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Sirius XM gets $530M from Liberty Media

Andrew Lyle — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:40:59 +0000

After Sirius XM prepared itself for bankruptcy, Liberty Media stepped in and invested $530 million into the company for 40% ownership in the company. Sirius XM was on the verge of filing for chapter... Read more...

Gmail gets multiple inboxes

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:51:50 +0000

Google Labs has introduced a new tool for inboxes, called Multiple Inboxes, which is available under the Labs tab in your Gmail account. Users need to enable the add-on in order for it to... Read more...

Google Earth gets a big update

Andrew Lyle — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:47:01 +0000

Google has updated their popular world mapping software with new features like ocean imagery, historical and touring. The newly updated Google Earth 5.0 allows users to take a trip back in time with the... Read more...

Microsoft Virtual Earth gets a 48TB update

Sean Bradford — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:08:03 +0000

Over than past few months, the Microsoft Virtual Earth team has been preparing the service for one of it's biggest updates since the release. What's the definition of "one of it's biggest"? Well it's over... Read more...

TV Hz game gets taken to new levels, for no reason at all

Brad Sams — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:27:26 +0000

LG is taking the Hz game to the next level with its TrueMotion LCD TV. LG will be showing off its overkill 480Hz TV at this years CES. While Sony just got done... Read more...

Windows XP gets another stay of execution

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:04:37 +0000

Microsoft has extended the final OEM and reseller delivery date for the Windows XP from January 31, 2009 to May 30, 2009. The cut off date for PC makers to obtain licenses for the software... Read more...

Windows Live Hotmail gets an update

Sean Bradford — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:22:16 +0000

Thanks to the feedback of thousands of users who reported scrolling issues with the recent release of Windows Live Hotmail, Microsoft has rolled out another update to customers fixing the issue. Users can now revert... Read more...

Asus Eee Box B203 gets Celeron power

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:46:50 +0000

Asus has slipped another new Eee box model into its lineup called the B203. While pricing is unknown at this point, the CPU Asus chose for the machine could make it one of the least... Read more...

Facebook gets hit with a virus

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:06:08 +0000

Facebook has been hit with a virus that could spread to its 120 million users. The virus has been dubbed "koobface", which tries to gather personal information from users computers such as credit... Read more...

Supreme Commander gets a second life on Impulse

Spencer Scott — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:47:37 +0000

Supreme Commander gets a new life with the announcement that Supreme Commander Gold is now available on Impulse. Supreme Commander Gold combines the awesome action of both Supreme Commander and Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance.... Read more...

Google gets rid of StarOffice from pack download

Damien Reynolds — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:35:16 +0000

Everyone needs an Office Product on their computer and when Google added StarOffice to their free Google Pack it was a good move but in the last few weeks they have quietly, without any word,... Read more...

Obama gets backing of Google CEO

Tom Warren — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:31:35 +0100

Chief Executive Eric Schmidt will hit the campaign trail this week on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama The Wall Street Journal reports. The Google chief said in an interview that "I'm doing this... Read more...

Windows XP gets another six months

Horrocks — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:33:20 +0100

Given its history of moving deadlines at a moment's notice, it hardly seems surprising that Microsoft is keeping Windows XP alive even longer than expected, but its latest move looks particularly bad for Vista. The... Read more...

Phorm gets UK government backing

Tom Warren — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:49:50 +0100

Phorm has received it's biggest endorsement yet - a statement from the UK government declaring its controversial ad targeting technology legal. The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform has released a statement to... Read more...

ReiserFS creator gets 15-to-life for murder

Michael Stanclift — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:35:51 +0100

Hans Reiser, creator of ReiserFS, a journaled computer file system used by Linux, was handed a prison sentence of 15-to-life Friday, putting a final capstone on a case that began as a murder mystery, and... Read more...

French lawyer gets 6 month ban over P2P legal threats

Darko3d — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:36:04 +0100

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A lawyer working with Swiss anti-piracy outfit Logistep has received a ban from practicing as a lawyer for six months. Elizabeth Martin sent inappropriately aggressive and deliberately false and misleading letters to thousands of alleged... Read more...

iPhone gets It's own "Unlimited" Calling Plan.

~impuLsive — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:46:27 +0000

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Today, Apple released It's official "Unlimited" calling plan for the Apple iPhone. The plan starts at $119.99/monthly and comes with: Unlimited Voice Calling Unlimited email and web surfing Visual Voicemail 200 Text Messages... Read more...

Google Gets Into Web Sites Building Business.

HappyAndyK — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:49:23 +0000

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Google, is aiming to become the go-to place for creating Web sites. It is taking its first step toward that goal, with the debut of a free service designed for high-tech neophytes looking for a... Read more...

North America Gets the Turok Demo

EL1TE — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:10:56 +0000

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The single-player Turok demo that was released a few weeks ago is now on the Xbox Live Marketplace is now available in North America. Previously, it was only available in virtually every country that doesn't... Read more...

RockBand Gets peripherals

EL1TE — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:42:56 +0000

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MTV Games, Harmonix And EA Confirm Plans To Ship Standalone Rock BandTM Instruments To U.S. Retail Stores Harmonix, one of the world's leading developers of music-based games, and MTV Games, , along with distribution partner... Read more...