The best thing about E3 is watching it from the comfort of your own sofa, in your pants, surrounded by the cheesy dust of whichever crisp brand is your favourite, with the option to shut off the TV and go to sleep whenever you choose. The worst thing about it is the no man’s land of news that occurs up to three weeks before, when the game developers start to
CNET has seen an email from Mozilla Chief Executive Chris Beard that sets out some of the non-profit’s new targets for Firefox OS. In particular, it sounds like the organisation’s $25 smartphones could be abandoned. These super-budget smartphones are aimed primarily at developing nations but Beard says they haven’t seen “sufficient traction” so far. “We will not pursue all parts of the [$25 phone] program,” he writes in the email.
Age: 52 Company: Valve Best known for: PC gaming, Half Life, Steam, Steam Machine Quote: “I’m not sure we’re all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens – which is a reasonable view, I’m just not sure I buy into it.” In terms of gaming on the PC, Gabe Newell can lay claim to being one of the most influential figures of the 21st century,
It’s not easy trying to develop a flagship smartphone in secret, particularly when testing it out in the real world can leave all kinds of clues on the web. Benchmarking tests spilled some details about the OnePlus Two a couple of days ago, and now we have a fresh set to pore over. Chinese site Ludashi has the new specs, which point to a device codenamed A2003 – it has
(Reuters) – Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd is cutting jobs across the world, the company said on Friday, as it consolidates its software, hardware and applications business. BlackBerry, which reported a 16.8 percent fall in quarterly revenue in March, had about 6,225 full-time employees as of Feb. 2015, according to its website. The company is reallocating resources to capitalize on growth opportunities and achieve profitability across all its business segments,
Microsoft Corp and Salesforce.com Inc held “significant talks” this spring but failed to agree on a price, CNBC reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Microsoft was willing to offer about $55 billion for the world’s biggest maker of online sales software. Salesforce founder and Chief Executive Marc Benioff had expected as much as $70 billion, CNBC reported on Friday.
By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The founder of virtual reality glasses maker Oculus VR Inc, acquired by Facebook Inc for $2 billion, has been accused of taking confidential information he learned while working with another company and passing it off as his own, according to a lawsuit filed this week. The plaintiff, Hawaii-based company Total Recall Technologies, said it hired Oculus founder Palmer Luckey in 2011 to build
By Andrea Shalal SPRINGFIELD, Va. (Reuters) – Much about the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency remains classified, but the U.S. spy agency that maps and analyzes the earth is opening up more than ever, from sharing computer source code on a public website to tapping new sources of intelligence. The NGA’s director, Robert Cardillo, is leading what he calls a “seismic shift” in the agency’s culture to help it better exploit social
By Andreas Cremer and Arno Schuetze NECKARSULM, Germany (Reuters) – The contest for Nokia’s maps business has become a three-way race between German carmakers, a consortium including Uber and Baidu, and a third group including China’s Tencent and Navinfo, people familiar with the process said. Finland’s Nokia has started an auction of its maps business HERE while it completes its 15.6 billion euros ($17.2 billion) takeover of network equipment maker
U.S. stock investors have been enjoying an extended period of low volatility and steady gains, but with the Federal Reserve on track to raise interest rates this year and major indexes near records, the market could get a bit choppier in coming weeks. Fed Chair Janet Yellen on Friday said she expected the U.S. central bank to raise rates in 2015, though the process was expected to be gradual, with