Move over, XBox. Officials from The Guinness Book of World Records recently confirmed the highest number of players ever recorded on a single game server at the DreamHack Winter 2004 festival. DreamHack, in Jnkping, Sweden, is the world's largest LAN party and game festival.

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For a US$34 billion company with almost 90 percent market share, it might be inappropriate to call Intel "the comeback kid".

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Blowing in the wind

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Movers and stinkers from the world of business

Pretty much every new product gets hyped as a potentially disruptive technology these days, and usually nobody outside of the company's marketing department actually believes it.

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