Valve, the company behind the popular Steam games website and portal, has released the technical specifications of its Steambox, a games console intended to take the popular service from the desktop PC to the living room. Valve started ...
While Microsoft's recent acquisition of Nokia's smartphone division is potentially good news for Microsoft, the company needs to work on its branding issues if it's to start seeing greater success in the mobile hardware industry, a Gartner ...
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The BBC’s Top Gear television program has been denied the opportunity to drive a V8 Supercar around a Gold Coast driver training centre due to “issues related to noise”. News Limited reports a plan to have Jeremy ...
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Taiwan-based IC design houses including Macroblock, Nuvoton Technology, On-Bright Electronics, Pixart Imaging and Weltrend Semiconductor all expect to post sequential growth in September revenues, buoyed by a pull-in of orders coming from ...
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The China (Shanghai) Pilot Free trade Zone to be launched at the end of this month will be lifting a 13 year ban on game console sales in the zone that is expected to benefit IR LED manufacturers. Internet restrictions will also be lifted ...
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Microsoft is entering China’s gaming market with a new joint venture, the latest sign that its Xbox console soon arrive in the country. Microsoft established the joint venture with BesTV, a local provider of Internet television ...
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Microsoft still hasn't found what it's looking for in the search market – a way to beat Google – but it's not giving up just yet. Microsoft detailed on Monday a set of new and reworked features for Bing that the company hopes ...
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Valve, the company behind Steam, the popular PC games platform, will unveil more details about its proposed Linux-based "Steam box" console next week. The news was revealed by founder Gabe Newell at LinuxCon 2013 this week in a keynote ...
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Computer chip manufacturer AMD has announced plans to expand its business into new markets by providing new embedded chips for devices away from its traditional PC base. The decision, which will see AMD produce microprocessors and ...
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Rovio, the Finnish studio behind the popular Angry Birds computer game, has deployed Riak, the open source NoSQL database from Basho Technologies, to aid scalability and management of data volumes from its games and animated Angry Birds ...
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Lite-On Technology posted consolidated revenues of NT$18.968 billion (US$632 million) for August, the highest monthly level so far in 2013 with on-month growth of 6.02% and on-year growth of 0.75%, and those of NT$133.230 billion for ...
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Microsoft’s Xbox One will become available on Nov. 22 and the company has made the game console faster by cranking up the clock speeds of the CPU and graphics processor. The console is priced at US$499 and will be available in the ...
Microsoft has won a second trial against Google-owned Motorola Mobility after the firm failed to license its patents at a reasonable rate. The court battle was the second of two trials in a Seattle federal court and has resulted in ...
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This is the second suit that Microsoft has won against Motorola. A federal jury in Seattle has ordered Google's Motorola Mobility to pay $14.5m in damages to Microsoft after failing to license its patents at a reasonable rate. Microsoft ...
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Microsoft is to buy Nokia's mobile phone business and license its patents in a deal worth $7.2bn (£4.6bn). Further reading Nokia whacked by another downgrade – Moody's rates Nokia four notches below investment grade Microsoft ...
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