2012 was a weirdly quiet year for gaming. With aging consoles, there was a predictable trend toward buying blockbuster titles and some expansion in digital sales.Tablet gaming is still mostly Angry Birds, the big titles are incremental improvements - nothing earth-shattering. And E3 was pretty dull, too.2013 promises to be...
Now that Oracle plans to gobble up yet another company for its growing portfolio of cloud-based software, the question is whether the company can chew everything it puts in its mouth.The business applications maker said Thursday that it would buy Eloqua for $871 million. Eloqua's apps measure the effectiveness of...
Tech gadgets come and go. Some succeed, most fail. Most failures disappear without a trace, while others are so awful that we can't seem to forget them. And some failures set the stage for future innovations. This list of the 10 most epic tech-gadget failures is by nature subjective. Some...
The race to commoditize the OpenStack cloud operating system has a new entry, and Hewlett-Packard, one of the first backers of the open-source project, could soon be enjoying the spoils of victory. If it doesn't screw it up.There is little evidence that yesterday's announced general release of HP Cloud Compute,...
With the emergence of Windows 8, hardware makers have redoubled their search for the right combination of full-featured laptop and super-portable tablet.Hewlett-Packard -- like several other manufacturers -- is betting on business laptops that swivel, twist and gyrate to become a reasonable facsimile of a tablet. HP's candidate, the Elitebook...
Last September, shortly after the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, a company tweeted me that they were going to make our site, SmallBizDaily.com, their “small business resource of the day.” My joy was short-lived when the next morning they tweeted that my site had been hacked.I quickly...
Good news: If you're hoping to show your grandma that awesome cat video this holiday season, you probably won't have to huddle around a computer or tablet screen. As yet another confirmation of the ongoing trend merging online video and gaming, Google introduced a YouTube app for the Nintendo Wii...
On Wednesday, Microsoft began running a national ad campaign to warn users to avoid being “Scroogled” by Google search results that have been influenced by paid placement.Specifically, Microsoft’s campaign attempts to portray Google as basing its Google Shopper search results on the amount of money each vendor has paid, rather...
A 1991 news report about parents angry over Super Nintendo shows little has changed in 20 years. For one thing, the video, recently unearthed by Reddit, shows that many parents have always been confused and upset by the popular electronic medium. They're still worried about their kids playing too much today. Parents also...
After 100 years of innovation, Sharp is the worst-performing company in the world. In the end, its lack of consumer focus sealed the deal.The Basics100 years ago, a metalworker and inventor named Tokuji Hayakawa opened his first shop in Tokyo. On the backs of his "Tokubijo" snap belt buckle and...
Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that manufactures devices for Apple, Nokia, and Sony, has over 1.2 million employees, mostly in factories on the Chinese mainland. By 2016, it would like to replace as many of those as possible with robots that can do the job 24/7.That would address the human rights...
Maine Democrat Colleen Lachowicz made gaming history twice this year:First, when she was attacked by the Republican Party last month for being a computer gamer.Second, when she won her election on Tuesday, becoming the first Senator whose gaming habits led, in part, to her victory. Hear that, negative stereotypes about...
Microsoft is reportedly building its own “Xbox Surface” gaming tablet, which could give the company a true mobile gaming strategy.Microsoft officials declined to comment, but the rumored 7-inch tablet could incorporate a custom ARM processor as well as “high-bandwidth RAM suitable for gaming tasks,” The Verge reported on Tuesday. In June,...
If it's not a smartphone, it's dumb. Despite current global dominance, basic "feature phones" will give up the ghost in just a few years.The BasicsAfter the Blackberry and then the iPhone created the "smartphone" category, we needed to call the rest of our cellphones something, and "dumbphones" sounded, well, dumb....
This post is part of eBay Finders, a new partnership that presents collections of items curated by a carefully selected group of electronics experts. Meet more of the Finders on the eBay Electronics blog. #eBayFindersFor many of us, business means travel. Lots of travel. Riding in crowded airplanes, sleeping in...
It's been just under seven months since Red Hat became the world's first $1 billion open-source company. Now the question is who will follow suit and become the next open source company to hit this milestone?Before sorting through the list of likely candidates, it's important to define what we're talking...
In a recent post, ReadWriteWeb's Adam Popescu vowed to boycott Apple due to its association with Foxconn, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer infamous for sowing despair among its workers. Reading the article, I had to ask myself: Did the maker of my smartphone - a RIM BlackBerry - also help drive workers to suicide?...
A business' data is still its most important asset, but that doesn't mean it every company needs to spend millions of dollars building and maintaining its own datacenters. The cloud has grown up, and the days of the company-owned-and-operated datacenters are numbered.The BasicsIn the pre-PC days, computers were sprawling and...
For the first time in a long time, two American companies are driving innovation and leading one of the planet's most important industries.(This report also ran in the Fall/Winter 2012 issue of SAY Magazine.)The first half of 2012, I flew more than 60,000 miles, searching for interesting tech stories for...
If Microsoft really is considering its own “Surface” smartphone, the business decision would be a callous, cold-hearted one that could alienate future partners and leave just two other manufacturers of Windows Phones. But as history has shown, this kind of bold move could pay off.Boy Genius Report claimed Tuesday that Microsoft...
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