Datamation Staff

Chip giant Intel cut its fourth-quarter revenue forecast by about 14 percent citing weak demand across the world and in all its products, indicating the economic crisis is set to hurt computer sales in the holiday season and beyond. The shock warning hammered tech shares, which had already tumbled earlier on Wednesday, with Intel plunging […]

U.S. business software maker VMware Inc (NYSE: VMW) has bought a small French company that specializes in virtualization software for mobile phones, which allows a single phone to run multiple operating systems. VMware, the leading maker of virtualization software for computers, said on Monday it bought privately held Trango Virtual Processors, based in Grenoble, France, […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – MySpace, the popular online social network owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, could develop a digital music player in the future, pitting it against Apple Inc’s hot-selling iPod. But there are no immediate plans to make or sell such a device, MySpace co-founder and Chief Executive Chris DeWolfe said at a […]

SAN FRANCISCO/TOKYO (Reuters) – Sony Corp said five PC makers including Hewlett-Packard Co and Toshiba Corp will recall 100,000 computer battery packs made by the Japanese electronics maker due to a fire hazard. Sony said the recall is expected to have limited impact on its earnings, and its shares outperformed a falling Tokyo stock market […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co Ltd will likely launch a new model of its top-selling handheld player, the DS, in overseas markets by the summer of 2009, President Satoru Iwata said. Nintendo will start selling the DSi, which can take pictures, play music and is slimmer than the current model, in […]

RALEIGH, NC (Reuters) – Looking for more than ghosts and ghouls to liven up Halloween? The latest videogames are offering plenty of scary options and new terror is waiting just around the corner. Whether it is aliens, zombies or other monsters, new videogames aim to terrify players and keep them on edge like the best […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese Internet users have expressed fury at Microsoft’s launch of an anti-piracy tool targeting Chinese computer users to ensure they buy genuine software. The “Windows Genuine Advantage” program, which turns the user’s screen black if the installed software fails a validation test, is Microsoft’s latest weapon in its war on piracy in […]

Visit the full tutorial and download the full code at DevX.com. Not since the iPhone has the tech community remained glued by every development surrounding a mobile platform. Now that it’s open source, officially available running on hardware and is enjoying expanded support from handset manufacturers, the future appears bright. And that spells good news […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Despite turmoil in global markets, two-thirds of senior technology industry executives polled in a new survey say the economic slowdown will not hurt them as badly as the bursting of the tech bubble in 2000. However, more than three-quarters of respondents say their business has been impacted by the financial crisis, […]

IBM, the world’s biggest technology services company, posted a higher quarterly profit on Thursday as an increase in services and software revenue offset a decline in computer hardware sales. The results confirmed preliminary figures released last week, when IBM (NYSE: IBM) posted a higher-than-expected third-quarter profit and reaffirmed its full-year outlook despite weaker quarterly revenue […]