Innovation on display at Games Conference
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Motion controls and social gaming were the hot topics at this week's Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of game designers, programmers and executives....
Apple gives chief operating officer $5M bonus
SEATTLE (AP) -- Apple Inc. is giving its chief operating officer a $5 million bonus for "outstanding performance" running the company while CEO Steve Jobs was on medical leave....
Court OKs TV rules opposed by Comcast, Cablevision
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal court Friday upheld regulations that require cable TV companies to make sports programming and other channels they own available on equal terms to rival TV providers such as satellite companies....
Chinese minister insists Google obey the law
BEIJING (AP) -- China's top Internet regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or "pay the consequences," giving no sign of a possible compromise in their dispute over censorship and hacking....
Privacy issues nix Netflix movie-picking contest
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- DVD-by-mail service Netflix Inc. has canceled a sequel to a $1 million movie-recommendation contest, avoiding a potential courtroom drama over the privacy rights of its subscribers....
Lenovo says business will focus on mobile Internet
BEIJING (AP) -- Lenovo Group expects wireless Internet products to account for up to 80 percent of its sales within five years as it pursues expansion in faster-growing emerging markets, CEO Yang Yuanqing said Friday....
Internet fraud losses doubled last year
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The cost of Internet fraud doubled in 2009 to about $560 million, the FBI said Friday. The most common type of frauds reported were scams from people falsely claiming to be from the FBI....
Disney to shut Zemeckis-run motion-capture studio
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- To further cut costs at its movie studio, The Walt Disney Co. said Friday that it will shut a San Francisco-area facility used to capture the performance of Jim Carrey for his digitally animated character, Scrooge, in "A Christmas Carol."...
Apple takes pre-orders for April 3 iPad launch
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) -- Apple is accepting pre-orders for the iPad, its new touch-screen gadget for reading books, watching video and surfing the Web....
