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News.blog: American Apparel gets 'Second Life'

News American Apparel, a fashion brand known for its ability to make cotton shorts and leotards hip and sexy, has entered a new realm. The action was initiated when someone from American Apparel approached popular SL architect Aimee Weber about opening...

19 June 2006, 10:14

Half a million PSPs sold in first two days

News Sony released the first North American sales numbers for the PlayStation Portable on Thursday, saying 500,000 units of the handheld game player were snapped up in its first two days on the market. McNealy of American Technology Research called the...

13 April 2005, 10:40

Microsoft and Google duke it out for China

News China is quickly proving to be the next great Internet marketplace, and both Microsoft and Google are prepared to fight for it, starting in American courtrooms. The American Internet companies also have local competition in the Middle Kingdom.

22 July 2005, 9:25

EA invests vast amounts of cash in the future

News Seizing an opportunityIndeed, before signing the exclusive deal with the NFL, EA had begun to see its American football market share eaten away by Take-Two's NFL 2K. Last week, Electronic Arts announced that in just seven days it had sold 1.7...

25 August 2005, 9:45

Publishers balk at Google library scheme

News The Association of American University Presses, a 125-member nonprofit organisation of scholarly publishers, made public this week a six-page letter sent to Google, whose Google Print for Libraries launched in December with the support of the...

26 May 2005, 9:39

PC buyers not such a happy bunch

News Though American consumers' satisfaction has increased for the last nine quarters, that rate of satisfaction is slowing, said Claes Fornell, director of the National Quality Research Center at the University of Michigan, which conducted the study.

14 August 2007, 10:11

CRT TVs: Not dead yet

News While still pricier than CRTs at most screen sizes, $14bn of the $30bn spent on TVs in the North American market last year was on LCDs, a little under half of total market revenue. At the end of 2006, CRTs accounted for 46 per cent of all...

26 February 2007, 10:53

Looking for a job? Don't use a Mac

News At American Express, for example, job seekers are greeted with this warning: "At this time, the system does not support Mac environments. While American Express offers a warning on its Web site, job seekers at Target and Sears may just get an error...

28 October 2005, 9:30

Will next-gen sink small game publishers?

News With the Xbox 360 finally hitting American shops on Tuesday (European and UK gamers have to wait until 2 December), little has happened to assuage those fears. As an example, he pointed to Tony Hawk's American Wasteland by Activision.

21 November 2005, 9:51

Landlines still beat Web for teenage chat

News That was one of a number of curious findings from a survey of 1,100 US teens aged 12 to 17 and their parents conducted last year by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Eighty-seven per cent of American teenagers -- about 21 million of them...

28 July 2005, 8:35

News.blog: PlayStation 3 shines at shindig

News And that's borne out by the fact that nearly every important American videogame journalist is on hand. And for anyone who has wanted to try out the PS3, this is the best chance they'll get before the 11 November Japanese or 17 November North...

23 October 2006, 10:53

Turn that iPod down, researchers warn

News Concern over hearing damage wreaked by noisy personal electronics is nothing new, but the booming sales of MP3 players and other such headphone-dependent gadgets could prompt a whole new breed of danger, audiologists cautioned at a press...

15 March 2006, 9:35

Is video going the way of Napster?

News YouTube, the most trafficked of the video-sharing sites, has recently been asked to pull three videos -- two skits from NBC Universal's Saturday Night Live and an American Airlines training video -- from its site owing to possible copyright...

14 March 2006, 10:50

Microsoft confirms 15 games for Xbox 360 launch

News Among the titles are many of the latest iterations in proven franchises, including Electronic Arts' Madden NFL '06, NBA Live '06 and Need for Speed Most Wanted, as well as Activision's Call of Duty 2 and Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.

15 November 2005, 10:28

Teens dialling up ring tone trouble

News A handful of North American and European operators are now at work on a code of conduct for ring tone sellers, due for release in 30 days, according to Paul Palmieri, executive director of business development and programming for Verizon Wireless.

4 May 2005, 8:42

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Format wars: The tech that should have won

Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed

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