In an attempt to put pressure on the criminals responsible for the Conficker worm outbreak that has infected more than 9 million Windows PCs worldwide since late December, Microsoft today announced that it will offer... More...

Microsoft released Windows 7 Beta few weeks ago and the only version that was released during this beta was Windows 7 Ultimate. However, a select testers were invited for a separate Windows 7 Home Premium... More...

Mozilla's head of security yesterday confirmed a bug in Firefox that could be used by attackers to scout out a system prior to mounting a more thorough assault. The flaw, said Window Snyder, Mozilla Corp.'s... More...

Skype Ltd. again warned users of its software that malicious code targeting the voice-over-IP (VoIP) and instant messaging service was on the prowl, the second such alert in the past five weeks. A Trojan horse... More...

Over on the official World of Warcraft forums Blizzard has revealed some important info on how the upcoming 2.3 patch will make advancing to level 60 a bit easier. The most notable change will be... More...

A series of legal events means that companies that have no business reason to retain documents or records may be compelled to create and retain such records just so they can become available for discovery.... More...

Hundreds of attendees here at BlizzCon took time off from playing StarCraft II and the newly announced World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, to attend a spirited panel on the upcoming WOW... More...

The folks over at LiveSide have put up and detailed walkthrough of Microsoft's latest Live product, Windows Live Folders. Here's a snip: Windows Live Folders is (sic) not a difficult to use service, folder... More...

Looks like its time to cancel another card...Valve is still not responding to this as of yet, how wonderful. Valve's Steam content distribution system has apparently been hacked. The culprit allegedly got deep enough into... More...

Microsoft Photo Info allows photographers to add, change and delete common "metadata" properties for digital photographs from inside Windows Explorer. When installed, a new "Photo Info" item appears on the context menu for files selected... More...

Users of P2P (peer-to-peer) file-sharing services may be sharing more than they bargained for, a former White House cybersecurity advisor has warned. Security researchers have found thousands of files with sensitive information by searching... More...

The latest Need for Speed may not have been officially announced as of yet, but with the series success over the years you can expect Need for Speed: Carbon to continue this heritage later in... More...

Daily Tech has the scoop and snapshots of two new NVIDIA parts, the 7600GT and 7900GT. Both cards target very different segments of the market and should be worthy successors to cards like the... More...

Another week is almost drawing to a close so this brings another comprehensive look at the week's interesting technology news all rolled into one article, this week Paul tells us how Windows is superior to... More...

The Inq has upped a load of info on the impending launch of AMD's dual core desktop Athlon 64"X2" . They have revealed that the X2 will be launched tomorrow. They also point out that... More...

Georgi Guninski has reported that a two year old vulnerability has been reintroduced in Microsoft Internet Explorer and can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information. The vulnerability is caused due to... More...

In the ongoing saga of Half-Life 2, any tidbit of information is amplified in importance. With almost every PC gamer salivating at the thought of finally having the game in their hands -- or even... More...

World's first glimpse of Nintendo's new handheld Further information about the forthcoming Nintendo DS handheld has emerged just hours ahead of its official unveiling in Los Angeles - including what purports to... More...

Blizzard updates its official World of Warcraft site with information on how the banks of Azeroth with operate. Blizzard has recently updated its official World of Warcraft Web site with information on... More...

The recording industry's wave of subpoenas that target individual computer users has drawn the critical attention of at least one influential lawmaker on Capitol Hill. Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., who chairs the Senate Permanent Subcommittee... More...

Germany's tecChannel has launched an English-language version of its site, and has celebrated with a seriously trainspotter analysis of the interaction between Windows XP's product activation and Redmond central control. Despite (or possibly because of)... More...

SOMEONE AT AMD left for his or her holiday a day early and hit "Send" when she or he should've have, resulting in some interesting goodies leaking out in our general direction. Chimpzilla draws up... More...

We covered this along time ago; There.com is something a bit alike the sims, but based online. They have just sent out beta nomination emails; however, you can still sign up below ( at their... More...

Many thanks to rjb for sending us this news on the SharePoint Services Beta, as informed by The Microsoft Office System Team: Important! Advance Notice for Windows SharePoint Services Beta 2... More...

Howdy all - more info on the tech refresh for Beta 2 of Office 11, straight from Microsoft. Q. When can you expect to see the Office System 2003 Beta 2 Technical... More...

Visio 2003 is a diagramming program that can help you create business and technical diagrams that document and organize complex ideas, processes, and systems. Diagrams created in Visio 2003 enable you to visualize and communicate... More...

Hackers broke into a database and stole the names, Social Security numbers and e-mail addresses of more than 55,000 students, former students and employees at the University of Texas at Austin, university officials said. ... More...

Microsoft touts a credo of "information anywhere, anytime and on any device," but the explosion of hot wireless devices from rivals is testing the patience of customers who depend on Windows software and Web services.... More...

Bink has some exclusive info on the last stages of Windows 2003. ESCROW is final stage where Microsoft deploys the build on their own production servers Windows Server 2003 Build... More...

Now -we've heard alot of speculation about this, but like most things in life, ooo sorts the men from the boys. He has found this post on the Duke Nukem Official boards by one of... More...

As they did with FFX-2, Square release a poster that teases... but in a whole different way Square has announced the main team working on Final Fantasy XII, and to make sure... More...

Bits taken from the IGI2: Covert Strike newsletter. Public Beta Test In January we will be opening the beta test to the public. This will obviously mean a lot more players... More...

Intel is moving so far ahead on the 800MHz dual 400 DDR chipsets it will introduce next year they've already got numbers rather than codenames. These chipsets will support the Prescott 90 nanometer microprocessor "seamlessly"... More...

Samsung and its insurers are offering a £100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the people, or person, behind the $4.5m Heathrow computer chip theft in October Here are some... More...

Thanks to Thekk for posting about this in BPN Those of you subscribed to the security notification list may have received the below email Dear Microsoft Customer, ... More...

Office 11 has shipped to testers. It includes 3 cds: Office 11 Enterprise Edition Frontpage 11 Publisher 11 Office 11 Beta Product Overview In Office 11... More...

It's small but it's an update :) Cool Beans System Info is a small but powerful program that monitors your computer's CPU, physical memory, and swap memory usage. Version 2 was rewritten from... More...

Thanks powerdafuture who has heard some fresh rumours about a possible MSN 8 Release date & RTM info.MSN 8 went into manufacturing yesterday, according to sources. MSN 8 will be released on... More...

thanks to brn2prgrm from our BPN Forum fot this...Yes, it's that time of the season again... Time for more MSN 8 eye candy for ya'll to wow at. This time I also felt like posting... More...

Cool Beans System Info is a small but powerful program that monitors your computer's CPU, physical memory, and swap memory usage. Version 2 was rewritten from scratch, and adds network monitoring, a task manager,... More...

The first secret of UT 2003: it's pretty much finished. "Basically, the game is done," explains James Schmalz, creative director at Digital Extremes. "We've been doing tons of fine tuning to the game -- a... More...

Britain's UKonline government portal is currently running a pilot project in conjunction with Microsoft's MSN Messenger. A UKonline tab has been added to Messenger, and from there you can link through to various UKonline services,... More...

Various sources throughout the net spark to life with the the leaked informatiion concerning "Longhorn". The future of Windows looks sleeker as the gap between the enterprise server and... More...

"New York, NY –March 25, 2002 – Rockstar Games, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.'s high-end video game publishing division, confirmed today that its best-selling tour de force "Grand Theft Auto 3" will be available for the... More...

Paul has been a busy boy lately, we reported a while back that he had done a few updates, and now it seems he's got some more. Enjoy. :) Windows .NET Server... More...

This was posted in our Forums by DgtlShdw Microsoft's new version of its popular Media Player software is logging the songs and movies that customers play. The company changed its... More...

The first GUIOlympics will cover WindowBlinds, the popular GUI skinning program from Stardock who is providing the prizes and prize money. The contest will begin on February 1, 2002. That is the day when you... More...

Thanks to John from Coolbeans for this one. Cool Beans System Info 1.0.1.8 Description: Cool Beans System Info is a small but handy program that monitors your computer's CPU, physical memory, and swap... More...

Hiya! As you may of noticed, again we are experiencing slow-downs on the server. This is due to a number of reasons. Take a look for a minute at the realtime stats in our side... More...

Greetability! - Hello, Just an announcement of some changes. :D Viewability! - We are working on a headline view of Neowin, also a view where you can view all news from... More...