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Cloud-Gaming Service OnLive Will be Preloaded on All Google TVs
Today, OnLive and Google proudly announced that the cloud-gaming service will be coming to the Google TV platform. Already as a product Google TV will be streaming a tremendous among of what they call “linear media” such as video, movies, and music but the addition of OnLive will bring the Internet-enabled TVs into the realm ...
Grab On to the Razer Fiona at CES 2012: New Hyper-Powered Gaming Tablet PC
San Diego headquartered Razer, best known manufacturer for high-quality but extremely expensive PC gaming peripherals such as keyboards, mice, and headphones, is coming out with their very own souped-up tablet gaming PC prototype the “Project Fiona.” We’ve seen this sort of gimmick before with the unveiling of the Switchblade laptop last year, but this one ...
Microsoft Makes Waves with Kinect for Windows Debut Starting February 1st, 2012
Redmond based Microsoft recently announced the due date of its Kinect for Windows project that will bring their much-vaunted hardware out of the gaming console and into the arena of the PC platform. The hardware and software is planned to be available starting February 1st, 2012 in 12 countries including the US, Canada, Mexico, and ...
Christmas Hack of Stratfor Leaves US and UK Intelligence Officials Laundry Flapping in the Wind
When hackers believed to be associated with the hacktivist collective Anonymous raided Texas security think tank Stratfor’s Christmas stockings they also pilfered e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords of numerous international security professionals. A British newspaper took the leaked list to task and analyzed the names cropping up in it and the leak is weirder than ...
Rumors: Will Next-gen Xbox be Tablet-based Technology?
Predictions and rumors are rampant currently with the advent of CES 2012 and numerous technological giants speaking at the conference but what’s got our eye right now is what might be coming next from Microsoft. On the firing line: the next-gen Xbox console. Gaming magazine Gamespot has a gallery of rumors surrounding these expectations and ...
Credit Suisse Upgrades Nokia/Windows Phone with Big Expectations for 2012
Microsoft and Nokia together have looked a lot like a compressed spring from the beginning of 2011 when MS started to eye the market for mobile. Even as the world’s largest mobile manufacturer, Nokia has fallen far from its glory days but they still hang onto the capability to produce and distribute and Microsoft has ...
Patents Suggest Microsoft Might Develop DVR Functionality with Next-Gen Xbox
It’s hard to keep the speculation and rumors in check about the upcoming Xbox 720 with all the interesting elements being added to Microsoft’s current 360 gaming console—but it’s obvious that they’re gunning for the cloud and for streaming video media with every step they take. So when a patent appeared in USPTO recently that ...
BitMit.net Addresses the Need for a Bitcoin Oriented Auction Site
A new Internet auction house that the developers expect should mimic eBay with bitcoins has cropped up and it looks like business is growing. In a recent interview with BTCBase.com [German language] the lead for BitMit.net Auction House, Marius Falke talks about the challenges of accepting bitcoin for products and how it’s affected his business. ...
Kinect and Wii Used to Waldo a Nao Robot to Brush a Cat, Imagine What’s Next
In what some might call an unholy tandem, a Microsoft Kinect and Nintendo Wii have been hybridized together to permit a man—in this case software engineer Taylor Veltrop—to remotely brush his cat via 23-inch-tall robotic surrogate. To make this happen, Veltrop hacked together a Kinect, two Wiimotes, a head-mounted display (HMD) visor, a treadmill, and ...
Saudi Hackers Pilfer, Leak 400,000 Israeli Credit Card Accounts
Hackers are ringing in the new year with a lot of interesting declarations of financial cybermayhem—yesterday SiliconANGLE reported on 100 million Chinese usernames leaked—but today’s 400,000 records leak from Israel includes credit card information. A group of Saudi hackers hit several Israel-based web sites over the holiday and dumped the resulting information onto the Internet ...