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06.02.2009 12:41 pm

Microsoft’s Project Natal will not succeed with Xbox 360

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It was only a matter of time.

Microsoft finally acknowledges now that maybe Nintendo had a good idea with the concept of a motion-sensitive game controller. And of course, the Redmond, Wash.-based software and gaming giant paid homage in its own…

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12.09.2008 10:47 am

A historic day in computing and gaming

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Forty years ago today, the foundation was laid for the way we use computers. CNET News explains how …

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11.10.2008 3:01 pm

Obama: Friend or foe of video games?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

America woke up with a party hangover last Wednesday that it still doesn’t want to shake. The night before, we did something that many people thought impossible as late as that afternoon: We chose a honest to goodness African-American man…

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11.10.2008 8:58 am

Circuit City files for bankruptcy, will close St. Louis store

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Giant tech retailer Circuit City has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the company reported today, just one week after the chain said it was shuttering stores around the country, including one in suburban St. Louis.

Chapter 11 means Circuit City will…

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09.17.2008 10:27 pm

Here are some good uses for your old PC

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Icon for old computer equipmentThe great thing about technology is that it simplifies our lives. The bad thing is how fast it turns obsolete.

For example, on average, personal computer makers offer new models every three to nine months — not arbitrarily, but to keep…

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02.19.2008 11:55 am

HD DVD dies. Now, what will Microsoft do?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It’s official: HD DVD will go the way of Betamax, the Edsel and every TV series that has starred Ted McGinley.

After a month of speculation over the technology’s future, most of it negative, the chief of Toshiba Corp., Atsutoshi Nishida, announced early…

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02.16.2008 11:13 am

Toshiba reconsiders HD DVD technology, source says

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The high-def format war appears over — maybe.

Toshiba Corp. will give up on its HD DVD format for high definition DVDs and give in to rival Blu-ray, a technology developed by Sony Corp., a source with Toshiba has told news services.

So…

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