PC BioShock 2 Lack of GamePad Support Intentional

From PC World: The Windows version of BioShock 2 doesn't support gamepads, and while that's been public knowledge for months, it's apparently causing a stir on the game's official message boards.

After a handful of gamers complained last week about the lack of gamepad support in the...

Pixar exec to join Twitter as CFO

From CNET News.com: Can a new chief financial officer paint some real revenue for Twitter? The company announced on Wednesday that it has filled that role with an executive from the Disney-owned Pixar Animation Studios. Ali Rowghani, currently CFO and senior vice president of...

MySpace CEO is out after less than a year

From CNET News.com: MySpace Chief Executive Owen Van Natta is stepping down less than one year after assuming the job, parent company News Corp. announced late on Wednesday.

Van Natta's resignation is effective immediately. He will be replaced by Mike Jones, chief operating officer...

Google Outlines Experiment for Fiber-to-the-home Broadband Network

From DailyTech: Google started out as a search engine that was the new kid on the block fighting against the big firms like Yahoo for a piece of the market. As time went by, Google became the most popular search engine online in many countries including the U.S. and it runs the most...

AMD Discloses Peculiarities of 32nm Llano Microprocessors

From X-bit Labs: At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Advanced Micro Devices has disclosed peculiarities regarding its x86 microprocessors produced using 32nm silicon-on-insulator process technology with high-K metal gate (HKMG) technology. Apparently, AMD’s...

Micron acquires flash memory maker Numonyx for $1.27B

From InfoWorld: Micron Technology has agreed to acquire flash memory maker Numonyx, adding NOR flash chips -- a memory type commonly found in mobile phones and MP3 players -- to its product lineup and expanding its manufacturing capacity

The all-stock offer to acquire Numonyx is...

Opera to Reveal Alternative IPhone Browser Next Week

From PC World: Opera Software plans to demo a version of its Opera Mini browser for the iPhone at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona next week. Opera Mini will offer faster browsing than Apple's Safari, which ships on iPhones, Opera said Wednesday.

Internal testing shows...

YouTube's traffic data for music questioned

From CNET News.com: On the same day that Warner Music Group reported lackluster earnings, the third largest recording company appears to have at least one thing to celebrate: dramatic new interest in its YouTube videos.

From December to January, the number of unique visitors to...

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