Apple's new "Spaceship" Campus 2 is reportedly $2 billion over budget and will be a year late. According to BusinessWeek, the project is not going according to plan, with some angry investors. More...

Talent agent Micah Johnson was able to screencap some very unusual activity from Facebook. The social network wanted to charge $100 to deliver a message as part of a new counter-spam initiative. More...

The cloud computing and virtualisation race has been hotting up over the past few years, with Microsoft making great strides to compete with VMware in performance and, now as shown by Microsoft, cost. More...

More details have surfaced regarding pricing for Windows 8, with unnamed sources claiming that Windows 8 Pro will launch at a discounted price of $69.99, before increasing to $199 in January. More...

Microsoft has just announced the upgrade price for all editions of WIndows in 131 markets, coming in at $39.99, Microsoft is making it hard to resist the upgrade. More...

With Microsoft no longer natively supporting DVD/Blu-ray formats, the company may be looking to lower the cost of the OS by reducing royalty payments More...

It's yet another initiative to build low power, portable, and affordable computers for educational purposes, especially in the developing world. Previous attempts have not seen widespread success, such as the One Laptop Per Child initiative.... More...

As the world erupted in protest over the Egyptian shutdown of Internet connectivity during the protests of the last week or so, many fail to realize how much this disruption of day-to-day economic activity is... More...

What are you currently paying for your text messaging? Is it 20 or 25 cents or are you one of the millions of users who buy a text messaging package with your phone plan... More...

As the release of low-cost laptops based on Intel's upcoming Atom Processor draws near, Microsoft is getting boxed into a corner. The software company plans to stop selling most Windows XP licenses after June 30,... More...

Sony has slashed the price of its PS3 development kit and promised further reductions as more studios adopt the technology, GamesIndustry.biz reports. The PlayStation 3 Reference Tool will now be available for EUR 7500 here... More...

Take-Two Interactive just issued a release featuring details on the preliminary settlement of the consumer class action lawsuit filed against it and Rockstar Games over the "sexually explicit" content in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.... More...

The Walt Disney Company has been censured by the UK advertising watchdog for not making clear that a children's mobile phone game cost £5 in its advertising. Disney broke Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) rules on... More...

A new web browser has hit the market and aims to provide you with the most secure internet experience possible. The e-Capsule Private Browser has been developed by Enterprise Information Security Systems and Technology (EISST)... More...

Episodic content for GTA:IV is exclusive to the 360, how long for though, we don't know. What has emerged though, is the price Microsoft has had to pay for such a privilege. The measly sum... More...

The world’s second largest provider of x86 chips, Advanced Micro Devices, said at conference that it would lower its sales guidance for the first quarter of fiscal 2007. Speaking to investors at the Morgan Stanley... More...

As Symantec Corp. launched its new Norton 360 consumer security suite today, the company acknowledged that some users may be put off by the price, nearly double the list price of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Live... More...

Earlier this month EMI hinted it would be the first major music label to rid many of its songs of DRM. This isn't exactly "too good to be true", but there is a catch. EMI... More...

The Recording Industry Association of America hasn't been making too many friends these days. I guess I should say that the organization does have many friends inside the music industry, because that's who makes up... More...

The Apple iPhone is going to dent your bank account a bit more than expected. The 4GB model will come in at a shade under £600 while the 8GB could be as much as £660... More...

Researchers in Japan have developed a microchip that blocks computer viruses before they enter PCs, an advance that could change how security software is used. Chips in routers can stop viruses without slowing down programmes... More...

One of the most highly anticipated games this holiday season (and probably the most anticipated game on Xbox 360) is Epic Games' Gears of War. Interestingly, Epic and their shooter may... More...

From a developer standpoint the power of the next-gen consoles opens up doors that simply weren't there before, but equally brings concerns over escalating development costs possibly in the region of $20-$30 million. Speaking at... More...

If this story turns out to be accurate, all I can say is - Yikes. $75 - $85 USD per game? Ouch. Following up on Ken Kutaragi's pre-TGS keynote address, Japanese site Impress Watch has... More...

According to a global movie body, movie piracy in China is costing the industry $2.7bn a year. The Motion Pictures Association say that around 93% of all films bought in China are pirated, and 40%... More...

We have absolutely no way of confirming the information ourselves, but according to iTWire, we can expect to really pay out the nose for the most ultimate version of Windows ever conceived, Windows Vista Ultimate.... More...

A study ordered by the Motion Picture Association of America has claimed that Hollywood missed out on $6.1 billion last year in lost revenues due to piracy, with the internet denying copyright holders $2.3 billion... More...

Even though the high definition video discs are just around the corner, due to the high manufacturing costs of Blu-ray and HD DVD players and broad availability of conventional DVD devices and content, the market... More...

THE AMD socket M2/AM2 based motherboards aren't likely to cost very much more than existing sockets. AMD advised its motherboard partners that the new motherboards will cost them only a little bit more. Socket vendors... More...

The blind man in the red shirt stood up. A German Shepherd in a leather harness dozed at his feet, under the folding plastic chairs, in the warmth of winter sun coming in low through... More...

NVIDIA'S flagship Geforce 7800 GTX card with 512 MB is expected next Monday the 14th of November,and we have some pricing details about how many greenbacks this card will cost. Nvidia has priced this card... More...

Microsoft corporate vice president J Allard has confirmed that the Xbox 360 will be priced "in the neighbourhood" of $300, which was the initial launch price of the Xbox, with a final decision on price... More...

Four Britons were jailed on Friday for being part of a global gang described as "Robin Hoods" who stole expensive software from rich companies and gave it away for free over the Internet. The group,... More...

HP has announced plans to launch a low cost PC in China. At $483, HP hopes the PC will be cheap enough to keep it active in a high competition, high growth market. The PC... More...

Sony announced yesterday that it has developed Blu-Ray (BD) disc production technology that will be enable the company to produce Blu-Ray discs at half the cost of DVDs. Instead of using glass plates for production... More...

In the rush to roll out servers that put multiple processors on a chip, IBM, Intel, Sun and others inadvertently are raising software costs for users. At issue is that software vendors such as Oracle... More...

Dealing with widespread worms like Sasser raises the cost of using Windows, a research analyst said Wednesday. Mark Nicolett, research director at Gartner, recommended that enterprises boost spending on patch management and intrusion prevention software... More...

The major labels are looking at increasing the price of iTunes Music Store downloads to as much as $2.49 – with experts predicting the move could kill the service. The US record industry believe iTunes... More...

Thanks xStainDx. As we said in another story earlier, Bill Gates was sat in a chair in a museum in Berlin tonight, and gave a whole series of remarkable sound bites to the assembled audience... More...

Analyst firms have begun to weigh in with initial estimates of the damage done by the SQL Slammer worm, the virulent program that spread quickly throughout the Internet a week ago. On... More...

BT Group have announced that they are to demand a demonstration of cost savings from network equipment suppliers, or they are to refuse to pay in full for the equipment. This is a part of... More...

BENQ, WHICH now calls itself BenQ because apparently North American analysts thought it was a bank, has introduced a 17-inch LCD monitor which it claims has high quality specs but at an entry level price... More...

AS WE'VE NOTED, Intel is readying a widespread cut in prices. It told its OEM partners about those details in a July roadmap we saw at the time, and now it has notified its resellers... More...

Thanks Timan and Dazzla who posted this in the BPN on the forums. It seems the .Mac strategy that Apple has implented will cost money. From the site: Q: Is it true that Apple will... More...

The fruits of Microsoft's new focus on security are coming through, but it has cost money, says vice president in a .Net server preview. Microsoft's much-publicised security push has cost real... More...

Software bugs are not just annoying or inconvenient. They're expensive. According to a study by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the bugs and glitches cost... More...

In 1997 Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien and American President, Bill Clinton were both proud signataries of the Kyoto Agreement, which tried to address various environmental concerns linked to global warming. ... More...

Two stories relating to our old friend "Busby"... UK Telecom Watchdog OFTEL has ordered BT to slash its charges to rival telecoms companies for connecting users to the Internet. BT must use its... More...

eMachines, the third largest vendor of desktop PCs sold through U.S. retailers, has begun shipping its entire line of affordable, high-value PCs preloaded with the new Microsoft Windows XP operating system. The PCs start at... More...

With a month to go until Windows XP springs to life, many IT users are still unsure if the benefits are worth the expense of upgrading. So before handing over shed-loads of... More...