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According to a report from the NPD Group, video game software and hardware sales plunged 31 percent in June, compared with the same period last year, the worst year-over-year monthly decline since September 2000. - Long touted as one of the most recession-proof markets, the video game industry is finally beginning to feel the full effects of a worldwide economic recession. Research firm NPD Group announced video game software and hardware sales in the United States plunged $1.17 billion, or 31 percent, in June...

Peace Corps Online writes 'BBC reports that Brazilian authorities are demanding the return of more than 1,400 tons of hazardous British waste found in about 90 shipping containers on three Brazilian docks. The waste, which includes syringes, condoms, and bags of blood has been identified as being of UK origin from the names of British supermarkets and newspapers among the rubbish. Reports in the UK media say the waste was sent from Felixstowe in eastern England to the port of Santos, near Sao Paulo, and two other ports in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. The British government has launched an investigation into how and why the waste was sent to Brazil and the British Embassy in Brazil has said in a statement that it was investigating and would 'not hesitate to act' if it was found that a UK company had violated the Basel Convention on the movement of hazardous waste. Meanwhile Brazil is demanding the immediate return of the rubbish to the UK. 'We will ask for the repatriation o

Salling Software updated Salling Media Sync to version 1.1 on Thursday. Chief among the additions to the media sync software are support for transferring music and podcasts to the Palm Pre smartphone, as well as support for transferring photos to all compatible devices, including the Pre.

Business leaders have more confidence in cloud computing than the organisation's technical managers. That is according to business Internet service provider Star, which found that U.K. CIOs have dismissed security concerns about cloud computing.

Books, which as objects of desire have seemed to have scant place in Hollywood's slick, visual sensibility, have a new role in the business of television.

Amazon found itself in controversy on Friday when it deleted Kindle books on accounts based on the demands of publishers, according to an update from David Pogue. The New York Times journalist says that 'hundreds' of users, who had ironically purchased Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm, noticed the removal this morning after the publisher MobileReference decided to back out of offering digital versio...