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Apple’s iCloud: Coming to a Living Room Near You?
For some time now, Apple has been seen as extremely deficient with their delivery of the personal cloud for customers. In fact, even services such as iTunes fall down when it comes to offering online storage—considering instead selling customers mp3s and movies that first must be downloaded directly to their computers and devices. Keeping in ...
Intel Announces Launch of Laptop-tablet Hybrid Line the ‘Ultrabook’ and Android Optimized Medfield
Intel executives have outlined designs for a new class of laptops that sport an ultra thin, low-power design at the Computex tradeshow in Taiwan. These new laptops, dubbed “ultrabooks” will combine a sleek, lightweight design (reminiscent of Macbooks) with the sheer power of a new Intel 22nm chip process called Ivy Bridge. According to Executive ...
Lockheed Martin Network Disruption Connected to RSA SecurID
Last Friday, the network of Lockheed Martin, the largest U.S. defense contractor, suffered a disruption that has reportedly been connected to RSA SecurID tokens—little keychain fob dongles that use a crypto algorithm to cycle a numerical token every 60 seconds, a sort of rotating password, if you will. Lockheed themselves declined to discuss any specifics ...
Futuremark Games Studio Piles On Cats, Cockpits, and UFOs for Electronic Entertainment Expo
For those hooked into the vibe of the gaming industry a big event is just around the corner: E3 or the Electronic Entertainment Expo. At this huge event a multitude of industry giants find their way onto the stage and display their wares to anxious audiences full of both the cynical and the sycophantic. Up-and-comer ...
Sony May Change Production Strategy for NGP to Reduce Costs
Launching a new game system rough business and it involves a lot of time, energy, and money. As a result, when a console publisher develops a new system, they spend a lot in investments—this leads a trend of losses in that sector until the returns catch up with the production costs. Right now, Sony is ...
Android-Powered Gaming Console EVO 2 Will Bring Mobile Games to Your Television
Envizions Computer Entertainment, Inc. has announced the upcoming production of an expensive gaming console that will bring both Google Android and notable computing power to televisions everywhere. However, it comes at a notable price—with a cost of $249 a pop, it really needs to sport more than an offer of being an Android-based game console. ...
Google Runs with Smartphone as Digital Wallet, Coupon Center
Today at an event in New York, Google has unveiled two new products that will be built into smartphones sporting near-field communication technology: Google Wallet and Google Offers. The former presents a method for racking up purchases at a brick-and-mortar store and then using your smartphone as a financial transaction facilitator (like a credit card) ...
Xperia PLAY by Sony Ericsson Delivers Savagely Brilliant Gaming Platform Camouflaged as a Smartphone
Look in that product release press conference. It’s a smartphone. It’s a handheld gaming system. It’s the Xperia PLAY by Sony Ericsson! Of course, this gaming device business productivity mobile runs the world’s favorite hybrid OS with Gingerbread Android 2.3 and is now available from Verizon wireless for $200. At 4.7 inches high and 2.4 ...
Infographic: The Cost of the PlayStation Network Hacks and Shutdown
This past month saw one of the biggest gaming network shutdowns in our history when Sony yanked the plug on the PlayStation Network in the wake of having customer data exposed by hackers. It took almost 20 days for the service to start to come back again and now that it is, Sony is still ...
Google Plans to Unveil NFC Payment Platform Thursday in New York
While much information on this is yet undisclosed, The Wall Street Journal is positive that search and social media giant Google will be unveiling their plans for a smartphone as digital wallet platform in an upcoming New York conference on Thursday of this week. We’ve been following this angle eagerly for months now as near-field ...
