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"Call of Duty" game shoots to make history

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:36:11 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Forget the buzz over the next "Twilight" film or James Cameron's "Avatar." The biggest entertainment hit of the holiday season may come on Tuesday, when "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" hits stores.

Louvre plays home to Apple's first French store

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:43:50 GMT

PARIS (Reuters) - Computer giant Apple Inc will open its first French store beneath the Louvre museum on Saturday just two weeks after Microsoft opened a theme cafe to promote its Windows 7 software.

Court orders Beatles songs to be taken off website

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:24:05 GMT

LONDON (Reuters) - Record label EMI has won an injunction against music website BlueBeat.com which it said was selling Beatles songs without its permission.

Beatles remasters heading to USB

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:00:12 GMT

LONDON (Billboard) - The Beatles remasters are coming out on a limited-edition apple-shaped USB drive in time for Christmas, marking the first time the Fab Four's catalogue has officially been sold as digital files separate from the CDs.

EMI sues U.S. website over Beatles music online

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:54:55 GMT

LONDON (Reuters) - Beatles record label EMI is suing U.S. music website BlueBeat.com, which it said was offering unauthorised downloads of the Fab Four's tracks for sale.

Milan court blocks Sky Italia soccer rights win

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:08:55 GMT

MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian appeals court blocked the awarding of broadcasting rights to football matches for two seasons to satellite operator Sky Italia, a unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

Beatles remasters heading to USB

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:50:37 GMT

Welcome to the sportsdirect.com@St James' Park stadium

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:13:43 GMT

LONDON (Reuters) - Newcastle United have angered fans with plans to rename their ground the sportsdirect.com@St James' Park Stadium until the end of the season.

Playfish sees social games as industry driver

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:00:16 GMT

LONDON (Reuters) - The video games sector has yet to gain from a downturn where consumers stay home to play, but social games creator Playfish says the industry is just beginning a new growth spurt.

Microsoft to set up cloud research centre in Taiwan

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:25:31 GMT

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. and Taiwan's economics ministry said they plan to set up a research centre on the island by next year, in the software company's first Asian foray into the budding cloud computing industry.

China bureaucratic war over online Warcraft heats up

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:12:10 GMT

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Culture Ministry has accused the publishing watchdog of abusing its authority by shutting access to the popular online game, World of Warcraft, stoking bureaucratic rivalry over control of the Internet.

Yahoo teams with OneRiot on real-time search

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:28:03 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc, looking to match rivals in providing up-to-the-minute Internet search results, is running tests with several real-time search partners, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

U.S. jail term for BetOnSports founder

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:12:46 GMT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The founder of the defunct British online offshore gambling firm BetOnSports, Gary Kaplan, was sentenced to the maximum 51 months in prison for conspiring to violate U.S. racketeering and other laws, the Justice Department said on Tuesday.

Phone texting reveals sensitive new "metrotextual"

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:39:53 GMT

LONDON (Reuters) - Men have become so openly affectionate with each other using mobile technology they've taken to signing off text messages to male friends with a kiss (x), giving rise to a new generation dubbed "Metrotextuals."

Sony Ericsson unveils first Android phone

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:13:25 GMT

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Sony Ericsson unveiled its flagship X10 mobile phone on Tuesday, its first to run on Google Inc's Android operating system, hoping the device will help reverse its loss of market share.

China 3G stirs up mobile Internet frenzy

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:56:23 GMT

BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's recent roll out of 3G mobile services is creating a land grab among its Internet firms, old and new alike, salivating over a mobile Internet market the size of the U.S. and Europe combined.

Scared of flying? Press the iPanic button

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:57:32 GMT

SYDNEY (Reuters) - People scared of flying can now press a button on their iPhone to help them deal with their panic.

China clamps down on Activision's top online game

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:14:47 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A Chinese regulator has suspended approval for NetEase.com Inc to operate Activision Blizzard's World of Warcraft online game, putting the future of the recently-launched and high-profile title in question in China.

U.S. Web holiday sales seen up 8 percent

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:08:31 GMT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. online sales are expected to rise 8 percent this holiday season, with mass market retailers who can offer discounts performing best, according to Forrester Research.

Cubans say access to online market site is blocked

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:07:26 GMT

HAVANA (Reuters) - A popular website of classified ads that has given Cubans a taste of the free market has been blocked on the communist-run island, Internet users said.

E-readers may not solve publisher woes yet

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:25:45 GMT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Publishers hoping to halt a slide in sales with new electronic reading devices will struggle to get consumers to embrace them until the technology improves, experts say.

IBM replaces exec charged in insider trading case

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:23:25 GMT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM has replaced senior executive Robert Moffat as the head of its hardware division, saying he left the company two weeks after he was arrested in a high-profile insider trading scandal.

Latin to lose its domain over Internet

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:36:40 GMT

SEOUL (Reuters) - The body in charge of assigning the world's Internet users their online addresses on Friday said it had agreed to allow the use of any of the world's scripts, no longer just the Latin alphabet.

Facebook gets $711 million damages in anti-spam case

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:06:34 GMT

(Reuters) - Social networking website Facebook was awarded $711.2 million (430 million pounds) in damages relating to an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace, court documents show.

UK data protection laws inadequate - EU

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:57:31 GMT

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission on Thursday moved a step closer to taking Britain to court for failing to provide its citizens with adequate privacy and personal data protection when using electronic communications.