Earlier today, the company Valve, famous for its Steam platform and Half-Life series of games (amongst many others) announced that it will be shipping a native OS X version of Steam next month, with some very welcome new additions.
Valve let the news out via a press release on its website,...
While we weren't able to see the "wealth of cloud infotainment" touted in the official release, we did get a chance on the CeBIT show floor to see up close and personal ASUS' new O!Play HD2 m
Portal's eerie symbolism was ramped up another notch this week when Valve announced a patch that has gamers playing what seems to be an alternate reality game within the platformer. The update to the game doesn't seem to include much new content at first glance, but what has been added is clearly only the beginning of a much bigger trip down Valve's latest rabbit hole.
How would your company's director of engineering react if a visitor to your data center took out a pair of scissors and cut through an Ethernet cable? In this video, the folks at Isilon Systems team with magician Scott Tokar to find out.
If you believe the posters in one forum thread, Valve's content delivery service Steam could soon be making its way to Apple's Mac platform. But rather than the typical rumours from a friend of a friend who knows somebody that works for the company, graphics and files specifically referencing Mac...
A Blockbuster abriu insolvência em Portugal. As desculpas invocadas são as habituais nestes casos, “a Internet” e “a pirataria”. Não percebo como a pirataria, uma actividade praticada em alto mar por piratas que roubam barcos inteiros e sequestram ou matam as tripulações, pode ter afectado a Blockbuster. Percebo sim como os catálogos reduzidos e sem escolha tenham prejudicado o negócio. Percebo que os preços praticados afastem os clientes.
CWmike writes "Just two days after launching its Buzz social networking tools, Google said Thursday night that it had tweaked the technology to address early privacy concerns. Google said in a blog post that the quick updates makes it easier for users to block access to their pages and eases the path to finding two privacy features. 'We've had plenty of feature requests, and some direct feedback,' wrote Todd Jackson, a product manager for Gmail and Google Buzz, in the blog post.
When Google makes changes to its network, it gains attention. In recent days Google has reportedly cranked up usage of IPv6 for YouTube, and begun routing large volumes of traffic through a "mystery domain."