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After a stellar month in September with the release of the much anticipated game "Halo 3," Microsoft passed the No. 1 console sales mantle back to Nintendo and its Wii console for October. Consumers scooped up 516,000 Wiis in October, about 30 percent more than the Xbox 360's 366,000 units and more ...

Microsoft will mark the fifth anniversary of its Xbox Live online gaming site Thursday, and to celebrate, it's offering members of the Xbox Live community a chance to download a free Xbox Live Arcade game. The console maker will also debut a new category of downloadable games, giving Xbox 360 owners...

It's been nearly a month since the British rock band Radiohead shook the music industry by releasing an entire album on its Web site and allowing fans to pay whatever they wanted, down to and including nothing, to download and own the music forever. Now, the preliminary sales results are in, as tabu...

The 12,000 members of the Writers Guild of America hit the picket lines Monday after talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers failed to reach a compromise. At issue are new allocation plans for DVD and digital download residuals. It is the first strike since writers walked ...

As the Internet and digital technologies continue to play an ever-increasing role on the business side of the music industry, big-name recording artists have begun to turn their backs on their labels and opt instead to strike out on their own. Part 1 of this two-part series described what longstandi...

TV and movie writers in the Writers Guild of America are expected to hit the picket lines as early as Monday after failing to reach agreements with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The two factions are waging a pitched battle over DVD and digital distribution residuals, a gro...

More and more data center managers have begun implementing virtualization and server consolidation strategies in an effort to cope with the growing complexities they face today, according to a Symantec report released Tuesday. The survey also found that data managers must confront a plethora of chal...

October seemed as though it would be a banner month for the recording industry after a Minnesota jury ruled in favor of the Recording Industry Association of America in the first peer-to-peer file sharing lawsuit to go to trial. The jurors demanded Jammie Thomas, a single mother who the RIAA claimed...

The Poker Players' Association took its fight to reform online gambling laws to lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week when more than 100 poker players took to the capitol. Professional poker players including Vanessa Rousso, Howard Lederer and Victor Ramdin joined PPA executives in Washington, D.C., t...

IT industry titans including Microsoft and Symantec announced Tuesday at the RSA Conference Europe the formation of the Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code, or SAFECode, a non-profit organization solely dedicated to fostering greater trust in information technology products and services ...

September was a very good month for the console game industry, which recorded $1.36 billion in total sales in the U.S. for both video game hardware and software, according to the NPD Group. The big winner for the month was Microsoft's Xbox 360 exclusive, "Halo 3," which sold 3.3 million units. The t...

Millions of MySpacers will be able to jazz up their profile pages with streaming videos and select audio material from Sony BMG artists, MySpace announced Tuesday. The deal between the No. 1 social networking site and Sony, the second largest recording label, will make content from artists including...

Continuing the consolidation trend that has swept the video game software development industry over the past few years, Activision announced Wednesday that it has acquired Bizarre Creations, the independent UK-based game developer behind such titles as "Project Gotham Racing" and "Geometry Wars." Th...

After seeing its fortunes rise and then tumble as an Internet access provider, AOL, a division of Time-Warner, announced a series of changes the company hopes will make it a contender in the ever-expanding online advertising market. The new enterprise, named "Platform A," will be accompanied by a ch...

Sony has reportedly turned its attention to creating products and services that will enable users to download television programming and movies. The service will use the company's struggling PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable video game platforms as well as the company's high-definition Bravia t...

The bad news just keeps on coming for Take 2 Interactive, parent company of Rockstar Games. The firm revealed Wednesday that following a year-long informal investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into the handling of certain stock options grants, the company received a Wells call on ...

Not content to sell everything from video downloads to cosmetics to furniture, Amazon.com quietly rolled out a new service Wednesday called "AmazonFresh," a grocery store and home delivery site. Currently stating availability only in the Seattle area, the grocery service appears to offer similar ser...

The BBC announced Wednesday it will launch its iPlayer on-demand TV service on July 27. Initially restricted to users in the UK, the service will become available to an expanded Internet audience in the fall. "It's a revolutionary service which offers audiences more value, because from now on they n...

More than 12 million small and medium-sized businesses operate in the U.S., and unlike larger enterprises, few of them have the cash to pay a marketing firm to launch an online advertising campaign. In world where the Internet has become perhaps the most powerful tool that companies can use to attra...

Sony, maker of the embattled PlayStation 3 video game console, said Thursday it plans to lay off employees of its U.S.-based game unit. The job cuts, according to Sony, are part of a corporation-wide restructuring effort. In April, Sony announced that it would cut up to 160 jobs from its European fa...