People who tune into the Winter X Games in Colorado this month will get a heightened sense of the action thanks to a tie-up between Intel and ESPN, which sponsors the event.
Corporate policies are all well and good, but when it comes down to it, IT managers often end up being the folks who have to enforce them. That can lead to bad feelings among your coworkers when you tell them they can’t have their games or their file-trading software or their Harry Potter screensavers. How do you deal with that? We turned to several of your peers for answers.
You, the corporate bad guy
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Expect vigorous tongue-wagging on the subject of mobile network convergence over the next few years, particularly as it pertains to voice. Generous doses of terminology such as “roaming,” “dual-mode” and “seamless handoff” will become part of everyday vernacular in this newsletter and elsewhere.
The Blu-ray Disc Association announced today it has finalized the specification for 3-D content on Blu-ray discs, meaning games, movies, and television series will soon be able to be viewed on 3-D enabled televisions using special glasses.
A Chinese man who extorted virtual items and currency from a fellow Internet cafe user to improve his performance in online games was sentenced over the weekend, local media said.
When we first started doing the Cool Yule Tools holiday gift guides, our “After Hours” section used to cover all of the “entertainment” devices, toys, gadgets and video games. With the explosion of home entertainment, personal entertainment and other consumer electronics, the entire guide is practically an “After Hours” section. Still, here are some of our picks of favorite video games and other “after work” distractions for you or your family:
Companies and their employees may find themselves in a tug of war over enterprise-class mobile phones, an emerging set of devices just as capable of running multimedia entertainment and games as business applications.
Long before the Xbox came the Brown Box, a creation that defense contractor engineer Ralph Baer and colleagues built in the late 1960s that would become known as the first real video game system. The video game industry this week mourns Baer, a German-born American who has passed away at the age of 92.
An Electronic Arts website was hacked in a phishing scheme aimed at the acquisition of Apple IDs and credit card numbers, security researchers reported Wednesday.
Last week Amazon Web Services launched yet another new feature for its IaaS public cloud – a hosting service for 3D games named Lumberyard. While the service represents one of the most advanced cloud-based gaming platforms in the market, what really caught people’s attention was a clause in Lumberyard’s Service Terms agreement.
Sure, ringtones, games, cameras and video downloads are exciting. But the wireless network operators now seem to be also growing more sensitive to business requirements.
Is AT&T relying on casuistry and wordplay to keep money from America's poor schoolchildren? Totally. (You expected any less from a telco?) But that misses the scheme's sheer genius. AT&T is engaging in a classic political maneuver called "share the pain."
An increase in games revenue helped Sony counter to an extent shrinking business in smartphones and the impact of earthquakes in Japan's Kumamoto region on production of the camera sensors that the company supplies to Apple and other smartphone vendors.
Startup SafeBreach automatically assesses corporate networks to find out whether they offer up enough security loopholes for real-world attacks to s쳮d.
Java, the popular OS-independent platform and programming language, runs on just about every kind of electronic device imaginable, including computers, cell phones, printers, TVs, DVDs, home security systems, automated teller machines, navigation systems, games and medical devices.
The inside of the Symantec Security Operations Center looks like a scene out of the movie "War Games," and in many ways, the connection is fitting. The SOC, as it is known by Symantec employees, is in the business of detecting and analyzing network threats. And as malicious activity online gets increasingly more sophisticated, the war against cybercrime is definitely on.