Zynga, the maker of blockbuster Facebook games like FarmVille and CityVille, is launching its most ambitious game, Empires & Allies. “Empires & Allies” is Zynga’s first strategy combat game that the company describes as a “CityVille Meets Risk.” With this game, Zynga is pushing into the domain of hardcore game publishers such as...

Nvidia is launching its latest mobile graphics chip, the GeForce GTX 560M, with twice the performance of the previous version. This includes support for a graphics-switching technology called Optimus and improved frame rates at 1080p resolutions. Using Nvidia’s Optimus technology, the laptop can switch between integrated graphics, which use less power and full stand-alone...

Kobo announced its new e-reader Touch Edition, a paperback-sized device that features an e-ink touch screen. Company claims the new device is the “first” international e-reader. Although other e-readers are also available in multiple countries, the Touch Edition comes with six languages built in: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch. Kobo also...

Google Inc is set to launch an online music locker service called Music Beta to allow users to store and access their songs wherever they are. Users of the service are expected to be able to listen to songs they have uploaded to the service in a so-called streaming mode but won’t be able to download the files themselves. This is similar to one launched by Amazon.com...

Brink is a game designed to be played online. It is a multiplayer game where-in two teams of eight battle it out over objectives scattered across a futuristic, floating city known as The Ark, designed to be self-sustaining. But as Earth warmed and the ice caps melted, thousands of refugees poured in. As the game starts, the Ark’s population is nine times larger than...

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will release in United States on June 8, 2011. This will be the thinnest tablet in the market. Weight-wise, the 10.1 is lighter than the iPad 2, weighing 1.24 pounds compared with the iPad 2′s 1.32 pounds. From the front, its 10.1-inch screen is surrounded by a 0.75-inch black bezel and a silver aluminium outline at its edge. Specs of the Samsung Galaxy...

Microsoft has acquired Internet phone service Skype for $8.5 billion with 170 million active users from an investor group led by Silver Lake. Skype is Microsoft’s latest bid to diversify its business. The acquisition is Microsoft’s largest, surpassing the purchase of AQuantive Inc. for about $6 billion in 2007. During a news conference in San Francisco, Microsoft...

Electronics giant Sony Corporation unveiled its first two Android-powered “Sony Tablets” codenamed S1 and S2, which will run Nvidia Inc.’s Tegra 2 processors. It also offers WiFi and 3G/4G connectivity. Sony said the tablets will come with wireless connectivity through Wi-Fi or high-speed mobile-phone services. But the company didn’t specify...

Comcast, the largest U.S. internet-service provider, introduced a new home-broadband package, which can download files many times faster than most connections. This new service package called Extreme 105, available to consumers in more than 40 million homes. The service is available in major cities like San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Salt Lake City, Chicago,...