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Sunday, May 25, 2014

Mojang on Thursday announced that its popular game Minecraft soon will be available to users of the Xbox One, Playstation 4 and Playstation Vita consoles. "Apologies for the delay, but putting Minecraft on new consoles is a serious business," explained Owen Hill, Mojang's chief word officer. All three editions are due to arrive in August. "Minecraft is unique amongst most other games," said Ted Pollak, a senior analyst for the gaming industry with Jon Peddie Research.

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Minecraft Stakes Next-Gen Claim

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Mojang on Thursday announced that its popular game Minecraft soon will be available to users of the Xbox One, Playstation 4 and Playstati...

Friday, May 23, 2014

ZIP, a start-up programme based in Croatia, has decided to dump the idea of raising a fund via Limited Partners and has turned instead to equity crowd funding. And it’s poised to hit its target (here) of £50,000, raised through the UK-based Seedrs platform. ZIP is co-founded by entrepreneurs and angels Ivo Spigel, Mihovil Barancic and Sasa Cvetojevic and Damir Sabol, who successfully… Read More

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Croatian Incubator ZIP Poised To Raise A Fund Via Seedrs Crowd Equity

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ZIP, a start-up programme based in Croatia, has decided to dump the idea of raising a fund via Limited Partners and has turned instead to eq...

Microsoft recently established a .Net foundation and open sourced substantial parts of the popular programming language, continuing to spread its newfound love for open source software. However, it's another movement -- devops -- that may be more of a driving factor in Microsoft's .Net move. In establishing the independent .Net Foundation and making more key pieces of .Net open source, Microsoft was promoting collaboration and community, it said. Many open source technologies exist for .Net, including the recently released .Net compiler platform codenamed "Roslyn."

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Microsoft Opens .Net, Hops on Devops Bandwagon

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Microsoft recently established a .Net foundation and open sourced substantial parts of the popular programming language, continuing to spr...

A group of scientists and engineers have their sights set on re-establishing communication with a long-abandoned satellite, and NASA has given them the thumbs up to pursue the mission. The agreement is the first of its kind. The group is attempting to reboot the International Sun-Earth Explorer, a satellite originally launched in 1978 to collect information on the solar wind that streams toward Earth. The craft completed that mission in 1981 and got a new assignment. As the International Cometary Explorer, it was used to study two comets.

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NASA Gives Space Archeologists OK to Put Old Craft Back to Work

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A group of scientists and engineers have their sights set on re-establishing communication with a long-abandoned satellite, and NASA has g...

The ever-testy cyberstandoff between the U.S. and China got a new twist when Beijing announced that it would start "cybersecurity vetting of major IT products and services" used for national security and public interests. The vetting is designed to prevent suppliers from using their products to control, disrupt or shut down clients' systems, or from using the systems to scoop up information. Companies that don't pass muster will be barred from supplying products and services in China.

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China Calls for Increased Testing of IT Products

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The ever-testy cyberstandoff between the U.S. and China got a new twist when Beijing announced that it would start "cybersecurity vet...

Microsoft is positioning its new Surface Pro 3 tablet as a laptop replacement device -- instead of competing head-to-head with the Apple iPad. However, the Surface Pro 3 naturally invites comparisons to both the MacBook Air and the iPad Air. Plus, Microsoft has had plenty of time to smooth the rough edges from Windows 8 and build a more competitive mobile device... . So what's great -- or overblown -- about the Surface Pro 3? And can it really be a laptop replacement?

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