It's a shift from the old idea that you buy games on a DVD, put them in a little black box on your lounge room shelf and play alone, or, if you're lucky, with your family members. It is the new spirit of gaming espoused by Sony Computer ...
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Megaupload lost a bid on Friday to see a trove of evidence held by U.S. prosecutors prior to extradition proceedings expected to begin later this year in New Zealand. The country's Court of Appeal rejected two lower court rulings from ...
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Google is open-sourcing a new general purpose data compression library called Zopfli that can be used to speed up Web downloads. The Zopfli Compression Algorithm, which got its name from a Swiss bread recipe, is an implementation of the ...
New legislation in the U.S. Senate that would allow Internet users to tell companies to stop tracking them is unnecessary and could slow e-commerce growth, some tech groups said. Sens. John "Jay" Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, and ...
Tesco is to step up its assault in the e-commerce space with the launch of two specialist websites for e-books and music later this year. The firm has hired Facebook's head of retail for EMEA, Gavin Sathianathan, to lead Blinkboxbooks, ...
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Oracle has ported one of its most coveted Solaris tools to the Linux platform, a real-time debugging tool called DTrace, though the company has made it officially available only for its own Oracle Linux distribution. With the release of ...
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PA Consulting and Raspberry Pi have selected the finalists of their programming challenge who will present their ideas to six expert judges on 20 March. The competition was intended for school and university students to present ...
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Dubai-based GEMS Education on Monday announced a collaboration with Aruba Networks, which will install a wireless network solution across all GEMS schools for a BYOD initiative. GEMS claimed that this move will make it the first education ...
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Jason Stamper summarises the most recent technology results and deals announcements. Of those reporting in this period it is Cisco that's the bellwether, and its results should give a little encouragement to the sector as a whole. But not ...
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A liquid-cooled computer server designed in the UK is being tested at the University of Leeds. The claim is the system which effectively immerses the components of the server in liquid is more energy efficient than air-cooled ...
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The Pirate Bay claims that North Korea has offered to provide network connectivity for its controversial search engine, which has faced a years-long battle to stay online. "We believe that being offered our virtual asylum in Korea is a ...
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Sergey Brin envisions Google's Internet glasses hitting the market this year with an eye toward freeing people from unsocial habits engendered by "emasculating" smartphones. The Google co-founder who immigrated to the US when 6-years-old ...
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After creating a ruckus for calling all of its telecommuters back into the office, Yahoo is trying to quell some of the furor. Yahoo last week issued a memo informing employees that the company was ending work-at-home arrangements. As of ...
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The number of mobile telephones worldwide is set to catch up to the globe's population next year, the United Nations' telecommunications agency says. The UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said mobile subscriber numbers ...
After causing uproar by calling all of its telecommuters back into the office, Yahoo is trying to quell some of the bad publicity. Yahoo last week issued a memo to employees that the company was ending work-at-home agreements. As of June, ...
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