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According to new industry numbers released this month, sales of video game consoles are down last month by 30% compared to May of last year. While experts say that the sales of games might follow shortly, they noted that for the first time since August of 2007, the video game console industry is no longer [...]

It’s been a great week here at the GrantBlog and in the tech industry this week- we saw a new iPhone along with software to go with it and upgrades to some of Apple’s most popular products, we also saw some criticism directed at Microsoft’s Bing search engine for going after explicit content and a [...]

What some though was going to be a huge overload on Facebook’s servers was not so much after all as most people calmly came off with all their own usernames last night on the site. While their were some complaints here and there from people who didn’t get the username they were hoping for, most [...]

Lifehacker’s/Smarterware’s Gina Trapani got some really neat, and very exclusive access to the beta versions of Google’s Wave product. Wave,  described as “what email should be”, is Google’s perception of the email of the future and was showcased a one hour and twenty minute developer video showcasing it’s features.
Gina’s exclusive demo, as seen on Lifehacker [...]

Large virus software maker Trend Micro had a hiccupp this morning when almost their entire web site went offline except for the support part. On their site now, you recieve a “Server too busy” error, while other pages give you a multi-lingual “Trend Micro is currently unavailable” error. This is not good for a software [...]

After a lot of planning by the FCC, digital television is here and is taking over the airwaves by midnight tonight. While a lot of TV stations, at least here in Los Angeles, are making the switch during the day and not at the last minute, if you’re not ready for the switch, you don’t [...]

Microsoft’s new Bing search engine, which we’ve covered before, is getting some attention from bloggers all across the web for allegedly seeking out “dirty” content and bringing it to users saying “The search for xyz may return explicit adult content.”
In particular, CNET’s Molly Wood was making fun of the search engine for the fact that, [...]

Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt, in a video interview with the Fox Business Network, said that “I do not think Bing’s arrival has changed what we are doing.” and also said “It’s not the first entry for Microsoft. They do this about once a year”.  Schmidt also talked about mobile phones, and said that this is their year. [...]

US Exclusive iPhone carrier AT&T is under a bit of fire from both Apple and current iPhone users. ATT is coming under fire for the fact that they aren’t going to be supporting MMS (multimedia messaging service picture and video messaging) in Apple’s new iPhone OS 3.0. They say it will be not until “late [...]

When Trillian Astra originally got started way back in 2006 (that’s like 20 tech-years), it was quiet and in a closed beta only to Trillian Pro subscribers. Back-tracking to the beginning of April when Lifehacker reported that Trillians developer, Cerulean Studios was starting to hand out invites to the software right off the bat! But now, no [...]