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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 Now included under the umbrella name Creative Cloud, the latest versions of apps including Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Premiere Pro are now availa...

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 Marking the largest deal for original first-run content in Netflix's history, the partnership will include more than 300 hours of ...

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. Sony may have gotten the upper handby announcing that its PlayStation 4 will be US$100 cheaper than the Xbox One and free of restrictions on the buying and sellin...

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. Just as a rock band might go back to playing in a small c...

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 While the company had offered a peak at the hardware behind the system a few weeks ago at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters, its press conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo pre...

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 Specifically, Verizon has been required to provide an ongoing account of all telephone calls on its systems, including those inside the U.S. and between the U.S. and othe...

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 This week the company introduced two new audio products inVanderbilt Hall within the famous New York City train statio...

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 Windows RT, which arrived last fall, has so far been s...

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. Earlier this year, Twitter launched its Vine app for Apple's iOS, but until now, Android users have been left out of the fun. Now they can get into the thick of it as well....

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 In appears Samsung is hedging its bets and covering the bases with both Android and Windows-based devices. What exactly the li...

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. "Today we acquired PlayerScale. The team has built an incredible gaming platform that is used by over 150 million players worldwide," said Yahoo spokesperson Lauren Armstrong.

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 ...

Call of Duty Draws Players Into Brave New World

Activision's Call of Duty: Ghosts from developer Infinity Ward got the honor of demonstrating the power of Microsoft's Xbox One at its unveiling earlier this week The game development studio reportedly has designed new game-engine technology specifically to handle what the Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4 can deliver. This new entry in the Call of...

Microsoft Could Be Saving Xbox One’s Best for E3

Microsoft's new Xbox One video game console, announced with fanfare on Tuesday and set to arrive for the holidays, is certainly a step forward -- but the early reaction has been mixed at best. Much of the massive attention it caught from Twitter users, for example, seems to be anything but positive Though the Xbox 360 has topped the NPD sales char...

3D Food Printer Could Sustain Long-Distance Space Explorers

In space no one can hear you call out for pizza, but technology being developed in a NASA-funded project might let astronauts print one instead -- or any number of potentially delectable meals Systems and Materials Research Corporation received a US$125,000 grant from NASA to build a prototype device that prints food.

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