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Microsoft to pull out of CES

Tech news from around the web: Microsoft, a 20-year stalwart of the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, has decided to pull out of the event after the 2012 show in January, the Los Angeles Times reports. The company, …Continue reading:...

Zynga’s early wake-up call

Zynga employees showed up for work in their hundreds at least three hours early on Friday – encouragement perhaps for all its new shareholders on its opening day on the market that the social gaming company is already working hard …Continue...

Game sales break November record

Video game publishers have had their best November on record in the US, according to the NPD research firm, with hard-core gamers loading up on two first-person shooters and a classic role-playing game. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from …Contin...

Panasonic plans return to phone market

Tech news from around the web: Panasonic is to launch a smartphone in Europe next year, according to Reuters. The move comes six years after the Japanese company abandoned overseas sales of its feature phones. Samsung is poised to unveil …Continu...

OnLive adds console games to tablets

OnLive has announced a major extension of its console-quality cloud gaming service with a launch on tablets and smartphones. OnLive, available on PCs and TVs thus far, is releasing a free app for mobile platforms that will allow instant play …Con...

Xbox moves closer to set-top box with upgrade

Tech news from around the web: Microsoft’s Xbox games console has taken a step towards coming a set-top box with its latest software upgrade, according to TechCrunch. The update makes it easier for the user to find pieces of content …Contin...

Sony, Microsoft report Black Friday boom

The Black Friday glad tidings from consumer electronics makers continued on Tuesday, with Sony announcing a big rise in US sales and Microsoft reporting a record week for its Xbox 360 console and Kinect controller. The news followed Nintendo’s announ...

Nintendo Wii, 3DS set sales records

Nintendo has received a Black Friday boost after a black year for sales – shifting more than 500,000 Wii consoles on the biggest shopping day of the year in the US. Sales of the 3DS handheld console have also been …Continue reading: "Ninten...

Arabic becomes Twitter’s fastest-growing language

Tech news from around the web: Arabic has become the fastest-growing language on Twitter, TNW reports. A study by Paris-based agency Semiocast found that out of approximately 180m tweets posted on a daily basis in October 2011, 2.2m of them …Cont...

China smartphone market overtakes US

Tech news from around the web: China has overtaken the US as the world’s biggest smartphone market by volume in the third quarter, Reuters reports. According to research company Strategy Analytics, smartphone shipments grew 58% to reach 23.9m uni...

Zynga’s pre-IPO management shuffle

Zynga has announced that Owen Van Natta, the former Facebook executive and chief executive of MySpace, has resigned from his position as Chief Business Officer at the leading social gaming company ahead of its IPO, surrendering 4.64m share options in &...

Android app downloads overtake Apple

Tech news from around the web: Downloads of Android’s apps overtook those of Apple’s iOS apps in the second quarter of 2001, Business Insider reports. According to figures from ABI Research, the market shares of Android and iOS were 44% &#8...