A new report by the Wall Street Journal has outlined Apple's plans for iOS 7, including a new "starker and simpler" design. However, the report states that Apple is planning "conservative" changes. More...
Imagine walking down the street and seeing your face on an advert for an embarrassing ailment. Well, you might not have to imagine, if changes to Instagram's privacy policies come into effect. More...
While Microsoft continues to build its Windows and Window Phone Stores, recent changes to the ranking algorithms could impact the smaller developers trying to get their apps seen. More...
Rather than a slathering of Happy Birthday messages, Facebook has now aggregated all birthday wishes into a single thread. Though the endless stream of wishes is a nice ego boost from your (possibly imagined) friends,... More...
Twitter has updated its' main page to re-focus the social networking and micro-blogging service as a search engine. The new look homepage is only available to new users and will be shown when you are... More...
The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) have announced some AutoRun changes for Windows 7. Currently Conficker and other malware is taking advantage of the AutoRun functionality as a spreading mechanism. AutoRun is used to start... More...
Long Zheng and Rafael had come up with proof earlier that malware can turn off UAC in Windows 7. Later Microsoft responded insisting that this is by design and actually not a bug. Microsoft has... More...
Microsoft have made available a document outlining the various changes made to Windows Vista in Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Downloads. The 1.4 MB file is available both in xps and pdf format and also... More...
The way the internet handles website domains is going to change, following an update to the core "addressing system". If we continue with the current way of allocating web addresses, we will run out of... More...
eBay Incorporated plans to lower fees for listing items, raise minimum selling standards, and offer its best sellers incentives and discounts. To improve the buying experience, the company announced it is making changes in three... More...
First, number one Zune fan Steven Smith got a Zune tattoo on his arm. Then, he went and got a second Zune tattoo on the other arm, and a few months later picked up a... More...
Amid reports that Windows Live OneCare changes settings in Windows Update to allow for automatic installation of important updates, the official word from Microsoft is that this is by design. When first installing OneCare, the... More...
Microsoft released documents on Wednesday that detail changes it will make to its desktop search and indexing feature in Windows Vista that will be included as part of the Vista SP1 (Service Pack 1) update.... More...
The video game industry's annual showcase is saying goodbye to scantily clad booth babes, extravagant multimillion dollar exhibits, celebrity appearances, blaring lights and pounding music. This year's version of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, renamed the... More...
Microsoft has sent an e-mail to registered users on the Microsoft Connect Web site informing them of an update on Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 regarding their profile and personal information. All current and future profile... More...
Starting in the spring of 2007, Daylight Saving Time (DST) start and end dates for the United States will transition to comply with the Energy Policy Act of 2005. DST dates in the United States... More...
Access announced today that it was renaming the PalmOS operating system for mobile devices (latest version being PalmOS 6) to "GarnetOS." The company is going to market the OS and devices that use it under... More...
Western Australia is introducing daylight saving for a trial period commencing December 3, 2006. Several Microsoft® products require updates in order to display the correct time during the daylight saving period. Western Australia is introducing... More...
"Bowing to pressure from European antitrust regulators and rival security vendors, Microsoft has agreed to modify Windows Vista to better accommodate third-party security software makers. In a press conference Friday, Microsoft said it would configure... More...
Thanks to slimy for the submitting this news story to us. Paul Thurott has published an article clarifying the rumours circulating around the Internet about the differences in the EULA of Windows Vista to Windows... More...
Microsoft has changed the licensing of its Windows Server Datacentre operating system, allowing users buying new servers licensed with the OS to run an unlimited number of virtualised Windows Server instances. Microsoft said that unlimited... More...
The U.S. patent system could be inching closer to an overhaul long desired by the technology industry. Just before departing for their summer recess on Thursday, Utah Republican Orrin Hatch and Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy,who... More...
"Corporate Edition" versions of Windows have been the blessing of both IT workers and casual pirates since the days of Windows 95, when the operating system first started asking for a license key on installation.... More...
At TechEd Ben Fathi, the new Vice President of security at Microsoft, and some of his team members highlighted improvements to User Account Control that we can expect to see in the product by... More...
While Microsoft faces a host of challenges in maintaining its market share numbers and persuading customers to upgrade to its 2007 Office System suite of products when released in the second half of this year,... More...
The Commonwealth Games are scheduled to be held during March 2006 in Melbourne Australia. Several Australian states including New South Wales, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Tasmania, have changed the Daylight Savings transition... More...
As if the upcoming expansion Kingdom of Sky and the much anticipated PvP enabled Update 19 weren't enough, some pretty major changes are coming very soon to the world of Everquest II. As Everquest II... More...
Unless you've been living under a rock, you no doubt know by now that Microsoft is currently working toward releasing the next version of the Windows operating system, Windows Vista. As you would probably expect,... More...
Microsoft has agreed to limit the number of shortcuts to its middleware applications in Windows when a computer user designates competing products as defaults, according to antitrust compliance documents released Wednesday. Microsoft changed... More...
Microsoft have today, released a document at their Download Center, that describes the changes in functionality for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition over Windows XP Professional SP2. Overview The document provides information regarding features... More...
Members of the open-source community are expressing concern over rapid feature changes in the Linux 2.6 kernel, which they say are too focused on the desktop and could make the kernel too large. Sam Greenblatt,... More...
Thanks TimRogers for this submission. Attention all Internet music swappers: your free ride may be about to end. The federal government has announced amendments to the country's Copyright Act that could... More...
On February 28, Microsoft® will disable Internet activation for all Microsoft Windows® XP product keys located on the Certificates of Authenticity (COA) labels distributed by large, multinational OEMs. Direct OEMs of Microsoft (large... More...
Over the past several hours, unidentified objects have been spotted streaking across the Auraxis sky. The origin of these objects is unknown, but they appear to be organic. The surface of the planet Auraxis has... More...
Chip firm AMD said that pressure from its customers caused it to introduce its "value" Sempron chips at the end of July, and not the 17th of August, which was its original intention, as we... More...
AMD has previously reported by The Inquirer AMD has cut prices on its processors. This price cut can be linked to the introduction of its Sempron processors come August. So now is a... More...
On Monday Microsoft announced plans to share more of its Windows CE source code with device makers. This comes as great news for device makers and developers who have so far had pretty restricted... More...
In Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft is introducing a set of security technologies that will help to improve the ability of Windows XP-based computers to withstand malicious attacks from viruses and worms. The... More...
Apple this week changed the way it runs technical support for its subscription-only .Mac suite of online services. A note from the company explains: "Beginning Monday May 3, all .Mac support questions are handled through... More...
Google said Tuesday it is "batting about" possible changes to its Gmail Web-based e-mail service, which launched last month to a chorus of privacy concerns. The search engine giant unveiled Gmail in late March to... More...
Representatives for Advanced Micro Devices and HardWare.fr revealed Thursday that the information about changes in AMD's model number approach with its Athlon 64 processors published on the 31st of March is not correct. On Wednesday... More...
Overview In Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft is introducing a set of security technologies that will help to improve the ability of Windows XP-based computers to withstand malicious attacks from viruses and... More...
Microsoft Corp., reversing its plans, said on Thursday that it will not make any changes to its Windows operating system or Internet Explorer Web browser in response to a verdict that said some components of... More...
The desktop PC will begin getting a makeover in the second half of 2004, with the movement creating "tumultuous transformations" in the PC industry, according to a new study. The changes, said Joe D'Elia... More...
Sony Online Entertainment is planning to make some major changes to the Jedi system in its Star Wars-themed online role-playing game. Sony Online Entertainment has recently announced via its Station.com Web site... More...
Microsoft on Friday plans to announce changes to a licensing program for software communications protocols it created as part of its landmark antitrust settlement with the U.S. government, the company says. The changes include a... More...
THERE ARE RUMOURS on a number of websites that Intel has re-engineered its architecture to include additional pipelines but if this turns out to be true it may well slow the chip down, not speed... More...
To avoid a trademark dispute, Intel has changed the code name of Tanglewood, a version of its Itanium expected to come out after 2005 that will contain several processor cores, to Tukwila, an Intel spokesman... More...
In Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft is introducing a set of security technologies that will help to improve the ability of Windows XP-based computers to withstand malicious attacks from viruses and worms. The... More...
Next years Zelda games have had their names changed: Tetra's Trackers has been renamed "Navi's Trackers" and Four Swords is now "Hyrule Adventure". PLUS! A new game Legend of Zelda: Shadow Battle has... More...