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Bad news from the land of Tegra. NVIDIA has shut down its Developer Zone forums after noticing what it calls "attacks on the site by unauthorized third parties." While the nature of the attacks isn't clear, what's troubling is that these attackers "m...

The 2012 London Olympics Games are nearly upon us and the BBC just can't hold back its excitement any longer. The Queen's favorite broadcaster has released its Olympics app for both iOS (5.0 and above) and Android (2.2 and newer) devices, apps that ...

As is often the case with nearly every itty-bitty software update, the goal's usually to alleviate any problem regardless of how minor it is, and sometimes even bring a couple of enhancements with it. Well, such is the fact behind Olympus' latest fir...

It's been a long time coming -- plans for a mobile content partnership between NTT Docomo and China's search giant Baidu were announced a year ago -- but today it's finally happened: the Japanese telco has announced the completion of their $22.5 million (¥1.78 billion) investment in a joint venture in China, Baidu Yi Xin. Docomo becomes a 20 percent shareholder in the new mobile content distribution platform, with Baidu holding the remaining 80 percent. The two have also announced the first apps to come out as a result: they will be games and other services from Japan's DeNA, which is taking its content, originally created for the Japanese market, and localizing it for China, starting in August. We've written quite a bit over the last week about the increasing amount of non-Chinese consumer content that is coming to market on the Mainland, and this is another example of how international brands are partnering with China's biggest consumer players to put that into effect. In addition to today's deal, which aligns Docomo with China's equivalent of Google, others have included a deal announced earlier today between video site Viki and China's equivalent of Facebook, Renren, (which also will have Japanese content as a focus) as well as a deal between China's YouTube, Youku, and NBCUniversal for feature films.

We spent a good chunk of time getting to know Nintendo's 3DS XL, which sidesteps the notion of a second analog stick -- despite peripherals adding one to the older model. Now Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, has weighed in on the game maker's decisi...

This week the BBC tested out Facebook advertising by running a campaign for the Facebook page of a fictitious small business called VirtualBagel. The investigation was headlined "Facebook 'likes' and adverts' value doubted". During the week over 3,000 people Liked the ads even though the company doesn't exist and simply shows you a picture of a bagel. The 'investigation' is partly a reminder that Facebook still has issues with fake profiles and astro-turfing, but is also a simple re-stating of the fact that you get what you pay for and if you put up a dumb ad targeted too widely you'll waste your money.

Google's mysterious, if not ominous Nexus Q has already been hacked to launch apps of varied origins, but there's one particular app that stands above all: Pong. Or, Brick Defender -- you know, what's a generic title amongst friends? BrickSimple mana...

Outdoor enthusiasts know that a snake bite is no laughing matter - especially if it includes deadly venom - but did you know that just a "tiny amount of yellow fluid in a hypodermic is all it takes - dropping the deadly viper's venom into a vial ...