REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp gave the world the first look at its new game console on Tuesday, hoping the newly named Xbox One will build on a solid core of gamer fans and become a hub for living room entertainment. The third-generation Microsoft console, coming eight years after the Xbox 360, was unveiled ...
By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – Thousands of people have protested against the prosecution of an 18-year-old Florida high school senior after her parents launched an Internet petition claiming she was charged with sex crimes only because her lover, a then 14-year-old schoolmate, was another girl. By late Monday afternoon, almost 100,000 people had ...
By Jane Lee SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Humor may not always translate well, but Jon Stewart is picking up millions of fans in China, where his gloves-off political satire is refreshing for many in a country where such criticism is a rarity – especially when directed at their own leaders. A recent segment on North Korea ...
May 19 (Reuters) – Australia opening batsman David Warner will face a disciplinary hearing for his Twitter outburst against two senior Australian cricket journalists, the country’s cricket board said on Sunday. The flamboyant left-handed batsman criticised News Limited journalists Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn in an expletive-filled tirade, which grabbed headlines in Australia. The 26-year-old ...
May 18 (Reuters) – Cricket Australia is to investigate an extraordinary Twitter outburst by opening batsmen David Warner that attacked two senior Australian cricket journalists. The 26-year-old Warner criticised News Limited journalists Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn in an expletive-filled tirade, which has created headlines in Australia. “Cricket Australia is aware of comments made on ...
LONDON (Reuters) – The website of British newspaper the Financial Times was hacked on Friday, apparently by the “Syrian Electronic Army“, a group of hackers and on-line activists who say they support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Stories on the FT’s website have had their headlines replaced by “Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army” and messages on ...
By Li-mei Hoang LONDON (Reuters) – A group of British hackers who “ran riot” causing millions of dollars of damage to computer networks run by Sony, the CIA and other agencies were sentenced to jail terms on Thursday. Police said four men, members of the hacking collective known as “LulzSec“, put thousands of internet users’ ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The online shopping sites Newegg and Overstock Inc won a patent battle on Wednesday with telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA, which had accused the companies of infringing its patented technology. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which hears all patent appeals, upheld a lower court decision which found that ...
LONDON (Reuters) – Unruly, one of London‘s hottest tech companies, has made its first acquisition, buying Germany‘s Shareifyoulike to gain the leading position in viral video marketing in the country. Unruly and Shareifyoulike work with advertisers and their agencies to create viral campaigns, whereby ads are viewed, shared and talked about on social networks, creating ...
(Reuters) – General Motors Co unveiled a $ 288 million data center in the Detroit suburb of Warren on Monday it says will save the company millions of dollars in product development, manufacturing, marketing, and sales. GM has outsourced many of its computing and information technology (IT) functions in recent years, which it says were ...
By Ronald Grover LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Disney‘s ABC network will become the first broadcast network to stream its shows live online through an ongoing service, starting with viewers of its TV stations in New York and Philadelphia on May 14 and expanding to its other stations by the end of the summer. To promote ...
MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Indian government‘s cyber watchdog is looking into how the computer systems of two companies were breached in a sophisticated global ATM heist that saw $ 45 million stolen from two banks in the Middle East. EnStage Inc, which operates from Bangalore, and ElectraCard Services, which is based in the Indian city ...
By Dinesh Nair and Jessica Dye DUBAI/NEW YORK (Reuters) – One of the credit card processing companies whose security was breached in a $ 45 million global cyber heist was India’s ElectraCard Services, according to two people familiar with the situation. ElectraCard Services processes prepaid travel cards for National Bank of Ras Al Khaimah PSC ...
By Esteban Israel SAO PAULO (Reuters) – While Brazil struggles to finish its stadiums in time for the 2014 World Cup, Twitter is already working to cash in on what the U.S. company’s head of revenue, Adam Bain, sees as a potentially huge business opportunity. Robust consumer spending, growth potential from still-low Internet penetration and ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. charged eight individuals with stealing debit card data from two Middle Eastern banks in a scheme that prosecutors said netted them $ 45 million in a matter of hours. The New York-based cell hacked into credit card processors to steal Mastercard Inc debit card data, which they used to ...
LONDON (Reuters) – David Bowie‘s latest music video featuring him as a Christ-like figure surrounded by women in skimpy outfits and priests in a bar was slapped with an adult-only rating by video sharing website YouTube on Wednesday. The video for the single “The Next Day” was temporarily pulled from YouTube with a screen shot ...
By Pallavi Ail and Adithya Venkatesan (Reuters) – WebMD Health Corp said Chief Executive Cavan Redmond will be leaving the health information provider, less than a year after the former Pfizer Inc executive was appointed to turn around the company‘s fortunes. Shares of the company, which reported a smaller first-quarter loss, were up about 16 ...
BEIJING (Reuters) – Tencent Holdings is unlikely to charge any fees for the use of its popular mobile chatting application, its president was quoted as saying, after a cabinet minister caused an uproar by saying users might have to pay fees in future. Tencent’s Weixin, or WeChat, app is currently free and has attracted more ...
By Natasha Baker TORONTO (Reuters) – Worried about what your dog is chewing on when you’re at work, or whether your home is secure while on vacation? New apps can transform old smartphones into remote security cameras for home monitoring systems. Presence, which was launched late last month, converts a spare Internet-connected iPhone, iPad or ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Harvard historian Niall Ferguson posted an “unqualified apology” on his personal blog on Saturday after saying that British economist John Maynard Keynes did not care about the future because he was gay and had no children. The comments were “as stupid as they were insensitive,” Ferguson wrote. While speaking at a ...