Microsoft Corporation's head of search and advertising is denying that a team of developers in Silicon Valley were working on a cutting-edge search project. "When they get it done, I hope they'll send me a... More...
After Steve Jobs wrote that music companies should abandon digital copy protection, Warner Music chief Edgar Bronfman called on Apple to open up its iTunes software to other forms of DRM: "DRM and interoperability are... More...
Doug Burgum, the executive behind Microsoft's business software unit, will leave the company next year. Burgum, who relinquished day-to-day operations of the Microsoft Business Solutions unit in November, will be succeeded by Satya Nadella, a... More...
According to sources, NBC Universal and Apple are close to a deal that will make programs from NBC's broadcast network and several cable channels such as USA Network and Sci Fi Channel available on-demand on... More...
Electronic Arts has announced a third game in its NFL lineup, NFL Head Coach (working title). While EA's Madden series offers traditional sim football and NFL Street gives gamers the over-the-top arcade feed, NFL... More...
According to Reuters Google is planning to offer an internet service similar to PayPal. Google's payment service is likely to allow users to pay for web purchases through Google and it's highly likely... More...
On Monday, November 8th, the vice president of Apple's Mac support unit left the company. Exactly one week later, Tim Bucher, head of Apple's Mac hardware engineering, did the same. Word of Bucher's departure began... More...
At Sony's annual corporate strategy conference in Japan, SCE President Ken Kutaragi announced that he will head the company's home electronics and semiconductor divisions in addition to his position of heading the video games division,... More...
Lindows.com and Microsoft will argue their sides in the latest twist of a prolonged, international trademark battle before a Seattle judge on Wednesday. Lindows says that U.S. District Court Judge John C. Coughenour has granted... More...
JUST A FEW months before the official announcements, our oriental colleagues have extracted the first PCI Express benchmarks, enabling us to compare PCI Express implementations from the pair of graphics Tweedledumbos. ATi developed its RV380... More...
JANUARY ROADMAPS seen by the INQUIRER show that Via is preparing an onslaught on the firm that it sees as its chief rival, Nvidia. The battle as, you'd expect, is being fought on several fronts... More...
Ed Fries, the long-time head of Microsoft Game Studios and the man responsible for cementing industry relationships for the company's Xbox video game console, has resigned, Microsoft said Tuesday. Fries' resignation was... More...
NEC has built the first optical storage drive to support not only today's DVDs but tomorrow's High Definition blue-laser technology-based discs, the company said today. The machine uses a single optical head that contains one... More...
Fueled by a highly touted lineup of new game titles and the growing popularity of its unified online gaming service, Microsoft® Xbox® is outpacing the industry as the only next-generation console to continuously demonstrate positive... More...
TechSpot has posted a review of Sapphire's Atlantis Radeon 9800 Pro videocard today. Given that the potential performance of the 9700 has been exposed many times before, this review is solely dedicated to compare the... More...
The Recording Industry Association of America has tapped a former Republican Senate staffer to replace Hilary Rosen as chief executive, firming up the group's leadership during one of the most controversial moments in its history.... More...
Billionaire Bill Gates learned the hard way that the Secret Service means business when it comes to checking identification at the White House gates, ROLL CALL reports. Gates showed up at the White House on... More...
Phoenix, Arizona — In Phoenix, they are calling it a miracle operation - surgery that re-attached the head of a car crash victim. 18-year-old Marcos Parra doesn't remember the crash some months back... More...
Internet activists have a message for John Poindexter, the head of a controversial Pentagon research project to find terrorists by searching the everyday transactions of Americans: Threaten to invade our privacy, we'll invade yours. ... More...
The two industry groups fighting to set a rewritable DVD standard are showing no interest in working together, but technology tricks and behind-the-scenes talks could inch the sides toward a compromise. The DVD+RW Alliance,... More...
A remake version of Final Fantasy I and II are scheduled for a release on the PSOne. According to online reports from Japan, Square plans to release remake versions of Final Fantasy... More...
Datom.A virus poses as Microsoft update Windows users are being warned to be on the lookout for a virus disguised as 'copyrighted Microsoft code' and claiming to be a Windows update. ... More...
With its new line of Compaq Computer Presario notebooks, Hewlett-Packard is looking for road warriors who enjoy the freedom of movement, but prefer to stay plugged in at home. The Presario 1500... More...
Thanks neo1980 for the heads up. The leader of "DrinkorDie," one of the oldest and largest international software piracy rings on the Internet, was sentenced on Friday to three years and eight months in prison... More...
Small software firm challenges digital copyright law, tries to assert the right to backups. Call... More...
Web portal Yahoo on Monday appointed former Knight Ridder executive Daniel Finnigan to oversee its job-listings subsidiary HotJobs.com. Finnigan's appointment comes a few weeks after Yahoo unexpectedly announced Dimitri Boylan, CEO and... More...
Former Netscape head Jim Barksdale, one of the central figures in the Justice Department's 1998 antitrust trial against Microsoft, says he'd rather not use Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, but he has no choice. ... More...
Lindows, a start-up developing software that would let many Windows programs run on Linux computers, this week released legal papers designed to head off Microsoft's efforts to thwart the product. In December,... More...
Saw this over at gamers.nl. Beachhead 2002 follows on the success of BH2000 with ease of use and hard-core, non-stop 3D shooting action in a photorealistic and accurate environment. Players will be assigned... More...
Here is something Steve Balmer can do a jig and sweat to :P Is Linux ready for the desktop? Microsoft seems to think so, if a company channel partner email leaked to The... More...