Last month, Google broke the record for the most visited site in the space of a month, with them smashing their previous record, 931 million, and breaking into new territory; 1 billion hits. On top... More...

Microsoft has surpassed its next milestone in the race to patent its operating system. The company has been trying to file as many patents within the last two years to safe guard its innovations.... More...

Update: Google has responded and states "the deer was able to move and had left the area by the time the police arrived". It's a sad fact that deer get hit by cars everyday... More...

A windows worm named Conficker or Downadup or Kido (as called by various anti-virus vendors) which targets unpatched networks and poor passwords has been reported to have affected 2.4 million machines to over 8.9 million... More...

Pandora Radio, the internet radio service that is personalized to musical attributes (vocal style, guitar riffs, etc.), is releasing Pandora 2.0, the major overhaul of the original iPhone application later tonight. Pandora is set to... More...

Blizzard Entertainment and Massive Inc today announced a multi-year advertising deal which will see Massive, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, deliver advertising on Blizzard Entertainements websites and Battle.net. Blizzard's websites include the popular World... More...

This Monday Intel is scheduled to release its next generation processor, the Intel Core i7. While we have long since moved away from names like Pentium 4 and such it seems, there seems to... More...

Facebook has revealed that it has hit a huge milestone, 10 billion photos are stored on the site. Doug Beaver, a Facebook engineer, revealed the statistic yesterday evening on the companys blog. Perhaps more impressive... More...

Mary-Jo Foley's blog reports some of the new things in Microsoft's internally released Windows 7 milestone. The successor to Windows Vista is only about a year away and scheduled to go into beta next month.... More...

Microsoft has released their latest advertisement featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. This one features the duo living with a suburban family to "better connect" to normal people. Only the first part of the commercial... More...

As a part of its Rome release, Microsoft's Live Search team has launched a new Live Search News, a direct competitor to Google News. At this time, Live Search News looks like a simplified version... More...

Steal This Film 1, which was downloaded nearly 3 million times, has now been succeeded officially (as the sequel premiered and was ironically leaked last month) by none other than Steal This Film 2. By... More...

Sony has added Internet Radio in the PlayStation Portable’s latest firmware update: version 3.80. PSP owners will now be able to access thousands of stations via Wi-Fi, emphasizing the music side of the portable multimedia... More...

Sales monitor Media Create has announced that Nintendo's handheld DS system has passed the 20 million sales barrier in Japan. Released in December 2004, the Nintendo handheld sold six million units in Japan by February... More...

Elvis and the Beatles probably never could have imagined they would one day be used to commit stock fraud. But that is exactly what is happening, as spammers have taken to using MP3 attachments in... More...

Security experts have discovered vulnerabilities in OpenOffice.org that could allow attackers to remotely execute code on Linux, Windows or Apple Mac-based computers. OpenOffice version 2.0.4 and earlier versions are vulnerable to maliciously crafted TIFF files,... More...

Shares of Google jumped to a new high of $559.99 on Friday, a surge which comes on the heels of a few positive analyst reports and news Thursday that co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page... More...

Recent reports suggested that hackers from the People's Liberation Army of China were behind attacks on computers in a handful of Western countries. Chinese military expert Wang Xinjun, a researcher at the Academy of Military... More...

A 'highly critical' vulnerability has been found in the Opera web browser which could be exploited to remotely compromise a user's system. The flaw is caused when Opera uses already freed memory to parse BitTorrent... More...

Thousands of gamers are in Paris over the next four days for the Electronic Sports World Cup grand final. More than 750 players are competing for $200,000 (£99,200) in prize money, with about 5,000 spectators... More...

British schools are wasting money on wireless networks that don't work properly, claimed 3Com and specialist reseller 802UK. The two companies kicked off a fight back against anti-Wi-Fi misinformation, arguing that not only is wireless... More...

Microsoft is adding photo sharing and Web-based hosted storage to Windows Live on Wednesday, though for now the services will be limited to a few thousand preselected testers.The first new service, Windows Live Photo Gallery... More...

Security researcher Aviv Raff claims to have found the first security vulnerability in Apple's Safari browser on Windows only hours after the software was released. Raff tested the application against a standard browser security testing... More...

Nvidia Corporation's latest high-end offering, the GeForce 8800 Ultra, has become available in Japan and the USA, about a week ahead of the original schedule. BFG Technologies and EVGA are offering the card in... More...

Although the Xbox 360 Elite isn't set to officially launch until April 29, a lucky Chico, California man was able to score one such console from a Target store. Pictures proving his purchase hit Photobucket... More...

Adobe Systems' long-awaited Creative Suite 3 has hit the shelves, adding the CS3 moniker to popular creative applications from both Adobe and the former Macromedia. Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Contribute are all... More...

The Nintendo Wii is not only spreading its popularity on land, but out at sea too! The Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) has installed the popular consoles on its newest ship, the Norwegian Pearl, and all... More...

SEGA has put a free playable demo of its mech combat game up on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Xbox 360 owners with a high speed internet connection in Canada, Mexico, and the US can now... More...

During E3 2006, Microsoft announced the goal of hitting six million Xbox Live registered members by June 2007 and four months ahead of schedule, it has happened. Since its launch in November 2002, gamers have... More...

Security firm SoftScan claims that throughout February, its anti-spam systems identified a record-breaking average of e-mail as junk: 90.3%. November 2006 was the last time that spam levels were as high (89.73%). The highest levels... More...

Microsoft's goal of getting governments across the globe to embrace its Office Open XML format has hit roadblocks in both the United States and abroad. In the United States, legislation was introduced in Texas and... More...

The AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+, expected February 20th, 2007 – available now. Newegg began selling the 90nm dual-core 3.0GHz chip for $599 in-stock (just under the volume distributor pricing of $607) while Buy.com also... More...

Finnish data security company F-Secure has reported that a virus called Small.DAM, referred to as "Storm Worm" was sent to hundreds of thousands of email addresses globally and is continuing to spread very quickly. Representatives... More...

After the acquisition of ATI Technologies by Advanced Micro Devices the latter started to force out ATI's brand-name and emphasize AMD brand for graphics cards. However, there are still many fans of ATI, who are... More...

Sony had originally planned to ship 2 million units between North America and Japan by the end of calendar 2006. The company was able to meet its 1 million-unit North American goal by... More...

Pirates decided that the copy protection scheme for HD DVD was worth a shot. The result? The movie is entitled Serenity and was made available as a .EVO file which is playable on most DVD... More...

The Athlon 64 FX-70 series and ASUS L1N64-SLI WS may be available in retail but only two retailers carry the necessary Quad FX products: Newegg and ZipZoomFly. Neither retailer, however, has the required ASUS L1N64-SLI... More...

Oracle has lashed out against security experts who criticized the company's security record. The database vendor is "leading the software industry in terms of responsible development and security," charged Eric Maurice, manager for security in... More...

Brits love their footie, so when family retailer Woolworths released Pro Evolution Soccer 6 two days early they should have expected at least a little bit of fuss to be made about it. After reading... More...

Microsoft's Xbox Live online service reaches 4 million users; population expected to grow to 6 million by mid-2007. Xbox Live has surpassed 4 million members worldwide, just shy of its sixth iteration, which launches... More...

Sony's first PS3 advertisement hit Japanese TV. Although it's not very action-packed, and I doubt many non-Japanese people are going to think it is thrilling. The advertisement shows a boy waiting, and finally going to... More...

Q Entertainment and Microsoft brought Lumines to Xbox Live today, named "Lumines Live!". The arcade game weighs in at 50MB, but those who haven't tried it yet should definitely do so. Lumines is a puzzle... More...

Europeans can proudly say they have got it before their American friend;, not exactly something you hear very often in the gaming world. Priced at €40 (or £30 or $50), the Opera Web browser for... More...

Sony started the advertising campaign for their up and coming Playstation 3 video game console. The ad appears on the side of a building in New York with a picture of the console, and a... More...

The FreeDOS project, an attempt to create an open-source alternative to Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system, has finally reached a major milestone. After years of work, version 1.0 of FreeDOS is now available for download from... More...

Ubisoft has today announced that combined single and multiplayer gameplay records have shown that Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter was the most played title on Xbox Live across the globe during the second quarter of 2006.... More...

I don't have an Xbox, or an Xbox 360 (hint hint) but I do follow some games being developed for said consoles. Thus, I have been following with great anticipation - Dead Rising, the "Dawn... More...

Korean MMOG publisher NCsoft has announced that its US-developed free to play franchise Guild Wars broken the two million sales mark worldwide in the wake of the launch of the second title, Guild Wars Factions.... More...

Popular Xbox titles to sell for $9.99; Microsoft confirms 16 participating games in program's "first wave." Greatest Hits, Player's Choice, Platinum Hits... Whatever the program is called, each current-generation system has a... More...

This morning, the iTunes music store announced that it had sold one billion songs. Asides from the significance for legal online music sales, it marked the end of a competition involving a $10,000... More...