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E3 2010: In Retrospect of Expecation
Now that E3 2011 is upon us, fangs bared, pulse rifles hot, and golf clubs swinging, it’s a good time to look at what E3 2010 brought us and what innovations from last year we should see gaming companies build on this year. Oh the Microsoft front, Kinect came out during E3 2010, born out ...
Kinect and Mass Effect 3: The Power of Your Voice
While the Kinect has all the hallmarks of a visual platform capable of following our every move and translating it into an interface, a lesser-promoted feature of the device happens to be the microphone and voice recognition. Today, at their E3 Press Event, Microsoft revealed how the voice interface will be used in their upcoming ...
LulzSec Hacks Nintendo with Gentle Pat on the Head and Candy
The hacker group now infamous for several serious hacking attacks against Sony, PBS, and even a recent attack against a company affiliated with the FBI. As game companies go, Sony has been a favorite target of LulzSec with a breach exposing over one million user accounts last week. The hacker group communicates with the rest ...
Sony Hacked Again, Over 1m Accounts Compromised Claims LulzSec
In what seems to be an apt visualization of the adage “when it rains, it pours,” hackers have been poring over Sony’s websites with an increased vengeance over the past few weeks in the wake of the attacks on the PlayStation Network. Next up: Sony Pictures Entertainment, the movie-making division of Sony. According to a ...
Apple’s iCloud Signs All Four Major Record Labels, Cost Listed at $25 a Year
Right now, Apple’s upcoming cloud-storage service for iTunes has been all the rage of speculation and interest and more details are coming to light. So far, it’s been revealed that the technology magnificence and strategy of iCloud has been adopted by the four major record labels: Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, ...
Upcoming Sony NGP Reveal at E3 2011 Most Likely the ‘PlayStation Vita’
It started with a rumor. We’ve known for a while now that Sony intended to reveal its Next Generation Platform (NGP) June 6th at the Electronic Entertainment Expo but the would-be official name of the device has been kept under wraps for months now. However, all that may have finally come to an end now ...
Nokia’s Market Share Falling as Android Overtakes Europe
Google’s Android platform may have taken longer to flow into the markets of Europe, but its foothold is definitely growing. As more affordable smartphones begin to push into the mainstream, Android has become the turn-to OS of choice for handset manufacturers to cover their bases. As a result, Android is beginning to gouge deeply into ...
Source Within Northop Grumman Acknowledges Possible Cyberattack
This past week has been hot with security issues after Lockheed Martin discovered a breach in their communication security and shut down their network. As a customer of RSA, who suffered a hack that may have exposed the cryptographic keys for their SecurID product, both Lockheed Martin and Northop Grumman may have been put at ...
Finnish Music Industry Sues ISP to Censor The Pirate Bay
Record labels from Finland, a Nordic land full of guitars strung with grim repose and death metal, have filed a lawsuit at the District Court of Helsinki to block access to The Pirate Bay. SiliconANGLE has covered actions against The Pirate Bay before, a now infamous BitTorrent tracker (dubbed the world’s largest) that is constantly ...
Microsoft’s Stealth Internet-to-Living-Room Entertainment System: the Xbox
In a new report, Microsoft brags that their Xbox 360 system accounts for an interesting level of entertainment use above and beyond video games. “While people are still playing a ton of video games, 40 percent of all Xbox activity now is non-game.” According to the stats, Xbox owners watch an average of 30 hours ...
