The Japanese maker of the PlayStation 3 unveiled Thursday its highly anticipated motion controlling system, as it takes aim at Nintendos dominance in the gaming sector. With the “PlayStation Move,” Sony hopes to lure gamers who have outgrown Nintendo, which launched the Wii in 2006 and became the first to introduce motion-detecting controllers.
Peter Dille, senior vice president of marketing for Sony Computer Entertainment, credited Nintendo Co. for “introducing motion gaming to the masses.”
Now its time for them to graduate to the PlayStation, which offers a new experience for both casual and hard-core gamers, he said at a press conference in [...]

The online store that was announced late Tuesday marks another step in Googles crusade to convert the world to “cloud computing,” the idea of running applications in Web browsers instead of installing them on individual hard drives. The information entered in the programs also is stored in data centers run by third parties such as Google.
More than 50 software makers have agreed to sell their Internet programs through Google, which will keep 20 percent of the sales. The prices are expected to range from $50 annually to several hundred dollars annually per user.
Intuit Inc., a maker of business accounting software, [...]

Routers play an important role as the Internets traffic cops, shunting packets of data to their destinations. Those placed at the Internets backbone - the main arteries for traffic - need the most capacity given the amount of data passing through. These machines are known as core routers, and Cisco competes in this market with Juniper Networks Inc., which has updated its products more recently than Cisco.
Cisco, the worlds largest maker of computer networking gear, said it is replacing its aging CRS-1 core router, which was introduced in 2004, with a model that is three times faster, the [...]

Samsung and Panasonic will start selling 3-D TVs in U.S. stores this week, inaugurating what manufacturers hope is the era of 3-D viewing in the living room. But because the sets require bulky glasses, and there is for now little to watch in the enhanced format, it will take at least a few years for the technology to become mainstream, if that happens at all.
Samsung Electronics Co. announced Tuesday that it is selling two 3-D sets this week. For $3,000, buyers get a 46-inch set, two pairs of glasses and a 3-D Blu-ray player.
Panasonic Corp. has said it will start [...]

Those changes, among others, were unveiled by co-presidents Jason Hirschhorn, 38, and Mike Jones, 34, this week following the abrupt departure of CEO Owen Van Natta in February after just 10 months on the job.
The two remaining executives, who once shared a single office with Van Natta and now remain in it together, declined to comment much on Van Nattas departure, other than to say his decision to leave was between him and parent News Corp.s chief digital officer Jonathan Miller.
They also shed no new light on the ongoing ad-sharing deal with Google Inc., which forms the backbone of MySpaces [...]

The new bicycling directions available on Google Maps starting Wednesday supplement the guidance already provided to motorists and pedestrians. The biking directions initially will be available only for the United States.
Google spent the past six months tweaking its mapping service so it could recommend routes that would steer bicyclists away from big hills and heavily congested streets. The feature can be used to pinpoint bicycling trails in more than 150 cities.
Bike directions already have been available on some smaller Web sites, but Google is the first major Internet mapping service provider to add the option.
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Bob Boorstin, Googles director of policy communications, said the Web search company would now be able to offer some of its other products in those countries, such as the mapping satellite software Google Earth, photo management program Picasa and Internet chat client Google Talk.
“This is a great accomplishment,” Boorstin told a human rights meeting in Geneva. “We are hopeful this will help people like yourselves in this room and activists all over the world take a small step down what is certainly a long road ahead.”
The U.S. Treasury Department said the change to existing trade sanctions was intended to help [...]

More than 50 companies are involved in the store initially, Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering, said yesterday at a software developers event at Googles headquarters in Mountain View, California. The company will take a 20 percent cut of application sales and charge a one-time fee of $100.
“Its a great way to discover, to find and install applications into your business,” Gundotra said. The marketplace offers “not just any applications, applications that are deeply integrated with Google Apps.”
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When Apple unveiled the touch-screen device Jan. 27, the company said the first iPads would reach the market in “late March” worldwide, not just in the U.S. Now international releases are planned for later in April.
Investors shrugged off the delay and instead seemed reassured that the tablet wouldnt slip even later. On a day with a broader stock market rally, Apple shares hit a record high of $219.70 and closed up $8.24, or 3.9 percent, to their highest settling price of $218.95.
The company did not specify Friday why the tablet is not coming out until April, and Apple spokeswoman Natalie [...]

The company will initially sell models that connect to the Internet using Wi-Fi networks, starting at $499. Versions that can also tap mobile-phone networks will be available in late April, Apple said today. When Apple introduced the iPad in January, the company said it would be available in March.
Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs has pitched the iPad as a mobile device that falls between smartphones and laptop computers. With a 9.7-inch (25-centimeter) touch screen, it serves up Web pages, e-mail, music, videos, games, electronic books [...]