They also acquired Electronic Arrays, Inc. of California the same year to start semiconductor chip production in the United States.

It was formed by the combination of HP's legacy services consulting and outsourcing business and the integration of acquired Electronic Data Systems, which had defined the outsourcing business when it was established in 1962 by H. Ross Perot.

On May 13, 2008, Hewlett-Packard Co. confirmed that it had reached a deal with Electronic Data Systems to acquire the company for $ 13. 9 billion.

The deal would eventually affect publishing deals Id Software had before the acquisition, namely Rage, which was being published through Electronic Arts.

In 1997, The Federal Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility and Compliance Act was proposed in the U. S. legislature to correct the shortcomings of the original section 508 ; the original Section 508 had turned out to be mostly ineffective, in part due to the lack of enforcement mechanisms.

One of the last games released by Westwood, Command & Conquer: Renegade ( an action game, which mixed elements from first-person shooters and real-time strategy games ) failed to meet consumer expectations and commercial goals Electronic Arts had set for it.

The IBM 402 series, introduced after World War II, had a similar print arrangement and was used by IBM in early computing devices, including the IBM Card-Programmed Electronic Calculator.

An amazing reception was had at Tampere's Ground Zero, and then it was off to a special performance for the Electronic Music Lover's Society in Lund, Sweden with members of bands such as S. P. O. C. K.

The game had its first major public appearance at the 1997 Electronic Entertainment Expo.

According to the Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries ( EJISDC ), the information and communications technology ( ICT ) sector had a 1. 1-1. 3 % share of GDP in 2002.

On October 11, 2007, however, it was announced that this new partnership ( organized as VG Holding Corp ) had been bought by Electronic Arts.

However, at the first of several Electronic Arts-sponsored players ' conventions referred to as " UO Town Meetings ," in Atlanta, Electronic Arts representatives suggested that the two clients would exist side-by-side until about 80 % of the players had switched over to the new client.

News International had built and clandestinely equipped a new printing plant for all its titles in Wapping, and when the print unions announced a strike it activated this new plant with the assistance of the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union ( EETPU ).

The electric car Whisper Electronic Car A / S had the main factory in Hadsund, but is now in Norway.

Electronic synthesizers had quickly become a standard part of the popular-music repertoire.

Looking back with 20 / 20, I wish that we could have had better communication with ElcomSoft, Dmitry Sklyarov and the EFF ( Electronic Frontier Foundation ) before the whole thing went public.

It was originally being developed by Aeon Electronic Entertainment, the developers of Silent Hunter, but they had to leave the project unfinished, and Ultimation Inc. finished it.

In the professional and broadcast video industry, Sony's Betacam, derived from Betamax as a professional format, became one of several standard formats ; production houses exchange footage on Betacam videocassettes, and the Betacam system became the most widely used videotape format in the ENG ( Electronic News Gathering ) industry, replacing the U-matic tape format ( which was the first practical and cost-effective portable videotape format for broadcast television, signaling the end of 16 mm film — and the phrase " film at 11 " often heard on the six-o-clock newscast, before the film had been developed ).

Before being re-released as freeware on 31 August 2008 by Electronic Arts Command & Conquer: Red Alert had sold over three million copies.

Hawkins liked the word " electronic ", and various employees had considered the phrases " Electronic Artists " and " Electronic Arts ".

It was revealed in February 2008 that Electronic Arts had made a takeover bid for rival game company Take-Two Interactive.

Due to the 2008 Economic Crisis, Electronic Arts had a poorer than expected 2008 holiday season, moving it in February 2009 to cut approximately 1100 jobs, which it said represented about 11 % of its workforce.

Although a legal loophole allowed InXile to use the Bard's Tale name and the company had evidently planned to incorporate more elements of the original games, Electronic Arts still owns the original trademarks for the Bard's Tale series itself, and InXile was not legally allowed to use any of the plot, characters or locations featured in the original trilogy.

Electronic or online tendering is just carrying out the same traditional tendering process in an electronic form, using the Internet.

In addition to bomb damage assessment, targeting and aerial photography for Far East Air Forces, the 91st conducted ELINT ( Electronic Signals Intelligence ) and “ ferret ” missions to probe Soviet air defenses in theater and give an indication of just where the holes were in Soviet radar coverage.

In 2004, Electronic Arts was criticized for employees working extraordinarily long hours — up to 100 hours per week — and not just at " crunch " times leading up to the scheduled releases of products.

The NZEPC ( New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre ) website contains a selection of Lye's writings, which are just as surprising and experimental as his work in other media.

Electronics City (), usually referred to as Electronic City, is one of India's largest electronic industrial parks, spread over 332 acres ( 1. 3 km² ) in Konappana Agrahara and Doddathogur villages, just outside Bangalore, India.

EA Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment AB ( EA DICE, or just DICE ) is a Swedish video game developer, wholly owned by Electronic Arts, best known for the Battlefield video game series and Mirror's Edge.

Originally the group had wanted to name their company Electronic Systems Research, but that name was already taken ; an attorney suggested using just the initials.

Electronic Gaming Monthly rated it 4. 8 out of 10 and asked " Why not just follow the same Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball routine instead of pretending he can actually move while on his feet?

Atari released its first game Yu Yu Hakusho: Spirit Detective for the Game Boy Advance in December 2003 and announced Dark Tournament just before the Electronic Entertainment Expo in May 2004.

Electronic Insight was acquired by Telemap Group, a part of EMAP, East Midland ( note, not Midlands ) Allied Press, in 1982 on the recommendation of Richard Hease, a number of whose computer magazines EMAP had just bought.

Originally called ESI ( Electronic Systems International ), the company manufactured sub-assemblies for the Shrike and Sparrow missile in 1974, and just after the Vietnam war which was part of a standard arms contract for the US defense administration / ( DCAS ).

In an interview in the January 2008 Issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono stated " Let's just say that that your magazine have reported in the past might find their way into the game as fan service.

After 180 days in the U. S., email messages lose their status as a protected communication under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and become just another database record.

Starting in July 1995, just two months prior to the release of the PlayStation console in Western markets, Sony Electronic Publishing restructured and renamed its divisions.

Communalness, as suggested by Robert A. Freitas Jr., is a level of an emergent phenomenon which originates from Electronic sentience, and represents a broader mode of thinking than just normal consciousness.

Brøderbund had just set up a new distribution office to counter the Electronic Arts ( EA ) Affiliated Label program.

On July 14, 2008, Id Software announced at the 2008 E3 event that they would be publishing Rage through Electronic Arts, and not Id's longtime publisher Activision.

This led to a great deal of debate in the industry, but without any visible changes until March 2005, when Electronic Arts internally announced that it was planning to extend overtime pay to some of its employees not currently eligible.

Final Fantasy Chronicles was announced by Square Electronic Arts on April 17, 2001.

Electronic Arts announced on June 24, 2009, that they are restructuring their RPG and MMO games development into a new group that includes both Mythic Entertainment and BioWare.

In June 2006, Electronic Arts announced that PunkBuster would be integrated into Ultima Online.

However, this was never integrated into the game, and in November 2006, Electronic Arts announced that the integration of PunkBuster would be put on an indefinite hold.

Capcom originally intended to release the game in the United States, even showing a playable version at the 2002 Electronic Entertainment Expo, but no further plans or official release date has been announced since then.

On June 15, 2011, ReplayTV announced that it would be permanently discontinuing its Electronic Programming Guide Service ( the channel guide ) on July 31, 2011.

In July 2006, Electronic Arts announced development of an open world role-playing game called The Lord of the Rings: The White Council, due for release in late 2007, in which players would serve the Council.

On February 1, 2006, Electronic Arts announced that it would cut worldwide staff by 5 percent.

In April 2007, it was announced that Soren Johnson had left the company and joined Electronic Arts to work on Spore with Lead Designer Will Wright.

The project was halted when it was announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in 2003 that River City Ransom EX was to be released the following year.

On January 20, 2009 it was announced that Electronic Arts has laid off 10 % of its work force and this may account for the lack of news.

At the Electronic Entertainment Expo in 2009, LucasArts announced a collaboration with Telltale Games to create a new series of episodic adventure games, Tales of Monkey Island.

Kojima also announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo later that month that he had negotiated a contract with a party in Hollywood to adapt the video game into a film.

* Electronic Arts announced that Stewart would appear in person for the first time on the cover of NASCAR Thunder 2004 in late 2003, however he is not new to the concept having his Home Depot Winston Cup car appear on NASCAR 2001's cover.

On January 6, 2009, the company sold 1up. com to UGO Entertainment, a division of Hearst Corporation and announced the January 2009 issue of the long-running Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine as the final one.

Summit, Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello announced that a sequel to American McGee's Alice is in development for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 by American McGee's Spicy Horse studio.

On June 4, 2012, THQ publicly announced a deal with Electronic Arts that turned over their license to UFC games.

In November 2004, Electronic Arts announced their intent to purchase all outstanding shares in Digital Illusions CE at a price of per share.

During Electronic Arts summer press event on July 13, 2006, Gabe Newell, cofounder of Valve Corporation, announced that Half-Life 2 would ship on next-generation consoles ( specifically, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 ) along with episodes One and Two, Team Fortress 2, and Portal in a package called The Orange Box.

That same month, Crytek and Electronic Arts announced a strategic partnership.