Nvidia: Smartphone graphics to best Xbox 360 by 2014
There once was a time when mobile platforms never had a chance of matching game consoles. That's about to change, says chipmaker Nvidia. — Infinity Blade Dungeons on display at the new iPad unveili...
Android, Java, and the tech behind Oracle v. Google (FAQ)
The eyeless, mouthless Java mascot named Duke cartwheels across a T-shirt from a JavaOne conference. — (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) — Sun Microsystems' years-long effort to profit from Java ha...
FBI Seizes Activists' Anonymizing Server In Probe Of Pittsburgh's Bomb Threats
Police outside a building in Pittsburgh that received a bomb threat earlier this month. — As anonymous bomb threats rattle the University of Pittsburgh, the FBI is taking some extraordinary measures...
Nick Denton wants to turn the online media world on its head
Over the past couple of months, Gawker Media founder Nick Denton has made it clear that he doesn't like blog comments very much, and that includes the ones on his own sites such as Gizmodo and Jezebel...
Exclusive: BlackBerry maker hires law firm for restructuring
(Reuters) - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has hired law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP to work out a restructuring plan that could include selling assets, seeking joint ventures or lic...
Instagram restricts ‘thinspiration’ hashtags and bans accounts that glorify self-harm like cutting
Instagram has taken action to prevent users of its service from ‘glorifying self-harm’ and using it to promote extreme weight-loss topics like anorexia and bulemia.
Meet the ‘Mann’ who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours
Mike Mann, sporting a costume that suits his bluster. — The next time you find yourself pounding your keyboard in frustration because the domain name you want is already taken, direct your ire towar...
Skeuomorphism & Storytelling
Designers love to hate skeumorphism. It's just decoration, they say. It's completely useless. It will go out of style. Or as Mark Boulton, co-founder of Five Simple Steps, put it on twitter: … Yet...
Splunk CEO Twice Zuckerberg's Age Sees Stock Soar in IPO
Splunk Inc.'s Godfrey Sullivan doesn't fit the profile of the young hotshot Silicon Valley executive. At age 58, he's been in the technology industry longer than Facebook Inc. (FB)'s Mark Zuckerberg ...