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You might call him the Mickey Mouse of video games. He's reminiscent of a doughnut, round and sweet and comforting. He's also a vessel, devoid of a real personality so you can live vicariously through him.
This holiday season's biggest entertainment blockbuster likely will be a sequel to a popular franchise, with jarring depictions of war and an intricate story of good versus evil. It could easily rake in more than last year's record $155 million opening weekend for "The Dark Knight."
Death doesn't erase the online footprints that people leave in life and Facebook won't either, though it will make some changes.
Worried about missing a birth announcement, or details on what your portly uncle had for lunch?
Brian Spaly's quest for the perfect pair of pants led him and former roommate Andy Dunn to start a Web-only clothing company that wants to sell men's trousers that fit — without the need for fitting rooms.
Stephanie Kahn wanted to bask in her engagement for a few hours before diving into the task of calling aunts, uncles and good friends with the big news. And even before she could call them, she had a surprise party to attend, one that her fiance had set up for their parents and her "closest group of girlfriends."
With a little help from the Beatles, Super Mario and price cuts from Sony and Microsoft, the slumping video game industry is hoping for a sales resurrection this fall.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Thursday it filed an age-discrimination lawsuit against AT&T Inc., the country's largest telecommunications provider.
Kathleen Byrnes and Justin Choi, a married couple attending medical school at Tulane University, say $40 is just too much to fork over for a Nintendo Wii game they might not enjoy. They haven't bought one since last fall, when they picked up "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed."
Lee Richman installs high-end home theater systems that can cost as much as $170,000. Lately, he's noticed that some of his clients — or their interior designers — are perking up when they hear about ultra-slim TV sets, which come off the wall only about an inch.
A multinational group of researchers, scientists and engineers are close to winning a $1 million challenge to improve Netflix Inc.'s system of recommending movies that its subscribers might like.
A multinational group of researchers, scientists and engineers are close to winning a $1 million prize from Netflix.
Google and Facebook have rushed out services in Farsi. Twitter users have changed their home cities to Tehran to provide cover for Internet users there. Others have configured their computers to serve as relay points to bypass Iranian censorship.
With its scratches and sticky brown beer stains, the "Tetris" arcade machine near the back of a Brooklyn bar called Barcade has seen better days. Which makes sense, given that the machine was made in the 1980s.
The turtleneck from designer Marc Jacobs costs hundreds of dollars at Neiman Marcus or Saks Fifth Avenue. But at one Brooklyn bar, the charcoal-gray sweater was free for the taking — along with jeans, belts and shoes.
Alicia Istanbul woke up one recent Wednesday to find herself locked out of the Facebook account she opened in 2007, one Facebook suddenly deemed fake.
Media company E.W. Scripps, which earlier this year shut down Denver's Rocky Mountain News, said Monday that weak advertising spending and a slew of charges led to a net loss in the first quarter.
To screen passengers for swine flu and other contagious diseases, some airports use thermal imaging cameras to see whether travelers have fevers, without having to stick thermometers in their mouths. So how do the cameras work?
The former chief executive of Amphenol Corp., which makes electronic and fiber optic connectors and cables, received compensation valued at $2.2 million in 2008, a 65 percent decline from a year earlier, according to an Associated Press analysis of figures disclosed in a regulatory filing.
The publisher behind a video game based on one of the Iraq war's fiercest battles has pulled the plug on the title, called "Six Days in Fallujah."
Facebook will adopt new rules governing the social network even though a vote fell well short of a minimum threshold.
Shares of language-learning software company Rosetta Stone Inc. surged almost 40 percent Thursday in their public debut on the New York Stock Exchange.
The chairman and chief executive of Novellus Systems Inc. received compensation valued at $928,769 in 2008, a 78 percent decline for a year that the chip manufacturing equipment maker said offered "unprecedented challenges."
In less than eight months, Facebook has doubled its user base by signing up 100 million people from around the world, officially hitting 200 million on Wednesday.
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