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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 - YouTube, the world's most popular video-sharing site, will start to sell music and video games and experiment with new advertising formats to grow revenue, executives said on Tuesday. Full text
AP - For a self-effacing, portly little plumber, Mario may be the most ambitious guy in video games. It's not enough that he has the most recognizable face in the industry; his parents at Nintendo have promoted him everywhere, from T-shirts and lunchboxes to cartoons and cell-phone ringtones. He's probably more familiar to kids of a certain generation than Mickey Mouse. Full text
NewsFactor - The Mono project has just released Version 2.0 of its open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework. Mono is both a runtime environment for applications and a kit for developers writing applications with C, as well as other Common Language Infrastructure languages developed by the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA). Full text
NewsFactor - Advanced Micro Devices, which has been struggling to regain its footing in competition with rival Intel, announced Tuesday that it will split into two companies. One of the companies will be a global enterprise focused on semiconductor manufacturing, temporarily called The Foundry Company. AMD itself will focus on designing microprocessors. Full text
AP - U.S. Internet advertising revenue dipped slightly in the second quarter from the previous three-month period, which likely is a ripple effect from the bad economy given that prior to 2008 the market had seen several consecutive quarters of increases. Full text
CNET - The European Union is considering a requirement that all cell phone batteries be easily replaceable, which might cause a problem for Apple's iPhone. Full text
NewsFactor - T-Mobile may have at least a short-term shortage of its G1 Android-powered phone as customers flood the company with preorders. T-Mobile said it has already sold its presale inventory of the first Google Android phone. Full text
CNET - You know that it's grim out there when the television talking heads report that the stock market only finished down 369 on a day when it fell as low as 800 points. Full text
Reuters - Dish Network Corp and EchoStar Corp will pay $104 million in damages to TiVo Inc after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied Dish's appeal of a patent infringement case. Full text
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