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 ...
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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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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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 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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Microsoft has directly accused Google of sabotaging the YouTube app on the Windows Phone platform with "impossible roadblocks", accusing the web company - which owns the video streaming network - of demanding unnecessary development ...
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In a bid to plug a "major skills gap" in the datacentre industry, the professional association Data Centre Alliance (DCA) has launched a bootcamp to lure unemployed graduates to work in the industry. The DCA claims that the data centre ...
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Window's new Phone App Studio service has received 30,000 applications in the first 48 hours following its announcement. By the end of last week, the service had received a demand far greater than Microsoft expected, and the company had ...
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After a month delay and a price drop, Nvidia has started shipping the $299 Shield handheld gaming console via its website and online retail stores. Shield looks much like a traditional gaming controller, but it has a 5-inch pop-up screen ...
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Apple may acquire the Israeli chip design company that provided the motion sensing technology used in Microsoft's popular Kinect video game controller, the Israeli business daily Calcalist reported today. In a Tuesday story, Calcalist ...
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"Looking ahead, we will continue to deliver a strong value proposition to our established customers and also reach new customers as we diversify our business. We expect significant revenue growth and a return to profitability in the third ...
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