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• E3 2006: Photos from Sierra's real-time warfare epic World in Conflict
  Thursday 18 May 2006 – 04:04
  The year is 1989, and the Soviet Union has toppled its reformist leadership. A new, hard-line regime has vowed to crush the capitalist conspiracy. It is World War III on a different scale than you might expect, in the astonishingly realistic warfare simulation World in Conflict .
• World Series of Video Games closes shop in middle of tournament
  Friday 14 September 2007 – 12:48 in Gaming
  Los Angeles (CA) - The World Series of Video Games has come to a screeching halt as event organizers were unable to secure enough sponsorship revenue. The worldwide video game competition, created by US-based Games Media Properties, included melees of C
• Ten Alienware "World of Warcraft edition" PC's up for grabs
  Wednesday 14 February 2007 – 04:38
  To celebrate two years of Warcrack
• VIA ships world's first IGP chipset for AMD Athlon 64 processor
  Tuesday 16 December 2003 – 01:14
  VIA Technologies yesterday announced the immediate availability of the K8M800 chipset, claiming that it is the world's first core-logic solution supporting Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon 64 and Opteron processors to feature an IGP (integrated graphics processor) core.
• AI claims Brazil will win World Cup
  Tuesday 13 June 2006 – 09:59
  Students at the American University in Dubai have written an artificial intelligence program that they say can predict the outcome of the World Cup to three decimal places
• China is world's largest monitor production center
  Friday 2 August 2002 – 06:10
  China has become the world's largest monitor production center and its domestic market is predicted to grow rapidly in the next two years, according to Te-Kuei Cheng, project manager of the Taiwan-based Photonics Industry & Technology Development Association's (PIDA) industry and technology research department.
• AMD's Torrenza evolves into first real world applications
  Monday 30 April 2007 – 08:43
  t has been about eleven months since AMD has revealed its Torrenza initiative, an effort to open up its hardware and encourage third parties to build secondary components, such as accelerators, around the firm's processors. We haven't heard much in the past months, but AMD says that Torrenza isn't just a vision anymore....
• Second lifer files real world lawsuit against virtual world theft
  Tuesday 30 October 2007 – 11:03 in Business
  The first lawsuit between to users of Second Life has been filed in New York. . .
• In tech world, is small really beautiful?
  Friday 5 September 2003 – 04:07
  Three decades after E.
• Does a "World of Warcraft" EULA compliance mechanism count as spyware?
  Tuesday 25 October 2005 – 12:05
  An anti-cheating mechanism deployed by Blizzard Software for use by players of their popular game, World of Warcraft, has been discovered to collect information about gamers' running Windows environment, and report that back to the server. If gamers were warned in advance - albeit with very fine print - does that make it exempt from privacy concerns?
• Samsung to launch world's first 52x CD-RW and DVD combo drive
  Wednesday 12 February 2003 – 03:18
  Samsung Electronics will launch the world's first 52x CD-RW and DVD combo drive in both South Korea and overseas by the end of this month.
• ViewSonic introduces world's first 36" LCOS-based high-resolution TV at Computex
  Tuesday 4 June 2002 – 05:02
  At a Computex press conference on June 3, ViewSonic director for business development advanced technologies Gene Ornstead unveiled the world's first 36" LCOS (liquid crystal on silicon) rear-projection TV.
• Samsung announces world's slimmest and lightest combo drive
  Thursday 27 February 2003 – 02:16
  Samsung Electronics announced the launch of its SU-408 CD-R/DVD-ROM combo drive for notebooks.
• Asustek ranks as world's 10th largest notebook vendor
  Friday 2 January 2004 – 03:11
  Asustek Computer shipped 650,000-700,000 own-brand notebooks in 2003, according to preliminary estimates from company sources.
• Mitac unveils world's first Microsoft 2003 OS Smartphone
  Tuesday 23 September 2003 – 02:29
  Mitac International today debuted the world's first smartphone running on Microsoft Smartphone 2003 OS at Computex Taipei 2003.