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Amazon.com and Simon & Schuster, Inc. this week said Simon & Schuster will offer 5,000 additional book titles to the Amazon Kindle reading device in 2008.

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Konami Inc.’s Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for Sony Corp.’s Playstation 3 neared top 10 sales on Sat. on strong pre-order sales.

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Best Buy Co. Inc. stores will discount a notebook from Sony Corp. that includes a Blu-ray disc drive in the latest high-def deal.

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Nintendo Co.’s Wii Fit ranked in the top five game sales five months after debut in Japan.

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Intel Corp.and Micron Technology, Inc this week announced the first first sub-40 nanometer NAND memory device for increased storage in small devices.

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Namco Bandai Games America Inc. this week said that it will release the game title Splatterhouse to Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360 and Sony Corp.’s Playstation 3 in 2009.

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Sales for select Blu-ray titles increased this week at Amazon.com on various discounts and promotions for premium and standard disc SKUs.

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Sales for Nintendo Co.’s Wii rebounded in Japan after a 39 percent fall the week prior.

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Sales for Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360 increased 25 percent in the latest Japan retail tally.

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Sales for Sony Corp.’s Playstation 3 increased 16 percent in the latest Japan retail data.

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Ubisoft Inc. this week said that it will employ use of Nintendo Co.’s Wii Balance Board in the game title Shaun White Snowboarding.

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VIA Technologies Inc. on Thurs. launched a new line of energy efficient processors called Nano.

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TiVo Inc. this week said that it will offer movie rental downloads from Walt Disney Studios to broadband-connected units later this year.

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Amazon.com on Thurs. price cut Square Enix Inc.’s Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII for Sony Corp.’s PSP handheld by 35 percent in the latest round of video game discounts.

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. this week began offering customers a $298 Blu-ray disc player to drive the new high-definition format to U.S. homes.

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Amazon.com on Wed. began offering pre-orders for Activision Inc.’s Guitar Hero World Tour for Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360, Sony Corp.’s Playstation 3, Playstation 2, and Nintendo Co.’s Wii.

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Apple Inc. on Wed. released the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard update to customers to enhance the latest version of the operating system.

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Microsoft Corp. this week said that it will offer touch-based applications in the next version of the Windows operating system for PC.

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2K Games, a label of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., on Wed. said that it will release the title BioShock to Sony Corp.’s Playstation 3 this Oct.

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Amazon.com this week began offering up to 50 percent off high-definition titles in a new Summer Blu-ray Blowout sale.

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