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• Field Assignment: Photo Gear to Pack With You
  Whether you've got a DSLR or smartphone, give your shooter a helping hand with some choice accessories.
  06.01.12

• Hands On With Windows 8 Release Preview: It's All About the Apps
  Windows users are one step closer to getting a major system facelift -- and if today's release of Microsoft's latest OS build tells us anything, it's that the company is putting the system's strongest focus on lean and mean Metro apps.
  05.31.12

• Ford's 'Sync' Driving Data to Provide Insurance Discounts
  State Farm is expanding its Drive Safe and Save usage-based insurance program to include cars equipped with Ford¿s Sync telematics system. Also known as ¿pay as you go,¿ usage-based insurance programs look at how many miles drivers put on their cars and calculate premiums accordingly.
  05.31.12

• Digital Pre-Orders Coming to PlayStation 3 With Tokyo Jungle
  Users who pay for the full game in advance can even download the data in advance of the June 7 release date.
  05.31.12

• Microsoft Floats Cloud Just for the Feds
  Microsoft is offering the feds their very own version of Office 365, the suite of online office tools the software giant introduced last year.
  05.30.12

• Will Microsoft's Linux Gambit on Azure Pay Off?
  Yes, Microsoft will soon embrace Linux on its Windows Azure cloud, "reaching another milestone in its ongoing efforts to reinvent itself as a friend of open source software," writes Wired Enterprise editor Cade Metz today. The big deal: Linux virtual machines will retain data indefinitely, even after they¿re rebooted -- unlike now. "...That¿s essential to businesses ...
  05.30.12

• Sony Announces Waterproof Android Phones, the Xperia Go and Arco S
  Sony announced two new dual-core, waterproof smartphones on Wednesday and, unfortunately, one of the new handsets will arrive running an outdated version of Google's Android operating system.
  05.30.12

• Japan Makes First Game Piracy Arrest Under New Law
  Two Japanese men were arrested this year for circumventing copyright protection on Nintendo videogame consoles in violation of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act.
  05.30.12

• Microsoft Preps for Public Embrace of Linux
  Yes, Microsoft will soon embrace Linux on its Windows Azure cloud, reaching another milestone in its efforts to reinvent itself as a friend of open source software.
  05.30.12

• Microsoft Announces Imagine Cup Finalists 2012
  The Imagine Cup is a competition run and delivered by Microsof tto support and engage students from across the globe in developing technology projects that address global issues such as poverty, access to healthcare, and environmental sustainability.
  05.30.12

• Square Enix To Unveil Major Final Fantasy XIV Overhaul at E3
  After E3, a summer marketing push will accompany in-game changes that lead directly into Version 2.0 launching this fall.
  05.29.12

• Rocker Fort Atlantic Releases New Album on Nintendo Cartridges
  Jon Black is not your typical rocker. Taking a cue from the the chiptune community, he is releasing his new album in a limited-edition run of hacked Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges. The carts, sourced from a used game store and eBay, come loaded with flash drives containing MP3s of the album and videos.
  05.29.12

• Windows 8 Dev Kit Only Does Metro Apps (Unless You Pay)
  Microsoft has said that the upcoming free version of its new Visual Studio 11 programming kit will only be used to build Windows applications with the new Metro touch interface that debuts with Windows 8. And some developers aren't too happy about it. Those wishing to build traditional desktop apps for Microsoft's Windows operating system will ...
  05.25.12

• Microsoft Requests Takedowns From Google, But Content Remains on Bing
  Who's the most prolific Google search takedown requester? Microsoft. But here's the kicker: Microsoft has asked Google to remove URLs from its search results, while leaving some of those very same URLs active on its own search engine, Bing.
  05.25.12

• Anarchy Reigns Gets Demo, Loses Release Date
  "Unfortunately...we don't know when the game is coming out in the West. That's up for Sega to decide," Platinum Games announced. The Japanese release is unaffected.
  05.25.12

• Microsoft to Offer 80-Inch Windows 8 Tablets for Offices
  Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is using an 80-inch Windows 8 tablet in his office, and such a super-huge touch display should be available to offices everywhere later this year.
  05.25.12

• Review: Max Payne 3 Has Enough Bullets for Everyone
  Playing through Max Payne 3's single player campaign is akin to spending an afternoon watching the whole Die Hard saga: great fun, but really something you shouldn't do more than once.
  05.24.12

• Nicktoons MLB, Mario Tennis Open Get It (Mostly) Right on 3DS
  It's NHL playoff season, but, even through two nail-biting scoreless periods of Saturday's Rangers/Devils game, my head hasn't exactly been in the game. It's also been in my Nintendo 3DS.
  05.24.12

• HP Cuts 27K Employees, Looks to Cloud and Data Analytics for Growth
  Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman announced the layoff of 27,000 employees Wednesday, or 8 percent of the company¿s workforce. The painful move is part of Whitman¿s strategy to refocus the hardware and software giant to take advantage of what Whitman describes as ¿some of the biggest shifts in technology that I have seen in my career.¿
  05.23.12

• Explore 5 Japanese Cities in Ambitious Yakuza 5
  Sega will release the ambitious mobster game Yakuza 5 this December in Japan.
  05.23.12

• ITC Judge: Xbox Should Be Banned From U.S. Over Motorola Patent Violation
  An ITC judge ruled Monday that the Microsoft Xbox should face a sales and import ban in the U.S. for violating four Motorola patents.
  05.22.12

• Hands On: So.cl, Microsoft's 'Experimental' Social Search Network
  Is Microsoft's new social network So.cl the next Facebook, Twitter or even Google+? We spent some hands-on time with Microsoft's new social network to find out. The short answer: no.
  05.22.12

• Microsoft Courts Azure Developers in Bangalore
  Despite its plan to get behind a big shift to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) with a June 7 launch, Microsoft faces an uphill battle getting U.S. coders to jump from Amazon to its cloud. So it comes as little surprise to see that Microsoft today announced it was launching an accelerator for its Windows Azure cloud in India.
  05.22.12

• Game|Life Video: Music Games Help 3DS Find Its Rhythm
  Two music games coming to 3DS this July, Rhythm Thief and Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, add a dose of rhythm to your 3-D gaming.
  05.22.12

• Will Today's Coders Embrace Microsoft's Cloud?
  With word that Microsoft is going after Amazon with a big cloud move the first week of June, the question on this cloud watcher's mind is: Even if Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud goes, as it has recently teased to analysts, big on infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), supports Linux (as is expected to be the big deal about ...
  05.21.12

• Microsoft Drops 'Aero Glass' User Interface in Windows 8
  Microsoft announced on Friday that it is dropping its Aero UI in the final version of Windows 8. Instead, the new user interface will adopt a cleaner, flatter look and feel.
  05.21.12

• Review: Diablo III Was Worth 12 Years of Hell
  Diablo III is a video game. A pretty, well-designed, acoustically impressive video game that makes 12 years seem worth the wait. I¿d say that by those standards, Diablo III is pretty great.
  05.21.12