News in Brief Category - Page 6

Storage is big business, considering the ever-expanding needs to store our data and media. With this, Western Digital has recently entered in to an agreement to acquire Hitachi GST. The price: $4.3 billion.

Last December, news of the Tomb Raider video game reboot coming from Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix set the video game blogosphere on fire. Now it looks like Lara Croft is headed for a second reboot, this time on the big screen, as GK Films has bought the rights to [...]

Sony is serious about protecting its intellectual property. In an update to the ongoing legal battle between Sony and PS3 hacker George Hotz, a federal judge is letting Sony secure visitor information from ISPs and online services. This could mean you!

Time does heal all wounds. After a fiery fight over the exclusion of Flash in Apple’s iPhone, iPad and iPod devices, Adobe is ready to bury the hatchet. Latest ads will show Adobe’s support of Apple’s iPad.

The Sony-LG battle over patent infringement escalates. European customs offices have seized PS3 shipments due to a court ruling relating to patent infringement.

Variety is reporting that Screen Gems, a Sony Pictures subsidiary, is currently working on bringing Dante to the big screen in his very own Devil May Cry flick. Writer Kyle Ward is working on the screenplay, which has Dante hunting down the demons that are responsible for his mother’s murder.

Ever since the show down between IBM’s Watson and Jeopardy champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, people have been wondering what’s next for the A.I., with more than few nerds out there thinking that the singularity is now only a hop, skip, and a jump away. Well, the singularity doesn’t [...]

Rumors have been flying around that Apple might be coming out with a smaller, cheaper iPhone. Rumors were in fact so rampant that a name had even come about and most were already dubbing this brand new iPhone the iPhone Nano.

Verizon home connect has only been active in a couple of trial cities since December but the company has already decided that the service will go nationwide as soon as possible. Verizon originally launched the trial in New York and Connecticut only but the company apparently thinks it has already [...]

Fresh off its first victory over a couple of former Jeopardy champions, IBM’s super computer, codenamed Watson hammered Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter again. The second win means that Watson takes home the two day grand prize of one million dollars that will be donated to charity.