iSuppli is predicting that netbook shipments will completely die off by 2015, while shipments this year will fall 72% to just 3.97m. The rise in popularity of tablets is understandably to blame. More...

The launch of Darksiders II is almost upon us, but in the meantime you can check out the latest pre-release gameplay trailer where Death explains his motives for his quest in the game More...

Security was tight at Stanford University in California on Sunday as Apple held a private memorial service for its late founder Steve Jobs. A number of well known tech and media celebrities attended. More...

Software engineer Steve Lacey died in a car crash yesterday in Kirkland, WA. The Seattle-based website of television channel KING 5 reports that Lacey's death came as part of a road rage incident in which... More...

Paul Buchheit, the creator of Google AdSense technology and the lead developer of Gmail, claims that Chrome OS will not still be here 12 months next year. This comes as quite a shock since Google... More...

Blizzard faces a lawsuit from Chinese parents, who say World of Warcraft caused the death of their son. November 18, 2005 In the latest saga over online gaming addiction in China, the parents... More...

Last week we reported on the hidden files that some Sony CDs install on Windows machines, quoting Sys Internals concerns that the software and files could not be easily removed. Facing unrest from the masses... More...

According to Namco's official arcade website, Death by Degrees for the PlayStation 2 has been pushed back until February of 2005. The game was originally slated for release in fall of this year, with the... More...

The first PlayStation Portable software to be demonstrated in public, Backbone Entertainment's Death Jr., is set to become a comic book and possibly a Hollywood movie, with the publisher keen to see the IP exploited... More...

DeviceLogics releases what could well be the final version of DR-DOS to hit the market. DeviceLogics, keeper of the DR-DOS code base, released this week what might be the final upgrade to... More...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates predicted the demise of the traditional password because it cannot "meet the challenge" of keeping critical information secure. Gates, speaking at the RSA Security conference here on Tuesday,... More...

Microsoft will pull the plugs on MSDN downloads of a range of products, including Windows 98, Office 2000, SQL Server 7 and NT Workstation, next Monday. These contain the polluted Java which, according to the... More...

Microsoft's 'Windows for iPods' operating system appears to be taking longer to ship than the company previously forecast. The software giant yesterday said it was working on system software for handheld media players. Now called... More...

Judge Dredd vs. Judge Death will be a first-person shooter seen through the eyes of Judge Dredd as he patrols the mean streets of the stunningly realised future metropolis, Mega-City One. Dredd will find himself... More...

It looks like AMD is about to phase out Duron. Once again...Just weeks after the re-load of AMD Duron microprocessors at 1.40, 1.60 and 1.80GHz and AMD senior executive said that the company will finally... More...

A lawsuit intended to bring justice to Netscape has ended with a deal that sounds the death knell for the browser. Microsoft today agreed to settle a private antitrust suit brought by AOL Time Warner,... More...

An item which may be of interest to Siemens mobile owners in Europe: The SMS, among the 1 billion sent each day on the continent, can freeze or completely disable two cell... More...

Some reports are appearing which seem to suggest that that some users who downloaded the SP3 patch for Windows 2000 have experienced problems. (shock horror, news at 11! Ed.) In the... More...

Usenet posts by Telewest blueyonder Internet service subscribers are been blocked by other news providers because of complaints over spam. In a notice to users yesterday, Telewest explains that a Usenet Death... More...

Thanks Jason for this one. Here we go again... Shawn Woolley loved an online computer game so much that he played it just minutes before his suicide. The 21-year-old... More...

Came across this over at gamers.nl. BATON ROUGE, LA. A Louisiana woman is suing Nintendo, alleging her 30-year-old son suffered seizures after playing video games for eight hours a day, six days a... More...

Apple was victorious against Microsoft last week, after CNET ran a Windows XP versus Mac OS X death match, and eventually awarded Mac the trophy. The punch-up was actually a dead heat... More...

More trouble with P4's spell Black screens of death. CHIP GIANT INTEL has warned of a problem using its Active Monitor and the ATA storage driver, version 6.10 and above, when installed... More...