From DailyTech: Shigeru Miyamoto nearly single-handedly built Japan's Nintendo Comp. Ltd. (TYO:7974) into the world's most iconic gaming company. Now the creator of such iconic franchises as "The Mario Brothers", "Zelda", and "Donkey Kong" is trying to pull Nintendo back from the brink.
In a...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft is open-sourcing its Project Orleans cloud computing framework, but an analyst sees limits in how far the software giant will go with its open licensing efforts.
Orleans, which is used to build production services on Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud, was offered as a...
From PC World: Google’s low-cost Android One smartphones will be selling in the coming weeks in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal, three small but fast-growing markets, following a September worldwide debut of the devices in India.
The company said it had signed up a number of hardware and network...
From CNET: Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network were pulled from Dish Network's channel lineup late Saturday after negotiations for a new distribution deal broke down.
Dish, which has for weeks been negotiating a new carriage contract for the 21st Century Fox channels, said the channels were...
From DailyTech: Move over, 7-inch tablets, you're phones now. That's the message phonemaker BLU Products is sending with its new 7-inch Android device, the BLU Studio 7.0. Recall that just four years ago, back in 2010 Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd.'s (KRX:005930) (KRX:005935) Galaxy Tab defined...
Nowadays, not only do prescription eyeglasses serve the practical purpose of letting you see clearly, but it is also a fashion accessory that affects the way you look. However, I would like to make the assertion that, unless you make a drastic change in the type and shape of frame you wear, not many people will notice it when you get new ones. Recently, I got a new pair of glasses, and most people did not even realize until I told them about it...
From InfoWorld: BlackBerry's revenue continued its dive in the three months to Nov. 29, but on Friday the company reported a smaller loss than a year earlier.
Revenue for the three months, BlackBerry's third fiscal quarter, fell to $793 million, compared to $916 million in the preceding three...
From PC World: Earlier this year, I reported on the forthcoming release of Ubuntu phones. Ubuntu for phones had just hit “release to manufacturer” status and phones were supposed to launch before the end of 2014.
Bad news: The phones clearly won’t be here this year. But good news! Canonical told me...
From CNET: Samsung told CNET today that ChatOn will be discontinued on 1 February 2015 everywhere except the US. It will then shut down in the US at an unconfirmed date soon after, with the delay due to "existing contractual obligations with US mobile carriers."
Samsung says the decision was made...
From DailyTech: Most of you probably know by now that the Sony Pictures and Entertainment (SPE) division of Japanese conglomerate Sony Corp. (TYO:6758) was bullied by North Korean hackers and was forced to ax the Seth Rogen comedy The Interview, a satirical film targeting North Korean dictator Kim...
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