3D@Home Consortium and International 3D Society combine, don’t make 6D

There are lots of companies behind that 3D content you ogle at the cinema or at home, and all of them are likely to be members of the International 3D Society or the 3D@Home Consortium. Both of these bodies have the same goal — growing the worldwide 3D industry — and now they’ve joined forces to become

Startups Shouldn’t Ignore International Patent Protection

Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Jeffrey Shieh, a senior patent attorney at patent filing provider inovia. I (Alexia) actually completely disagree with him. Oh well — I should probably just write a post about it.  Yay TechCrunch!

The tech giants are clearly at patent war – Nokia vs.

Steam to debut Big Picture beta soon, make couch potatoes of PC gamers

Early last year, Valve mentioned it was working on something called Big Picture mode for Steam, an alternative user interface with controller support designed specifically for use on televisions. According to Gabe Newell, the distribution services’ couch-ready UI is almost upon us. "We should have both

Marissa Mayer’s First 30 Days

During the regrettable 5-month reign of Scott Thompson, Yahoos rarely saw him on campus. Contrary to her predecessor, Marissa Mayer is often spotted in the cafeteria and at FYI (happy hours) every Friday when execs showcase their products.

On my last visit to Yahoo at end of July, it was as if a dark

Crackle’s free movie streaming expands to the Nook Tablet, Android and iOS apps updated for TV playback

It may not have quite the catalog of Netflix (or the same HD quality), but Sony Pictures’ Crackle streaming service does have one big thing going for it: it’s completely free. It’s also found its way onto plenty of different platforms (most recently Windows Phone), and that run has now continued with

Your Deleted Facebook Photos Will Now Be Gone Forever

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Google Maps Updates Street View for New Orleans

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Samsung Galaxy S III on Verizon gets one-click bootloader unlock, freedom is just a Google Play away

We were intrigued to see a bootloader unlock emerge for Verizon’s Galaxy S III variant just this week. Unless you’re the kind for whom a beta is just too… safe, though, the method on offer to date has been a tad cryptic. Dingus on the RootzWiki forums has taken all the danger out of it through EZ-Unlock,

Beta sign-up for The Witcher 2 modding tools now live

Ask any PC gamer what makes the platform so great, and (after bragging about the hardware in their rig) mods are bound to come up at one point or another. After the immense success of The Witcher 2, CD Projekt Red is ready to open the game to modders, giving players the opportunity to create Read The

Halo 4 ‘Prelude’ video shows the work behind the game

Halo 4 is easily one of the year’s most anticipated games, and in order to make it as big and spectacular as fans are expecting, a lot of work had to go into it. A new video from 343 Industries gives us a glimpse of all that work. Dubbed “Prelude,” the video gives us a Read The Full