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• Women in gaming: Conference on a work in progress
  Monday 31 October 2005 – 11:40
  The Austin Game Conference ran at the downtown convention center in Austin, TX, on October 27 and 28, 2005. Devoted to hard-core gaming developers for console platforms as well as the PC, game-focused recruiters, tool and platform vendors, and other services such as software testing or packaging aimed at the gaming industry, this affair brought together over 1,500 attendees from around the world.
• Why Women Aren't Gamers - Yet
  Saturday 27 August 2005 – 06:00
  We're making paper thin excuses for why women don't play videogames, while ignoring the fact that they are being intentionally left out of the entire scene. Let's take a look at some of the real reasons why women don't like Gordon Freeman...
• Study: Women over 40 biggest online gamers
  Thursday 12 February 2004 – 01:30
  Think teenagers are spending all night long playing online games on the computer? Wrong - it's their mothers burning the midnight oil.
• Female gamers outnumber their male counterparts
  Wednesday 21 November 2007 – 04:54 in Gaming
  Zylom.com released details of a recent survey, which showed that more women are playing games online than men.
• Experienced Women in High Tech Earn More Than Men
  Wednesday 2 January 2002 – 06:14
  Seems like all pay should be based strictly on merit with gender not providing anyone a monetary advantage, but we know that's not always so.
• Casual games market belongs to middle-aged women
  Friday 29 September 2006 – 08:20
  Video games, which have become intensely closely related to teenage and twenty-something males, are not as gender specific as the societal norm makes them out to be, according to studies from two game publishers. RealNetworks, Inc, and PopCap Games, who specialize in the growing market of "casual games", said that their target audience, casual gamers, is dominated by women. According to them, 70 percent of casual gamers are females over the age of 40.
• Women play the most mobile phone games - study
  Saturday 1 July 2006 – 05:35
  Parks Associates, a technology research firm, has released a study titled "Electronic Gaming in the Digital Home" that claims women comprise 59% of all people that play mobile phone games. The figure rises slightly to 61% for those who play 1-4 hours per month and dips to 58% for those who play more than four hours.
• Men like their HDTVs big, while women prefer them smaller, says new survey
  Wednesday 21 December 2005 – 05:36
  Although a new survey from Panasonic reveals that one in four (about 26%) US households either owns or plans to own a HD (high definition) TV by the end of 2006, up from 15% last year, spouses are divided on what type of purchase should be made, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.
• Chicago women loses appeal against RIAA
  Monday 12 December 2005 – 07:28
  The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected Cecilia Gonzalez' argument that she was only sampling downloaded music.
• Outdated machines may have overlooked breast cancer in several Irish women
  Wednesday 7 November 2007 – 04:25
  A number women in Ireland who were previously given the all clear for breast cancer have been asked to return to be re-screened.
• Women four times more likely than men to divulge passwords for a chocolate bar
  Thursday 17 April 2008 – 09:40 in Networking
  Getting someone’s computer passwords could be as simple as dangling a tasty chocolate bar in front of their faces. Infosecurity Europe reps, posing as market researchers, asked several hundred office workers for their passwords, date of birth and...
• Ask.com to focus on creating a portal for married women
  Thursday 6 March 2008 – 09:40 in Networking
  Ask.com, after facing a long struggle with other search engines, this week announced it will stop trying to directly compete in that market and instead create a niche search portal for married women.
• Anita Borg, Software Pioneer and Women's Technology Advocate, Dies
  Wednesday 9 April 2003 – 06:17
  Computer science pioneer Anita Borg, who helped break the "silicon ceiling" in the technology field for women and minorities, died from brain cancer earlier this week at 54 years old.
• Nvidia gets game and how to get your significant other to play with you
  Tuesday 14 November 2006 – 10:39
  It's nice to see passion in a vendor. With the ramp to Windows Vista I'm recalling the Windows 95 launch and how much excitement there was on the Microsoft campus. Since that time, outside of Apple events, it has been hard to find the kind of excitement where people are actually cheering a product announcement from anyone in the tech segment.