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Dev Aims to Light the Way for Apple Watch Gaming

Coinciding with the official Apple Watch launch on Friday, a slew of apps and games are making their debuts. One of the early hopefuls is WayForward, which last week unveiled its Watch Quest, hoping to get a jump on the competition ...

Comcast, Time Warner Cable Deal Undone

Comcast has decided to abandon its plan to merge with Time Warner Cable, according to multiple press reports based on briefings with people familiar with the matter. The company is expected to make a formal announcement on Friday ...

Google Unleashes Mobilegeddon on Unprepared Websites

Google on Tuesday initiated changes to its search algorithm to address increased use of mobile devices, and there is about a week left before the full impact of its new metric is felt in full ...

Nokia Scratches Smartphone Itch

Nokia will release a new smartphone by the end of 2016, a pair of unnamed sources told Re/code. ...

Jawbone Gets a Charge Out of Amex

Jawbone on Wednesday announced its new UP2 and UP4 fitness bands, based on designs that were reworked "ounce for ounce," according to the company. ...

Guitar Hero Strikes Back

Activision on Tuesday took the wraps off Guitar Hero Live, setting the video gaming stage for a battle of the bands ...

Analysts Puzzle Over Apple Watch Preorder Figures

Apple scored close to 1 million preorders of the Apple Watch in the U.S. on Friday -- the first day consumers could sign up for it -- according to a Sunday report from Slice Intelligence ...

Investors Squirm as Zynga Founder Takes Back Reins

News last week that Zynga founder Mark Pincus had replaced Don Mattrick as CEO, less than two years after vacating the position, sent the company's shares tumbling. The stock price was holding its own on Monday after a rebound on Friday, but the sharp reaction was a clear indicator of investors' concern over the management change ...

LinkedIn Links Up With Lynda

LinkedIn on Thursday announced its intent to complete the acquisition of online business school Lynda.com by the close of 2015's second quarter ...

Microsoft Plugs Over-the-Air TV Into Xbox One

Checking another item off its to-do list, Microsoft on Wednesday announced an update to its latest Xbox One console: support over-the-air television broadcasts. A TV tuner is necessary to pick up OTA signals, and Microsoft has partnered with Hauppauge, which provides one that can do the job ...

Flexible Aluminum-Ion Battery Recharges in 60 Seconds

Stanford University researchers on Tuesday revealed they had stumbled onto a breakthrough that could lead to the adoption of fast-charging, long-lasting batteries in the near future ...

Roku Offers Shiny New Streamers

Roku on Monday unveiled its new Roku 3 and an updated Roku 2. ...

Samsung Galaxy S6: If Looks Could Kill

Samsung's upcoming pair of flagship smartphones are distinguished by their form factors. The Galaxy S6 edge is almost identical to the US$650 Galaxy S6, but, for an additional $100, users get a display that spills over its sides, allowing notifications to appear along its marquee-like edges, without rousing the handset's display in full ...

Obama Draws Cyber Line in Sand

President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed an executive order that gives the Secretary of Treasury the authority to impose sanctions on entities found responsible for or complicit in carrying out a cyberattack harmful to U.S. interests. The Secretary of Treasury will have to consult with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General before enacting the powers granted under the order...

Top Talent Jumps on Tidal Wave

Tidal on Tuesday announced the premium tier of its subscription-based music streaming service, which costs twice the amount of a standard US$10 account with the company. While the $20-per-month price tag for Tidal premium may seem steep, that subscription serves users lossless audio ...

Halo Fans Hunt for Truth, Microsoft Hunts for Hearts

Xbox and 343 Industries on Sunday released two live-action trailers for Halo 5: Guardians to encourage Xbox One owners and holdouts alike to "hunt the truth." The trailers aired during the season finale of The Walking Dead. The game will make its official debut in June at E3 2015 ...

BlackBerry’s Q4 Profit Small Comfort as Revenue Slips

BlackBerry last week reported fourth-quarter revenue of US$660 million -- well under analyst expectations, but enough to put the company back in the black ...

Twitter’s Periscope Allows Live Stream Replays

Twitter on Thursday unveiled Periscope, the live-streaming app developed by a company it acquired earlier this year, reportedly for just under US$100 million. It's a big bet for an app that's in a genre that already has matured, but Twitter is counting on the mobile world's appetite for more video ...

Leap Motion Faceplate Lets OSVR Head Talk to the Hand

Open Source Virtual Reality, a platform that aims to unify virtual reality input devices, games and output, and Leap Motion, a company that has established itself in the development of motion-tracking hardware, on Wednesday announced what may be a compelling way to control movements in a virtual reality environment ...

Facebook Aims to Turn Social Media Into ‘the’ Media

Facebook for months has been talking with multiple news organizations about hosting their content on its network, rather than linking to their websites, according to The New York Times ...

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