Google plans to pay Android application developers starting in the first quarter of 2009 for each application sold, with 70% of the proceedings to the developer, and to keep 30% for itself, to cover carrier... More...
Neowin member ispamforfood (interesting nickname!) has posted an interesting question on our Back Page News forum asking "Raise your hand if you're tired of negative Vista articles". It is true that there are many news... More...
A consortium backing the encryption system for high-definition DVDs has confirmed hackers have stolen "title keys" and used them to decrypt high-definition discs. Both the title keys and a number of decrypted films have been... More...
Many BlackBerry users feel the "BlackBerry Thumb" affect after spending hours on a hand-held e-mail device. This thumb effect results in sore thumbs, but there is a possible solution. The Hyatt hotel chain found so... More...
Nintendo has revealed that nearly 4 million units of Nintendo DS have been sold in the US! The latest numbers bring the total crop of DSs in customers' hands to more than 10 million. In... More...
What is Avvenu, you may ask? Avvenu is a new remote file sharing program. It was made to have an extremely simple setup for the average user to access their files from where ever they... More...
The popular IM from Yahoo is once again blocking other programs like Trillian, Kopete, etc... According to Yahoo "the block is meant as a pre-emptive measure against spammers from its Yahoo Messenger service."... More...
Clearly it isn't difficult to get old information off second hand harddisks; with the price of hard drives so low it would seem far more sensible to ship 2nd hand PC's with new hard drives... More...
This is interesting, I wonder if the idea of developing a vector-based illustrator came after the growing trend of Vector Art and the fact that the DCE will be a part of the highly anticipated... More...
IBM has filed new documents in its legal dispute with Unix vendor The SCO Group, accusing SCO of having no evidence to back up its copyright infringement claims, and asking the judge to throw... More...
Thanks LOC; Seems the German police really did pluck a major player from the scene... "Last week the German police arrested the creator of the Sasser worm. It received less coverage, but nearly... More...
Until Microsoft's Smart Watch, I'd never seen a product start digging its own grave at its unveiling. It happened at the Consumer Electronics Show a year ago. As a presenter modeled a chunky prototype (bravely... More...
SOURCES SAID that Intel has bought a number of Opteron based servers from Appro, and that AMD knows about it. The 4U four way servers from Appro, a system builder, are part of AMD's validated... More...
On Wednesday, December 3 (4-8pm), Virgin Founder Sir Richard Branson will unwrap the most high tech music retail environment, at the Virgin Megastore, San Francisco. The droolcool digital gadget at the uptown international party scene... More...
Confidential vulnerability information managed by the CERT Coordination Center has again been leaked to the public, following a flurry of such leaks in March. The latest information concerns a flaw in PDF (Portable... More...
Intel will pull out its scissors next month to make the first of two price cuts scheduled for this quarter, sources say. The chipmaker has planned the price adjustment for desktop... More...
From time to time probably all PC users have been affected by a problem related to (drum roll please) "DLL Hell". The affending file may have been deleted or overwritten when you installed that latest... More...