AP – Nintendo shares tumbled Thursday after the company said its 3DS game machine, packed with glasses-free 3-D technology, won’t be ready to go on sale for Christmas, crushing its earnings forecast by more than half.
AP – House Democrats have shelved a last-ditch effort to broker a compromise between phone, cable and Internet companies on rules that would prohibit broadband providers from blocking or degrading online traffic flowing over their networks.
AP – Just because Yahoo Inc.’s U.S. website and Microsoft Corp.’s Bing are using the same technological ingredients for searching the Internet doesn’t mean they’re slicing and dicing the results the same way, too.
Ben Patterson – George Lucas just canrsquo;t stop tinkering with the Star Wars movies, and now hersquo;s poised to unleash his latest retooling of that saga from a long time ago in a galaxy mdash; a 3-D galaxy, this time mdash; far, far away. Unfortunately, the original and perhaps best of the Star Wars epics [...]
Ben Patterson – Sure, itrsquo;s fun to sit around and fantasize cutting the cable TV cord in favor of getting all your favorite shows over the Internet or on DVD. But when push comes to shove, only a tiny handful of us will actually do it mdash; or so says a recent survey.
Macworld.com – Pigs fly! Hell freezes! The official Google Voice app may actually appear in the App Store! Also, space gets explored with the help of an iPhone, and RIM says “no, way” to the fart app phenomenon. It’s Wednesday, September 29, 2010 and here are your remainders.
AP – Google Inc. is addressing one of the biggest complaints about its free e-mail service by giving people more control over how their inboxes are organized.
Reuters – The amount of time children spend reading books for enjoyment decreases as they use cell phones and other mobile technology, but e-books might just bring them back to literature, according to a report released on Wednesday.
Reuters – The world’s top cellphone maker Nokia said on Thursday it has started to ship its flagship smartphone model the N8.
Reuters – Social networking website Facebook and Internet telephone company Skype are in talks to establish a partnership that is aimed at integrating their communication services, Wall Street Journal said, citing a person familiar with the situation.