Next week, the mobile industry will convene in Barcelona for the annual Mobile World Congress - and Neowin will be there. We take a look at some of what to expect from the massive event. More...

EA would love to own Valve; who'd thunk it? A new report says that EA has been pursuing the company for years, but co-founder Gabe Newell says Valve is more likely to 'disintegrate' than be acquired. More...

Microsoft just showed off the Surface, and it's the perfect example of the new Microsoft, a feisty underdog fighting tooth and nail to out-innovate the competition and rewrite its own DNA. More...

A marketer decided to work out how much money Google makes per minute, and how much it would stand to lose in the 10 minutes of downtime some reported earlier today. The numbers will make you jealous. More...

Amazon is taking a bold new step and is asking authors to bypass the traditional publisher. Amazon will be directly publishing 122 books this Fall in both in both eBook and physical form. More...

The music industry should embrace illegal file-sharing websites, according to a study of Radiohead's last album release that found huge numbers of people downloaded it illegally even though the band allowed fans to pay little... More...

Several industry leaders in the tech industry, and in particular the online side of it, have officially joined the OpenID foundation as corporate board members, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, IBM, and VeriSign. This large step... More...

Happy New Years folks and that means it's time for New Years resolutions. We have some suggested resolutions for the PC Industry that will help them...and us! #1 To the PC Makers: Stop pre-loading... More...

Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online rather than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry has utterly failed to halt the... More...

Intel Corporation touts the Z-P140 PATA Solid-State Drive, the company’s latest product in the SSD market, as being “smaller than a penny” and weighing “less than a drop of water”. The devices are available in... More...

As if games were not expensive enough already, EA had this to say about the rising cost of gaming: Quote - Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello suggests that publishers will soon... More...

As the recording industry wakes up from its summer slumber and starts thinking about what will motivate the consumer for the holiday selling season, the major labels are getting ready to launch the "ringle," which... More...

SoundExchange, the company which collects royalties from Webcasters and distributes them to artists and record labels, said it would limit fees - at $50,000 a year - for online radio station companies that offer more... More...

Yesterday, a music industry group said small Internet radio broadcasters could pay discounted royalty rates for streaming music online through 2010, a move that could keep the struggling businesses alive. Webcasters who earn $1.25 million... More...

Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the Financial Times Deutschland on Monday. Lanci said the operating system was riddled with... More...

The Entertainment Software Association, the U.S. video game industry's trade association, has announced Michael Gallagher will take over presidential duties at the association later in May. Gallagher was the chief telecommunications and policy adviser to... More...

Officially, Dell Inc. hasn't said a word yet about which Linux it will be preloading on its desktops and laptops. Several sources within Dell, however, have told DesktopLinux.com that Dell's desktop Linux pick is going... More...

With a certain portable system from Nintendo breaking hardware and software records, you just knew there was going to be good news overall for the game industry come the end of the fiscal year. Sure... More...

The music industry opened up a new front in the war on online music piracy yesterday, threatening to sue internet service providers that allow customers to illegally share copyrighted tracks over their networks. The International... More...

With the shift to the new generation of consoles finally complete, there's little left to discuss about the transitional year aside from how well the industry weathered it. The industry-tracking NPD Group today released its... More...

Thanks to Mikee4fun for posting this in BPN. They say the reason VHS beat Betamax was because the adult entertainment industry chose VHS. Recently, at their annual get together, which coincidentally coincides with CES, the... More...

A new IDC report on the impact of Windows Vista on the industry claims Microsoft's business partners stand to benefit more financially from the operating system than Microsoft itself will in 2007. According to the... More...

The semiconductor industry faces challenges without end, and one of the major issues looming on the horizon is the move to 450 millimeters, and all the questions and challenges that involves. When the issue was... More...

Following the release Friday of Microsoft Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 (RC1), Microsoft Corp. announced plans to make RC1 available for broad customer and partner testing. With this milestone, Microsoft is also communicating the U.S.... More...

The BPI has invited ISPs to "enforce their own terms of use" The recorded music industry's trade group has told internet service providers (ISPs) to freeze the accounts of customers who illegally fileshare. The British... More...

A group of operators have formed an alliance, which will determine the future mobile networks, e.g., decide, which features and capabilities are required by the 4th generation of mobile networks, which will be deployed after... More...

According to a global movie body, movie piracy in China is costing the industry $2.7bn a year. The Motion Pictures Association say that around 93% of all films bought in China are pirated, and 40%... More...

Apple continues to excel in the UK and Europe, growing sales at a significantly faster rate than the industry average. New data from the analysts at IDC shows the company continues to make gains.... More...

THE RECORD industry is apparently on the verge of surrendering to Jobs' Mob's demands that music prices be kept at .99 cents a single on iTunes. Universal, Warner Music, SonyBMG and EMI North America are... More...

An article on IGN has an interesting take on the Video Game industry. According to projections from PricewaterhouseCoopers the worldwide Entertainment sector will grow by 7.3% to $1.9 Trillion by 2009. The Video Game sector... More...

Best Buy has seen a spike in profits of 85 percent over the previous year, and analysts agree that video games have a very large part in the retail chain's recent success. The boost... More...

Music firms are launching their first lawsuits in Asia as the crackdown on net piracy continues. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry announced this morning it had filed 963 lawsuits, with some of them... More...

UK development and publishing facing increasing threat from lack of local funding Publisher association ELSPA has warned that without Government support, the videogames industry may face difficulty in maintaining its positive balance... More...

A game developer's panel at this year's Game Developer's Conference, the issue was raised - is the game industry broken? Read this commentary on TotalGaming.net which includes a link to the observations of... More...

A Texan judge has granted a temporary order prohibiting sales of a trivia game in the USA that rewards players with video and photos of topless women, after a teenage girl claimed that she was... More...

A recording industry trade group said Thursday that it has filed another wave of lawsuits against 754 people it suspects of distributing songs over the Internet without permission. The Recording Industry Association of America has... More...

Lawyers for Australia's recording industry have called Kazaa's file sharing network "an engine of copyright piracy to a degree of magnitude never before seen" and have filed a suit to have Kazaa's owners, Sharman Networks... More...

A new report into videogames from the US National Institute on Media and the Family has accused the industry of confusing parents with mixed messages over the importance of the ESRB ratings system. ... More...

National Institute on Media and the Family says game ratings are ineffective; ESRB begs to differ. For the ninth year in a row, the National Institute on Media and the Family released... More...

As an unsigned band, the Shazam has never gotten the perks enjoyed by acts attached to major record labels. "The budgets we've used probably wouldn't even pay the catering on a major-label... More...

While computer game fans shell out tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars for the latest shoot-em-up release, a little-known patent holder is hoping to make a different kind of computer game killing. ... More...

A new lawsuit states that if you make a game with 3D action (like, say, Quake or Halo) and display it on a 2D monitor, you could be violating a patent. The patent,... More...

The UK record industry is suing 28 people in an attempt to stop them sharing music files over the internet. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) says the legal action is aimed at "major filesharers" and... More...

A team of computer industry veterans, including a former Microsoft executive, are launching an open-source company that aims to be the Dell of the software industry. The company, called SourceLabs, will provide... More...

A recording-industry trade group said on Thursday it had filed a new round of lawsuits against 762 people it suspects of distributing its songs for free over Internet "peer to peer" networks like Kazaa and... More...

Japanese console giant Nintendo is considering a foray into the movie industry, it emerged today, with former president Hiroshi Yamauchi telling a press conference that he plans to propose an animated film project to the... More...

The unknown authors of the latest variant of the MyDoom email worm have embedded a hidden message inside their code, asking for a job in the anti-virus industry. Like previous variants, the MyDoom-U and MyDoom-V... More...

X-Bit Labs is reporting that major hard drive maker, Maxtor, has increased the length of time its products are under warranty. Maxtor are now offering their products under 3 year warranty, up from 1 year.... More...

Plans to sell new hybrid CD/DVDs have hit legal and licensing snags that threaten to scuttle a mass rollout that the hard-hit music industry had been counting on to aid its recovery, people familiar with... More...

In its fourth annual report on marketing violent entertainment to children, the Federal Trade Commission applauds and chides publishers. The Federal Trade Commission yesterday released its fourth report on the marketing... More...