The time to CAPTURE, TRAIN, RIDE and FIGHT hundreds of unique dragons has arrived! Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) announced that Dragon's Prophet has entered its Open Beta period in North America. Players journey through the beautiful, ...
Sony has hired two former Apple execs as it tries to build momentum behind its latest Xperia smartphones and tablets. Joining Sony's board are Eikoh Harada, the former head of Apple Japan, and Tim Schaff, who worked for the iPhone ...
A Japanese streaming content provider will launch the country's first cloud-based gaming console, a small modem-like device that plugs into a TV and offers subscription access to titles from $5 per month. Broadmedia, a Tokyo-based company ...
AMD has released two Opteron-X quad-core server microprocessors, codenamed Kyoto, which will compete squarely against Intel's Atom offerings. The processors are intended for the burgeoning microserver market and will enable AMD to offer ...
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SONY last night announced it would sell another two ultra-high definition TV’s in Australia – 55 and 65-inch models to complement the giant 84-inch set released last year. Instead of costing around the price of a car, some ...
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DRAFT laws will be introduced to parliament to force businesses and government agencies to disclose privacy breaches. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says there have been some "spectacular" recent examples of data breaches where names and ...
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Synaptics Inc. today announced it will be showcasing the latest in touch technologies at the 2013 Computex Show in Taipei, Taiwan. An expansive mobile device lineup equipped with Synaptics' ClearPad family of capacitive touchscreens ...
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Sony and Lego are working together on creating a new generation of products that bridge the gap between toys and video games. A joint research project between Sony and Lego aims to come up with future projects that are part toy, part ...
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A former member of a band of hackers faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to a single computer hacking charge. Jeremy Hammond, 28, of Chicago admitted to participating in more than a half dozen attacks perpetrated ...
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Want to find out what's next in smartphones, tablets and PCs? The latest trends in hardware will be on display at the giant Computex trade show, which kicks off in Taipei next week. The 2013 Computex kicks off in Taipei next week ...
Tags: Windows Tablet, Computex
The first Ultra HD TVs we saw cost $18,000 to $40,000, so it was hard not to notice when a lesser-known company called Seiki blew the doors off Ultra HD TV pricing when it recently started selling a 50-inch set (model SE50UY04) for just ...
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CBS Interactive's GameSpot.com today unveiled comprehensive E3 coverage plans, which will include more than 100 hours of original video programming from the show floor and, for the first time, on-air integration with CBS television ...
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If you live somewhere between North Carolina and Connecticut, you've no doubt been bombarded with information about the Great Cicada Invasion of 2013 (a.k.a. Swarmageddon). Depending on the source, 30 billion to 1 trillion bugs are ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Headphones, Cicadas
Microsoft has poked fun at Apple in a new 30-second advert, in which it mocks the iPad. The advert, dubbed "Windows 8: Less calling, more doing", pits the iPad against the Asus VivoTab Smart tablet, which runs on Windows 8, with Siri ...
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Intel rival AMD has slipped up in terms of microprocessor market share, according to box-counting analysts IC Insights, with Qualcomm and Samsung leapfrogging it into second and third place respectively. Strong sales of tablet computers ...
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