Steam Cloud support, which was announced last May, will be released in tangent with Valve's co-op zombie shooter Left 4 Dead demo later this week. Steam Cloud is expected to be compatible with all other Valve Steam releases (including the back catalog) after receiving support...
A national cyber-security strategy that will seek to protect key infrastructure as well as Canadians' identities is on the way , an RCMP executive says. Details of the strategy — a partnership between the public and private sectors — will emerge over the next few months,...
In a survey conducted by Net Applications on 40,000 sites, the results show that more than 8% of computers accessing the web were using Apple Macs. These numbers are only indicative of Macs that are used to access the internet. 8% may seem like a...
Transmeta is actively seeking a buyer, having given up the chip game entirely in favor of lucrative patent licensing deals. Considering that AMD owns a $7.5M chunk of stock and most of Transmeta's tech is already licensed out to NVIDIA and Intel, those seem like...
Oracle and Intel are now working together on enterprise Could Computing that will use encryption for improved privacy on data, the two companies said at this week's OracleWorld conference. Data encryption was mentioned as part of a larger agreement which also calls for collaboration around greater...
Via Slashdot: "InfoWorld reports on an experiment in air economization, aka 'free cooling,' conducted by Intel. For 10 months, the chipmaker had 500 production servers, working at 90 percent utilization, cooled almost exclusively by outside air at a facility in New Mexico. Only when the temperature...
From article at Reuters: "Rising development costs might force console makers Microsoft and Sony to publish more video games themselves, as independent studios avoid exclusive deals for blockbusters."...
Google announced today that it is seeking to develop grass roots support for its "white spaces" campaign at the FCC, its lobbying effort to convert some radio airwaves in order to provide wireless broadband access. The "Free the Airwaves" campaign invites consumers to sign a petition,...
An experimental build of CrossOver Games is now available for the BSD platform. This edition is unsupported by CrossOver, but it is a great opportunity to test out playing Windows games on BSD. pcbsd.org notes that Jeremy White from CodeWeavers has issued a challenge to the...
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President, recently talked with GameDaily about the rumors surrounding the $249 Wii price point, his take of the PS3 price point and controller, and to reassure us that the GameBoy is far from dead. 'You may want to check our past records of...