n.jOy e-Sports International is a top competitor in the Real Time Strategy (RTS) game known as Starcraft: Brood War. The team was established seven months ago by Leader’s Mack Flinn and Marcus Senneville. The team consists of top international Starcraft players, and is looking to expand it’s skill level at all times. iCCup.com is the [...]
By Tim Conneally
Valve Corporation’s Steam is the leading digital distribution channel for PC games. With over 1,000 titles available for purchase, an integrated social network and database of open game servers, Steam has attracted more than 25 million users since launching in 2003.
Today, Valve officially announced Steam will be coming to Mac in April, along [...]
By Joe Wilcox
It’s fraking Friday and to celebrate Gartner analysts are predicting Apple’s iPad is going to change everything you know about the PC market. Everything. Betanews readers, will you let such prognostications go unanswered?
“Apple’s iPad is just one of many new devices coming to market that will change the entire PC ecosystem and overlap [...]
By Carmi Levy
After reading through the avalanche of reactions to Apple’s wide-ranging lawsuit filed Monday against handheld vendor HTC, I’m beginning to think that Apple may very well fear the rise of Google. And an indirect legal assault on the eminent provider of Android-powered devices is easier, cheaper, and less risky than a direct attack [...]
By David Coursey
Wouldn’t it be great if Google installed its gigabit broadband network in cities that could really use the help?
Instead of holding a beauty pageant, in which cities such as Topeka and Duluth, can nominate themselves and find novel ways to get the company’s attention, perhaps Google should do its own research and choose [...]
AT&T tells us ‘proper protocols were not followed.’
And they can because competition in their markets often stinks…
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Little big panic is over
AT&T, Verizon support coming soon…
Web-based photo editing suite Picnik announced today that it has been acquired by Google for an unspecified amount that Picnik CEO Jonathan Sposato called a “very, very happy number.”
The startup opened in 2005 and was chosen to be Flickr’s default photo editor in 2007 when Yahoo was introducing a host of new features to the [...]
