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Goodnight Zune
After five years of false starts, word is leaking out that Microsoft is giving up on its much-maligned portable music player.
By Mark Horowitz, contributor
Dear Zune:
I gave you the best years of my life, and this is how you repay me, by breaking up? And I had to read about it online. You didn't even have the decency to Skype.
But who am I kidding, Zune, I'll always forgive you, because I MORE
Mar 18, 2011 5:43 PM ETPosted in: Bloomberg Television, iTunes, Microsoft, Personal computer, Windows Media Center, Windows Phone 7, Xbox, Zune -
Videogaming's online explosion
Online games such as Age of Conan and Farmville are hot. Now industry leader Activision Blizzard is jumping into the fray with a new Internet strategy.
When videogame publisher Activision announced its merger with Vivendi Games in late 2007, analysts predicted that Vivendi's Blizzard unit, maker of the hugely popular Internet-based fantasy game World of Warcraft, would help Activision migrate to the online world.
Three years later the combined company, Activision Blizzard, MORE
Stephanie N. Mehta, Deputy Managing Editor - Dec 20, 2010 5:00 AM ETPosted in: Activision Blizzard, Call of Duty, cloud computing, Gaming, Guitar Hero, Internet, online video games, Playstation, Wii, World of Warcraft, Xbox -
Today in Tech
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
Dell is switching 1/4 of its 100,000 BlackBerry-toting employees over to the Windows Phone 7-friendly Dell Venue Pro. "Clearly in this decision we are competing with RIM, because we're kicking them out," said company CFO Brian Gladden. MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 5, 2010 8:24 AM ET -
Today in Tech
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the weekend's most newsworthy bits below.
Less than a month after Motorola filed a suit against Apple, Apple is returning the favor by suing Motorola for infringing on smart phone patents. (The Register)
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 1, 2010 6:00 AM ET
Facebook reports a data broker paid app makers for user MOREPosted in: Apple, cablevision, Dan Hesse, ESPN, Evan Williams, Facebook, FCC, Motorola, Netflix, News Corp., Sprint, Supreme Court, Twitter, Verizon, Windows Phone 7, Xbox -
Halo effect: Xbox success puts a glow on Microsoft's killer quarter
The company's blowout quarter came from nearly every division, but taking over the top spot in the video game world was its most surprising statement.
Despite a corporate restructuring, criticism that it's failing to innovate in certain sectors, the departure of Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and analysts downgrading its stock, Microsoft (MSFT) trumpeted a record first quarter yesterday. Overall revenue rose 25% to $16.2 billion and net income rose 51% to MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 29, 2010 1:38 PM ETPosted in: Don Mattrick, Games, Halo: Reach, Microsoft, Robbie Bach, Steve Ballmer, Video game, Xbox, Xbox 360 -
Today in Tech: News around the Web
A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
The New York Times gives us a rare behind-the-scenes look at Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, essentially portrayed as the necessary "yin" to Mark Zuckerberg's "yang," and shedding light MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 4, 2010 6:30 AM ETPosted in: Adobe, Apple, baseball, biometrics, body scanners, Dreamcast, Facebook, Google, HP, Jimmy Pitaro, Larry Ellison, Léo Apotheker, Microsoft, motion capture, Oracle, Qualcomm, Sega, Sheryl Sandberg, The Social Network, Verizon Wireless, Xbox, Yahoo -
Activision's Kotick continues console attack
The game maker CEO makes the case for the TV as Internet platform in his latest dig against the "walled garden" console
by Laura Rich, contributor
If Bobby Kotick has his way, the couch potato will be back. Speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference, the Activision Blizzard (ATVI) CEO laid out a case for moving all Internet activity to the television screen, where the company has a vested interest as its MORE
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Nintendo Wii officially recession-proof
The Wii Fit game is one of Nintendo's biggest sellers with 697,000 sold in the U.S. in November. Courtesy of Nintendo
By Yi-Wyn Yen
Nintendo seems to have bucked the recession. The Japanese video game manufacturer has doubled November sales of the Wii in the U.S. from a year ago, according to NPD's latest release on gaming sales.
The demand for the Wii remains strong since the game console's debut two years ago. The company MORE
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Nintendo's big bet on small games
Spore, the highly-anticipated PC game, will come to the Nintendo DS. Image: Electronic Art
By Yi-Wyn Yen
LOS ANGELES - Turns out the next big thing from Nintendo will be new games for its miniature console, the DS.
Despite all the speculation of what's in store for the major video game consoles - the Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360 (MSFT), and Sony PlayStation 3 (SNE) - Nintendo (NTDOY) is paying a lot of MORE
yiwyn - Jul 15, 2008 5:36 PM ET -
Xbox's mass-market makeover
A new interface and customized avatars gives the Xbox a Wii-like feel. Image: Microsoft
By Yi-Wyn Yen
LOS ANGELES - Microsoft's Xbox 360 is getting an image makeover. To appeal to the "casual" gaming audience, Microsoft executives on Monday said they are aggressively marketing the hardcore gamer console as a multipurpose entertainment machine to watch movies, TV shows, and listen to music.
The approach appears to be the latest tactic to compete with MORE
yiwyn - Jul 14, 2008 6:10 PM ET
