war

Robots go to war

News At Tokyo's 12th Robo-One Grand Championship match, two-legged robots jabbed, ducked, hurled balloons and even sang in their quest to become the champ. Twenty-five finalist robots put up their fists to knock one another out of a ring on Saturday...

Tags: christmas, companies, money, consumer

4 December 2007, 10:49

News.blog: Sharp to kick off LCD price war

News This Christmas, Sharp is going to hunt down its enemies. Last year, the Japanese electronics giant lost some footing in the LCD TV market, in part because its rivals had moved to a different standard of manufacturing that allowed them to release...

18 October 2006, 10:13

'Gears' hikes XBL use by 80 per cent

News Gears of War has long been hyped as the Christmas title for the Xbox 360, and so far reviews agree. According to Sandvine Incorporated, a network traffic tracker, 80 per cent more users were drawn to Xbox Live since Gears of War's first week of...

6 December 2006, 9:38

ASDA halves pay as you go mobile prices

News Supermarket chain ASDA says it is to slash its pay as you go mobile phone rates from the start of September, potentially sparking a price war in the UK. Commenting on ASDA's price cut, Dean Bubley, analyst at researcher Disruptive Analysis, said...

Tags: pre, customers, plan, war

22 August 2008, 8:33

Will Blu-ray DVDs be too expensive?

News For more than a year now, a bitter public relations war has been waged between supporters of Blu-ray and a rival Toshiba-backed technology known as HD DVD. But the prospect of a next-generation DVD format war, similar to the battle between VHS and...

29 November 2005, 9:47

Blu-ray/HD DVD combo still on ice

News Other major electronics makers had already decided to pursue single-format players for now, so LG's indicated direction gave hope to some analysts that the format war might be bridged this year. A ray of hope in the standards war, however, is a...

Tags: standards, war, toshiba, ray

21 September 2006, 8:00

Photos: Flickr checks out Library archives

News Howard Hollem's World War II-era photo of a Marine Corps major is one of several in the Library of Palmer, was taken in 1942, and is part of the collection of World War This image of a rail yard from the Library of Congress' archives is one of 3...

Tags: war, tags, library, archives

21 January 2008, 9:18

LG to sell first Blu-ray/HD DVD player

News This combo player, and others that may be revealed at CES this week, could put to rest talk of a format war between the two camps. Many expected the format war to be decided by which format could offer the most compelling content, and in another...

Tags: lg electronics, discs, war, dvds

8 January 2007, 10:20

Sony adamant PS3 will launch in spring

News Billions of dollars are at stake in the DVD format war as movie studios and electronics makers gear up for a technology change they hope will send consumers back to buy new players and discs that will play high-definition pictures.

9 December 2005, 10:35

Warner delays HD DVD releases

News The finalised launch schedule comes as Warner research suggests high-definition packaged media could catch on with consumers even faster than DVDs, regardless of the ongoing format war. He said Warner believes that the format war between HD DVD and...

20 March 2006, 10:57

Photos: Tech and art combine at Sundance

News Best Flame War Ever" is a plasma-screen-based computer animation "that re-enacts chat room conversations dealing with overboard masculinity and perceived violence", according to the submitted materials.

Tags: artist, gallery, led, wall

22 January 2008, 9:16

Gamers aim for Nobel Peace Prize

News There should be a UN resolution passed," he said, "that those making the call to war must log time in this program. The other, about Japanese interned in the US during the Second World War, was called Beyond Manzanar.

27 March 2006, 11:16

Can the PS3 save Sony?

News Some believe it's well-positioned to ultimately win the console war with Microsoft and Nintendo, due to intense brand loyalty from gamers and new technology. It could delay the clear winner [of the Blu-ray/HD DVD war] by a year if this thing bombs...

17 November 2006, 11:29

News.blog: Panasonic exec calls Blu-ray Christmas win

News The format war in earnest may last only another year, he predicted. CHIBA, Japan--The decisive battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD is at hand, says a prominent Panasonic exec.Blu-ray manufacturers are going to start cutting prices and go out on a...

Tags: money, disc, christmas, ray

3 October 2007, 10:19

Distributed computing cracks WWII code

News More than 60 years after the end of World War II, a distributed computing project has managed to crack a previously uncracked message that was encrypted using the Enigma machine. The M4 Project began in early January, as an attempt to break three...

28 February 2006, 9:35