She also said Club Nintendo, a program popular in Japan and Europe that allows players to accumulate points by buying various products and taking Nintendo-related surveys, and then trade points garnered for new gear, will be coming to North America.

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Finally, Nintendo Executive Vice President Cammie Dunaway briefly introduced what will be called [...]

Susan Decker

The company also said Semel exercised stock options worth $37.8 million in 2007. Semel left Yahoo’s board on January 31, the day before Microsoft offered to acquire Yahoo.

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Yahoo President Sue Decker saw her salary, bonus, and incentive play payment increase from $1.35 million in 2006 to $1.76 million in 2007, but factoring in [...]

This would make a killer second tuner for anyone already running, say, Windows Media Center with an analog tuner. The PlusTV is strictly digital, meaning if you plug in a cable-TV cable, you’ll receive only QAM stations. (If you’re not up to speed on QAM, check the Wikipedia entry.) What’s more, Windows Media Center should [...]

China’s Godson-3 chip is ambitious if anything. It proposes to be everything a world-class processor should be–and then some.
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The silicon is no slouch. The Godson-3, due in 2009, will have four cores, and an eight-core version is also planned. “The four-core chip [...]

The Register reports that Rubin is interested in a safe-and-secure venue where customers can purchase and download applications so that developers can get paid for their software. Of course, seeing as Android prides itself on being an open operating system, we’re sure you’ll still be able to get open-source applications for free from other venues, [...]

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Other sections include a YouTube video listed as the “Temple of Obama” that shows the makings of Obama’s stage tonight at the Invesco stadium here, where he’s scheduled to accept the Democratic nomination on Thursday. Another features press conferences from Republicans–held, intentionally, right in the middle of the Democratic convention.

That’s what the Republicans, at [...]

After years of providing chips for wireless access points used in homes, Broadcom is turning its attention to the business world.
Broadcom decided to enter the market now because it saw an opportunity to package the Wi-Fi chips with chips for networking switches, so that device makers have more incentive to buy a broader package [...]

Ask an economist whether the $700 billion bailout will harm or help the economy, and the answer will depend on his or her political (or at least philosophical) predilections.

Public pressure in opposition to the bailout, from these sites and from unexpected sources like the AFL-CIO and Republican Newt Gingrich, may have helped to slam the [...]

*1GB microSD card provides 30 minutes of recording time in near-DVD-quality mode or two hours in Web Sharing mode; expandable to 16 hours with 8GB microSD card (not included)

*1GB microSD card provides 30 minutes of recording time in HQ mode or one hour in Web Sharing mode; expandable to up to 8 hours with 8GB [...]

Wireless, which accounts for about 40 percent of AT&T’s total revenue, once again saved the day for AT&T, proving that it continues to be a cash cow, even as the economy slumps. Profits for wireless services surged 21 percent on revenue that was up 15 percent on the quarter.
Clearly, wireless revenue, which now accounts [...]