Steve Appleton was working for Micron since 1983 and played a major role in the companies history and became CEO in 1994. BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 3, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Appleton, Micron (Nasdaq:MU) Chairman and CEO, passed away this morning in a small plane accident in Boise. He was 51.   Our hearts go out to his wife, Dalynn, his children...

In a statement made on the EA forums it has been made clear that the “forums was defaced by a hacker”. The forums were taken offline while the issue was being investigated.   The vulnerability is believed to be fixed and EA has found no evidence that any personal data was compromised. You have to ask yourself why so much game-developers / publishers are being hacked. Have they...

So the website Megaupload has been shutdown by the FEDS. Is this true justice or the end of file-sharing websites? McLEAN, Va. (AP) — One of the world’s largest file-sharing sites was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company executives were charged with violating piracy laws, federal prosecutors said.   An indictment accuses Megaupload.com of costing copyright holders more...

Microsoft has officially announced that Kinect will make it’s way to Windows. Below you will find the full press release. It will also detail some of the changes that are made compared to the Kinect for Xbox360. The main change for Kinect for Windows will be the “near mode”, which allows the device to focus on gestures as close as 50cm away. This is about the distance you are...

It was just a matter of time but it happened. Steam got hacked and “Gabe Newell” co-founder and managing director Valve Corporation says sorry. read his statement below Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users:   Our Steam forums were defaced on the evening of Sunday, November 6. We began investigating and found that the intrusion goes beyond the Steam forums.   We learned...

I would like to quote Apple’s own “Remembering Steve Jobs” page for this. And to look at the bright side of life maybe apple can come with and iSteve now? Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing humnan being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and inspiring mentor. Steve leaves...

Facebook has responded to the publication of Nik Cubrilovic claiming Facebook will track it’s users via the Social-Website’s cookie even after logging out from facebook. At this point no official statement from Facebook has been given but the article is still a interesting read. Facebook Engineer “Arturo Bejar” comment son the alligations of Nik Cubrilovic, Arturo Bejar...

Hacker Nik Cubrilovic made an analasys on the http-headers that come from Facebook and the cookies that the social-network site produces. The new Facebook API makes it possible to send status updates to the Facebook Timeline without any actions take on the user side something Facebook likes to call “frictionless sharing” and not many people seem to like the new Friction Less Stalking...

So it seems apple introduced some new vulnerabilities in it’s OS X Lion that weren’t in other builds of the OS. Patrick Dunstan discovered that every user in Mac OS X Lion can access the ShadowHashData-files of any user on that system without root access. Be sure to read the whole artile through the link if you’re interested. In 2009 I posted an article on Cracking Mac OS X...

The bird that doesn’t stop growing but still hasn’t got a working and active “profit-model”… Twitter has 100 million active users logging in at least once a month and 50 million active users every day, CEO Dick Costolo revealed Thursday.   The microblogging service has a total of 200 million registered users, but how many of those are actually regulars has been...

Well that’s allot of money for the combats against used games.The revenues we derive from that haven’t been dramatic. I’d say they’re in the $10-$15 million range since we initiated the program This year, EA introduced its Online Pass, which directly combats the used games market by offering one-time use codes to play its EA Sports games online. Those obtaining used copies...

With this new formation Intel hopes to streamline the government and it’s primarily focus will be “supercomputers” SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 30, 2011 – Intel Corporation today announced the formation of a wholly owned subsidiary, Intel Federal LLC, to provide strategic focus in order to better address new opportunities in working with the U.S. government. Initially Intel...

Hitachi, Sony and Toshiba announced they want to start a joint venture for producing small and mid range LCD panels. The three Japanese companies hope they can compete better against the Taiwanese and South-Korean LCD manufactures. - To establish a leading global company by integrating three companies’ businesses -   TOKYO, August 31, 2011 - Innovation Network Corporation of Japan...

So instead of making the 3D experience easier with smaller and lighter glasses Sony decides to go another way. These kind of Head Mounted Displays are normally used for virtual-reality purposes. - Offering a new 3D-viewing style with movie theater-like virtual screen experience -   Tokyo, Japan – August 31, 2011 – Sony Corporation (“Sony“) today announced the launch...

AMD has introduced it’s new C and E Accelerated Processing Units. The new APU’s that are used in Ultraportables, Netbooks and power efficient desktop PC’s the new APU’s also have added DDR3 1333MHz instead of DDR3 1066MHz (E series). While the new C APU’s get: Enhanced HD graphics capabilities Performance boosts with enhanced memory DisplayPort ++ for connecting to...

And another one bites to dust, it’s like Google is playing real-life Pac-Man and keeps eating other big companies. Since its launch in November 2007, Android has not only dramatically increased consumer choice but also improved the entire mobile experience for users. Today, more than 150 million Android devices have been activated worldwide—with over 550,000 devices now lit up every...

THQ released its Q1 of FY12 financials. The firm reports a net sales of $195.2 million compared with $149.4 million the year before and a net loss of $38.4 million. It might be a good thing they come with some new great IP instead of milking the Red Faction Cow. THQ “disappointed” in Q1 results   For the three months ended June 30, 2011, the company reported a net loss of $38.4 million,...

Crysis 2 – HD v 0.1 alpha – initial public release INSTALLATION: unpack to main Crysis 2\ directory run Crysis2HD.bat ::AI changes:: +LUA Default close combat range doubled for all AI – fDefaultCloseCombatRange = Sniper close combat range doubled for all AI – fSniperCloseCombatRange = Optimal combat range doubled for all AI – fOptimalCombatRange = ::Weapon...

Key points short list: This year’s Call of Duty game to be announced in “weeks”. Diablo III public beta aimed at Q3 2011. Black Ops Escalation map pack out on PS3 “later this quarter”. Escalation sold 1.4 million on 360 within 24 hours. World of Warcraft now has more than 11.4 million subscribers worldwide. Micro-transaction Call of Duty game confirmed for China. Profit...