Bloatware is a battle every PC owner must fight; unless you want to format after the initial boot, you will spend a tedious amount of time uninstalling pre-installed software. More...

Despite the heated legal disputes between Apple and Samsung, it's business as usual for engineers on both sides, with rumours Samsung will supply Apple with its A6 system-on-a-chip. More...

With the nominations of the Oscars named just a few days ago I wondered how many of the movies nominated have actually been seen by people at home rather then the cinema in the form... More...

YouTube, which has gained popularity by allowing users to share their short video creations, has garnered a user base of roughly eighty-million. Hulu, another on-line video service has only a fraction of the users which... More...

Blizzard has won the first round of a legal battle against the maker of software that automates game play in World of Warcraft. It brought the case against MDY Industries claiming its WowGlider program... More...

nVidia and AMD are looking to wrest control from Intel over the specification for USB 3.0. USB 3.0 is the next-generation high-speed connection standard due out next year that is expected to offer 10 times... More...

British censors are seeking a judicial review to block the sale of controversial video game Manhunt 2. Last week developer Rockstar won a hearing at the Video Appeals Committee to have a ban on the... More...

The battles between Microsoft and Apple have hit their CEOs, as the two companies' respective chiefs were named the industry's most influential personalities, top and second, respectively, of the past 25 years, according to a... More...

Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich, creator of the popular scripting language ECMAScript, better known as JavaScript, and Microsoft's Chris Wilson, platform architect of Microsoft's Internet Explorer platform team, are trading heated rhetoric over the proposed next... More...

OEL display panels use less power and offer brighter images and wider viewing angles than competing technologies but have a maximum life span of about 30,000 hours compared to LCD's and plasma's 60,000 hours. ... More...

Antigua, the smallest country to ever win a World Trade Organization case, is seeking the right to impose $3.4 billion in commercial sanctions against the U.S. for its failure to comply with a ruling on... More...

At the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA) trade show in Denver, a company promoting a new high-definition optical disc format demonstrated set-top players and high-definition movies that cost far less than ones that... More...

Visitors to the IFA consumer electronics show, which opens Friday in Berlin, will have ringside seats to the war over high-definition disc formats raging between Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. As the two formats duel... More...

In its latest survey of the server market, Gartner found that IBM led all other vendors in terms of revenue in the second quarter of 2007, while HP shipped more servers than any other OEM.... More...

After nearly a year of back-and-forth attacks from Blockbuster and Neflix, the lawsuit battle regarding DVD rentals over the Internet is finally over. According to an SEC filing by Blockbuster, the terms of the settlement... More...

A court has denied Zango's application for a Temporary Restraining Order which sought to compel security software provider PC Tools to entirely remove the detection of its products by PC Tools' Spyware Doctor, claiming that... More...

G8 ministers are urging the private sector, including Internet service providers, information technology professionals and financial institutions, to help combat child pornography on the Internet. "Because no child should be victimized in this horrific way,... More...

The DomainKeys Identified Mail system, a tool that could help in the battle against spam and phishing attacks by validating the identity of the sender of an e-mail, has received industry approval. DKIM uses encrypted... More...

US officials championing freedom and democracy are well aware that they cannot try to silence Islamist militants by censoring or blocking the growing number of Al-Qaeda related web sites. Frank Cilluffo, director of the Homeland... More...

Software giant Microsoft Corporation filed or amended four civil suits in the United States and launched five new cases in Britain against cybersquatters, who register Internet site names in the hope of a quick buck.... More...

This year Intel plans to greatly expand the Core 2 Duo family by introducing at least eight new processors. Surprisingly however, only two of these new processors are planned to be clocked higher than the... More...

In a city built on wagering, the smart money is staying on the sidelines when it comes to the battle between two high-definition DVD formats. The first shots between Blu-ray, backed by a Sony-led consortium,... More...

Electronic Art's The Lord of the Rings™, The Battle for Middle-earth™ II, The Rise of the Witch-king™ is officially gold and shipping to retailers Nationwide November 28. As the expansion pack to... More...

SouthPeak Interactive, a leading independent publisher, and Artificial Studios, a game and middleware studio, announced today that Monster Madness: Battle For Suburbia will be blasting its way onto Windows and the Xbox 360(TM) video game... More...

It's dress-down Friday at Sunbelt Software's Clearwater, Fla., headquarters. In a bland cubicle on the 12th floor, Eric Sites stares at the screen of a "dirty box," a Microsoft Windows machine infected with the self-replicating... More...

Apple and Creative Technology may find an out-of-court settlement to their current dispute regarding the way iPods allow users to navigate stored content. The two companies are currently pursuing a litigation paper trail, with Creative... More...

*Thanks Pink Floyd for the heads up!* Creative Technology has filed a lawsuit against Apple, claiming that the iPod's interface is infringing on the company's "Zen Patent." Creative also said today that it has... More...

EA ships the sequel to its popular Lord of the Rings-inspired PC real-time strategy game; Xbox 360 version coming later in the year. Of all the games based on the... More...

Microsoft is looking into deploying foot controls to give computer users' hands a break from typing and moving the mouse around. The technology might aid in battling repetitive stress injury. At its annual... More...

A sizable set of new and recent screenshots for The Lord of the Rings:the Battle for Middle-Earth II, the fantasy 3D real-time strategysequel under construction at EA Pacific, is now available for download.Naturally, the images... More...

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday raised the stakes in a battle between high-definition DVD formats by urging a group led by Sony Corp. to include features important to PC makers and users. Palo Alto, Calif-based HP... More...

Microsoft's Japanese unit is preparing for a potentially long battle with the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) in a case that will likely see three of Japan's top electronics companies testify against the software giant,... More...

As promised, Electronic Arts has issued new patches for The Lord of the Rings: the Battle for Middle-Earth, bringing the English and all European editions (sans the French one) of their fantasy 3D real-time strategy... More...

Electronic Arts has announced that the long awaited real time strategy game based on the film trilogy has at last made it to retail. Players can assume leadership of the Gondor, Rohan, Mordor and Isengard... More...

Apple has refused to offer the re-recorded Band Aid single Do They Know It's Christmas? because the charity won't let it sell the track at its standard price. While the song is available from other... More...

Today Electronic Arts announced that The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth has gone gold. Developed at EA's Los Angeles studio, this real-time strategy (RTS) game recreates the battles of the Lord of... More...

A new movie trailer for Painkiller: Battle out of Hell is now online, again showing the imminent frantic first-person shooter expansion by People Can Fly in motion. This high-resolution clip sports a minute of action-packed... More...

A new set of screenshots for Painkiller: Battle out of Hell is now available for download, again showing off the imminent fast-paced first-person shooter expansion by People Can Fly. Of course, the images have also... More...

DreamCatcher Interactive sends along a new movie trailer of Painkiller: Battle out of Hell, revealing more of the imminent frantic first-person shooter add-on by People Can Fly. This high-resolution movie sports a minute of action-packed... More...

DreamCatcher has released a new movie trailer for Painkiller: Battle out of Hell, revealing more of the fast-paced first-person shooter expansion being developed at People Can Fly. This high-resolution clip sports a minute of action-packed... More...

With the European Parliament poised to begin deliberating on software patents again, organizations on both sides of the argument are continuing to push their cases. EICTA, the European Information and Communication Technology Association,... More...

New screenshots for Painkiller: Battle out of Hell are now available for download to reveal more of the fast-paced first-person shooter expansion being developed at People Can Fly. If you like, you can also check... More...

Relatively hot on the heels of the previous trailer, there is another new movie for The Lord of the Rings: the Battle for Middle-Earth to show the upcoming fantasy 3D real-time strategy game by EA... More...

Computer group Apple Latest News about Apple has dropped law firm Linklaters from an ongoing legal battle with the Beatles' record label Apple Corp over the use of the Apple name to sell music-related products.... More...

Electronic Arts sent out yet another movie trailer for The Lord of the Rings: the Battle for Middle-Earth, again showing off their fantasy 3D real-time strategy game in development. Part six in the series, this... More...

New screenshots for Painkiller: Battle out of Hell, the fast-paced first-person shooter expansion in the works at People Can Fly, are now available for download in medium and high resolutions. Naturally, the images have also... More...

Microsoft Corp.'s five-year legal battle in Europe moves into a public courtroom for the first time as the U.S. software giant tries to get the European Union's landmark antitrust ruling against it lifted. ... More...

One of the more interesting aspects of People Can Fly's debut FPS was the fact that every level had a completely unique look and atmosphere, representing different versions of Hell. For those that couldn't get... More...

The latest movie trailer for The Lord of the Rings: the Battle for Middle-Earth is now online, again showing off the upcoming fantasy 3D real-time strategy game by EA Pacific. Part five in the series,... More...

As we reported just yesterday, Eolas has lost two of three legal disputes with Microsoft over it's patent and licensing claims. Eolas now claims the fight is far from over and has mailed an "office... More...