Sony has been feeling the pinch for the past four years, but things just slightly worse for the Japanese tech giant. Fitch has dropped their credit rating from a BB- to a BBB-. More...

A new video from Microsoft shows its Windows RT-based Surface tablet filming a video clip while surviving a drop from 30 inches in a Microsoft test center with no problems. More...

According to an email sent last February by Microsoft general manager John Kalkman, the software giant lowered Windows Vista's minimum hardware requirements to ridiculous levels only because Intel needed to sell more graphics chipsets. The... More...

Microsoft is to withdraw an anti-piracy tool from Windows Vista, which disables the operating system when invoked, following customer complaints. The so-called "kill switch" is designed to prevent users with illegal copies of Vista... More...

In a development which Alcatel-Lucent calls "shocking and disturbing" and which Microsoft calls a "victory for consumers," a federal judge in the San Diego District Court has overturned a jury's decision which had ruled that... More...

Solar flares, fiery geysers that erupt on the sun's surface, have been known to interrupt radio and television signals from satellites, but now a team of researchers, led by Queen's University professor David Thomson in... More...

Charges have been dropped against 40 year-old Alexander Ponosov, a Russian school principal who would have faced up to five years in prison after police seized 12 computers with more than US$10,000 in pirated Microsoft... More...

Neversoft has dropped online play from the PlayStation 3 version of Tony Hawk's Project 8, a key third-party launch title for Sony's next-gen console. The developer has only recently received development kits for the PlayStation... More...

Betanews reported a couple of days ago that Places have been dropped from the Firefox 2.0 release, originally it was included in the first public alpha release of Firefox 2.0, codenamed "Bon Echo," it had... More...

The PlayStation 3 will no longer act as a home network router, according to Sony Computer Entertainment boss Ken Kutaragi, who has revealed that the functionality has been dropped because it would have been too... More...

Purchasers of FFI & II on GBA questioned about which classic Square Enix games they'd like to see on Nintendo's dual-screen system Square Enix looks to be considering porting over one or... More...

Microsoft is introducing a new branding convention for its server-software products to synch up with next week's launch of Windows Server 2003. Microsoft's server programs will be sold under the "Windows Server... More...

Gees, this was a shock when my cousin freestyle pointed me to this over at DigitalSpy... After 38 years of weekly programmes, the BBC has announced it will no longer produce the half-hourly... More...