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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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.... More...

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,... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has found herself a new hobby--playing with Prince William's Wii. British red top The People reports that the Queen has become hooked on the console after William brought it round... More...

Play TV, the PVR & digital tuner add-on for the PS3 has been given a release date and price. Play.com have it available for pre-order. They list a £99.99 price tag with a release date... More...

Sirius Satellite Radio plans to broadcast 13 exclusive live concerts from across the United States on New Year's Eve 2008. Artists will include Velvet Revolver, 3 Doors Down, Patti Smith, The English Beat, Chubby Checker... More...

Nintendo has launched a new Wii channel in Japan that allows people to download demos of DS games. As promised last month, the new channel also has other content like Wii trailers and a feedback... More...

Empire has revealed plans to release a continual stream of new content for Speedball II: Brutal Deluxe on Live Arcade, a bit like a persistent nosebleed. The first of these was a Theme Pack to... More...

When Windows Live Messenger's "i'm Making a Difference" challenge was first announced, Microsoft said it would award a dollar for every member to the winning non-profit organization (the maximum donation sum being $50,000). The group's... More...

A New York judge has sentenced 28-year-old Todd Moeller to a 27-month term and fined him more than $180,000 after he pleaded guilty earlier this year for his part in a spamming operation that sent... More...

It appears that Google is working on integrating IMAP into Gmail. Download Squad reader eD! Thomas sent in a tip letting us know he came across the new IMAP setting while snooping around Gmail. However,... More...

California's solar initiative, better known as the million solar roofs program, has had "a very healthy start," according to Polly Shaw, the solar initiative analyst for the state's Public Utilities Commission. At San Jose's SunPower,... More...

The Canonical-backed Ubuntu open-source community chalked up another milestone today with the release of version 7.10 of its flagship Linux operating system with a swag of user-friendly updates, but its real test will be how... More...

Google undeservedly has gotten all the credit for many clicks on the online ads it delivers via its search engine, but Microsoft wants to put a stop to that. So said Brian McAndrews, senior vice... More...

By some estimates, Firefox has surged to take anywhere from 12 percent to more than one-third of the overall Web browser market. But PC makers are acting like they couldn't care less. And that doesn't... More...

Today, Windows Live SkyDrive has received some updates to the service - including everyone now having 1GB of storage. That's double what was previously there. Along with increased storage, the SkyDrive Team has included a... More...

Software developer Stardock released WindowBlinds 6 today. Amongst the new features includes the ability to customize the entire Windows Vista user interface as well as the capability to give Windows XP users the look and... More...

According to Associated Press calculations, Sun Microsystems Inc. Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz received a compensation package which the company valued at $7.7 million for beating financial goals. The new CEO helped the server and software... More...

Thanks Radish for posting this in Back page News. It's a video of the iPhone launch in the UK. From Crave TV: Last week we got a cryptic... More...

Apple and T-Mobile said Wednesday that the carrier will begin selling the iPhone in Germany on November 9, the same day UK consumers first see the device. T-Mobile is Germany's largest provider with 30.7 million... More...

Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated has teamed up with British Telecommunications to release software that turns the Sony PlayStation Portable into a communication device that can make video and voice calls as well as send instant... More...

Microsoft announced today that Hotmail would undergo some major upgrades over the next several weeks that should make the service more attractive to webmail users. The most notable change is that the company is bumping... More...

Scrybe, the online/offline calendar and organizer, has closed their series A round of financing from Adobe Systems Incorporated and LMKR. You'll probably recognize the company from the somewhat viral product demo that swept the blogosphere... More...

Our good friend Major Nelson let us know earlier today that our friends to the North in Canada will indeed get the previously announced US only Xbox 360 price cuts! Canada will see a $100... More...

Prototypes of the new rumble-enabled PS3 SixAxis controller are already in the hands of numerous Sony developers, according to industry insider site Inner Bits - via Next-Gen.biz. A blog on the site where "game developers... More...

A federal judge ruled on Monday a California law to label violent video games and bar their sale to minors was unconstitutional, prompting Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to say he would appeal the ruling. California passed... More...

AT&T is paying Apple $3 or $11 per month for every iPhone, a business analyst says. According to Gene Munster, Apple gets $3 per month for existing AT&T customers, and an additional $8 per month... More...

Police are trying to trace the owner of 65,400 euros (£44,000) mistakenly sent to a 16-year-old boy who bought a Playstation Two for £95 on eBay. The cash arrived in a box at the house... More...

Intel has extended its top of the line processing power to the mobile space with the launch of its Core 2 Extreme Mobile processor, the X7800. This 2.6-GHz part marks a 200 MHz increase over... More...

Transmeta Corporation has received a $7.5 million boost from Advanced Micro Devices Incorporated in exchange for an undisclosed amount of Transmeta preferred stock. Transmeta did not reveal what it will do with the money, and... More...

The Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (Jedec) has published the specifications of the forthcoming Double Data Rate 3 (DDR3) memory standard. DDR3 memory promises improvements in performance and power consumption over DDR2 and older standards.... More...

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is getting ready to launch Barcelona, its first quad-core server chip. A successful Barcelona launch, expected to happen during the third quarter, is critical for AMD, which has seen its share... More...

After pleading guilty in a US federal court earlier this year, 44-year-old Hew Griffiths, the head of underground piracy group "DrinkOrDie", was sentenced to 51 months in jail last week on one count of conspiracy... More...