Microsoft figures it will expand its network of data centers 64-fold over the next few years to handle some 200 services, including Xbox online gaming, video and corporate software rented over the Web.

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The games hub, for example, incorporates elements of the firm's online gaming network Xbox live, including games and the ability for gamers to access their online profiles.

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Federal prosecutors in Baltimore have seized the Internet domain names of 10 gaming web sites, including the online home of DoylesRoom, the poker web site that for years was promoted by Doyle Brunson, known as the Godfather of Poker and the most legendary professional poker player of his generation.

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Sony admitted this week that hackers had stolen personal information, possibly including credit-card details, of many of the 77m-plus users of its online-gaming and entertainment networks.

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