Games, graphics, Internet plug-ins, and speech recognition applications can take particularly good advantage of the new instructions.
Similar to Apple TV, it offers games, videos and other Internet-streamed entertainment in China.
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The unreal world of Internet role-playing games is spawning tricky legal issues in the real world.
They bet that Internet video, games and yet-unseen Web uses will create demand.
Their adoption of Network Magic is a big plus for privately held Pure Networks, which has already authored Port Magic, a product that enables gamers to play multi-player games over the Internet by automatically opening and closing ports on their Internet gateways.
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The "killer applications" of speedy networks (which theoretically can transmit data at 40 times the rate of conventional cellular systems) have been widely touted to be portable videophones, plus access to Internet-based broadband content: games, music and shopping.
Handsets have long come with rudimentary games installed, but smart-phones allow users to download new games or play online via a wireless internet connection.
On one level, the games are revved-up, visually enhanced internet chat rooms.
With the introduction of Google's Chrome and stepped-up games from the likes of Internet Explorer and Safari, Firefox is arguably not quite the darling of the browser wars it was when it first hit the scene in 2003.
The most notorious case of overdoing it: a 24-year-old man who dropped dead after playing Internet games for 86 hours nonstop.
According to the report, Sony toyed with the idea of dropping the optical drive in favor or making games for the machine download-only over the internet.
The organization, Allied Veterans of the World, runs nearly 50 Internet parlors with computerized slot machine-style games, which are normally legal in Florida if most of the proceeds go to charity.
Just as backgrounds, my first two books in 1995-1996 were on playing multiplayer games on the Internet.
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Speculation is that Xbox will be powered by an 8-core CPU, will support WiFi, will support Blu-Ray, and will require an internet connection to play games.
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This time round she'll have to battle games from a new rival - Sega's 128-bit Dreamcast - a games console which also gives access to the internet.
In terms of software, the tablets were able to quickly transition from app to app, and games loaded quickly -- we couldn't check its internet capabilities, as WiFi in the Las Vegas Convention Center is less than ideal at the moment.
The camera can also run all the regular smartphone apps, allowing users to send e-mail, browse the Internet, listen to music and play games.
The bill aims to create a national tax policy for products and services downloaded via the Internet, such as mobile music, games, applications and e-books.
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Playing fast moving games over an internet connection poses a number of technical challenges, including latency - the time the remote system takes to execute a command.
Ballmer talked of the revolutionary implications of a world, perhaps five years away, where all media is delivered via Internet protocol, and said Microsoft would be everywhere--games, search, operating systems, hardware--to capture that.
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Its family-friendly design has no Internet capabilities and does not play Nintendo GameCube games.
Recently-released movies and computer games were then sold on via an internet auction site as "genuine goods" and with prices slightly lower than shops.
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Sometimes that involves using the internet for e-mail messages containing jokes, film clips and games, which recipients are encouraged to pass along to friends.
This age group also now spends an average of 6.6 hours a week gaming - almost 30% use an online games console to access the internet from home.
Though its games may be less flashy than many of the Internet games and consoles on the market, GameCam provides real physical activity -- a plus for inactive game addicts or busy executives needing stress relief.
The company also plugs the ability of the PlayStation 3 to do far more than just play video games: it can show high-definition DVDs, connect to the internet and, with the right accessories, record TV programmes.
Additionally, making the internet the only source for games would put a lot of pressure on both brick-and-mortar and online retailers that sell games.
Sony also offers subscription programs called PlayStation Plus, which provides access to exclusive games, and Qriocity, which offers on-demand music and movies over the internet.
But when they say the film rental business has "faced increased competition from internet-based providers along with the shift to digital streaming of movies and games", that's accountants' under-statement.
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