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EA Defends Its Imminent Victory as “The Worst Company in America”

Posted 04/07/2013 at 10:55am | by Justin Kerr

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Sometimes even when you win you lose.

EA is on the verge of winning another award, but in this case we are using the term “winning” in the loosest possible sense. Each year The Consumerist asks the Internet at large to rate the worst companies in America, and EA appears poised to win for a second year in a row. Only in Charlie Sheen’s world could this even remotely be considered “winning” however, and as a result Chief Operating Office Peter Moore is stepping forward to offer his defense.

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F-Secure Rebuilds Online Scanner From the Ground Up

Posted 04/05/2013 at 9:25am | by Paul Lilly

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A free online scanner just got faster and lighter.

Security outfit F-Secure says it completely rebuilt its Online Scanner tool to run faster, lighter, and more capable than before. One of the biggest additions to the revamped scanner is that it now hunts for rootkits, those nasty bits of code that burrow deep down and sometimes boot before the operating sytem, making them extremely difficult to detect and remove. F-Secure also focused on downsizing the tool's footprint, which now checks in at 5MB.

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HP Chairman Ray Lane Resigns

Posted 04/05/2013 at 1:30am | by Pulkit Chandna

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Had become unpopular among shareholders for his role in the costly Autonomy acquisition debacle

The fallout from Hewlett-Packard’s ill-advised $11.3 billion acquisition of British software company Autonomy continued on Thursday as the company’s Chairman Raymond Lane, the man seen as the controversial deal’s chief proponents by shareholders, put in his papers.

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Disney Shuts Down LucasArts, Shifts to Licensing Model

Posted 04/03/2013 at 12:29pm | by Paul Lilly

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Farewell LucasArts, and Thanks for the Grog

Today's a sad day for any old school graphic adventurer (such as myself) who grew up wandering every inch of Maniac Mansion looking for that damned can of gas, and then finally finding it on Mars while playing Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders. For those of you who know what the hell I'm talking about, understand we're a dying breed of gamer, but I digress. The real story here is in the headline. Disney, less than five months after prying Lucasfilm from George Lucas' hands for $4.05 billion, has decided to close the LucasArts game studio. Go ahead and tip your grog glass over the pavement.

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Futuremark Ports 3DMark Benchmark to Android

Posted 04/02/2013 at 10:44am | by Paul Lilly

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3DMark for Android is now available.

Futuremark today announced that the Android version of 3DMark is now available to download, giving Android device owners another benchmark at their disposal. Several prominent technology firms provided input into the benchmark's design, including Imagination Technologies, Intel, Broadcom, Nvidia, Qualcomm, and others. One of the goals was to make it so that scores could be compared across platforms, and apparently Futuremark delivered.

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Majority of Android Users Still Stuck on Gingerbread or Older Builds

Posted 04/02/2013 at 8:31am | by Paul Lilly

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Android 2.3.x (Gingerbread) is still the most popular version of Android in terms of market share.

Still waiting on your device maker and wireless carrier to dish up Jelly Bean to replace Ice Cream Sandwich on your mobile phone? Hey, it could be worse. You could be stuck on Android 2.3.x (Gingerbread) where 44.1 percent of all Android users reside, or on an even older build (Froyo, Elcair, or Donut), which collectively account another 9.6 percent of the Android camp. Add them together you have nearly 54 percent of the Android userbase rocking a dated version of their OS.

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Windows 8's Market Share is Coming at the Expense of Windows Vista/XP

Posted 04/01/2013 at 10:06am | by Paul Lilly

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Windows 7 users don't seem to be in a rush to upgrade to Windows 8.

Another month is in the books, and that means we have another opportunity to examine Windows 8's impact on the market. According to Net Market Share, Windows 8's share of the desktop market has slowly crawled to 3.17 percent, up half a percentage point from February and up from a 2.26 percent share in January. What's interesting here is that Windows 7's penetration doesn't seem any worse for wear since Windows 8 debuted five months ago.

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Intel Readies HD Graphics Driver Update for Ivy Bridge

Posted 03/29/2013 at 10:35am | by Paul Lilly

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New graphics drivers for Ivy Bridge will add Ultra HD support.

If you're using the integrated graphics embedded into your 3rd generation Core processor (Ivy Bridge) from Intel, get ready for a driver update that's supposed to improve power and performance, as well as add new features. Intel HD Graphics driver 15.31 will be the seventh update since the introduction of 2nd generation Core processors (Sandy Bridge), and though it was built for 4th gen chips (Haswell), it will work on Ivy Bridge too.

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Razer Edge Gaming Tablet Ships with Steam Software Pre-Installed

Posted 03/28/2013 at 9:20am | by Paul Lilly

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At least you won't have to worry about installing Steam.

Razer is pretty stoked to let the world know that its Edge tablet for gamers will soon come pre-installed with Valve's Steam software, enabling users to more quickly tap into their existing games library. Of course, you could always download Steam yourself, but hey, we'd rather see Steam sitting there than a bunch of trialware and other bloat that OEMs sometimes like to load their systems with. Still, we have reservations about the Edge.

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THQ Games Featured in This Week's Humble Bundle

Posted 03/27/2013 at 11:44am | by Paul Lilly

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A measly $1 donation scores some classic titles.

The infamous Humble Bundle is proof positive that not all gamers are cheapskates. You know the drill -- you donate $1 or more and, as a reward, you receive a collection of titles. Many people choose to donate more than a buck, and there are incentives for doing so, but if you're strapped for cash, nobody's going to give you the stink-eye for what amounts to legal robbery. This week's Humble Bundle features "epic THQ games."

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