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Obama makes play for videogamers (AFP)AFP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has made a play for online videogamers, placing campaign advertisements in a series of popular titles from videogame giant Electronic Arts. Full text |
IBM confident on profit, looks to emerging markets (Reuters)
IBM profits up, 'confident' for year (AFP)
Review: `Max Payne' — the name says it all (AP)
IBM services and software sales up as hardware falls (Reuters)
US shifts Visa Waiver Program authorization to Internet (AFP)
Google Open About Kill Switch in Android Phones (NewsFactor)
No interest in Yahoo: Microsoft (AFP)
Nokia to make $2.29 billion payment to Qualcomm (Reuters)
Nokia profit below consensus, outlook soothes market (Reuters)
Reuters - Take-Two Interactive Software Inc, until recently an acquisition target of bigger rival Electronic Arts Inc, plans to remain an independent company, the makers of the popular "Grand Theft Auto" series said on Thursday. Full text
AP - Semiconductor sales totaled $22.7 billion in August, up 5.5 percent from a year ago and 2.4 percent from the previous month, the Semiconductor Industry Association said Thursday. Full text
Reuters - Nintendo Co Ltd will launch a DS machine that can take pictures and play music, hoping to cement its lead over Sony's PlayStation and encroach into the territory of Apple Inc's iPod and iPhone. Full text
CNET - Despite early signs that it's performing well, Sprint's new 4G network could be heading down the same doomed path as EarthLink's citywide Wi-Fi networks. Full text
CNET - A federal judge has dismissed a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed by EMI Group against Michael Robertson, the founder of MP3tunes and a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Full text
InfoWorld - A small business is not necessarily a simple business. That rather basic lesson has taken much of the computer industry far too many years to learn. Successful SaaS vendors have realized that small businesses need the same sort of functions and support that large enterprises get ??? just in smaller quantities. Clearly Microsoft has come to the same realization with the release of Small Business Server 2008. Full text
Reuters - Microsoft Corp is stepping up efforts to improve online search, where it considerably lags market leader Google, by establishing a three-center research facility in Europe, it said on Thursday. Full text
Reuters - Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co Ltd said on Thursday it would launch its new DS handheld game console on November 1 in Japan for 18,900 yen ($179). Full text
AP - The reliance of restaurant chains and retail stores on outside companies to handle credit-card processing and other information-technology functions is partly to blame for a rash of consumer data breaches over the last few years, according to data sleuths at Verizon Communications Inc. Full text
AFP - Japanese video game giant Nintendo Co. said Thursday it will launch a new version of its popular DS handheld console with a built-in camera and audio player next month. Full text