Although the company did not address North America, Sharp has plans to ship Blu-ray Disc recorders for the Japanese market this fall. Starting on October 27, Sharp's basic HDD-less models ($875 to $1,040) for recording... More...

In the works for over a year, an agreement has been reached between chief competitors Microsoft and Nokia. Mobile versions of the software giant's Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger will soon be available... More...

Yahoo Incorporated's free online mapping service will begin giving driving directions in 34 European countries as part of an upgrade aimed at luring traffic away from rivals AOL and Google. In April, AOL's industry-leading Mapquest... More...

Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) maker Diamond Flower Electric Instrument (DFI) plans to add AMD embedded processors in its product lineup later in the year, according to sources at the company. Aside from Advantech and ICP... More...

A spokesperson for Microsoft Thursday evening characterized as "grossly inaccurate" reports from earlier in the day, including from Reuters, stating that a technical glitch in the company's Live Meeting services led to a dissolution of... More...

The Opera development team announced a very interesting feature at their Backstage event, which took place yesterday. Opera 9.1 will include fraud protection measures that are more advanced than IE7 or Firefox 2.0. When visiting... More...

Microsoft adCenter has a new release launching Saturday, August 5th, and one of the upgrades includes the long awaited Firefox browser support. Microsoft sent out an email to their premium adCenter customers, which included the... More...

Straight from Mac OS Rumors.com: According to some of our oldest and most reliable sources within Apple's software development sector, Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" will include a system-level "BitTorrent" filesharing client that can... More...

According to a TechNet article about deploying Windows Vista in enterprise environments, there will be a version of Windows Vista released that is bundled with Microsoft's Virtual PC application that can be used for application... More...

Seagate Technology unveiled its 2005 lineup on Wednesday, which takes drives to the half-terabyte level and introduces a product family that encrypts data. Over the course of the year, Seagate will unveil 12 new products,... More...

At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2005 in Los Angeles, Microsoft today announced it will release a free software update to Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005 that will enable customers to take advantage of... More...

THE NEXT generation of DivX video will include official support for MP3 and MP3 Surround audio, DivXNetworks told the INQ today. While MP3 audio has been used with Divx encoded movies for yonks, the official... More...

Both Xbox and PC versions of Digital Extremes' first-person shooter will include an in-game multiplayer map editor. Developer Digital Extremes announced today that its forthcoming action game Pariah will include an in-game... More...

Latest DS rumours: free wireless gaming and instant messaging for dual-screen handheld Rumours about the functionality of Nintendo's forthcoming twin-screened handheld continue apace today with reports that it will now offer free instant... More...

Microsoft Game Studios today announced that "RalliSport Challenge 2," the highly anticipated second installment in the internationally acclaimed "RalliSport Challenge" franchise, will be the first Xbox® racing title in the new XSN Sports brand. The... More...

'Outlook Connector for MSN' to be premium service for subscribers only. Microsoft demonstrated a forthcoming feature of MSN 9.0 — called Outlook Connector for MSN — at its annual Financial Analyst Meeting... More...

AOL's software will take advantage of recent developments in the technology to allow people to "audioblog" over the telephone. Subscribers will also be able to update their blog, which typically include references and links to... More...

CHIP FIRM Infineon said it has succeeded in building semiconductors into carpets, which could lead not only to LED illuminated rugs but fire and burglar alarms built into the fabric of a building. The firm... More...

We were challenged by some ATI folk to investigate what we can expect from the M9 card that is acronym for the future ATI mobile chip. [Don't they know already? Ed.] The M9 code name... More...