Articles by Peter Suciu

After months of mounting anticipation, Dell on Thursday delayed a critical vote that will decide its future Specifically, the scheduled special meeting of stockholders -- originally intended to vote on Michael Dell's proposed buyout of the company for US$24.4 billion -- was convened and adjourned to provide additional time to solicit proxies from D...

In a market where bigger is increasingly considered better, HTC on Thursday bucked the trend and announced the HTC One Mini, a compact version of its HTC One smartphone With a 4.3-inch 720p display, the new device is actually not that much smaller than the flagship HTC One, which sports a 4.7-inch display. The HTC One Mini runs on Android 4.2, also...

Google is considering the possibility of launching an Internet-based TV service, according to numerous media reports Specifically, the company has approached several media companies about the possibility licensing of content for an Internet-based TV service that would stream traditional TV programming, The Wall Street Journal first reported, citing...

The definition of sportmanship may lie to some extent in the eye of the beholder, but on Monday the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service reportedly recognized the video game League of Legends as a professional sport The decision enables the most elite of players in the field to qualify for Internationally Recognized Athlete visas, also known as...

Although it initially denied involvement in the National Security Agency's PRISM surveillance program, Microsoft has in fact worked closely with U.S. intelligence agencies to monitor users' communications, even helping the NSA circumvent its own encryption to do so, new documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden suggest Microsoft gave the NSA pre-...

It is often said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but users of Nokia's upcoming Lumia 1020 mobile smartphone may well be able to do better than that. That's because the new marquee Windows phone -- formally unveiled Thursday at a Nokia event in New York -- will offer 41 megapixels, not to mention six-lens Carl Zeiss optics, high-resolution 3X zoom, autofocus and a dual flash system...

At DBX, Dropbox's first-ever developer conference, the company on Tuesday announced a suite of new tools designed to make it easier for developers to bring its file-syncing technology to new devices and platforms. "We want to be sure that stuff is always available, no matter if you're on your laptop at work, a tablet on a plane or a smartphone on ...

Gamers eagerly awaiting the September launch of Grand Theft Auto V got a sneak preview on Tuesday with the release by maker Rockstar Games of the first gameplay trailer for the upcoming title Due Sept. 17 for the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360, Grand Theft Auto V promises to deliver a massive world along with seemingly limitless options ...

Hollywood may be all about lights, cameras and action, but the current trend in video games seems to be simply action -- followed by even more action That was one of the biggest takeaways from the recent E3video game conference in Los Angeles, where Microsoft and Sony went head-to-head with an array of action-packed games that came in stark contras...

Fighter pilots have long had "head-up" displays for navigating advanced aircraft, but on Monday Garmin announced a new HUD offering that aims to bring the technology to drivers of virtually any automobile Designed to reduce distractions by providing driving information within the driver's line of sight, Garmin's HUD is the company's first portable ...

Open cloud provider Rackspace has entered into a yearlong contributor agreement with CERN openlab whereby it will deliver a hybrid cloud solution based on OpenStack to help CERN research the origins of the universe, the company announced on Monday CERN openlab provides a framework for testing and validating information technologies and services in ...

Hard on the heels of the arrival of the Ouya video game console earlier this week, Google may be looking to get into the action. In fact, the company is currently working on an Android-powered console of its own, according to a Friday report in The Wall Street Journal Apple,meanwhile, is reportedly working on something similar as well....

Internet streaming TV service Aereo may face ongoing legal battles, but on Thursday it pushed ahead apparently undaunted and announced the upcoming launch of its service in Chicago The news comes just a month after the company kicked off its Atlanta launch, adding to its existing base of New York City and Boston. With Chicago added to its lineup --...

Online gaming service Steam announced on Monday that thepopular shooter, puzzle-solving hybrid action game Portal now fully supports Linux The game had been available on the open source operating system in beta form since early May, but with an update released earlier this week, Portal was declared stable and ready for purchase by Linux users....

At this week's CE Week in New York City, electronics maker Sharp introduced a new, 70-inch class Ultra HDTV that the company says is the only model on the market to receive THX 4K certification Announced on Wednesday, the Aquos Ultra HD LED TV (LC-70UD1) is the company's first set in the new Ultra High Definition category for the U.S. market, and i...

There's no denying that Bitcoins have caused considerable controversy since their appearance on the financial scene back in 2009, but recently the virtual currency encountered a new kind of obstacle Specifically, the nonprofit Bitcoin Foundation -- which was created last year to help develop the currency's software -- received a letter from the Cal...

Open source video game console Ouya officially launched to the public on Tuesday, and the US$99.99 device did what most product manufacturers surely dream of: It quickly sold out The Android-based game console, which became a hit on crowdfunding website Kickstarter in recent months, sold out on Amazon, Target and GameStop soon after being made avai...

Anyone who has flown in the past two decades knows the drill: Electronic devices including mobile phones, tablets and handheld game systems must be turned off when the airplane doors are closed. Soon, however, those rules may change, the Federal Aviation Administration announced this week....

Roughly a week after being effectively shown up at E3 by Sony's more gamer-friendly approach with its PlayStation 4, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it had revised some of the relatively restrictive policies it had originally announced for its own Xbox One Microsoft pulled the proverbial plug on the always-on Internet connection that original...

HTC's latest handset has emerged from the proverbial cocoon, but it's no tiny newborn. Rather, the Android-powered Butterfly S has "phablet" proportions, meaning it's larger than the traditional smartphone but smaller than a tablet Packed with a quad-core 1.9GHz Snapdragon 600 processor, a 3,200mAh battery, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of built-in storage, ...