Russ McCutcheon

The latest success story for cloud gaming is Gaikai, the service that powered the FIFA 12 demo on Youtube, as its poised to launch on Facebook. The news was revealed yesterday at the Cloud Gaming Europe conference in London by Gaikai founder David Perry – who also demonstrated World of Warcraft running on the social networking site without download.

Cloud gaming is a recent trend, where providers like Gaikai, Zynga and OnLive essentially hire out their high-end servers, allowing gamers to play console-grade games on PC, Mac or tablet over the internet without downloads, installs, or updates. The appeal is obvious. Because the games consumers are playing is running on cloud providers...

-Of course, it is with a heavy heart that I address you today.

-Much has been said about our departed colleague Alex DeCroce, so there is little I could possibly add.

-Ill just say that we cant possibly fill the void his passing has left us, but we can do honor and justice to his memory by working together in a civil and courteous manner on the issues of the day.

-Rest in peace Alex and thank you for everything you have done for the people of New Jersey.

- Being sworn in as Senate President is as humbling today as it was two years ago.

- Admittedly, there were some bumps in the road after that January day.

-Youve read about the more colorful side...

Kraft Foods (NYSE:KFT) said late Tuesday it will cut 1,600 positions in North America in 2012 as it prepares to split its business into two parts.

The job cuts represent about 1.26 percent of the companys total workforce and will primarily be in sales, corporate and other business units in the US and Canada.

Kraft said it wont reduce its manufacturing, but two of its four US management centres for its grocery business will be eliminated.

Kraft Foods chairman and CEO, Irene Rosenfeld, said: When we announced our decision to create two world-class companies last August, we said both would be leaner, more competitive organizations.

For the past year, the North American...

This article is part of a series of excerpts from the fifth annual State of Green Business Report, looking at trends in corporate sustainability. Download the free report from GreenBiz.com, and see all of our trends here.

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If you think of the corporate sustainability movement as a ship — a huge, hulking, slow-moving and still-polluting ship — new research shows that the ship is still moving forward, but is taking on water and struggling...

Jan 18 (Reuters) -
JAPAN CORPORATE HOUSING SERVICE CO LTD
CONSOLIDATED EARNINGS ESTIMATES
(in billions of yen unless specified)
Full year to Full year to
June 30,2012 June 30,2012
LATEST PREVIOUS
FORECAST FORECAST
Sales 6.13 6.26 Operating
475 mln 490 mln
Recurring 473 mln 491 mln
Net 214 mln 236 mln
NOTE – Japan Corporate Housing Service Co Ltd is engaged in
company-owned housing administration services.. For
latest...

Social Robotics has its roots in the mid-20^th century work of William Grey Walter, a neurophysiologist and roboticist who constructed autonomous electronic robots to demonstrate that complex behavior could arise from robust connectivity between just a few neurons. As robots became more sophisticated and animations more realistic, it was found that our empathy for these human analogues grew with their similarity to ourselves. But theres a catch: As robots become increasingly humanoid in appearance and behavior past a certain point, a phenomenon known as the uncanny valley emerges.

A phrase introduced in 1970 by robotics professor Masahiro Mori, the uncanny valley is best...

Although President Obama has silenced the SOPA hearing, at least for a month, there are over 7,000 blackouts scheduled across the Internet for January 18^th. From Wikipedia to Major League Gaming (MLG), Internet companies are taking a stand against legislation that could hamper the freedom gamers and Internet users currently enjoy online. With PIPA (the Enforcing and Protecting American Rights Against Sites Intent on Theft and Exploitation Act) scheduled for a January 25^th Senate hearing, there’s now a growing concern from the same people who stood up against SOPA.

Sundance DiGiovanni, co-founder and CEO of MLG, took some time to talk about why the leading...

The Golden Globes Ceremony signifies without any doubt that were right smack in the thick of it — awards season. This is where the rubber meets the road on that slippery slope that leads us straight up to the Main Event: The Academy Awards on Feb. 26. One of the most important pieces of the entire puzzle is red carpet fashions and who better to ask about this than couture designer Randi Rahm, who first opened her successful Fifth Avenue atelier 14 years ago. Rahm is a classically trained conductor and concert pianist who studied music and art history in school. When her son was born in 1976 she designed a baby quilt for him and found that she was really, really good at it. So good...

SIC chief executive Alistair BuchanSHETLAND Islands Council has received a pat on the back from local government watchdog the Accounts Commission for its progress since receiving a stiff reprimand 18 months ago.

The SIC came under heavy criticism in 2010 after a public hearing exposed major flaws in the way Scotland’s wealthiest and most northerly authority was run, highlighting a breakdown in working relationships within the organisation.

That year the council handed its chief executive David Clark £250,000 to leave after just eight months in the post, arousing fury in the local community.

In a follow up report published today (Wednesday), the Commission says the council...

will probably come from solar and wind-energy projects.

Shouldnt PGamp;E customers have a right to know this before their newly increased bills arrive? Nope, says the utilities commission. If people knew the price of the new power, criminals might game the market as they did during the energy crunch early last decade.

Other utility authorities pronounce that reasoning absurd, guessing that it has political rather than practical reasons, postulating that state legislators and PUC members dont want the public to know the costs of their renewable-based energy policy.

But secrecy extends into other areas of PUC regulation, too. Not a good thing from an agency set up explicitly...