Apple has had modest success with its Apple TV set-top box for streaming movies and music into homes. But the company might be exploring getting into the business of selling televisions.
If Apple does it right, it could disrupt yet …
Barack Obama has named Intel chief executive Paul Otellini to the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Intel also said it plans on building $5 billion chip factory and hire 4,000 employees in the U.S. this year.
While Otellini is …
Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old founder of Facebook, is rarely seen without a T-shirt or a hoodie. But Zuckerberg brought out a suit for his dinner with President Obama on Thursday. That says a lot about what happens when you combine …
BilltoMobile is announcing today it has partnered with Sprint to allow mobile phone users to purchase goods online via their mobile phone accounts.
The deal is much like similar deals that the startup has struck with AT&T and Verizon. It …
King.com, a popular casual gaming site with 25 million unique players a month, is moving into social games in a big way.
The company is debuting 26 skill-based games on Facebook. Those games can be played in multiplayer tournaments and …
President Barack Obama came to Silicon Valley today to dine with the the region’s technology leaders to talk about how to create more jobs and improve education.
The crowd reportedly included Steve Jobs, the Apple chief executive, who made time …
It’s time to start taking bets on this question: Could Zynga become the most valuable company in the video game industry?
With its rumored funding round of $500 million, Zynga’s value is estimated to be $10 billion. That puts the …
Video game players may have been too busy playing with their Christmas toys last month, as U.S. sales of video games fell 5 percent in January. Total sales of game hardware, PC games, console games, and portables fell to $1.16 …
IBM is basking in the glow of the victory of its Watson supercomputer over the Jeopardy TV show’s best human players.
But watching the supercomputer answer questions during the three nights of the Jeopardy shows was puzzling to a lot …
If your friend has an Android phone and you have an iPhone, it isn’t that easy to play a mobile game together. But with today’s launch of OpenFeint Connect, that could change. The software is like social glue, allowing gamers …
Scoreloop is announcing today that it will support Windows Phone 7 as part of its cross-platform social gaming ecosystem. That means that developers can create social games that allow Windows Phone 7 users to play against Android or iPhone users.…
Bankruptcy has a way of making a chief executive focus on what’s important. John Kispert, CEO of the once-bankrupt and now profitable chip maker Spansion, used the legal process to pare back and double down on innovation.
Today, the company …
The machines are taking over! IBM’s Watson supercomputer soundly defeated its human opponents in the final round of man vs. machine on the Jeopardy TV show.
The computer defeated Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, after a three-night tournament …
Nvidia reported a strong fiscal fourth quarter and said it was upbeat about the potential for its Tegra 2 mobile phone chips to be used in a raft of new smartphones and tablets.
If Nvidia can keep its revenues high …
As we connect lots of gadgets to the Internet, they become vulnerable to hacking. That’s why McAfee is teaming up with Wind River Systems to provide built-in security for embedded devices, or appliances with some computer smarts in them.
This …
We play more than 3 billion hours a week of video games. Jane McGonigal, director of game research at the Institute for the Future, would like to see us play more than 21 billion hours a week. She thinks we …
Apple has had a long head start in mobile apps over new archrival Google.
But new data shows that the number of Android apps has grown 127 percent since August and offerings in Google’s Android Market should outnumber the total …
The Android Market used to be a disaster for paid apps, at least compared to the heavy preponderance of paid apps on Apple’s App Store.
But Android is catching up as its marketplace matured in the past six months. That’s …
Google hasn’t opened an Android Market in China, so a number of Chinese carriers, phone makers, and independent companies have opened their own versions of the Android Market there. The result is a lot of app choices for Chinese users, …
Vivox has figured out something good: gamers like to chat. The gamer voice chat company is announcing today that it had 45 million users in 2010, up 150 percent from 18.5 million at the end of 2009.
While voice chat …
