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FAA May Soon OK Gadget Use in Flight

Anyone who has flown in the past two decades knows the drill: Electronic devices including mobile phones, tablets and handheld game systems must be turned off when the airplane doors are closed. ...

Crushing Criticism Prompts Microsoft Xbox One About-Face

Roughly a week after being effectively shown up at E3 by Sony's more gamer-friendly approach with its PlayStation 4, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it had revised some of the relatively restrictive policies it had originally announced for its own Xbox One ...

HTC Releases Butterfly S Phablet Into the Wild

HTC's latest handset has emerged from the proverbial cocoon, but it's no tiny newborn. Rather, the Android-powered Butterfly S has "phablet" proportions, meaning it's larger than the traditional smartphone but smaller than a tablet ...

Adobe Sends Creative Suite to the Cloud for Good

After announcing last month that all of its Creative Suite apps would soon move to the cloud, Adobe on Tuesday made good on its promise and delivered the resulting subscription-based software ...

Netflix, DreamWorks Team in Huge Original Content Deal

Video streaming service Netflix on Monday announced a new, multiyear partnership with DreamWorks Animation whereby it will bring many of the studio's beloved characters to the TV market via a branded collection of shows ...

OPINION

It Was a Mad, Mad Gaming World at This Year’s E3

Another Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game show has come to a close, and this year, more than ever, the battle lines were drawn asMicrosoft and Sony both unveiled new systems. ...

LIVE FROM E3

Nintendo Pushes Games at E3 in Bid to Revive Wii U

Nintendo took a low-key stance at the Electronic Entertainment Expo this year, opting for a more intimate presentation than the competition. Still struggling with less-than-expected demand for the Wii U system it launched last fall, Nintendo stressed that this year would be about the games. ...

LIVE FROM E3

Sony PS4 Undercuts Xbox One on Price, Fully Supports Used Games

Sony took its best shot at stealing Microsoft's thunder on Monday evening at E3 by announcing that its upcoming PlayStation 4 will arrive this holiday season for US$399 ...

LIVE FROM E3

Microsoft Targets Hard-Core Gamers with 13 New Xbox One Titles

Against the backdrop of the E3 video game conference and show in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft unveiled 13 new gamesfor its upcoming Xbox One video game console ...

Government Prying Into Verizon Customer Records Exposed

The National Security Agency has been collecting the phone records of millions of Verizon users in the United States under a secret court order, The Guardian reported on Wednesday ...

Bose Gets Tiny and Tinier With Earbuds and Mini-Speaker

The world can be a very loud place, and New York City's Grand Central Terminal -- with its trains, subways and thousands of people -- served as a perfect backdrop for Bose to demonstrate how it canaddress and even combat that noise ...

Microsoft Repairs Windows’ Cracks

At this week's Computex trade show in Taiwan, Microsoft applied some polish to its beleaguered Windows platform. That included announcing that its widely used Outlook email software will finally arrive on Windows RT and making the first public demonstration of its forthcoming Windows 8.1 update ...

Twitter’s Vine Climbs Over to Android

Twitter's Vine sprouted on Android devices Monday, allowing users to post 6-second videos in their tweets. ...

Razer Unwraps Sharp New Blade

Razer this week unveiled the Blade and Blade Pro, two thin and light notebook computers designed to handle the rigors of video gaming ...

Amazon Customers Supply Prime Directive for Exclusive Programming

Amazon announced this week that it has ordered five original television series, including two live-action comedies and three children's shows. ...

GAME REVIEW

Chrome Games: To Play, You Must Persevere

Chrome Experiments has debuted two very innovative games this week, suggesting that Google might be in play to break into the casual game market, even taking on the likes of Nintendo and other portable game developers. At first glance that might be a valid assumption, but the shortcomings of these offerings suggest Google might have something different in mind.

Samsung Lights a Match for New Innovation Trail

Samsung piqued media interest this week with an invitation to a June 20 event in London, where it is expected tounveil its latest Galaxy smartphones and tablets, along with new entrants in its ATIV lineup of Windows devices ...

Haswell Battery Life Claims Energize Hopes for PC Industry

Despite improvements in processing power in recent years, battery life remains an issue with the growth of mobile devices. Intel has looked to address this with a new family of Core processors code-named Haswell, which the company said Thursday will offer up to 50 percent more battery life for laptops than its previous Ivy Bridge chips provided -- all without impairing performance...

Yahoo Pulls PlayerScale Under Its Umbrella

Yahoo hasn't been playing around when it comes to acquisitions. Its latest, announced Tuesday, isPlayerScale, which makes software infrastructure for cross-platform gaming. ...

Nvidia’s GTX 780 Boosts Performance With Less Tweaking

With a slew of advanced action games for the PC on deck for release later this year, including Activision's just announced Call of Duty: Ghosts and Electronic Arts' Battlefield 4, Nvidia has introduced a graphics card that will provide top-notch performance for gamers ...

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