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Despite Setbacks Nexon Sets $1.2 billion IPO for Dec. 14
With the upcoming Zynga IPO—and the subsequent roller-coaster ride of scheduling, rescheduling, and then getting raked through the mud—the massively-multiplayer gaming front almost feels like it’s a little bleak but for the drama of late. So it’s with some new news that we look at Nexon, a free-to-play MMO game company with several titles under ...
The Strange History of SMS as Text Messaging Turns 19
As communication protocols go, SMS (or Short Message Service) hails from a Nordic birthplace, the same land that brought us Nokia, the once (and hopefully future) king of mobile. The protocol has a deep past from its most nascent and infant steps to its eventual maturity in the form that we see today. According to ...
Microsoft Debuts New Xbox 360 Experience: Energizes TV-Viewing, Social Gaming, Kinect Voice Control
Microsoft has fastened the armor on the Xbox, donned their helmet, and grabbed their jousting lance, and thrust their ever-popular console into the arena where it’s certain to dominate as the entertainment-center of the living room. Not only does the Xbox connect a network over 35 million people across the world—not to mention all the ...
Mars Rover Curiosity Equipped with Laser Death Ray for Science!
In 247 days, about the beginning of next year’s autumn, NASA’s newest robotic observer, Curiosity, will land on Martian soil. Any science fiction reader who has studied astronomy and followed humanity’s ever expanding interest in the sky and of our neighboring planets, will probably have read things like the Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury and ...
Verizon Xbox LIVE FiOS TV Lackluster on Broadcast Content
It looks like Verizon has taken a leap towards making their FiOS TV service a reality via Xbox LIVE thus sealing the dominance of the Xbox as an Internet TV platform and a major player in the set-top-box market. The Verizon app is expected to hit Xbox LIVE along with the upcoming update to the ...
Augmented Reality Chipsets from Intel Integrated by Total Immersion
The field of augmented reality is becoming an important part of the mobile ecology. Enabling tablets, smartphones and other mobile devices to “see” and overlay reality with meta-information. Total Immersion, an outfit who write software to enable developers to take advantage of this meta-information revolution recently announced that they’re working with Intel on integrating hardware ...
Facebook Fattens Up Status Update Character Limit from 5K to 60K+
In what almost feels like an exponential progression, Facebook has updated their previous 5,000 character limit to a whopping 60,000 characters. The change was first discovered by All Facebook on the Facebook+Journalists page announcing the upped limit as well as outlining the history of such limit changes. In September 2011, Facebook made their first giant ...
Microsoft Boasts Biggest Sales Week in Xbox History, 1 Million Consoles Sold
The Xbox 360 has been out for almost seven years—that’s also how old Blizzard’s colossal MMO World of Warcraft is—and it’s still going extremely strong. According to the Official Microsoft Blog, last week closed the biggest sales week in Xbox 360 history: more than 960,000 units sold during the week of Black Friday. Sales highlights ...
Carrier IQ Android App Caught Secretly Logging Keypresses, HTTPS Queries
A recent YouTube video posted Monday by Trevor Eckhart, an Android app developer, says that a particularly popular app that hides from plain view and watches everything that happens on the phone. During the video, Eckhart used a packet sniffer and a USB debugging app to show how the Carrier IQ agent watched everything that ...
Nexon’s MapleStory Hacked, 13.2 million Korean Online Gamers’ Data Exposed
Last week, a massive private data breach struck Nexon’s extremely popular massively multiplayer online game, MapleStory that affected nearly three quarters of the 18 million players. According to the MMO publisher, much of the sensitive stolen information had been encrypted; however, as a matter of course, the company is suggesting that users change their passwords ...