PUBLIC MARKS from Antauri

Like all big names, Nintendo started small. In 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi, the great grandfather of today’s Nintendo president, founded Nintendo Koppai, to sell his special playing cards called "Hanafunda". Starting from 1969, Nintendo Co. Ltd., under the rule of the current president, began to produce toys and games. As the years passed, Nintendo grew bigger and bigger. Also, it started developing different games and platforms for them to run on. Some of these are the Game Boy, Nintendo 64, Visual Boy, Super Game Boy, Mario, Donkey Kong, Metroid, Pokemon and many others. Now that video games look more real, Nintendo wants to make them feel as real. In order to do so, Nintendo unveiled the next leap in video games with its upcoming Wii home console. This new console will allow users to manipulate the actions of the video game character.

Tulga Games LLC is a privately held digital game publisher and developer. Tulga’s titles include the popular Massively Multiplayer On-line RPG, MMORPG, Horizons: Empire of Istaria and the upcoming Dark World On-line.

LucasArts is a video game developer and publisher. The company was famous for its line of point-and-click adventure games and today mainly produces games based on the Star Wars franchise.

The third day of CERF brought us once again to the Romexpo Galleries in the Liberty of Press’ Square, being driven by the same motives that brought us here since the beginning in this annual heaven of Electronics.

As you may or may not know from our previous articles, CERF - Computers and Electronics Romanian Fair - is Romania’s largest information technology and communications fair and conference, annually gathering representative companies on the Romanian market, also being an important event of the IT&C companies located in Central and Eastern Europe.

The Yankee Group is a large market research company, describing itself as a "technology research and consulting firm", based in Boston, USA. The firm itself was founded in 1970, and was previously owned by Reuters. It is currently owned by the private equity firm Alta Communications.

This move will put Oracle to the test. The change to open-source operating systems and applications will put Oracle in competition with industry leaders it had never competed directly. It would also spice up competition with Microsoft Corporation, IBM, Red Hat, and others.