The facelifted BMW 7 Series is the latest shot in the relentless game of luxury-limousine one-upmanship. Four years after the launch of Munich’s fifth-generation flagship, the ‘Life-Cycle Impulse’ (BMW-speak for a ...
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IDG News Service-Qualcomm Atheros is rolling out StreamBoost,a technology that will be used in Wi-Fi routers and gateways to improve the performance of movies and games streamed over wireless home networks. While the new 802.11ac standard ...
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IDG News Service-Samsung Electronics showed two of its upcoming TVs at the IFA trade show on Thursday,the 55-inch OLED ES9500 and the ES9000,an LED TV with a 75-inch screen. The 55-inch OLED ES9500 is being shown for first time in Europe ...
IDG News Service-Zynga is cutting about 5 percent of its workforce,and is"sunsetting"13 of its older games,the company's founder and CEO Mark Pincus said Tuesday in a note to employees. The games developer is also shutting down its studio ...
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Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, yesterday announced an unlocked version of the Huawei Ascend P1 is available to U.S. consumers through Amazon.com. The Huawei Ascend P1 comes ...
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Computerworld-Mozilla yesterday released a first beta of its next browser,Firefox 18,touting a revamped JavaScript engine and support for Macs with Apple's higher-resolution"Retina"displays. Firefox 18 is currently slated to ship in final ...
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The Ohio State Buckeyes football team finished an undefeated regular season with a boost from its new Meyer Sound LEO linear large-scale sound reinforcement system. In this first permanent LEO installation in the world, the sound system ...
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For the past three years,Nils Puhlmann was head of security for Zynga,the social games company that created mega-hits Farmville and Words With Friends. Managing Zynga's converged security department was a challenging job that Puhlmann ...
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Banco BTG Pactual has received approval from the Brazilian insurance and reinsurance regulator, SUSEP, to establish an insurance operation in the country. The company, earlier this year, planned to invest $24m to launch a new insurance ...
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Researchers have found a serious vulnerability in the game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3," and another in the CryEngine 3 graphics platform on which many games run. Luigi Auriemma and Donato Ferrante of security consultancy ReVuln ...
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Facebook has launched an expanded privacy education campaign for new users, with the focus on default settings, user access to their own data and deciding who they share their information with. Facebook, in an announcement on the site ...
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A year ago,we saw the first Samsung Chromebook and we were left feeling pretty underwhelmed with it.Not only was the hardware clunky and slow,but Google's much-anticipated Chrome OS was far more basic and limited in what it could do that we ...
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IDG News Service - A photo kiosk that can track user behavior using a Microsoft Kinect-like sensor and mine social data could help marketers gain valuable information about audiences at sporting events. Mobile services company Mobiquity, ...
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IDG News Service - Google on Tuesday released a Chrome upgrade that improves how the browser renders 3D applications, including mouse-controlled games. The improvement comes via the inclusion of the Pointer Lock JavaScript API, commonly ...
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A unique 3D spin on the classic "match three" arcade experience, this addicting game charges players to go against an uber monster cube made of smaller multi-colored monster cubes. Monster Juice, an established mobile game developer, is ...
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