Mitchell Harper is co-founder of BigCommerce, a leading provider of shopping (more…)

n July the Internet Systems Consortium will permanently shut down DNS servers deployed to serve as temporary surrogates for rogue DNS servers shut down as part of Operation Ghost Click, an FBI (more…)

MasterCard’s PayPass is certainly one of the bigger players in the contactless payment scene. But, simply putting a few (more…)

Gamers won’t have to reach into their wallets to pick up map packs for LightBox Interactive’s new PlayStation 3-exclusive shooter Starhawk. Company president Dylan Jobe explained today on the PlayStation Blog that all forthcoming map pack downloadable content for Starhawk will be free. No mention was made concerning how many total map packs will be released during the game’s lifetime.

obe explained that the decision to offer all Starhawk map packs for free is due to lessons learned from 2007 predecessor Warhawk. Jobe said paid map pack DLC for that game divided players, and after three expansions, the community was “pretty fractured.”

Starhawk shipped today exclusively for the PlayStation 3, and LightBox is already at work on the game’s first free map pack, titled Cypress. The level is set on a lush, wet world, which is home to an abandoned research center formerly responsible for investigating the properties of Rift Energy.

Though map packs for Starhawk will be free, Lightbox will also offer paid DLC for the game. Details are not available on this content at present, with Jobe commenting, “We’re still playing around with what that will be.”

For more on Starhawk, check out GameSpot’s previous coverage.

PlayStation 3 gamers have a deeper proclivity for artistic games than Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii users, according to Journey developer and thatgamecompany co-founder Jenova Chen. Speaking to VentureBeat, Chen plainly stated, “The player who owns a PlayStation 3 is more likely to be interested in artistic games compared to Wii and Xbox 360.” (more…)

Namco Bandai confirms action RPG its best-selling title as publisher posts most profitable full-year results in four years; Ace Combat: Assault Horizon also tops 1 million sold.

n addition to the earlier-covered HP Envy Spectre XT Ultrabook, HP has also re-jigged its mainstream notebook range with new updates to the Pavilion range.

Top of the lot is the 1.5.6-inch HP Pavilion m6 that is almost an Ultrabook – we’re guessing it loses out from conforming with Intel’s Ultrabook spec by virtue of the fact it has a standard hard drive rather than an SSD. (more…)

HP’s head of strategic marketing says the corporation has a “remarkable opportunity” to take advantage of low PC penetration in developing markets.

Speaking at the opening of an HP conference in Shanghai attended by TechRadar, Hoffman said HP’s opportunity was that countries such as China still have remarkably low PC penetration – in the case of China it’s below 200 PCs per thousand people. (more…)

HTC One S review

A top of the range cameraphone with an emphasis on pictures, music and connectivity. Is the One S the One to have?

The HTC One S follows swiftly on the heels of the One X in HTC’s new premium brand of Android 4.0-enabled handsets, bringing a svelte chassis, 7.8mm depth and a low-price of just £26 a month at launch – and we’re still waiting to hear word of a US launch too.

First things first: the HTC One S is a cracking looking device. It’s marketed this as the thinnest handset HTC has ever made. And you feel that when you take it out of the box. It’s tall at about the same height as last year’sHTC Sensation (with which it will draw a lot of comparisons) but a lot, lot sleeker. (more…)