Hoping to advance the speed of everything from computers to game consoles, Rambus is announcing today it has invented an extremely fast way to transfer data through a computer’s memory system.
The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company can transfer data via differential …
Facebook has made moves toward buying the former campus of Sun Microsystems in Menlo Park — just up the road from its current location, but at the same time, a world away from its roots.
If Facebook moves from its …
China appears to be trying to limit public knowledge of the unrest in Egypt. Over the weekend, Chinese Twitter-like services run by Sina, Tencent and Sohu blocked the word “Egypt” from being used in microblogging messages passed around by users.…
Tonight, on Saturday Night Live, the real Mark Zuckerberg popped up in the show’s iconic opening monologue alongside Jesse Eisenberg, who played the Facebook founder in the oscar-nominated movie The Social Network.
It’s ironic that Eisenberg, who played a big …
Potentially disrupting the established practices of angel investing, investors Yuri Milner (pictured) and Ron Conway have teamed up to offer a blanket investment to every new startup from the Y Combinator incubator.
Milner heads Russian investment firm DST (once known …
Doodle Jump, an enormously popular game on the iPhone, is going Hollywood in a marketing deal with Universal Pictures, which plans to cross-promote the app in promotions for its upcoming live action and computer-animated comedy, Hop.
Doodle Jump comes from …
Freedom of expression and internet access go hand in hand. By shutting down the internet, the Egyptian government has sparked a wider battle about communications, technology, and free speech that goes beyond issues of concern among the country’s protesters.
It’s …
The Angry Birds juggernaut continues. The mobile game has been downloaded tens of millions of times in the past year and it has broken into the collective consciousness of the world as a cultural phenomenon. Who doesn’t know the little …
They call it New Space, a commercial effort to send people into space as tourists. Entrepreneurs are creating startups that are flying tourists into space, for a fee. One of the companies doing so is Virgin Galactic, a startup funded …
Egypt is reportedly trying to eliminate protests by pulling the plug on the nation’s internet connection. It’s a kind of pre-emptive strike against the country’s planned demonstrations tomorrow. Protests have been escalating daily.
Will it work? The country could go …
With its new NGP portable entertainment gadget, Sony has stuck to its tried-and-true strategy of packing as much technology as it possibly can into a device.
From a quad-core processor to multiple motion sensors, the NGP, which Sony announced today, …
Call it Kinectification. Microsoft said today that its video-game business grew dramatically thanks to sales of its Kinect motion-sensing system.
The Entertainment & Devices division — which includes Xbox 360 and PC games, Zune, Windows Phone 7, and consumer software …
Google’s Eric Schmidt gave a talk about his vision for the next decade at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich, where he predicted an age of “augmented humanity.” He sees computers finally getting smart enough to start helping us …
Augmented reality company Layar said today that it has launched a new augmented reality player that can be embedded for free in iPhone applications.
The new Layar Player from the Amsterdam-based company came out of beta testing today and is …
Nintendo reported that its nine-month results today were respectable, despite the negative impact of a sharply rising yen which makes dollar-based sales look weaker. The sales include the all-important holiday selling season, where Nintendo fared reasonably well but couldn’t beat …
Take that, Apple and Nintendo! Sony announced that it will launch a next-generation portable entertainment system. Sony claims the new portable system will be as powerful as its PlayStation 3 game console.
At an event in Tokyo, the Japanese electronics …
As Facebook games become a bigger and bigger business, new social game startups continue to launch. The latest is SiXits.
Zynga may dominate the market with nearly 300 million monthly active users, but latecomer SiXits is hoping to crash the …
Hybrid models of online games and toys are getting fashionable. Yesterday, Mind Candy announced that its Moshi Monsters online game characters are now moving into the real world in the form of toys.
Michael Smith, chief executive England-based Mind Candy, …
James Murdoch is the chairman and chief executive of News Corp. And he’s the son of Rupert Murdoch, the mogul who created the far-flung media empire that includes everything from Fox Broadcasting to the Wall Street Journal.
Murdoch offered a …
Since 2008, the initial public offering market for tech startups in the U.S. has been pretty dead. In 2010, 42 tech companies went public, compared to 17 the year before. But that pace is slow compared to past boom years.…
