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Acclaim Bankruptcy Highlights Digital Entertainment Woes

However, the 17-year-old company's failure follows a general industry trend toward catering to or relying on the smaller hard-core gamer audience. That trend might provoke similar bad-news announcements from other U.S. game developers, Parks Associates analyst Michael Cai told TechNewsWorld...

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Home LANs over Power Lines – Take Two

Still, while the technology appears alluring, it has garnered only limited acceptance. Market research firm Parks Associates estimates that HomePlug systems accounted for 3 percent of the home network installations in 2003, trailing Ethernet with 59 percent, wireless LANs with 31 percent and telephone wiring with 7 percent.

TSMC To Make Xbox2 Chips for Microsoft

Michael Cai, an analyst with consumer technology research firm Parks Associates, said it makes sense for Microsoft to cut out ATI and, as a result, to reduce costs associated with producing its console, which is struggling against Sony's PlayStation and Nintendo's GameCube "Mi...

Microsoft Releases Unified Gaming Development Platform

Michael Cai, an analyst with consumer technology research firm Parks Associates, nevertheless told TechNewsWorld that the integration of gaming platforms was a great idea and will eliminate a major barrier to wider game sales while possibly boosting Microsoft's gaming outlook ...

EA Gives Millions to USC for Gaming Developers

Michael Cai, an analyst with gaming industry researcher Parks Associates, told TechNewsWorld that only about 10 universities in the United States have programs devoted to games and software development Cai, who pointed to Dallas, Texas, as a hotbed of gaming-industry education...

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A Brilliant Future for the Smart Home

A study by Parks Associates, a Dallas, Texas-based research consultancy, estimates that about 20 percent of new homes built in 2002 contained some sort of structured wiring for computer networking, entertainment or related uses The study found that high-speed Internet access a...

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