San Francisco based social gaming firm Zynga has snapped up Canadian app developer Five Mobile with plans to extend its reach beyond the confines of Facebook.
Five Mobile’s team will be integrated into Zynga’s new Toronto office, which doubles as a development center.
With tablets becoming...
Do you remember the good old days? Back when you had no responsibilities? Days spent cycling and playing. That summer when you seemed to scrape your knee every other day. No? Well, if that does not sound like how you spent your youth, then...
San Francisco-based Zynga Inc., which creates online games for mobile devices and sites such as Facebook, plans to file an initial public offering (IPO) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) expected to be as early as today, reports...
The world's tech press, fickle bunch that they are, have moved on from bashing Sony over the continued outage of the company's Playstation Network and Qriocity services, and are currently drooling over Google's latest and greatest at the I/O 2011 conference in San Francisco.
Following the spectacular failure of Amazon.com Inc.'s Elastic Cloud Compute service last Thursday, another giant Web service, Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Network, has crashed and is showing no signs of coming back up soon. The network, boasting about 70 million users worldwide, has apparently been floored by an "external intrusion" and has been offline since around the same time Amazon.com's service went down.
TechFaith | March 31, 2011 | Press Release
BEIJING, March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- China TechFaith Wireless Communication Technology Limited (Nasdaq: CNTF) ("TechFaith" or the "Company") today announced it will expand shipments of its proprietary motion gaming mobile phone into Latin...
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The Computer Science department at the University of California at Santa Cruz has a few tricks up its sleeve with regard to artificial intelligence.
RCR Wireless News spoke with Benjamin Samuel, a PH.D. student in the Games and Playable Media Center’s Expressive Intelligence Studio, who...
Google is trying to make itself seem more attractive to mobile game developers, with Ian Ni-Lewis, Developer Advocate for Games at Google pulling out all the stops to woo the gangly geniuses out of their basements.
ORLANDO, Fla. – When it comes to augmented reality, while the sentiment may be that it's cool, just how realistic is the technology in the real world? Representatives from Viewdle, Ogmento, Qualcomm, and Total Immersion gathered today at CTIA in Orlando to discuss the issue...
America’s students are bored, unengaged and dropping out at alarming rates – but technology may be able to save the day. At least according to the panelists on a Samsung sponsored SXSW panel on Friday entitled: Asleep in the Classroom: A Wake Up Call from Tomorrow.
Quepasa | March 8, 2011 | Press Release
Quepasa Corporation (NYSE Amex: QPSA), creator and operator of Quepasa.com, the popular online social networkand game platform for the Latino community, has closed its acquisition of XtFt Games S/S Ltda, the owner ofsubstantially all the assets of...
GPS mapping provider Navteq says it believes it has a lot to offer the world of gaming, and spent GDC trying to persuade developers their content would look a whole lot nicer if it included the firm's enhanced 3D city models for more realistic and compelling content.
Cisco is not typically the kind of company you'd think of if anyone asked you to name a gaming firm, but the router company is nothing if not diverse, as we discovered in GDC this week.
BlackBerry may be business minded, but RIM wants you to know it's not all work and no play, showing off some rather compelling gaming content on its upcoming tablet at GDC in San Francisco.
Everyone seems to be winning at the Game Developer Conference is San Francisco this week, as the Moscone center becomes engulfed by a host of weird and wonderful nerds looking to mix business with playful pleasure.
QuePasa | February 10, 2011 | Press Release
WEST PALM BEACH, FL--(Marketwire - February 10, 2011) - Quepasa Corporation (NYSE Amex:QPSA), creator and operator of Quepasa.com, the popular online social network and gaming platform for the Latino community, has appointed Lars Fuhrken-Batista as a director of the...
A little device which created a rather big buzz at this year’s CES was the new Mobile Gaming PC from Razer – dubbed the “Switchblade” - based on Intel’s Atom chipset.
Showing a peer-to-peer gaming demo between three people on different devices – a Nokia Maemo, a Google Nexus One and a laptop – Qualcomm shows off how it believes modern chip technology can enhance mobile user experience.
