When his fourth Xbox 360 video game console died in April, Chris Szarek wasn’t surprised.
The Chicopee, Mass. gamer was accustomed to the hardware failures that became known throughout the Internet as RROD, or the “red rings of death” which flash when the console becomes inoperable.
A 40-year-old photographer, Szarek was a hardcore Microsoft fan who spent [...]
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iSkoot, a provider of carrier-friendly Internet voice calling services, has acquired Social.IM for an undisclosed price.
The move takes the mobile company, which we profiled earlier this year, in a new direction. The San Francisco-based iSkoot provides voice-over-Internet-protocol, or VoIP, phone service on mobile phones. It offers services such as Skype on phones with a wireless [...]
“Grand Theft Auto IV” is on its way to breaking records, despite a feared slowdown in sales.
Take-Two Interactive reported that it has sold more than 10 million copies of the controversial shooting game since it launched on April 29. The game hit the 10 milllion mark as of Aug. 16. Previously, the game had sold [...]
Identity thieves are everywhere. A teenager snatched the login of his real-estate agent father and threw wild parties at homes that were up for sale. Students get someone else to take a test for them. Loan officers get hacked and the profiles of 7,000 of their customers are stolen.
This is the problem that AdmitOne Security [...]
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Intel to launch six-core microprocessor – A chip code-named Dunnington is expected to debut on Sept. 15. Intel will put six cores, or computing brains, on a single chip. But this is really no big deal. I’ve got a 666-core chip of my own in the works. I used a cookie-cutter to [...]
Raptr is unveiling the public beta test of its social network for all kinds of video game players. While it’s a crowded market, the company has a good chance of becoming a central hub for gamers who want to know what their friends are playing online, regardless of game type.
The Raptr social network will be [...]
Microsoft cut Xbox 360 prices on all three of its console versions today. The $50 to $79 price cuts mean that Microsoft will have the cheapest new console on the market in the form of the Xbox 360 Arcade, which will now cost $199 compared to the $249 Nintendo Wii.
The Arcade version, however, has no [...]
Secure64 has raised $3.7 million in a first round of funding for its secure operating system business.
The Greenwood Village, Colo.-based company raised the money from angel investors. The company makes a secure operating system, in other words a system that makes it much easier for companies to deploy Internet servers that are protected against vulnerabilities [...]
RocketOn and Animax Entertainment are announcing today a partnership that will make it easy for groups of friends to visit web sites together — and then scribble all over them.
RocketOn’s technology allows you to create virtual characters, or avatars, that can walk and scrawl all over sites on the real web. In essence, RocketOn turns [...]
Multiverse has created a technology for creating virtual worlds that others can customize as they like. The company is announcing a series of deals at the Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo in Los Angeles today.
Each deal is interesting in itself. The first is that Mountain View, Calif.-based Multiverse will develop a virtual world based on [...]
As part of an effort to invest in future phone networks, Intel is announcing that it has invested $3 million in Aicent.
San Jose, Calif.-based Aicent has built one of the world’s largest multimedia messaging exchanges for cell-phone carriers so that consumers can get their messages wherever they roam. It does so by building a bridge [...]
Data Robotics has raised $15 million in a fourth round of funding for its consumer-focused Drobo backup storage business.
The Santa Clara, Calif., company makes “data robots,” or external backup storage units that make it easy to back up data on a computer or a network of computers. The lead investor is Greylock Partners. Other participants [...]
Heading into a battle with Cisco and others, Google is launching a YouTube-like video service for businesses.
Dubbed Google Video for Business, the service makes it easy for large businesses to tap into everything from camera phones to handheld video cameras and upload video to a corporate network. The videos can be standard YouTube-style quality or [...]
Okay, this console war is getting really boring. Nintendo is thrashing everyone else. Today, the Japanese company revised upward its financial forecasts for the six months ending Sept. 30, 2008. It also upped its forecasts for game hardware and software during the period, as well as for its full fiscal year that ends March 31, [...]
Many of the successful online games for kids — from Club Penguin to Neopets — are appealing to girls. But Webcarzz is going after the boys with its new car-themed online video game world.
The San Francisco company has raised $4 million in a first round of funding from Meakem Becker Venture Capital to create a [...]
Picateers has raised $6.6 million in a second round of funding to expand its effort to replace school portrait vendors with volunteer-based programs run by parents.
The San Mateo, Calif., company is disrupting the school portrait business by using a web-based approach. It recruits parents to use their own digital cameras to shoot portraits of kids. [...]
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The Internet is broken – This is starting to sound like a broken record. Didn’t we just write about the DNS flaw that could cripple the Internet? Now two security researchers demonstrate a new technique to intercept Internet traffic on a scale similar to the abilities of agencies such as the National [...]
Sixty start-ups gathered today to talk at the Emerging Companies Summit about how they’re using graphics technologies in their businesses. The summit was one of the many sub-conferences at the Nvision 08 Visual Computing conference in San Jose.
Jeff Herbst, (left) vice president of business development at Nvidia (sponsor of Nvision and the summit), said [...]
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