Delicious HTC and Verizon Wireless have officially announced the upcoming launch of cool new 4G LTE HTC Rezound Android-powered handset, which the companies claim as the only smartphone in the United States to integrate Beats Audio technology. Complemented with Mobile High Definition Link (MHL) connectivity and an included advanced Beats headphones that feature on-cable remote [...]

Adobe Systems just crippled Flash Player, but it hasn’t put the browser plug-in out of its misery. Today, Adobe confirmed that it’s extinguishing the Flash Player plug-in for mobile devices. The move came as a surprise, given how hard Adobe worked to develop and promote the software and given that a key benefit of Flash [...]

(Credit: StreamingMedia.com) Over the next two days, I will be at the Streaming Media West Conference in Los Angeles, getting schooled in the fast-moving world that is online video. Old-media bigwigs and new-media luminaries will abound, talking about stuff like the emergence of platforms, the evolution of entertainment, the pivoting of strategies, and, of course, [...]

Players will be able to join together into corporations and fight for territory on thousands of different planets across the Eve universe.   Dust 514 is the first game for CCP Games (the developer of Eve Online) since their space combat game hit the PC in May 2003.   This is not the first time [...]

My dungeon crawling experience of yesterday are littered with trips down memory lane to the Amiga we have stored away, Tales of pirates and many hours spent on Golden Axe.   Nostalgia now well out-of-the-way, lets talk a look at Acquire Corp. They are an Indie game developer based in Japan who have traditionally released [...]

Grace Windram is a five-year-old little girl that was born with spastic dyplegic cerebral palsy. The disease causes issues with her motor functions, leaving her unable to walk. Her parents were elated when she was selected to receive a complicated operation at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. The operation won’t solve her problems, but along with [...]

Microsoft has completed its $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype Global, giving the software company a major foothold in the growing market for Internet telephony services. “Skype is a phenomenal product and brand that is loved by hundreds of millions of people around the world,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a statement late last night. [...]

Mozilla has decided that when it comes to Android devices, performance is more important than the wealth of add-ons that can be used to customize Firefox. Yesterday, Mozilla’s Director of Firefox Engineering Johnathan Nightingale announced on a mailing list that Firefox will move to Android’s native user interface, ditching the XUL technology that has been [...]

Adobe’s CSS shaders let this Google Maps Web page be folded like a real map. (Credit: screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET) commentary For all the folks out there who love to bash Adobe Systems for its Flash Player software, it’s time to take a fresh look at the company. Because today’s Adobe is very different than [...]

When Apple introduced the iPhone and iOS, it pushed for the adoption of HTML5 as an alternative to and replacement for Adobe Flash, stating that the plug-in is clunky, lacking in features, and not advancing. Since then, Adobe has buckled down and implemented a number of enhancements in Flash and its latest releases have brought [...]