Markus 'Notch' Persson, the man behind Minecraft and the upcoming 0x10c, has released a new, minimalistic game called 'Drop'. Players must quickly type words from jumbled letter to pass. More...

Love it or hate it, there are kind hearted reviewers out there that will break devices for the greater good. With that said, do you want to see the Nexus 4 from LG/Google get dropped from six feet? More...

Microsoft Corp. is giving consumers more gigabytes for their buck. The company today announced an Xbox 360 console with triple the storage space of the original console, but for the same price of $349 (U.S.)... More...

The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) has announced that it is working on a new specification that will provide power to external SATA (eSATA) devices without the need for a separate power connection. Called "Power... More...

In a move that would mark the end of a digital music era, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is finalizing plans to sell songs without the copyright protection software that has long restricted the use of... More...

Due to the trend of notebooks replacing desktop PCs, first-tier motherboard makers except Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) saw their November motherboard shipments drop on month, according to sources at the makers. Asustek Computer announced November... More...

Lenovo, the world's fourth largest PC maker, plans to phase out the IBM brand to which it acquired rights when it purchased IBM's PC division three years ago. Lenovo sales rose 20% to $4.4bn in... More...

It would appear that the HD DVD camp is leading a price war against its Blu-ray counterpart, which so far, appears to be winning the HD format war. At the IFA international consumer electronics show,... More...

When Paramount decided to go HD-DVD exclusive, many denizens of the internet were confused at the choice, wondering why they would choose to forego an extra possible source of revenue. Naturally the topic of monetary... More...

Canadian retailers have also been instructed by Sony to reduce the price of the 60GB PlayStation 3 to the price previously occupied by the 20GB version: $549 CAD. The $110 price drop means Canada will... More...

According to data from Nielsen SoundScan, U.S. sales of digital music albums grew by 60% to 23.5 million units in the first six months of 2007 but failed to offset the rapid sales decline of... More...

In order to rule this console generation, Microsoft believes that it needs to start emulating some of Nintendo's tactics. "If we don't make that move, make it early and expand our demographic, we will wind... More...

Sony has announced that the launch of the PlayStation 3 has contributed to a 68 per cent drop in operating profits to JPY 71.8 billion (EUR 438.3 million) for the year ended March 31, compared... More...

If you are to believe The Inquirer's scanned copy of a printed catalogue from UK retailer Makro, which shows the cost of an Xbox 360 Premium Console (20GB & wireless controller) at £199, the same... More...

Sales of the PlayStation 3 console during its first full week of availability in Japan were sharply lower than those during the two days immediately following its launch, according to estimates published this week. ... More...

The number of viruses hitting Irish inboxes has fallen but spam continues to rise, according to figures from IE Internet. The Irish email monitoring firm found that the rate of virus infection in the mails... More...

Microsoft officially announced today that they would be dropping the retail price of their 360 Core pack. UK gamers will save £10 (18USD) on each console, which is now priced at £199. The price drop... More...

While it is purely speculative, at the moment, word has been spreading that AMD may decide to drop the ATI brand name and label all products under the singular AMD label. Want to know what's... More...

Interesting bit of news posted by pyehac in our Back Page News. Looks as though the RIAA has quietly dropped several lawsuit cases rather quickly because the defense started to 'cry IP': For years, the... More...

Apple will stop selling Airport Base Stations, eMacs and iSight cameras in Europe after June 30, reports claim. According to reports, the company contacted channel partners this morning to confirm plans to withdraw these... More...

A Florida video game enthusiast will soon be able to resume selling on eBay his home-made guide on how to succeed in "World of Warcraft," a hit online video game owned by Vivendi. Vivendi's Blizzard... More...

Amid threats of a lawsuit from Adobe, Microsoft acknowledged Friday that it would remove support for saving files in PDF from Office 2007, as well as dropping its own rival format XPS from the productivity... More...

The first round of 3rd party Xbox 360 game price cuts is upon us! $39.99 will now bag you a copy of Burnout: Revenge, Amped, Madden NFL 06, NBA 2K6, NBA Live 06, NHL 2K6,... More...

It has been suggested that Nintendo is planning to drop in price next month, according to an EB Games employee. The materials, which were sent for use in the company's next marketing period (May 3... More...

Samsung to now supply the majority of NAND flash memory and the media chip for Apple's iPod After PortalPlayer Inc. received what amounts to a death blow last week when Apple decided not to... More...

According to the BBC flash memory prices are due to drop significantly by around 25%. The slump in price of memory chips is thought to be because of an... More...

It has been reported that Google will stop issuing new UK subscribers with a @gmail.com address, and will, instead issue a @googlemail.com address. This is following a trademark dispute between a London based firm, who... More...

The world's largest Internet service provider believes spammers are starting to give up—at least when it comes to sending junk to its subscribers. The total number of e-mail messages destined for America Online Inc. members... More...

Prices for DDR2 chips have recently fallen to US$5.50 per chip from US$6.50-7.00 a month ago due to excess inventory, according to sources. DRAM chipmakers are currently holding five to six weeks worth of DDR2... More...

Publisher Vivendi Universal Games has announced its revenue figures for the quarter ended September 30th, revealing that sales declined by some 18 per cent year on year as this year's release schedule failed to impress... More...

Taiwan OEM quotations for 16x DVD burners have slipped by over 10% to less than US$80 amid decreased component costs and competition from Japanese OEM makers, according to Taiwan producers of optical disc drives. The... More...

While pricing for the Microsoft Xbox and the Sony PS2 remains the same in the US, both companies have slashed the price for their respective consoles in Europe. Purchasing an Xbox will now set you... More...

Not long ago, notebook computers were expensive accessories for traveling executives. Now, it's not a surprise to find many choices priced under $1000. A recent check of Web stores found major vendors offering notebooks on... More...

Today the three major IM giants have reached an agreement. This agreement will connect AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and MSN Messenger in corporations. All this will be done using Microsoft's Live Communication... More...

It looks like Acer, for one, may not have any excuses for much longer. According to several Australian news sources (1, 2 subscription required, 3), Bill Gates himself - at a press conference in... More...

Sony's Japanese side has alluded to a price drop for the PlayStation 2. In revealing its expectations for the current financial quarter (April to June, 2004), the company revealed that it expects to slip into... More...

The price level of entry-level DVD recorders without built-in hard disk drives (HDDs) is likely to drop 20%-30% by the end of the year, Taiwanese makers of optical disc drives indicated. Taiwan-made entry-level DVD recorders... More...

The rarely-used Digital AV port on the back of the GameCube console is to be removed from future revisions of the hardware in a move designed to save production costs, Nintendo has confirmed today. ... More...

Time Warner Inc. is looking at different options for America Online, including the possible sale, spin-off or reorganization of the Internet service provider, according to a published report. The New York Post... More...

A judgement against the Linux distributor could force the company to stop using its trademark and surrender its domain names, pending an appeal. (Uh-oh... -Ed) A French court has decided against Linux... More...

THE RECOVERY IN prices of DRAM was seasonally driven and has run out of steam, according to an analyst at iSuppli. Nam Hyung Kim claimed in a note to customers today that contract prices in... More...

Motherboard makers are seeing rising motherboard demand in part due to the lowering of prices of Intel 865 chipset-based motherboards. Ever since Intel lowered its 865 chipset prices in June, FOB (freight-on-board) wholesale prices for... More...

Grand finale for safe online shopping campaign The Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG) will today launch what it calls a 'shopping extravaganza' to round off its month-long safe internet shopping campaign.... More...

Adobe's flagship product, Photoshop, will abandon Mac OS 9 support in its next major version, sources close to Adobe told MacCentral. While no final date has been set for the release of the next revision... More...

It seems that Miscrosoft, Sony, and Nintendo have a planned price drop coming for their consoles. XBOX is planned to drop down to $149 Playstation is also planned to drop down to $149... More...

McDonald's has pulled the plug on a pioneering marketing push based on text messaging, but the move doesn't bode ill for such campaigns, say analysts. In the past few weeks, the fast... More...

Microsoft is set to cut the price of the Xbox to £129.99 in the UK this week according to reports from retail sources, in a move which will see the console matching the hardware price... More...

Apple Computer has pulled back from a plan that would have made Mac OS X the primary operating system on all new Macs starting in January. In September, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company... More...

Seven out of the nine states in the US which stood out against the Microsoft-Department of Justice antitrust settlement were offered money to drop their action, the Washington Post claimed today. Shortly... More...

3COM TERMINATED A long-standing agreement that allowed Dell Computer to sell 3Com networking gear, becoming the third supplier since July to cancel a reseller agreement with Dell as the PC maker ventures into new markets.... More...