Researcher publishes exploit for new IE hole

March 11th, 2010

Clues in McAfee blog post led researcher to existing exploit code which he analyzed to write his own code.

GDC 2010: Scaling the summits of gameplay

March 11th, 2010

roundup This week’s Game Developers Conference brings together designers, programmers, publishers, and others for the latest from the world of video play.

Dolby bringing 3D voice chat to consoles, Mac

March 11th, 2010

The audio specialist is bringing its 3D Axon technology to video game consoles as well as the Mac to enable a bunch of neat new voice chat tricks for console games.

InstantAction to offer embeddable console games

March 11th, 2010

At GDC 2010, InstantAction follows rival OnLive in announcing a service that lets gamers quickly rent or buy console games over the Internet.

Browser ballot not on tap for Asia

March 11th, 2010

Opera won’t be lobbying for a browser choice screen to be implemented in Asia-Pacific, while Mozilla’s Open to Choice campaign stays within Europe.

Sex.com sells

March 11th, 2010

Target starts a coupon program for mobile phones, Google launches a fancy new RSS reader, and Sex.com is up for grabs.

Pink Floyd wins court fight on downloads

March 11th, 2010

The U.K.’s High Court sides with famed British rock band and tells EMI no more selling individual song downloads without Pink Floyd’s permission.

New OpenGL 4.0 aims to match DirectX 11

March 11th, 2010

The cross-platform graphics interface adds support for tesselation and better general-purpose computation.

Motorola bringing Bing to China, via Android

March 11th, 2010

Microsoft’s Bing search engine hitches a ride to China aboard handsets from Motorola.

Opera releases Mini browser beta for Android

March 11th, 2010

Google’s phone operating system gets a new browser choice as Opera begins the upgrade process for its lower-end mobile browser.