Zynga, Activision Blizzard sued over patent

From CNET News.com: Activision Blizzard and social-gaming company Zynga are being sued for alleged patent infringement.

Walker Digital, an "invention" company started by Jay Walker, the founder of Priceline.com, filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Delaware earlier this week...

Yahoo pumps up Connected TV; D-Link announces box for it

From CNET News.com: Yahoo's Connected TV, its widget framework for TVs, is a low-cost way to bring Internet content into televisions. Yahoo's TV widgets don't give you the full Internet flexibility of a product like Google TV, but Yahoo Connected TV is cheap to build: It's available...

Intel Officially Releases Core i Sandy Bridge Microprocessors

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. this week officially released its new-generation Core i-series microprocessor based on Sandy Bridge micro-architecture. More than 500 desktop and laptop PCs are expected from all major OEMs worldwide throughout the year. The new chips sport a number of...

Microsoft Windows 8 to Support ARM Architecture - Company

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday finally confirmed that its next-generation Windows 8 operating system will be able to run both on traditional x86-based microprocessors designed by Advanced Micro Devices, Intel Corp. or Via Technologies, but also on various of ARM...

PHP floating point bug crashes servers

From InfoWorld: A newly unearthed bug in certain versions of the PHP scripting language could crash servers when the software is given the task of converting a large floating point number, raising the possibility that the glitch could be exploited by hackers.

The bug will cause the...

Apple Launches Support Profile Site

From PC World: Getting technical support for your Apple products has become a bit easier with the introduction of the new Apple Support Profile Website. This site provides one-stop shopping for you to check the registration and warranty status of all of your Apple products. If you...

Windows Phone copy-paste update expected in Febuary

From CNET News.com: The long-awaited Windows Phone 7 software update that will bring copy-paste functionality as well as a handful of bug fixes is said to be arriving next month.

That's according to Paul Thurrott over at Windows Phone Secrets, who says that the update is being...

Comcast to stream live TV to iPad, Android tablets

From CNET News.com: Comcast will allow for in-home streaming of its live and On Demand content to the iPad and Android tablets later this year, the company announced today.

So far, details on the streaming option are slim. Comcast only revealed that users "will be able to watch live...

Google Steps Into NFC Market

From DailyTech: The Near Field Communications (NFC) market is just beginning to gain traction and is set to blow up as more and more firms start to head to the market. An indicator of how big an new industry can become is to look at the size and reach of the firms that are entering...

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