Queens Magazine

• Digital mirror: fashion brands convey glamour online
  MILAN (Reuters) – With videos of catwalk shows, pictures of glamorous models and a catalog of chic products, luxury brands are creating "digital mirrors" online as they turn to the internet …
• New racing videogames set to rev up sales
  LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) – Blatant disregard for oncoming traffic and speed limits will get you into serious trouble on the road, but drivers seeking similar thrills can indulge in a fleet of new …
• Motorola, Microsoft in deal to put Bing on phones
  NEW YORK (Reuters) – Motorola Inc has reached a deal with Microsoft Corp that will put Bing search and mapping services on its phones that use Google's Android operating system.
• Sony unveils new motion-controlled gaming system
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Sony Corp has unveiled its new motion-controlled video game system, pitching it to both casual and hard-core gamers alike, as the company looks to ride one of the hottest tre …
• Virgin Media to trial broadband over telegraph poles
  LONDON (Reuters) – British cable operator Virgin Media is testing a new technology to deliver ultrafast broadband over telegraph poles which could allow it to extend its reach to another 1 million hom …
• Opera rolls out mobile browser for Android
  HELSINKI (Reuters) – Opera Software unveiled on Thursday a version of its Mini mobile browser for use on cellphones running on Google's Android software.
• Best Buy bets on 3D TV, but no quick payoffs seen
  NEW YORK (Reuters) – While James Cameron's 3D sci-fi epic "Avatar" took the box office by storm instantly, the road to success will be much longer for Best Buy Co Inc, which is making a …
• Google chief sees outcome "soon" in China row
  ABU DHABI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Google expects an outcome soon from its talks with China over a censorship and hacking dispute, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday.
• Cloud video game service OnLive to launch in June
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – OnLive is set to launch its "cloud-based" video game service in June, as the closely watched start-up looks to challenge home console heavyweights with the promise …
• IBM, universities target easy-to-use cellphones
  HELSINKI (Reuters) – IBM has started a two-year research program that aims to make cellphones easier to use for groups including the elderly and the illiterate.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Barnes & Noble Inc said on Friday it had sold out of its newly-launched Nook electronic readers due to high demand — a pre-holiday miscalculation that analysts said could boost sales of rival Amazon.com Inc’s market leading Kindle.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) – New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the Web.

BARCELONA (Reuters) – French mobile phone games company Gameloft said it and other software developers were cutting back investment in developing games and other applications for Google’s Android platform.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China’s government appears increasingly to be piercing U.S. government and defense industry computer networks to gather useful data for its military, a congressional advisory panel said on Thursday.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Sony Corp said on Friday that its planned entertainment content distribution service for network-compatible TVs and other devices will be launched next year.

BARCELONA (Reuters) – The wireless chip industry expects smartphone market surge to continue, with British microchip designer ARM saying growth would likely even accelerate further next year.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – If AOL’s announcement on Thursday of another 2,500 job cuts is anything to go by, the painful layoffs that have ravaged the media industry over the past year are nowhere near over.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday sales of Windows 7 were running at twice the level of any previous version of its operating system.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama were among the 10 most influential moments on the Internet in the past decade, according to the annual Webby awards.