Optical drives not working with Mountain Lion for some

Cnet - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

inability to access their systems' internal optical drives . Once installed, inserting a disc results in a couple of noises before the disc is ejected. While this can sometimes happen for burned discs that are no longer readable, it appears to happen for all discs, be they home-burned or commercial. If this is happening on your system, first try testing the problem with multiple operating ...

Get a Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad for $39.99

Cnet - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad for $39.99 shipped . It lists for $99.99 and sells elsewhere (like at Amazon) for around $75-80. True to its name, the Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad is an iPad cover with a built-in keyboard -- and it's ultrathin. It connects via Bluetooth, runs for months on a battery charge, and holds your tablet in either portrait or landscape orientation. ...

Heres what we know about Xbox One games

Cnet - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Xbox One , and it will be a machine that will wear many hats. But what did we learn about the games? First off, Microsoft tells CNET that the Xbox One will not be backward compatible with any previous Xbox game. Xbox One games will also need to be fully installed, and if the install disc is used on another console, there will be a small fee for doing so. We don't have a lot of the details ...

Telecom Italia mulls mobile unit spinoff sources

Reuters - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

By Stefano Rebaudo and Alberto Sisto MILAN | Tue May 21, 2013 4:30pm EDT MILAN (Reuters) - Telecom Italia is mulling spinning off its mobile unit along with its fixed-line network to bring new investors on board, three people, including a senior political source, told Reuters on Tuesday. "The three-way split would allow the company to reduce debt and staff costs and favor the entry ...

Microsoft announces its Xbox 360 successor the Xbox One

The Inquirer - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Microsoft has launched the Xbox One, the entertainment and gaming hub that will replace the Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 was released in Winter 2005, and the replacement has been heavily hyped and heading towards us for years. The countdown has finished, the wait is over and we can now confirm that it is called the Xbox One and has an eight-core x86 processor with more than 5 billion transistors. A ...

UPDATE 2-PayPal to increase marketing this year for offline push

Reuters - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Tue May 21, 2013 3:53pm EDT By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO May 21 (Reuters) - PayPal, the online payment operation owned by eBay Inc, will increase marketing spending to support its push into physical stores, President David Marcus said on Tuesday. "You'll start seeing us amping marketing up later this year," Marcus said in an interview with Reuters. PayPal is trying to become a ...

VMware launches network-savvy cloud service

ComputerWorld AU - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator from other established hybrid cloud ...

10 killer new features of Microsofts Xbox One

CNN Money - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Xbox game console Tuesday, touting a device it claims will revolutionize the experience of using your television. Eight years after the launch of the Xbox 360, which is currently the best-selling games machine in the U.S., Microsoft finds itself the last of the three big game-makers to show off new hardware. The device is due out later this year. No price was announced. Here's a closer ...

Mr. Cook came to Washington and escaped unscathed

CNN Money - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

an apology . John McCain (Rep., Ariz.), after a bout of tax dodging rhetoric, wanted to know why his iPhone was constantly updating its apps. Even Levin was having a hard time getting up a head of righteous steam. Working from staff-prepared notes (and whispered instructions) on material he didn't seem to have mastered fully, he was left, at the end, with no choice but to filibuster. ...

Spielberg to work on new live-action Halo TV series

CNet - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

(Credit: James Martin/CNET) Microsoft and 343 Industries have recruited film director Steven Spielberg in the creation of a new Halo live-action TV series. The companies announced the new series during ...

The OEMpire strikes back -- Microsofts best buddies go Google

InfoWorld - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

With Windows PC sales falling like Steven Tyler at an Aerosmith concert, all the major PC manufacturers are unleashing a brace of innovative, competitive products based on Google's Android platform. In some cases, the Android alternatives go head-to-head with the same manufacturer's Windows 8 boxes, with the Android machines always cheaper and sometimes better endowed. It's almost ...

2013 is the year of the voice command

Cnet - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Xbox One , I was struck by just how many voice commands Microsoft programmed into the device. Kinect brought a rudimentary set of commands to the gaming console, but now everything from opening movies to launching apps can be done via voice. "Xbox, Live TV" may be my new favorite phrase in the living room. Microsoft's not the only one who's betting big on voice commands. The ...

Five unanswered questions about the Xbox One

Cnet - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Live Blog: Next-Generation Xbox Unveiled With the pre-E3 announcement of Microsoft's next living room video game console, the parlor game of speculation about all the missing details can begin. As with ...

NASA funds attempt at 3D food printer for pizza

Cnet - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

(Credit: Systems and Materials Research) "Star Trek" food replicators will always be the holy grail of space-snack technology, but we could be edging a step closer to the dream thanks to the work of mechanical ...

EA announces Ignite engine for next-gen sports games

Cnet - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

(Credit: Screenshot by David Carnoy/CNET) Over the years, sports games have become more and more realistic, and EA is promising to take that realism to a whole new level in next-generation versions of many of its popular sports franchises. At Microsoft's unveiling of ...

Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4

Cnet - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

With specs revealed for the Xbox One, we finally have a chance to directly compare it with that other yet-to-be-released gaming console, the PlayStation ...

Supercharged Xbox Live enhances cloud support for Xbox One

Cnet - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Live Blog: Next-Generation Xbox Unveiled The Xbox One was just announced, and with it, Microsoft unveiled a new Xbox Live. The service will include more capabilities, such as Skype and a dedicated game DVR for capturing in-game footage. The company also said that users can install games in segments so they can play without waiting for the whole program to install; the system will download and ...

PayPal to be in all RadioShack stores starting in May

West Australian - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

By Alistair BarrSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - PayPal, the online payment operation owned by eBay Inc, announced a new partnership on Tuesday with RadioShack Corp that will introduce PayPal into all of the electronics retailer's stores starting this month.PayPal has been testing a way for customers of smoothly store Jamba Juice to order ahead using PayPal's smartphone application and pick ...

France Tel to invest up to 50 million euro in Dailymotion report

Reuters - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

PARIS | Tue May 21, 2013 2:43pm EDT PARIS (Reuters) - France Telecom plans to invest between 30 and 50 million euros ($64 million) in its video-sharing website Dailymotion and begin a fresh search for a partner in the autumn, its chief executive said on Tuesday. Stephane Richard also said in an interview with RTL radio that "the door is not closed" to Yahoo Inc, which had been ...

Microsoft unveils next Xbox games console

RTE - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Microsoft Corp has given a first look at its new game console, 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 console, coming eight years after the Xbox 360, was unveiled by games unit chief Don Mattrick at an event at the software company's campus near ...

UPDATE 3-Microsoft unveils Xbox One with Spielberg Activision tie-up

Reuters - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Tue May 21, 2013 3:21pm EDT By Bill Rigby and Malathi Nayak REDMOND, Wash. May 21 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp gave the world a first look at its new Xbox One on Tuesday, announcing that its first gaming console in eight years will come with exclusive video and software content, including a "Halo" series produced by Steven Spielberg. The Xbox One, which will be available later this year ...

Senate panel peels back Apples offshore taxes

Reuters - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

1 of 7. Apple CEO Tim Cook (C), CFO Peter Oppenheimer (L) and Apple Head of tax operations Philip Bullock appear before a Senate homeland security and governmental affairs investigations subcommittee hearing on offshore profit shifting and the U.S. tax code, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 21, ...