Mini-games. One might say that mini-game (or, more nicely, “party game”) collections have a serious presence on the Wii; it is often a fact bemoaned by more “hard-centred” gamers. Some of these titles are amongst the more successful games on the platform: both Carnival Games ..

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Review: Ninja Captains (Wii)

With the holidays just around the corner, Xbox 360 has announced two new offerings to make shopping season a breeze, the Xbox 360 Elite Holiday Bundle and the Xbox 360 Wireless Controller Game Pack.

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Xbox 360 Holiday Bundles Announced

Moblin 2.1 takes on Windows Intel has expanded the scope of Linux-based Moblin by porting the OS from netbooks to mobile devices and desktops, where it could compete with Microsoft’s Windows OS.

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Intel backs Linux OS for nettops

New approach from the Linux community A new Linux netbook based on Moblin will be introduced this week, and it may represent a new way that the Linux community is approaching the mass market.

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Linux Moblin netbooks to be announced at IDF

Turbine executive Craig Alexander spoke today on the matter of bringing the MMO genre to consoles, stating that it’s easier on the Xbox 360 than it is on the PS3.

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Turbine Says It’s Easier to Develop MMOs on Xbox 360

Open sources in-house data analysis technology MySpace yesterday released as open source a technology called Qizmt that it developed in-house to mine and crunch massive amounts of data and generate friend recommendations in its social-networking site.

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MySpace opens Qizmt tech to recommend friends

The Palm Pre, iPhone, and Android browsers were designed specifically for touchscreen phones. In contrast, the Nokia S60 mobile web browser that Nokia’s touchscreen phones use goes back to an older S60 interface that did not focus on touchscreen use.

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Nokia S60 web browser review

Netbook OSes: Which will rule the enterprise? As netbooks head into the enterprise, questions about the best OS – Windows, Chrome or Linux – for that market are beginning to arise.

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Netbook OS: Windows, Linux or Chrome?

Software giant wants to work with Linux firms Microsoft has founded and is providing the funding for a new foundation aimed at bringing open-source and proprietary software companies together to participate side by side in open-source projects.

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Microsoft forms new open-source foundation

Litigation threat haunts open source vendors A group of Linux proponents will purchase patents formerly held by Microsoft in an effort to defend distributors of the open-source OS against the ongoing threat of patent litigation from the software giant.

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Microsoft rivals buy 22 patents to defend Linux