Do you remember the Virtual Boy? Virtual Boy was Nintendo’s failed attempt to bring virtual reality (VR) into the living room? The Virtual Boy was not exactly a success. However, it’s been almost twenty years since it was published, so it is time for a new attempt. The technology wasn’t ready at that time. Even ...

Atlassian, the leading provider of software for team collaboration products, announced the launch of Bamboo 5, the latest continuous integration (CI) server version. The public release of Bamboo 5 is scheduled for very soon–official release has been pushed to July 16th–and the company is billing Bamboo 5 as the first tool of its kind “to ...

With investments towering up for 3D content development and next generation high-performance image-processing chip, mobile multimedia chip augmented reality player Movidius foresees a huge potential in this market. This improvised new technology experience on mobile phones is all set to revolutionize the mobile market by broadening the horizons of the entertainment industry. The company has ...

Google’s much anticipated Google Glass is slowly entering our lives and the augmented reality applications this wearable device can bring to life are expanding. Although Google Glass is not yet open to the public, we are already seeing many developers creating applications that allow web browsing, check the updates of Reddit and post Facebook updates. ...

As the name Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) suggests, GPU processors are designed for image and video processing on computers–but they’re also optimized for extremely fast, highly parallel computation making them useful for lots of different tasks. For example, a method that mimics the human brain by using the GPU is currently being developed by Google ...

Credit card companies have been seen lately taking up the vanguard of the fight against piracy. MasterCard and Visa are said to have begun to refuse payment to any provider of VPN connections–in the wake of their refusal to work with file sharing sites. Following the introduction of restrictions on the file-sharing services and strongly ...

Google has released some interesting statistics on game video footage that appear in the most popular video service YouTube. Google analyzed anonymized views of gaming content on YouTube in the U.S. from 2011 and 2012 to learn how gamers behave, what they value, and what this means to game marketers moving forward. The study titled ...

Microsoft’s subscription service for IT professionals, TechNet, is shutting down after more than ten years service. TechNet offers subscribers access to evaluation copies of Microsoft software, forums, guides and news. According to Microsoft, the closure of this service is because fewer IT professionals now choose to pay for the services offered when they are available ...

In a surprising business move to push Xbox as an entertainment center, Microsoft has signed a major agreement with Time Warner Cable to offer live TV contents directly through the Xbox 360 console. As part of the agreement, Time Warner Cable subscribers with an Xbox Live Gold membership will now be able to watch and ...

Hosted by O’Reilly Media at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Velocity 2013 was the single, most important must-attend conference for web operations and development professionals. The home of data science, the conference brings together practitioners, researchers, IT leaders and entrepreneurs to discuss DevOps, big data, Hadoop, analytics, visualization and data markets. From startups to the ...