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　　America's Army issued by the newspaper "Stars and Stripes" in recent days that the next 5 years, Aermican Army will invest 50,000,000 U.S. dollars for the development of video games, and then these games for the U.S.A soldiers on the battlefield training.

America's Army will be officially launched in 2010 in the video game development projects, then the military Aermican video game business will draw on the experience and the development of related technology, but not with the competition for commercial game market.

In order to speed up the development progress, America's Army does not rule out directly from the commercial developer of the game in the hands of the possibility of buying off-the-shelf game, and then a little of its changes can be used for battlefield training. Prior to Aermican sector has been targeted at army soldiers launched a shooting game, but the realistic scenes and the players to experience yet to be improved. After the introduction of new shooting game, players will allow soldiers to amend the scene, and so the task.

To enhance the combat capability of soldiers, America's Army on the battlefield in recent years has been the introduction of training courses in the video shooting game. In order to attract more young recruits, America's Army will normally show the military conscription at the scene of the video game.

2008 IT industry giant inventory of large layoffs

Lenovo the world's layoffs, China has no plans to lay off
The global economic downturn brought about by the reduction of investment in IT, this is already the IBMPC business since the acquisition of Lenovo, Lenovo launched the world's third round of layoffs. But Lenovo made it clear that "the Greater China area and Russia has no plans to lay off." In the financial crisis, multinational companies will more often focus on expanding in emerging markets such as China up.

eBay big layoffs
San Francisco local time on October 6, eBay announced it would cut about 1,600 jobs, accounting for 10% of the total number of employees, is expected to have 1,000 full-time employees affected and the remaining part-time employees in the severance will no longer be added later.

Motorola announced job cuts worldwide

Last week the company announced 3,000 job cuts worldwide, and to postpone plans to spin-off of the mobile phone sector. In addition, although the company detailed plans to lay off has not yet announced, but China will not be spared, but here as Motorola has been the revival of one of the main battlefield.

Yahoo Yahoo in grief

Following the world's giant auction site ebay after the layoff announcement, Yahoo also announced that because of the financial crisis, the end of the year to lay off 10%. However, the Internet industry that China's Internet industry by the financial crisis would have limited impact on the Chinese market is likely to become a safe haven.

Intel the world's low-key job cuts

According to earlier market rumors, Intel is expected to cut 16,000 jobs (about 16% of the total jobs), some of which will be dismissed and will be part of the job to make up for the mobilization of vacant positions at the same time in the near future Intel will no longer Recruit additional staff.

Dell job cuts

In August this year, Dell has said that layoffs have been completed 8500, in accordance with the plan prior to a total of 8,900 people will be laid off. Faced with slow growth in demand, Dell said it would re-adjust its business to become more competitive, while also cutting the number of employees to reduce expenses, as well as in basic construction and acquisition sector investment.

Germany DRAM memory chip maker Qimonda large-scale layoffs

Located in Munich, Germany, the DRAM memory chip maker Qimonda the middle of this month formally announced the 3,000 employees of large-scale layoffs. To the global chip market in a serious recession, according to the understanding of most of the cut will be in Germany's staff.

In order to challenge Apple's iTunes service and ipod digital music player in the market dominant position, local time this week 100 Best Buy announced that it plans to buy 121 million dollars in cash digital music service provider Napster Inc.. The deal to Best Buy to enter the transfer outside of the consumer electronics market, it tried to hope that in the next five years, doubling its annual sales revenue reached 80 billion dollars. At the same time further accelerate the company launched the process of mobile shops.
Best Buy is the world's largest retailers of CDs, Napster offers the digital music services have long known. Although the two sides to provide a digital music subscription service, but in the American digital music market is still unable to contend with Apple, Apple's digital music in American market share has exceeded 70%.
2006 Best Buy and RealNetworks, morning disc cooperation to create a digital music subscription service and compatible media player. Back in the 1990s, Napster helping to create the digital music market, to provide free music-sharing service, the music industry in the proceedings was closed. Later, through the purchase of Napster brand transition to a subscription music service companies, but still not on Apple's iTunes service.

Electronic Arts this week an official four-directional Reuters said that this year in Europe, the Middle East and Africa region game software sales will grow at least 20 percent.

Electronic Arts is the world's two biggest video game publisher of the company's European, Middle East and Africa sales and marketing for Jens Uwe Intat Leipzig in East Germany next week's meeting of Europe's largest gaming industry before an interview with the media That the European economy also experienced cold spell, but he is convinced that the company's software sales will be strong growth.

Consumers in the family budget increase, video games to provide them with a relatively inexpensive entertainment. As the global economy has entered a difficult time, consumers will save some high-end consumer, such as the purchase of housing, cars and even travel, but consumers still need entertainment, they will spend time with friends in the family play the game.

Electronic Arts said that the more attractive the casual games is an important theme, this trend will make the ultimate video game industry less dependent on the income of manufacturers Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft game development cycle.

But in the global game industry, next-generation consoles are in the mid-point of their life cycle. Game manufacturers found that their game by the favor of consumers, can be easily sold.