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Strong holiday sales of Wii and Nintendo DS portable game device allowed Japan’s Nintendo to more than double its quarterly operating profit and to raise its outlook ahead of market expectations.
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The Nintendo Wii can help develop surgical skills according to Kanav Kahol and Marshall Smith of the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
The two have found that surgical residents performed better during simulated surgery after playing on the Wii console. They say its due to the console’s "Wimote" control system, which allows players [...]

Apparently the Queen of England has become a fan of Nintendo’s Wii console.

The British tabloid The People reported that the 81-year-old became interested in the Wii console after seeing her 25-year-old grandson Prince William play a game.
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Even with recent problems with its Xbox Live online service Microsoft had strong holiday sales of its video game console and kept its lead over competitors Nintendo and Sony.
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Yahoo! Search Blog discusses the new technology they’ve come up with. They say that making a blog involves collating pictures, links, maps, etc and that sometimes there’s "the hassle of digging up that supporting content… the most painful part.
So, to help bloggers address these pain points, we built Yahoo! Shortcuts for Wordpress — a [...]

The scarce Nintendo Wii ranked as the most searched-for item during the holidays, while Ugg boots drew the most luxury item queries.If and when the Wii game console begins to be produced in sufficient numbers, it will slip from the top of queries made on search engines, especially around the holidays.
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The droves of Black Friday shoppers are just warming up. Last week, traffic to websites specifically dedicated to America’s Other Holiday was up 145 percent, dominated by new visitors and young women. Hitwise reports that for the week ending November 17, 2007, visitors to Black Friday websites like bfads.net and BlackFridayAds.com were mostly (61%) women [...]

A pair of highly placed people in the Yahoo sales team have departed the Internet company for more placid waters at equally high-profile companies.In recent weeks, Cammie Dunaway did away with her employment at Yahoo. She hinted that her next gig would give her “the opportunity to be the coolest Mom in the universe.”
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Even though Apple CEO originally told the iPhone faithful – the ones that stood in line even though they didn’t need to – tough titty about this week’s $200 price drop just two months after launch, it looks like he’s throwing them a bone, er, a coupon. "I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone [...]

Queries for Microsoft’s gaming console have exceeded those for Nintendo’s hard to find competitor, the Wii.Though the Wii has dominated the Xbox 360 and Sony’s Playstation 3 since Nintendo launched its new console in November 2006, Microsoft’s product has finally exceeded the Wii’s interest with the searching audience.
That may be due to a combination of [...]