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Spinning around a sales model
News I don't know if you read the latest issue of BusinessWeek, but there is a quote regarding the possibility that Microsoft is considering its own handheld product to compete against the Sony PSP and the Nintendo DS.
[February 6, 2006, 17:30]
Microsoft denies flaw in Xbox motherboard
News In addition, the Xbox is scheduled to arrive on store shelves a mere three days after Nintendo begins selling its new GameCube console for $199, making any potential Xbox delay even more significant for Microsoft.
[August 15, 2001, 10:28]
Eye Opener: Microsoft's living room war - Part 2
News Matsushita Electric Industrial, known to US users through its Panasonic product line, has placed its bet on game console maker Nintendo. Part 1: Will Microsoft lose the living room? In August, at the European Computer Trade Show in London...
[September 27, 1999, 14:09]
StrongARM: Intel nabs its missing link
News Competitors such as the MIPS processor are providing the brains for Nintendo's Nintendo64 and Sony's Playstation video game consoles, other markets on which Intel has set its sights. "Intel's slogan for the next century is going to be Intel inside...
[February 24, 1998, 10:06]
Xbox price slashed in UK
News The announcement has been welcomed by both third-party publishers and retailers although one can only imagine the meetings that must now be taking place at Nintendo. Microsoft has just made the announcement that's been the subject of much...
[April 18, 2002, 9:02]
Yahoo Messenger 5.0 review
Reviews Messenger's new IMVironments range from the generic, such as a fish tank, to branded images from the movie Monsters, Inc.the rock band Garbage and even Nintendo's Super Smash Bros Melee video game. Messenger's main display is as stark as it's...
[February 18, 2002, 23:00]
High-definition video hits the Net
News Game company Nintendo and Microsoft are two of its first major advertisers. AtomShockwave's AtomFilms began reeling short films in high-definition format on Tuesday, in one of the industry's first demonstrations of the technology online.
[January 21, 2004, 13:50]
Ballmer: Mod chips threaten Xbox
News Microsoft also joined with Sony and Nintendo in a recent action against one of the largest retailers of mod chips for numerous game devices. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said the company may pull its Xbox game console from the Australian...
[October 22, 2002, 7:49]
Guy Kewney's Diary
News Claimed performance is ten times faster than a Nintendo 64 and eight times faster than a Sony Playstation. You know, like wavelet compression, which you 'understand in general principle. Try 3D display, if you really want to get baffled.
[December 13, 1997, 7:00]
Covert P2P network fails to hide users
News Several companies, including game maker Nintendo, are pressing charges against the pair. A Japanese peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network which claimed to keep user identities untraceable has failed to work -- two users in Japan have been arrested.
[December 3, 2003, 14:25]
Consumer electronic spending will defy global slowdown
News With Sony looking to boost sales of the PlayStation2, and Nintendo releasing the Gameboy Advance, the console sector is set to show significant growth," he said. Analysts expect that UK consumers will increase their spending on consumer electronics...
[July 5, 2001, 6:28]
A Year Ago: StrongARM - Intel nabs its missing link
News Competitors such as the MIPS processor are providing the brains for Nintendo's Nintendo64 and Sony's Playstation video game consoles, other markets on which Intel has set its sights. After closing its latest deal, Intel Corp.has immeasurably...
[February 25, 1999, 6:14]
Copper supercharges supercomputers
News IBM officials said a copper-based PowerPC chip will also power a forthcoming game console from Nintendo. Deep Blue? Meet Deep Copper. IBM will unveil a new generation of supercomputers it says offers a major performance increase by using IBM Power3...
[February 10, 2000, 11:02]
The Week in Review: Lair of the SQL worm
News And of course there's this other company called Nintendo to contend with. Among the more interesting stories to come out of the continuing examination of the two-week-old worm disaster was the case of David Litchfield, whose "proof of concept" code...
[February 7, 2003, 15:55]
Game controller blamed for hand-arm vibrating syndrome
News The PlayStation2, the Nintendo 64 and Microsoft's Xbox and some PC joypads also support the vibration function, which is widely used in today's computer games. Scientists have warned that children who excessively use vibrating video game...
[February 1, 2002, 11:48]
Linux.conf.au: Sysadmin role changing via the cloud
News Tech support at some companies might say: "Come back in half an hour when it's fixed", but Tech Stops were designed to be inviting, he said: "Why don't you sit in our lounge and play Nintendo Wii for half an hour while we fix this for you".
[January 27, 2009, 8:49]
PalmSource teams with Nvidia on graphics
News The first portable products using Imagination Technologies' PowerVR MBX 3D graphics technology will ship this year, and will represent a "significant step ahead" from products such as Nintendo's GameBoy Advance and Nokia's N-Gage, Imagination said...
[February 12, 2004, 11:10]
IBM to reveal Power's foundations
News IBM's Power chips -- whose initials stand for "Performance Optimisation with Enhanced RISC" -- are best known for their roles in servers, in Apple Computer products and even in game consoles such as Nintendo's GameCube.
[April 1, 2004, 12:10]
Yopy comes to Europe
News The battery last 16 hours with normal use, but to achieve this the screen has no backlight -- a decision that takes after Nintendo's Game Boy Advance. The handheld, which was originally supposed to appear under the Samsung brand, existed as little...
[July 12, 2002, 14:36]
GDC: PlayStation 3 - The next generation
News If we didn't get it right with version one, Sony and Nintendo would eat us alive. If distributed computing can unravel the building blocks of life, it can probably help make a better version of "Crash Bandicoot.
[March 22, 2002, 10:03]
