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Facebook Rallies Devs With Social Gaming Stats

Interest in Zynga's various "Villes" may be dwindling, but Facebook this week reaffirmed its commitment to social gaming overall. In fact, they're going strong, the company maintained in a presentation Tuesday at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco ...

Apple Takes the Maps Fight Inside

Apple has slammed the door on WiFiSLAM after acquiring the Android indoor location positioning developer. However, even though it has closed the startup's shop, Apple will likely use its technology to get mapping again ...

PRODUCT REVIEW

HP’s Officejet Pro Does 1 Thing Extremely Well

The HP Officejet Pro X551dw doesn't scan, doesn't copy, doesn't fax, and obviously doesn't make coffee. It is, however, among the best single-use printers you could get in a small-to-medium-sized office environment. It is fast, it operates at a low cost, and although it doesn't do those aforementioned things, it does much more ...

BioShock Infinite Goes Way Past 11

Video game sales in general haven't exactly been sky high but soon gamers themselves might be, thanks to 2K Games' BioShock Infinite. This follow-up to the 2007 BioShock, which is set for release on Tuesday, has been greeted by reviews as high-flying as its city-in-the-sky setting ...

FCC Chair Genachowski Calls It Quits

Julius Genachowski said Friday that he is stepping down as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, a post he has held since 2009. During his tenure, Genachowski faced a number of important issues, including media consolidation, cable and telecom industry competition and cooperation -- and, most notably, a sharp debate over broadband spectrum...

GAME REVIEW

SimCity Is More Magical Than Mundane

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Oracle’s Q3 Malaise Could Be Contagious

The bulls have been running on Wall Street but every silver lining apparently is cloaked in a gray cloud. In this case, it's the dismal Q3 earnings report Oracle released on Wednesday ...

Nvidia Delivers Workstation Graphics Experience to the Network

Nvidia on Wednesday debuted its GRID Visual Computing Appliance, a device that lets businesses deliver ultra-fast GPU performance to any Windows, Linux or Mac client on their network ...

Smartwatch Wars: Samsung Fires Shot Across Apple’s Bow

Samsung has had a smartwatch in the works for a long time, according to Lee Young Hee, EVP for the company's mobile business, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. He didn't say what exactly the wearable wrist device might offer feature-wise, but the public acknowledgment suggests this could be the next highly contested arena for new gizmos ...

BlackBerry CEO on Apple: What We Have Here Is a Failure to Innovate

BlackBerry's new Z10 handset will be available in the United States later this week, and CEO Thorstein Heins believes it to be a quite the game changer. ...

Nintendo Caught in Winter Doldrums

Although it is far from "game over" for the video game industry, February saw a 25 percent drop in sales compared with the same period a year ago, according to an NPD Group report released Thursday. ...

SimCity Mod Gives Gamers a Glimpse of What Could Have Been

Since it was announced months before its official release that SimCity would require an online connection to play, fans of the urban planning game have voiced their frustration. Their angst only intensified after this month's launch, which was plagued by crashes and server connection issues that made the game unplayable at times ...

Netflix, Facebook Integration Brings Back the Water Cooler

Movie and TV buffs will soon be able to share what they've watched on Netflix more easily, the service announced Wednesday. Users in the United States will be able to take advantage of "frictionless sharing" with their friends on Facebook in the coming days ...

Yahoo Could Take Zynga Under Its Wing

It appears Yahoo may be interested in acquiring Zynga. Both companies have been through rough patches in recent times, but Zynga's stock actually spiked 10 percent earlier this week following speculation in a research note by Wunderlich Securities analyst Blake Harper ...

BlackBerry Z10 May Arrive With a Lot of ZZZs

There may be a big red circle around March 22 on the calendars in BlackBerry's offices. That is when the company formerly known as "Research In Motion" will release its Z10 handset in the United States, widely regarded as a do-or-die effort ...

Facebook’s Rejiggered News Feed: The Ads Have It

Facebook unveiled its new look this week, providing bigger photos and more links in users' News Feeds, along with additional ways to view specialized streams based on topics of interest, such as music. This is apparently an attempt to corral all the random musings and disjointed pictures users are accustomed to sorting through. Facebook's move seems geared toward bringing order to the chaos...

PRODUCT REVIEW

Something to Jump Up and Down About: Dish Hopper

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Swamped Servers Barricade SimCity From Players

Virtual city planners faced a crisis this week as a plague of server issues kept SimCity 5 gamers from connecting. This meant that building virtual roads, zoning communities, and all other jobs involved in creating a city in the game couldn't be accomplished ...

Microsoft Picks Up Tab for $732M Mistake

Microsoft was just handed -- and has accepted -- a fine by the European Union for failing to offer users a choice of browsers on its Windows 7 operating system, despite a legally binding commitment. The European Commission's top antitrust regulator, Joaquin Almunia, announced the decision on Wednesday ...

Tomb Raider Refresh: Lara Croft Before She Got So Tough

After years of running, jumping, swimming and shooting, Lara Croft is going back to the beginning. The heroine of the sometimes loved, sometimes loathed video game series Tomb Raider is back for her "first adventure." Just as Star Trek and James Bond were rebooted on the big screen, Tomb Raider is getting a fresh start ...

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