From InfoWorld: Microsoft says the launch of the Xbox One on Friday has been the most successful yet for its Xbox gaming console family.
The company sold 1 million consoles in less than 24 hours, it said, putting it roughly equal with the launch of Sony's PlayStation 4 a week earlier. Gamers on...
From DailyTech: Apple recently acquired the startup that provided 3-D sensors for Microsoft's Kinect, offering motion and depth capture for a more physical gaming experience.
According to a new report from All Things D, Apple purchased Israel-based PrimeSense for about $360 million USD. The two had...
From X-bit Labs: During its meeting with investors, Intel Corp. demonstrated the world’s first media tablet powered by its Atom processor based on 64-bit Atom processor that relies on Silverman micro-architecture. The world’s largest chipmaker claims that the 64-bit capability of its latest low-cost...
If you have been around APH Networks for a while, you will notice we frequently talk about our history. Why do we like to talk about our history? Is it because, as Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana puts it, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"? Well, not exactly. The reason why we enjoy talking about it is because, firstly, we have history to talk about; and secondly, this week marks the eighth year of which...
From eWeek: Google has brought together its former Google Play Magazines app and its Google Currents app to create a new Google Play Newsstand app where Android users can get all the news and stories they want to read in one convenient place.
"Staying up on the news can be a daunting task," wrote...
From PC World: Google is working on an official SDK for its digital media dongle Chromecast, and is inviting developers to the company's headquarters to show how best to use it.
As with smartphones and tablets, vendors are looking to get help from developers to make their TVs and related...
From DailyTech: Two of the smartphone market's biggest powers met this week to discuss processors. UK-based ARM Holdings plc (LON:ARM), an architecture company whose titular instruction set is found in 95 percent of smartphones sold today, traveled to South Korea, the home turf of Android...
From X-bit Labs: Qualcomm, the world’s largest developer of mobile application processors, a new Snapdragon 800-series system-on-chip that features vastly improved performance and capabilities. The new processor is among the world’s first SoCs to support video in ultra-high-definition (UHD)...
From EETimes: Sony could actually make a few dollars on its latest PS4 console -- $18 to be exact. That's the conclusion of a teardown by IHS Inc., which estimates the cost of the bill of materials and manufacturing for the video game console at $381. It sells for $399.
The move marks a shift for...
From InfoWorld: Acer's upcoming CEO has abruptly resigned from the troubled PC maker, in a surprise move that will result in founder Stan Shih temporarily taking over leadership.
Two weeks after Acer named Jim Wong to be its next CEO, the PC maker on Thursday announced he was stepping down "in...
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