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'Brain Training' scoops innovation award

News A 'close to unanimous' jury, chosen by Edge magazine, today awarded its annual innovation in gaming award to Nintendo. The EIEF06 Edge Award, presented by editor Margaret Robertson, was awarded to Dr.

22 August 2006, 9:26

Microsoft analyst wins bad-writing award

News Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Or shall I compare thee to repairing a carburettor? Microsoft quantitative analyst Dan McKay has proven he doesn't know how to charm the ladies -- he has snared San Jose State University's prize for the worst...

1 August 2005, 8:47

Web defamation suit leads to libel award

News Michael Keith Smith of the UK Independence Party has become the latest person to win substantial damages after being defamed on the Internet. Smith brought the case against Tracy Williams after she posted a series of derogatory remarks about him on...

24 March 2006, 10:50

Microsoft wins UK's favourite brand award

News Think of your favourite brand. If you're from the UK, apparently, you're most likely to be thinking of Microsoft. According to research carried out for branding consultancy Superbrands by YouGov, the Redmond giant is the UK's favourite brand...

21 July 2006, 8:50

Photos: A winner's preview of CES

News The gutter-cleaning iRobot Looj won a CES innovation award. Association announced its innovation and design award winners for the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show to be held in Las Vegas in January 2008.

Tags: speech, hands, bluetooth, electronics

15 November 2007, 9:29

Photos: Machinima Festival fuses games with films

News A screenshot from The Adventures of Bill and John: Danger Attacks at Dawn, which won the coveted Best Picture award at the Machinima Festival 'Mackie' Awards. A screenshot from Hardlight Films' Deviation, which won the Best Voice Acting award at...

9 November 2006, 11:15

Opera, Firefox squabble over best-browser claim

News A Mozilla Foundation employee has lashed out at Opera Software for claiming it won a best-browser award, saying the award was actually won by open-source browser Firefox. A winning streak: Opera once again wins PC World's World Class Award for best...

13 June 2005, 9:26

Google hires the cream of the crop

News Brilliant is an award-winning physician, friend of '60s icon Wavy Gravy, and an epidemiologist who spent more than a decade in India and was also co-founder of the pioneering online community known as The Well.

28 February 2006, 9:51

Photos: Futuristic PCs think out of the beige box

News In addition to his first place award, Holleman's design also struck a chord with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who handpicked the Napkin PC for the Chairman's Award. Earning the third-place award was Backpacker's Diary, a PC concept targeting...

Tags: fantasy, entry, human, shape

20 June 2008, 8:57

ID card scheme short on suppliers

News The IPS will award the three- to 10-year procurement deals starting with critical workers scheme this year and will continue to award procurements through to late summer next year. The government is facing calls to cancel its ID card scheme after...

Tags: commercial, award, contract, scheme

27 May 2008, 8:35

The secrets of WoW's success

News During the course of the three-day event, attendees will choose from panels discussing subjects such as 'the future of virtual worlds', 'moving beyond men in tights' and 'the future of player interaction', as well as keynotes by Pardo, Academy...

7 September 2006, 9:58

Nine-year-old earns accolade as Microsoft pro

News Karim has been honoured for her achievement by the Mir Khalil-ur-Rehman Foundation in Karachi, where she was presented with an award for excellence. She was the first recipient of the award, which will honour students "who have displayed exemplary...

19 July 2005, 9:37

Photos: 'Mobots' race for accuracy

News Palmisano, it won the judge's choice award this year. This is the 'Pikachu' mobot, which won the judge's choice award, after navigating its way through eight of 14 gates. Robotic contestants had to be small enough to squeeze through 14 gates that...

Tags: kit, motion, students, race

22 April 2008, 9:20

Software pirate to pay $1.1m fine

News The award is part of a plea agreement in a criminal software piracy case in Houston, Symantec said on Tuesday. An admitted counterfeiter has agreed to pay Microsoft and Symantec $1.1m in restitution, a victory in the software industry's fight...

29 September 2005, 9:00

Morgan Freeman: Internet will spur movie creativity

News The Academy Award-winning actor said services that will deliver first-run movies over the Internet to people's homes while the movies remain in cinemas are "absolutely" analogous to what happened in the PC business when consumers began to buy...

9 January 2006, 8:47