At the AMD Taiwan Embedded Forum this week, AMD added new processors and a new chipset to its embedded roadmap. New CPUs include the high performance AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core processors TL-56 and TL-62... More...

Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections. The Associated... More...

Customers of Alltel Corporation and Verizon Wireless can now access AOL's popular instant-messaging service by using cell phone text messaging. To activate, users can simply send a blank text message to "AIMAIM". The service makes... More...

Apple Incorporated is expanding the free educational content available on its online iTunes Store in a new category called "Beyond Campus" within iTunes U, a free service which Apple has offered to universities since 2006... More...

With the launch of Advanced Micro Devices Incorporated's Athlon X2 BE-2350 and 2300 processors on June 5th, AMD will debut its new naming scheme for its product lineup. The new naming scheme designates the first... More...

For those of you who played (or still play) the original Everquest, Kunark was one of the expansions for that game, and from what I understand it was a mess - literally. Well now Everquest... More...

Google Inc. is stepping up efforts to allow its users to personalize how they search the Web, moving beyond the one-size-fits-all approach to search it already offers. Officials told reporters at Google's Silicon Valley headquarters... More...

AOL is expanding to India with a new portal (in the English language) since "India is one of the world's fastest-growing online markets, and our India portal will help us compete for users and advertisers... More...

Taiwanese PC vendor Acer Inc. has started selling laptop PCs at popular retailer Best Buy Co. Inc., expanding its presence in the U.S. market. Best Buy is featuring Acer laptop PCs with a brand spotlight... More...

The world’s largest chipmaker Intel Corp. has unveiled several new quad-core microprocessors at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Nevada and now offers nine chips for desktop, server and workstation applications that feature four... More...

Microsoft is constantly expanding VirtualEarth, the engine behind Live Search Maps. The software giant's latest move is with GlobeXplorer, an aerial and satellite imagery provider. GlobeXplorer's images will be integrated into Virtual Earth within the... More...

The California Supreme Court has ruled that individuals - such as bloggers - who use the Internet to distribute information from another source may not be held to account if the material is considered defamatory.... More...

SpiralFrog has reached an agreement with EMI Music Publishing, one of the largest music publishers in the world, to use its songs and lyrics for a music download service scheduled to roll out in a... More...

Dell announced yesterday it was to expand its current program to allow anyone to recycle their old machines, regardless of whether the owner was purchasing a new machine or not. This is a requirement that... More...

BSkyB is preparing to expand its internet phone service, according to a report in The Times. The newspaper said that Sky hopes to "shake up the market" for internet-based VoIP telephony. Sky has not released... More...

IGN is reporting that once again Sony Online Entertainments MMORPG Everquest II will be getting its third expansion on November 14th of this year. But that's not all! SOE also announced that coming in June... More...

IBM has announced that they have released five new software programs as well as services and training, which are related to service-oriented architecture. This allows companies to build virtual bridges across previously unrelated computer data,... More...

Official Web site confirms Treasures of Aht Urhgan expansion, new screens and sneak peek soon to follow. The official Final Fantasy XI Web site has been updated with word about a new... More...

ATI Technologies said Tuesday it has expanded its family of multimedia graphics cards with All-In-Wonder X800 XL. The new addition is designed for both U.S. and European customers and provides both relatively high performance in... More...

Microsoft said Tuesday that it is expanding its Windows XP Starter Edition to include Mexico, with plans to eventually offer the low-cost operating system throughout Latin America. The software maker said that... More...

Expanding its measures to combat software piracy, Microsoft will require users who want to download local language add-ons to Windows to first validate their copy of the operating system as legitimate. Microsoft offers versions of... More...

Bungie lives up to its promises of regular updates, adding Team Slayer and Rumble Training to matchmaking. Call it Halo 2.2. Bungie's second major Halo 2 update was announced by the company... More...

Microsoft has launched MSN Music in 8 new European countries today. Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain, Holland, Austria and Switzerland will all be able to download Music from the MSN Music service. MSN... More...

When it launched its "Windows Genuine Advantage" pilot program in September, Microsoft Corp. was hoping 20,000 customers would opt into the voluntary program, via which Microsoft checks whether customers are running counterfeit copies of Windows.... More...

Digital Bridges to continue to provide development, distribution of mobile versions of top EA franchises. Electronic Arts Senior VP Gerhard Florin announced today at the European Games Network (EGN) in London that... More...

Ask Jeeves today has partnered up with Citysearch. Together the two companies will make it easier to access local business listings on the web. If Ask Jeeves continues to add new features like... More...

Those MVPs living within the already 27 countries that have signed up with Microsoft's Windows Source code program can now see it for free (limited source code of course). Specifically the programs cover Windows... More...

Good news for iBook owners Apple has extended its logic board repair program. Now iBooks manufactured from May 2001 to October 2003 are covered. Apple has, for the second time, expanded... More...

In an effort to generate more money from advertising on content sites, Google has begun letting any Internet publisher host a search on its website and collect revenue from advertiser-sponsored search listings. The program, AdSense... More...

MMP beta title game managers in-game four more hours. According to the official World of Warcraft Web site, effective Monday, June 7th the in-game support will be open four hours earlier. GM... More...

Hewlett-Packard is set to announce plans Tuesday to expand its support for open-source software. The computing giant will certify and support MySQL, the leading open-source database program, and JBoss, a popular Java-based application server, on... More...

Apple Computer, Inc. has updated its iBook Logic Board Repair Program to include coverage for additional models. According to Apple's site, the following models are now eligible for this program: iBook (16 VRAM) iBook... More...

Intel will offer 64-bit CPUs that can also handle 32-bit apps. An all-64-bit-computing world just took a significant step forward, and your upgrade path to that world just got a lot less... More...

Dell on Monday began revealing its plans for the enterprise virtualization market, disclosing an expanded partnership with VMware Inc. Dell will use VMware software to enable single physical servers to act as two or more... More...

Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it would kick off its Xbox Live online gaming service in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore in April, making inroads into Asian markets dominated by Sony's PlayStation 2 console. The... More...

Loss-making chipmaker Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd said on Thursday it would start producing chips with faster processing speeds for U.S. tech giant International Business Machines Corp. The agreement, which expands Chartered's partnership with... More...

The Inquirer is reporting that later this year a major update to Sony's popular memory format "mini-disk" will be released. This new version will give up to 40 hrs of capacity,a huge increase... More...

Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday will turn up the heat on Intel by releasing a desktop chip and three notebook processors. AMD's Athlon 64 3400+ processor largely will be aimed at high-end... More...

Microsoft has expanded its legal battle with Lindows to Europe, putting pressure on PC makers there and on the company to stop distributing Lindows software. The dispute opens another front in Lindows' trademark spat with... More...

Microsoft has expanded its legal battle with Lindows to Europe, putting pressure on PC makers there and on the company to stop distributing Lindows software. The dispute opens another front in Lindows'... More...

The European Commission widened its probe into Microsoft Corp for anti-competitive practices on Thursday, asking computer hardware makers for details of their licensing deals with the software giant. Competition regulators at the European Union's executive... More...

Business Network, Collaboration on Demand Planning Modules and PLM Technology Bolster Core Products Microsoft Business Solutions today made a series of announcements focused on enhancing and supporting its current line of enterprise... More...

Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday it would roll out its Xbox Live online gaming service in six new western European markets next month as it looks to extend its lead over rival Sony in the... More...

Publishing software giant Adobe Systems plans to announces a new electronic forms application that appears to be aimed at Microsoft's upcoming InfoPath product. The as-yet unnamed product, which Adobe plans to introduce... More...

A previously secret licensee of SCO Group's Unix intellectual property has revealed its identity: Unix leader Sun Microsystems. SCO's Unix licensing plan got a major boost of publicity in May when Microsoft announced... More...

New Retail Distribution Relationships Make MSN TV Available In More Than 1,500 Locations Nationwide Microsoft Corp. today announced that MSN® TV service, a leading provider of Internet service on television, has... More...

Advanced Micro Devices on Monday rallied a new phalanx of Opteron processors for servers, on the same day that rival Intel also unveiled a battery of server chips. The chipmaker introduced the Opteron 800 and... More...

Hewlett-Packard on Thursday will announce an expanded information technology services deal with DirecTV worth "hundreds of millions" of dollars, continuing the momentum of HP's outsourcing arm. The new five-year contract calls for HP to manage... More...

DOCUMENTS SEEN BY The INQ appear to show that Via is putting more effort into promoting its "Eden" system platform. The firm is positioning Eden, which doesn't need a fan, as the highest performing and... More...

Sun Microsystems will give away its StarOffice software to ministries of education in Europe and Africa, the company is expected to announce Tuesday, in an effort to undermine rival Microsoft. "Sun is... More...