Tag: Corporation
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Twitch TV Purchased by Amazon
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Twitch TV has been coming on in leaps and bounds since the very early days of the service, when one could watch gamers streaming their favourite games at a semi-reliable quality and bandwidth. Once Twitch got over the many teething problems of sorting out a fully equipped online game streaming service, they set about re-branding…
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Critics already out on Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi LCD team-up
Backed by Japanese Government funding, tech-titans Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi are combining forces to begin work on a range of “medium-sized” LCD displays for use on portable gadgets such as mobile phones and tablets. Taking the fight to neighbouring rivals, such as LG of South Korea and Samsung of Taiwan, the new super-union will be…
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Apple TV set to get BBC iPlayer following European launch on iPad
Is a BBC and Apple alliance in the works? BBC Worldwide is beginning to live up to its name with iPlayer, which is now set to take over our global neighbours in Europe via iPad app – The next step is suggested to be a leap onto Apple TV. From today, a paid service costing…
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Gaming Weekly – Bungie Patents, Fallout DLC and Mortal Kombat KO’s Portal
Bungie Patents Mobile Device under the Name ‘Crimson’ This week saw Halo developer Bungie start a whole new venture, bringing their corporate family up to three if you include 343 Industries, the custodians of future Halo titles. Bungie Aerospace Corporation, the newly formed venture by the company, is headed by current Bungie President Harold Ryan,…
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Sony Playstation Network may not return until 31st May!
We would we not like to be working at Sony at the moment, with this endless debacle about the PlayStation Network being down, hacked and generally violated it must be hard times at Sony corps worldwide. PS3 users are also having a bit of a toughie with the PSN still down and no foreseeable return…
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Another Playstation Network statement – Few more days needed to “confirm security”
The Playstation Network will remain inactive for a few more days, claims Sony, after promising its online services would be returned to working order on May 3rd – almost one week ago. Another day, another blog statement from Sony – who’s Playstation Network has been KO’d since April 20th, this time Nick Caplin, communications boss…
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India become first country to ban .XXX domains
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (thankfully and creatively abbreviated as “ICANN”) recently approved the domain suffix of .XXX – to replace the commonplace .com, .co.uk, .org etc. – and you can imagine the type of publisher who would want use such a web domain. Some would obviously take offence, and a number…