With cloud based storage & sharing becoming ever present in the home, Dropbox are venturing into the corporate world by introducing Dropbox for Business, adding security and collaborative features. More...

Microsoft showed off a pre-beta build for nearly fifteen minutes at CES and the demo included new features that the company had yet to disclose about the upcoming OS. More...

We all know that companies patent nearly any idea they can think of and Microsoft has done just that with its 'Avoid Ghetto' feature for GPS devices. More...

It was not long ago that Microsoft gave the world a preview of what we can expect to come with the 'Mango' upgrade to the Windows Phone platform. During this same timeframe, Microsoft also released... More...

During a recent White House anti-bullying conference, Facebook, in order to help users who are being bullied or abused, has created a new 'Trusted Friend' feature on their website. People who use the site can... More...

Microsoft is set to unveil Internet Explorer 9 beta at a launch event later today. The company will unveil a host of new features allowing users to pin their favourite sites to the taskbar and start... More...

Today the Windows Live SkyDrive team has two announced new features. While today's update isn't anything compared to what we will be seeing in Wave 4 in the coming months, the update is focused... More...

Newly inaugurated President Barack Obama has won the first major battle of his administration, the fight to keep his Blackberry. But when you're the leader of the free world, not just any Blackberry will do.... More...

Late Wednesday, a Microsoft spokesperson told BetaNews that a TechEd session in Orlando today summarized some of Internet Explorer 8's key new features for administrators, one of them being crash recovery. One much improved feature... More...

To prevent annoying from bots or spammers, Messenger Group (Intro) released the blacklist feature last week. And to provide users better services, they put out Membership Verification feature now! Blacklist Group... More...

Update: A Microsoft spokesperson has confirmed the video is fake. Thanks TechMedik for posting this in our forums, Ars Technica have posted what could be a promo video for Windows 7. Read on ... Many... More...

With Windows 7 likely to be complete in Q4 2009, Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates hinted at what the company is planning for the next version of Windows last week. In a speech at the Windows... More...

Some of the coolest OS features are nowhere to be found in Windows XP or Vista. Here are 18 brilliant features that Microsoft should beg for, borrow, or steal--plus tips on how you can add... More...

Open-source darling MySQL is facing a new uprising within its customer base over plans disclosed this week to reserve some key upcoming features, and their source code, for paying users of its namesake database. Officials... More...

Sony has announced plans to update the Folding@Home client. The new version includes a feature to automatically shutdown the console after an inputted time or at a specific time (Settings > Automatic Shutdown). As well,... More...

Flight Simulator X Service Pack 2 previews the new technology of DirectX 10 to enhance environmental effects such as bloom, realistic water, and virtual co ckpit shadowing. You must have a DirectX 10 graphics adapter... More...

When we began rolling out a new Gmail code architecture a few weeks ago, we also launched some new features to help improve the speed and convenience of managing email. I've been using several of... More...

Codenames and features of the tri-core CPUs AMD is planning to launch next year and in 2009 have been revealed by sources at motherboard makers. Toliman adopts a 65nm process, supports socket AM2+ motherboards, and... More...

In response to users, Microsoft has added the ability to publish photos on Flickr from Windows Live Photo Gallery (Publish menu). The feature is only available with the latest beta version (2.2 refresh) which must... More...

Windows Server 2008 is on its way. With the first release candidate in the pipeline, it shouldn't be long before release to manufacturing and general availability. With such a long development time (it's the first... More...

Recent reports have noted that the Limited Edition of Halo 3's packaging design did not include adequate measures to secure the game DVDs in place, leading many gamers to find loose, scratched up discs inside... More...

Yahoo Inc. is introducing new features Monday for its popular Web-based e-mail program, including software that allows computer users to type text messages on a keyboard and send them directly to someone's cell phone. The... More...

Sun Microsystems Incorporated has plans, called Project Indiana, to revamp Solaris, one of the main varieties of the Unix family of operating systems, known for their ability to safely and securely handle major computing tasks... More...

Denver-based online mapping vendor MapQuest Incorporated has released a new beta API that allows software developers to use Adobe Systems Incorporated's ActionScript 3.0 programming language to create richer online applications and capabilities for MapQuest users.... More...

Beta 3 was just signed off and will be posted very soon to connect.microsoft.com. There is so much coolness in IIS 7 in Beta 3 that's hard to know where to start. We've had several... More...

Windows Live Spaces is now available in 51 countries in 25 languages. There have been 93 million spaces created since Spaces was released, and more than 111 million people a month use Spaces. More than... More...

A judge has ruled that Kaleidescape Incorporated did not breech its contract with the DVD Copy Control Association over its use of the consortium's Content Scramble System and due to poor wording in the documents... More...

Ever wanted a copy of Windows signed by the Chairman himself? Now Amazon is giving you that chance. For only $259 (with free shipping) you can get your own copy of Windows Vista Ultimate... More...

On top of the recently added 'Skype Me' buttons for buyers to use to contact sellers to ask them questions, eBay have now added blogs and a wiki to their site. The eBay Wiki will... More...

Ever since the Nintendo Wii's controller was announced last year at the Tokyo Game Show (TGS), Nintendo President Satoru Iwata, Game Designer Shigeru Miyamoto and friends have always stated there's more to the controller than... More...

Meanwhile ATI Technologies and Nvidia Corp., both leading suppliers of standalone graphics processors, are doing their best to introduce high-performance graphics processing units that are compliant with DirectX 10 next-generation application programming interface, Intel Corp.,... More...

Windows PC Accelerators is the new term that encompasses Windows Vista's new performance-enhancing technologies. The Windows PC Accelerators are: Windows® SuperFetch™ Windows® ReadyBoost™ (formerly code-named "EMD") Windows® ReadyDrive™ (formerly code-named "Piton") Windows... More...

In it's ever increasing endeavors tolure users to its services, search engine giant Google Inc. has announced plansto join its popular Gmail e-mail service with its Google Talk Instant Messagingservice. By combining services Gmail users... More...

Yahoo plans to upgrade its messenger service with a capability that lets users dial out from the instant messaging service interface ... More...

Microsoft's new operating system won't be out until late 2006, but here's a look at some of the new security features expected. It seems that every time I sit down with Microsoft to... More...

Steven Bink, of Bink.nu, has noted that SP2 features more than just security updates to Office. Indeed, for Outlook at least, a bundle of new features can be found. Outlook now boasts improved... More...

2k Games today announced what multiplayer features will be included in the upcoming 'over the top' FPS, Serious Sam 2. The game will allow a massive sixteen players to play in co-operative mode over a... More...

Now for a news item that has nothing to do with Windows Vista. Anyway, before the new, the old gets updated. Heads up to wa22guy for passing this link on. It's a compilation... More...

As Microsoft approaches a major milestone in the development of Longhorn, company executives are talking more about the features of the Windows XP successor, which they say will be easier to use, more secure, and... More...

In the early 90s, operating systems were getting pretty innovative and exciting. In a brief span of years we went from DOS and Windows 3.1 to having a myriad of operating systems that offered pre-emptive... More...

At this year's VS Live and Windows Anywhere event, Microsoft showed of new technology it plans to launch with Longhorn for laptops and PCs, Techworld reports. The company plans to offer a system... More...

Today, alongside a re-vamped front page, search engine Yahoo! has added two new features on its website. Yahoo is launching a video search tool to compliment its other search options. In a similar... More...

For a product that can count a double-digit market share only through the generous rounding of numbers, the release of Version 1.0 of the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox Web browser was met with great enthusiasm and... More...

According to Microsoft-watch.com today, Microsoft is cutting up R2. Not content with delaying SUS 2.0 but Microsoft are now killing features from its "release two" of Windows Server 2003. Steven Bink (a Windows Server MVP)... More...

IBM announced on Monday the launch of a new line of ThinkPad notebooks designed to provide an extra layer of data protection through advanced fingerprint technology. The biometric capability will be present on... More...

According to a job posting on Microsoft's website that was taken down, the company is looking for a software engineer with server experience to work on its next-generation platform, officially confirmed to have the codename... More...

Windows XP SP2 provides more than 600 new Group Policy settings to help administrators manage policy settings related to Windows Firewall, Internet Explorer, Internet Communication Management, Automatic Updates, security, Terminal Services, user profiles, and other... More...

Google has unleashed two new features that are aimed at smaller Web sites and could change the search habits of millions of people. First, the Mountain View search engine announced Friday a "site-flavored"... More...

MSN Messenger and Xbox Live Alerts are now integrated in Xbox Live! Details inside... The largest online gaming community is getting even more features added to the already super functional Xbox Live... More...

Via Technologies Inc. provided a glimpse on Tuesday of features that will be offered with the company's upcoming next-generation processor core, called Esther. The first Esther-based processors from Via are expected to be available during... More...