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Greenpeace: Game consoles are dirtiest of e-wastes (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines -- Game consoles are the “dirtiest” among electronic gadgets, according to environmental group Greenpeace in its latest global ranking of firms in terms of their efforts to eliminate toxic chemicals and recycle their products once they become obsolete.
PlayStation 3 update crashes game consoles (News Interactive)
SONY has recalled an update for the PlayStation 3 released online after users reported the installation left their game consoles useless.
Chipmaker Connects A Wireless World And Makes It Run Faster (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
Now televisions, digital cameras and game consoles commonly link to the world without those physical ties.
Video game chip aiding oil exploration (Austin American-Statesman)
An Austin-designed microchip built to power video game consoles might help speed up the search for deep oil reserves in areas such as the Gulf of Mexico, IBM Corp. and the international oil company Repsol YPF are announcing today.
IBM's PlayStation 3 Chips Help Repsol Find Deep Oil (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)
July 1 (Bloomberg) -- Repsol YPF SA , Spain's largest oil company, is using chips that International Business Machines Corp. designed for video-game consoles to find oil in deep water as much as six times faster.
Review: The Bourne Conspiracy (Stuff)
Jason Bourne is the ultimate weapon. Not only is he an expert in hand-to-hand and weapons combat, he's also a master of stealth and after starring in numerous Robert Ludlum novels and three movies starring Matt Damon, Bourne is making his mark on game consoles. And what a mark he has made.
Not Green Enough (Forbes)
Greenpeace says computer and electronics companies need to do more to comply with environmental standards.
Chipmaker Connects A Wireless World And Makes It Run Faster (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! Finance)
Laptops long ago stopped needing wires to be wired.
GameStop won't stop growing (Tulsa World)
The first metric, the installed base of current-generation game consoles, such as the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii, grew by 31 million units last year, expanding GameStop's addressable market by about 34 percent.
Sony Predicts HDTV Leadership (TV Week)
Sony, which trailed Samsung among worldwide liquid-crystal display television set makers in the first quarter, said last week that it expects to be the market leader in high-definition TVs by 2011. Also by then, Sony expects to return its LCD operations to profitability while building its Blu-ray-related operations into a business that will approach $10 billion in annual sales.
