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Valve has announced that it will delay the launch of its Steam Machine hardware range and the companion Steam Controller until 2015. On the company’s Steam blog, product designer Eric Hope, posting under his screen name of Axiom, said that the shift would allow Valve to improve the Steam Contr
Low-cost Android tablets from little-known vendors with 3G capabilities may soon hit shelves with chips from Intel, which is looking to replace ARM processors in devices starting at $100. Intel on Tuesday struck a deal with Chinese chipmaker Rockchip to jointly make an Intel-based x86 Atom chip with
In a testament to its success in a large corner of the employment market that has been underserved by technology providers, Jobaline is raising a substantial round of fresh capital. The Kirkland, Washington company has raised $7 million in Series B funding for a nationwide expansion of its mobile, b
Payments company Square officially announced a cash advance program Wednesday that could help its existing merchants, and its own company, increase the money they make. The program, called Square Capital, lets merchants borrow a lump sum from Square and pay it back through a set percentage of their
Don’t you just hate it when your printer runs out of ink? For some reason this usually happens at the most inopportune moments, like when you have a report to submit by the end of the day and you only have 5 minutes left, or if you have a huge school assignment that needs to […]
Western Digital has added more in-home video-streaming options and file-format support to its latest WD TV Personal Edition. The $99.99 TV box, like its predecessors, can play video from streaming services Netflix, Hulu Plus and Vudu. New features include support for Miracast so users can stream vid
Acquia, a digital services company based in Burlington, announced Tuesday it has closed a $50 million financing round led by a new investor, Maryland-based New Enterprise Associates. The new financing brings Acquia’s total investment funding to $118.6 million, from investors including Waltham-
Billboard and Twitter have launched a new interactive chart – the Billboard Trending 140 – that ranks shared songs in the U.S. by analyzing the fastest-moving tracks, in terms of the acceleration of shares via tweet, over the past hour. The result is a real-time presentation of the most-shared track
In a bit of news from the “this is depressing” department, a team from MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory has managed to come up with a means by which those on the moon can enjoy broadband-like connectivity for transmitting data to and from earth. We say that as we do, because there are plen
Twitter’s MoPub will integrate with Omnicom’s programmatic ad purchasing product in a two-year deal valued at $230 million. The agreement includes a “‘first look’ at mobile-ad units created by Twitter.” The Omnicom deal could indicate that Twitter’s purchase of MoPub, a $350 million bet into the mob
The Galaxy S5’s heart rate sensor has mostly been handy for fitness gurus, but it’s now helpful for the rest of us, too. Samsung has pushed out an update to S Health that uses the sensor to track stress levels; if your heart is racing after a bad day at work, you’ll know. The app a
If you’re looking for a way to keep your beer cool, especially since no one likes tepid beer, then perhaps the eCool beer cooler could be worth your consideration. We should point out that as you can see in the picture above, the eCool beer cooler is not your typically cooler. It does not use [&hell
