Microsoft Confirms Aces Closure, Game Studio responsible for Flight Simulator shut down amidst layoffs. Microsoft has confirmed the closure of Aces Game Studio, the internal development studio responsible for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Flight Simulator is one of the company’s oldest product lines, stretching back more than 20 years. The closure came amidst the company’s first [...]

Empire Game: Total War is scheduled to ship. Fusing elements of Civilization-style overworld map management and large-scale real-time strategy battles, the formula for Creative Assembly’s Total War series has remained a popular one since the franchise launched with Shogun: Total War back in 2000.
The latest version, Empire: Total War, is set in the 18th Century, [...]

The Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong University reported on the 2008 Chinese Robots Competition. The report is as follows: Here you’ll learn the news about Robotics Competitions, Students Robotics Contest, Instructables and RoboGames Robot Contest.
Champions Come from SJTU
In 1 vs. 1 and 2 vs. 2 FIRA football matches in the 2008 Chinese Robots Competition held [...]

Wii Software Online: A new report online this afternoon reveals that one UK hospital is making inventive use of Wii Fit; using Nintendo’s exercise software to help those with prosthetic limbs - via the balance board and the Wiimote.
Senior physiotherapist Lynn Hirst tells us that patients sometimes struggle “getting their weight through the prosthetic limb,” [...]

Do users actually read press coverage of Apple? Apple used and now abused the Macworld organizers? Is it time to kill the Apple press event?
After all the hoopla surrounding Steve Jobs’ absence from Apple’s last Macworld keynote subsided, it was finally time for us all to tune into Phil Schiller’s remarks about the future of [...]

Intel expects revenue for the last quarter of FY 2008 to fall 23%. Intel again downgraded its revenue expectations for the fourth quarter, bringing the total decrease to about 23 percent compared with a year ago. It also wrote down the value of its Clearwire investment to the tune of almost a billion dollars. Intel [...]

Boeing Suppliers, Precision and Spirit Squeezed by Machinists Strike as Conversations Resume. News on Oct. 23 with Plane Industry — Boeing Co. suppliers including Precision Castparts Corp. and Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. are being squeezed by a machinists strike that enters its 48th day today, making it one of the longest walkouts in years at [...]

Apple Probably to Unveil New Laptop Computers: Apple Inc. next week is expected to unveil new laptop computers — including a model that sets a new low price point for the company — as it sets its sights on one of the fastest-growing categories in the business.
The Cupertino, Calif.-based company issued invitations to media and [...]

Apple Laptops May Be Affected by Nvidia Chip Flaw: Apple Inc. became the latest computer maker to disclose that some of its laptop computers may be affected by a flaw associated with Nvidia Corp. chips.
The problem, previously acknowledged by Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc., causes problems such as distorted or scrambled video on the computer [...]

Mobile Text messages: Verizon Wireless Plans to Charge Companies Sending Text Messages. Details: Verizon Wireless this week told companies that send out text messages that starting Nov. 1 it will impose a fee of 3 cents for each message it delivers to the phones of its subscribers. The plan prompted waves of protest among many [...]