Sony reported on Tuesday that sales of its Move motion-control device for the Playstation 3 hardware have surpassed 4.1 million units since its September release. The Sony Move and Microsoft’s similar Kinect hardware were conceived to break into the casual gamer market currently dominated by Nintendo’s Wii entertainment system. This week, Microsoft revealed that strong [...]
Students protesting state university budget cuts clashed with riot police in Rome on Tuesday. Policemen resorted to tear gas and police vans in order to seal off Rome’s city middle and prevent demonstrators from marching the Parliament. No reports have emerged of serious injuries or damages. Other cities across Italy were hosts to non-violent protests. [...]
Stocks were down on Tuesday as investors continued to worry about the European sovereign-debt crisis.  Better-than-expected data on the U.S. manufacturing sector and consumer confidence helped control the drop. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 16 points, or 0.2 percent, to 11036. The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 0.9 percent to 2502, hindered by a 4.4 percent [...]
General Motors will begin exporting its battery-powered Chevrolet Volt automobile late next year, the company’s CEO Daniel Akerson said Tuesday. Â GM also plans to hire 1,000 engineers and researchers in Michigan to expand development of electric vehicles and hybrids. The new jobs will be introduced in Michigan over the next two years, which comes as [...]
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange has informed Forbes that WikiLeaks’ next dump will include documents from Bank of America. In 2009, Assange told Computer World: “At the moment, for example, we are sitting on 5GB from Bank of America, one of the executive’s hard drives.†And “We could just dump it all into one giant Zip [...]
The United States believes Russia may have positioned short-range tactical nuclear warheads to facilities located alarmingly near its NATO allies as recently as this Spring, officials said. Â This belief has only aggravated the U.S. Congress’ doubts about Russia’s dedication to working towards a possible vote on a new arms-control treaty. U.S. officials said these actions [...]
According to The Wall Street Journal, Salon.com is considering opportunities to merge with or be acquired by another media company. Â The news is being seen as a reminder of the difficulties of operating a free-standing online news service. The 15 year-old Salon Media Group has accumulated net losses of more than $15 million in the [...]
According to a report at Paid Content, Richard Branson and Virgin’s new iPad exclusive magazine fails to live up to the medium’s potential. Project, the name given to the digital publication, is said to be a “decent-enough male life style title,” that is hindered by a clunky user interface and frustrating delivery through Apple’s App [...]
Ecuador is concerned about some of the U.S. activities depicted in the leaked diplomatic cables, and wants to offer WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange residency and a public forum, Ecuador’s deputy foreign minister confirmed Tuesday. The invitation comes as Assange may face espionage charges in the U.S. Further, Assange’s residency application to Sweden was turned down this [...]
Microsoft has released tools to build Visual Basic – its proprietary programming language – applications for Windows Phone 7, a move which could yield a significant crop of new applications for the new mobile operating system. The IT giant released the VB add-on for Windows Phone Developer Tools on Monday. The add-on can only be [...]
