In the two months since MTV Networks and Harmonix released the music-based video game Rock Band, players have purchased and downloaded more than 2.5 million additional songs made available after the game's initial distribution. Activision,... More...
Japan's Panasonic has created the world's longest-lasting alkaline battery, according to Guinness World Records. Panasonic promises its new Evolta battery cell — whose name is derived from "evolution" and "voltage" — will keep gadgets running... More...
I.B.M. plans to build a sizable business by bringing Google-style computing to mainstream corporate customers. The I.B.M. strategy, to be announced today, seeks to exploit the technical work and commercial interest in large data centers... More...
Apple is confirming that some installations of its Leopard operating system have left a "Blue Screen of Death," and recommends the OS be reinstalled or installers use "line commands" to get the systems booting properly.... More...
British-based scientists have created graphene, supposedly the thinnest material in the world: a one atom thick layer of carbon formed in hexagonal gropus. The substance, which is about 200,000 thinner than a human hair, was... More...
Microsoft's Windows Vista has a date with some of the world's smartest hackers. The software maker will use the spotlight of the Black Hat security conference in August to show off some of the key... More...
Redmond, Wash.--For most of their 20 years, Word and Excel documents have had free rein within corporate walls. In the early days, workers used an array of floppy disks to shuttle documents... More...
Was absenteeism a little high on Tuesday among the guys at the office? EA Sports would like to think it was because "Madden NFL 2005" came out that day, and some fans of the football... More...
Microsoft VP Andy Lees walked the TechEd crowd through a fast-paced set of demos and several new product roadmaps during his Tuesday morning keynote. If you looked closely, you could see lots of what to... More...
Next two versions of Microsoft's home-entertainment-hub version of Windows are already in the works. Even though it has barely put the finishing touches on its Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 release,... More...
Watch for MSN to roll out new subscription services for music, e-mail collaboration, spam-protection and parental controls in its next upgrade. While it ended up ditching the 8.5 moniker, Microsoft rolled out... More...
Lol - what did i tell you chappies- MS has already started buying people out- that means their worried bad! "In a barely-registered coup earlier this month Microsoft recruited senior European Commission official... More...