didn't expect Dell to sit idly by while Asus, Intel and now HP went flitting about town with their trendy low-cost, low-power minilaptops, did you?
Tags: dell, processor, products, hp
10 April 2008, 9:27
Asus unveils Eee PC SDK
News In a Wednesday statement, the Taiwanese manufacturer said the Eee PC software-development kit (SDK) provided "a complete development platform, including an Eee PC-compatible Open Circulation Edition of the Xandros Desktop OS, the Eclipse...
Tags: development, linux, kit, environment
28 March 2008, 9:09
'Rock Band' makers named in Gibson suit
News In the latest twist in Gibson's ongoing patent spat with the billion-pound rhythm game genre, the guitar manufacturer has filed a patent-infringement suit against Guitar Hero and Rock Band creators Gibson notified Activision that the Guitar Hero...
Tags: maker, suit, band, publisher
26 March 2008, 9:12
News.blog: 'Rock Band' to hit Wii
News Meanwhile, guitar manufacturer Gibson Guitar has filed a lawsuit against the manufacturers of both Guitar Hero and Rock Band as well as six major retailers -- according to Gibson, it's held a patent on a guitar-playing videogame since 1999.
Tags: console, networks, gaming, manufacturers
25 March 2008, 8:57
News.blog: Classmate PC ready for EU retailers
News Hewlett-Packard, and second-largest laptop manufacturer Acer, both of whom are said to be readying their own low-cost, small form-factor laptops for sometime this year. More low-cost laptops are headed to a retailer near you.
Tags: intel, consumers, laptops, laptop
20 March 2008, 7:00


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