Silicon Valley’s best-known CEO blogger now wants to become its best-known ex-CEO blogger (and yes, there may be a book in the works as well). Jonathan Schwartz, formerly of Sun Microsystems, has used his new pulpit to poke a stick at Steve Jobs. The Apple boss tried to bully Sun into submission back in 2003 [...]
Sales figures for music games have hit more than a few bum notes lately, but there may be life in the Guitar Hero/Rock Band genre yet. MTV Games announced on Tuesday there would be a Rock Band 3 later this year, implying a new distribution deal had been struck with Electronic Arts. Meanwhile, over at the [...]
The US Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday that heavily promoted identity theft prevention company LifeLock agreed to pay it and 35 states $12m to settle their accusations that it deceived consumers with a bogus $1m “guarantee” that it would stop fraud in their names. The FTC’s legal complaint is the latest in a series of [...]
Sony is expected to demonstrate its new motion controller for the PlayStation 3 at the 2010 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, which opened today. However, STMicroelectronics, the chipmaker whose accelerometers were behind Nintendo’s Wii remote, is poised to take controllers to the next level with as many as 11 measures of sensitivity. The original Wii-mote [...]
If your iPhone is still sluggish a few years from now, don’t blame Cisco Systems. The top networking equipment maker on Tuesday announced a new high-end router for telecom companies that it said could handle three times the internet traffic of its current model at the same $90,000 base price. Put a few of them together–ok, 72–and [...]