A Reddit user's Samsung Galaxy S III has self-combusted while charging, saying he heard loud noises, saw smoke coming from the device and managed to get burned from the melting phone More...

Anonymous sources have teased that Nokia will provide mapping services for Amazon's Kindle Fire, a feature the current tablet lacks, ignoring Google's already popular and established service. More...

Following two separate incidents, Lenovo is voluntarily recalling 160,000 PCs manufactured between May 2010 and January 2012, due to a defective power supply component presenting a risk of fire. More...

HP has issued a voluntary recall of its 1040 and 1050 model fax machines after it received reports of seven of those products overheating and catching fire in the US and Canada. More...

Amazon's new Kindles have impressed a lot of people today, from industry professionals to ordinary consumers. But not everyone's going to be able to get their hands on the new Kindle devices. More...

It would appear that Apple's new Macbook Pro's are not immune to prior known issues about the MagSafe connectors. One user of the new unibody Macbook Pro's MagSafe connector burned completely charring the end... More...

Academic research at Durham University in the UK has suggested that video games such as Far Cry, Doom and Counter Strike, make better fire drill simulators than traditional virtual reality toolkits. Using the Source engine,... More...

A three-alarm fire burned Tuesday night at the Apple campus in Cupertino, according to the Santa Clara County Fire Department. The fire department received a report of smoke at about 10 p.m. at 20605 Valley... More...

Firefox 2 disappointed with an oh, so 1990s look and feel. Anyone remember Mac OS 8.5 or Windows 3.0, for reference? The browser's successor doesn't look any more modern. Safari and, gasp, even Internet Explorer... More...

Toshiba has recalled more defective laptop batteries, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said last week, the latest move in a long-running problem with lithium-ion batteries made by Sony. According to a warning from... More...

Researchers at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands believe that lasers will one day take over conventional magnetic data writers in hard disk drives. In laboratory experiments, they used laser light to write data to... More...

Here we go again. Toshiba is blaming a Sony battery for a notebook that recently burst into flames. The fire occurred on May 24 and was later linked to a short circuit within the Sony... More...

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. today launched a Windows Vista version of its flagship ZoneAlarm firewall and blamed the delay on a switch to the new operating system's application programming interfaces (API). The Vista version... More...

Nvidia Corp., a leading designer of graphics processor and core-logic sets, is about to face criticism from enthusiasts for the problems that occur with the company's latest premium-class chipset. Apparently, the core-logic's I/O controller has... More...

The frequency of these burning laptop reports seems to be increasing at a sickening pace. The latest news comes from Yahoo!'s Mission College campus in Silicon Valley where a Dell laptop, mimicking it's brethren, burst... More...

On Tuesday, the Japanese government said that it knew of one case in Japan of a Sony made battery used in an Apple Computer notebook overheating and catching fire. The incident, resulting in a minor... More...

Solaris has been the most widely used version of Unix. But much wind was taken from the operating system's sails by the quick arrival of Linux and the equally quick departure of Sun's prestige when... More...

Is Microsoft silently fixing security vulnerabilities and deliberately obfuscating details about patches in its monthly security bulletins? Matthew Murphy, a security researcher who has worked closely with the MSRC (Microsoft Security Response Center) in the... More...

When MacBook Pro owner Rogier Mulder returned to his home, he found something that was simply shocking. His MacBook Pro had caught fire or better put, its MagSafe power adapter, Apple's new power adapter... More...

The firewall component in Microsoft's Windows OneCare security bundle has holes, experts have warned. The security software, available in a public beta version, by default allows applications that use the Java Virtual... More...

Despite being moved back to April 2006, Rockstar's Bully remains one of the most controversial titles of the moment - with the game now the subject of an emotive petition from the mother of a... More...

Phantagram's medieval strategy game grabs a publisher; Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes to charge onto Xboxes this summer. Microsoft Game Studios today announced that it has been dubbed publisher of Kingdom Under Fire:... More...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the newly announced 3D action adventure sequel by EA UK based on the fourth motion picture that's in turn based on J.K. Rowling's fourth book. Our game... More...

At least some NVIDIA's ForceWare drivers cannot pass certain WHQL tests as Microsoft's Display Compatibility Test does not pass pixel shaders 3.0 along with some other pixel shaders tests on the drivers version 66.81. Earlier... More...

With the battle fully joined, RealNetworks defended its Harmony digital music software against accusations from Apple that the technology was "hacked" from the iPod's DRM (digital rights management) application. "Harmony follows in a... More...

Four technology groups are fighting a U.S. Senate bill that would allow copyright holders to sue creators of products that "induce" copyright violations. The bill would discourage technology companies from offering new media players or... More...

Amazon has filed a counter lawsuit against Toys R Us. Toys R Us last month accusing Amazon of breaching its exclusive rights for toys, games and baby stuff sold on Amazon. Now Amazon is... More...

Nintendo has announced it will release a new Fire Emblem game for Game Boy Advance called Fire Emblem: The Jewel of Light and Darkness. The Jewel of Light and Darkness is expected to release in... More...

A Nintendo manager is arguing that Microsoft is attempting to drive the industry to a hardware transition too soon. Isn't such a move a good thing? It seems like a good thing all... More...

A proposed crackdown on unsolicited emails will, says the government, clamp down on 'the curse of the Internet'. Critics are not so sure. Internet and mobile phone users will be better protected from spam under... More...

It is present-day London when a construction crew, led by the mother of young Quinn Abercromby (played by Christian Bale in the film), unwittingly unleashes a dragon that's been hibernating for centuries. Within a quarter... More...

A sudden spike in 256Mbit double-data rate SDRAM supplies sent contract prices plummeting 17% in June, making it the best memory chip value on the market. At an average selling price of... More...

The mayor of Beijing has ordered the closure of all Internet cafes in the city following a fire in which 24 people were killed and 13 injured. The blaze broke out on Sunday morning at... More...

Computer security giant Network Associates said Tuesday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating its accounting practices. The announcement comes after antivirus vendor McAfee.com rejected the network security giant's... More...

Britain's online porn watchdog, the Internet Watch Foundation, has announced a new chief executive and a tough new policy on child pornography amid resignations and criticisms. The IWF was set up in... More...