Imagine browsing the web without having to worry about viruses, spam, and spyware. Imagine you could log in to see your favorite web sites from any location, without being tracked.
That’s the experience Virtual World Computing promises with it’s new …
Zoodles is out to own your kids as they surf the web, play games, and venture onto tablet computers. The company is launching its child-safe Kid Mode app for Android 3.0 tablets today and is announcing that its previous apps …
Computer maker Dell said today it will invest more than $1 billion in new data centers that offer cloud services and other technology for its customers.
The move seems like an effort to counter the growing services and software focuses …
RockYou didn’t have to go far to find its new chief executive. It has selected its chief operating officer Lisa Marino as the new boss of the social game company.
Marino has effectively been running the Redwood City, Calif.-based company …
Video game retail giant GameStop has opened up a store to sell games on its Facebook fan page. The store will sell physical games that users can receive in the mail or pick up at a local store.
The move …
In the multibillion-dollar first-person shooter video game business, the war of words is on. Electronic Arts wants its Battlefield 3 game coming this fall to knock Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty game from its throne as the most popular game …
Accel Partners, the venture capital firm known for invest in big tech homeruns such as Facebook, has gone Hollywood with a $40 million investment in Dark Knight producer Legendary Pictures, according to Forbes.
The deal is unusual because venture capitalists …
Update: The map pack is confirmed.
The launch details for the second Call of Duty Black Ops map pack may have been leaked, thanks to a retailer error. Call of Duty Black Ops Escalation is scheduled to arrive on May …
Sony said today that its next-generation gaming handheld could be delayed beyond the end of this year because of disruptions to its supply chain as a result of the quake and tsunami in Japan.
Jack Tretton, president of Sony Computer …
PopCap Games has had no shortage of creativity over the years — its huge casual game hits include Bejeweled and Plants vs Zombies. The company generated more than $100 million in revenues last year, and its games have been downloaded …
Marseille Networks, a startup that makes it easier to design chip prototypes, said today it has raised $4.5 million in a second round of funding.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company is relatively rare as a chip company that successfully raised …
The hacking group Anonymous has targeted Sony web sites to take revenge against the company for suing hacker GeoHot. But an offshoot of the group has also begun targeting Sony executives by digging up and exposing their private information.
Under …
Seagate has begun shipping a razor-thin 2.5-inch hard disk drive that the company says is the world’s slimmest.
The GoFlex Slim external hard drive is only 9 millimeters thick. The product shows that hard drives continue to evolve at a …
Zynga announced today its 11th acquisition in 11 months, acquiring the team working for MarketZero, the creator of PokerTableRatings, the largest online portal tracking career stats of online poker players.
The deal shows yet again that Zynga is on a …
There’s a reason Intel executive Kirk Skaugen showed off his company’s latest server chips inside a bank vault yesterday. He wants to create the impression that the 29 new chips being introduced today are as secure and reliable as they …
Outspark has been trying to carve out a role in the middle of the online game market for five years. Today, it’s launching a new online action game called Divine Souls that it hopes will spur demand for online market …
Latency is the enemy of online gaming. If you fire a gun, you want to see it hit the target instantaneously, not miss the target because your computer and online connection are too slow. Bigfoot Networks and Gaikai, two very …
Epsilon, the largest email marketing company, is reeling from a huge breach of its clients’ personal email data. At least 19 major brands (and as many as 50) have been affected by the cyber attack, where hackers broke into the …
Antivirus vendor Symantec detected more than 286 million malware threats last year, signaling a big jump in the volume of automated cyber threats.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company said in its 16th annual Internet Security Threat Report that threats are …
Texas Instruments is buying National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion. That brings together two of the largest and oldest companies in the semiconductor business, and it means that TI will have a huge share of the analog chip business.
These two …
