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Twitter Swarms Over TweetDeck with $40m Acquisition Deal
Technology journalism media is aflame with the newest acquisition of TweetDeck by Twitter. The social media corporation has decided to make a functionally lateral move by absorbing the social media dashboard software in the wake of them developing their own aggregation services. While the acquisition is yet unannounced (thus the estimated buy may change) but ...
Ballmer Mentions Next-Gen Windows Systems Appearing Next Year
In a speech that’s caused quite a stir amid Microsoft aficionados, CEO Steve Ballmer made remarks at a developers’ conference in Japan on May 23rd by referring to the next-gen of their OS “Windows 8” as appearing next year. However, shortly after news broke about his words, Microsoft swiftly backtracked and said that the next-gen ...
Sony Thailand Server Becomes Host for Phishing Site
Due to recent circumstances, Sony has found themselves in the limelight recently due to PSN downtime after massive data breaches. As a result, we’ve been noticing a lot more about how poorly guarded many of their websites seem to be. This time, the security firm F-Secure discovered that one of Sony’s Thailand websites has been ...
Nordic Dead or Alive Release Yanked Over Child Pornography Concerns
According to multiple sources, Nintendo of Europe will not be releasing Dead or Alive Dimensions in Sweden and potentially Norway and Denmark. The reason? The newest release from the property is believed to run afoul of child pornography laws in these countries. Eurogamer has run a small story about the decision made by video game ...
Akamai Provides Game Companies Shelter from Thunderstorms in the Cloud
As casually as customers approach the Internet and the cloud, there’s still a bit of risk that we take on personally every time we go online. This fact is amplified by leaps and bounds for companies that provide content to clients—they’re online 24/7, 60 seconds of every minute, and uptime is a factor. It has ...
Expression Recognition in Avatar Kinect Continues to Capture the Imagination
The Microsoft Kinect peripheral has been seen as an innovative technology for human-computer interaction and not just for video games as it had been released. Along came CES and Steve Ballmer himself introduced Avatar Kinect to surprised and adoring audience. The technology behind Avatar uses the Kinect’s capability of recognizing facial expressions and translating emotions ...
New PlayStation Network Exploit Discovered, Exacerbated by Recent Hack
Security in the cloud is an evolving process based on solving for current understandings of potential attacks against a system and managing the risk for customers. Today it was discovered that an exploit in the PlayStation Network’s password reset service allows attackers to change your password with only the knowledge of your e-mail and address ...
Bill Gates Advocated Skype Takeover as Microsoft’s Shadow Looms Over Mobile
Like the Cylon’s from Battlestar Galactica, Microsoft obviously has a plan and the software giant has probably been scheming ever since they laid down a cool $8.5 billion to purchase Internet calling software company Skype. Even giant multinational corporations don’t just rush off to spend that much money for a business segment that nobody thinks ...
Square Enix Confirms 25,000 E-mail Addresses Taken in Website Breach
The PlayStation Network hasn’t been the only video game outfit to suffer a data breach in the past weeks, a breach at Eidos Montreal suffered one recently that has gone relatively unnoticed. It seems to be part of a trend where more video game networks are becoming more attractive to attackers and thus treated as ...
Rumor: Skype Only an Appetizer as Microsoft Aims for Nokia Aqusition
Russian technology blogger, Eldar Murtazin, has set the mobile world on fire today with a Twitter post suggesting that Microsoft might be whetting their appetite for a purchase of Nokia’s mobile division. This would be in addition to the software giant’s recent acquisition of Skype for $8.5b earlier this month. “MS&Nokia deal could be closed ...
