The popular iPhone app Angry Birds has been launched on Facebook in a free version that can be played on internet browsers.
The game, which has been downloaded 500 million times - and even said to have David Cameron as a fan - involves flinging cartoon birds at pigs.
On Facebook, users can play the game using a mouse to fling birds across the screen - rather than a finger as they would on the iPhone’s touch screen.
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A Chinese hacking group calling itself Evil Shadow has taken credit for exposing sensitive data from one of the largest corporations in the world.
The hack only affects customers who have purchased a product or software download from Microsoft’s Indian online store, but its implications can be felt throughout the multinational company.
The Indian version of Microsoft’s online store is run by a company called Quasar Media, which shut down access to the site after Evil Shadow infiltrated and posted what appeared to be a list of user names and passwords.
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If you’re one the many fans of the Diablo franchise from Blizzard, you might find it rather unfortunate that Activision recently posted some rather disappointing news about the long-awaited game.
Diablo III was announced way back in 2008, and was supposedly on track to hit store shelves in February 2012. Perhaps not unsurprisingly, the title has been has been delayed yet again - with Activision confirming during a recent earnings call that there will be no new games in Q1 2012.
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Apple has filed another U.S. patent lawsuit against Samsung Electronics and is seeking a preliminary injunction asking a federal judge to halt sales of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone while the case makes its way through the court.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, with a redacted copy of the case made publicly available Friday night. The lawsuit involves four Apple patents for technology that allows users to touch a phone number on a Web page to dial the number, word placement, Siri voice recognition and unified search, and the ability to unlock a smartphone by sliding an image from one location to another.
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There isn’t going to be a new Xbox this year – but that doesn’t mean rumors about it are going to stop. According to the folks at Xbox World magazine, who were informed by its sources – the next Xbox “will be a matt-black media hub with a mission to bring games to life in your living room with augmented reality, directional sound, and a four-player, finger-tracking Kinect.” The magazine also claims that Microsoft is currently experimenting with a tablet-like controller that features a shape similar to the PlayStation Vita – which in this case includes the touchscreen display in the middle as well (think Wii U).
The touchscreen is said to be “second only to Kinect in how you operate your console. It could be a remote control when you’re watching TV, a browser when you’re on the internet, extra buttons and information when you’re playing a game or a portable display when you want to take your game with you.”
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Microsoft has released technical design details about the new version of Windows for devices that use ARM chips, outlining in a lengthy blog post different ways in which this OS, called WOA and still in the works, will be alike and different from existing versions of Windows.
WOA (Windows on ARM) will be based on the Windows 8 code base, itself still in development, and will replicate some familiar Windows design features, such as having a desktop interface component. In other ways, WOA will be uniquely crafted, such as requiring that devices running it use a system-on-a-chip design.
“WOA enables creativity in PC design that, in combination with newly architected features of the OS, will bring to customers new no-compromise experiences,” wrote the post’s author Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows and Windows Live Division.
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The Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, asking a court to force the agency to take action against Google over planned changes in the company’s collection of personal data.
EPIC, in briefs filed Wednesday, asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to require the FTC to enforce a 2011 privacy agreement between the agency and Google over the company’s fumbled rollout of its Buzz social networking service.
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