Jan 27

Epic Games sells Gears of War to Microsoft

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Epic Games sells Gears of War to Microsoft

Epic Games will sell intellectual property rights of Gears of War franchise to Microsoft. According to Microsoft, Black Tusk Studios from Vancouver will take over development of this franchise and former director of Continue reading »

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Jan 07

China allows foreign video game consoles but with limitations

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China allows foreign video game consoles but with limitations

China has banned gaming consoles in year 2000, because of the bad impact on the mental health of young people. But now the government of China has lifted this ban and will allow Continue reading »

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Dec 21

Windows Phone users get free 20GB of extra SkyDrive storage

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Windows Phone users get free 20GB of extra SkyDrive storage

Microsoft is giving its Windows Phone users free 20GB of extra SkyDrive storage for the next year. Windows is sending this special treat to Continue reading »

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Dec 17

Barack Obama meets with more than a dozen tech CEOs

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Barack Obama meets with more than a dozen tech CEOs

President Barack Obama is meeting today with more than a dozen tech CEOs after several influential tech companies drafted a letter to Obama and Congress in opposition regarding the NSA’s surveillance activities on their servers and system. Obama and tech CEOs will talk about Continue reading »

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Nov 01

Rockstar sues Google for patent infringement

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Rockstar Nortel

Rockstar is jointly owned by Apple, BlackBerry, Ericsson, Microsoft and Sony, and the consortium bought for $4.5 billion Nortel patents. Rockstar is suing Samsung, HTC, Huawei and four other companies for patent infringement in U.S. District Court in Texas. Google is accused of Continue reading »

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Oct 21

Allan Mulally: top contender as Microsoft CEO

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Alan-Mulally

As we have previously reported, Microsoft is having interviews with possible CEOs because current Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would retire next year. Mulally is Ford CEO (also former top Boeing executive) and will remain as such until the end of 2014. According to CNN, Continue reading »

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