In a surprise turn around, Microsoft announced today that Windows 7 technical testers will be receiving a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. In recent weeks Microsoft has faced angry reactions from bloggers and beta... More...
Despite a 100 million dollar marketing campaign, the Blackberry Storm has gotten off to a bumpy start. Early buyers have complained about technical bugs with Research In Motion's (RIM) first touch screen BlackBerry, according to... More...
Microsoft Corp. is giving consumers more gigabytes for their buck. The company today announced an Xbox 360 console with triple the storage space of the original console, but for the same price of $349 (U.S.)... More...
Google Inc. is now offering the general public electronic access to their medical records and other health-related information. The Mountain View, Calif.-based Web search leader announced the public launch of Google Health during a Webcast... More...
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has forced Apple to reveal its financial statement in regards to how much money AT&T hands over for each iPhone activated. Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, has done... More...
Microsoft is about ready to formerly launch its unified communications strategy. That may be tomorrow, but what about the comm that matters to most people, today? So we ask: What do you want from your... More...
Thanks to the PlayStation Store, gamers can connect their PSP to the PlayStation 3 console to download classic PSone games to play on the handheld. Gamers living in Japan don't even need a PS3: Sony... More...
Popular Science magazine's 2007 list of the absolute worst jobs in science include whale-feces researchers, hazmat divers, and employees of Microsoft's Security Response Center. Popular Science has been compiling the list since 2003 and according... More...
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. today launched a Windows Vista version of its flagship ZoneAlarm firewall and blamed the delay on a switch to the new operating system's application programming interfaces (API). The Vista version... More...
A March 2007 national poll by a Michigan hospital has concluded that parents are increasingly concerned about the safety of the Internet. Smoking and drug abuse still top the list, with respectively 40% and 39%... More...
News Corporation has launched a test version of their popular social networking site MySpace in China, making a late entry into the intensely competitive Chinese Internet market. MySpace China will be a Chinese-owned company with... More...
XiTi Monitor, a Web analytics company based in France, reported that the numbers for Mozilla Firefox use among Europeans increased from 19.4% in April 2006 to 24.1% in March 2007. The company draws its data... More...
It has taken a while, but it finally looks certain that Japan will adopt the PS3. Virtua Fighter 5 on the PS3 stormed into the number 1 slot of the Japanese charts this week, selling... More...
SanDisk stated that NAND component prices have plummeted 50% in the past two months due to excess supply and along with increasingly cut-throat competition, the company has been forced to take drastic measures to keep... More...
ITN On, the multimedia division of ITN, has launched new online services developed using Microsoft Vista. ITN On is one of the first companies to develop systems based on the latest incarnation of the Windows... More...
Creative Technology, a maker of digital media players and a supplier of various audio equipment for personal computers (PCs), has reported a profitable quarter amid helpful sales of music players and a payment by Apple.... More...
Microsoft's dual launching of Office 2007 and Windows Vista to the general public was the second time the software giant released the OS and office productivity products simultaneously, the first time being with Windows 95.... More...
Using patterned media technology, Fujitsu of America was able to achieve a one-dimensional array nanohole pattern with a 25 nanometer pitch. If that's equivalent to gibberish for you, here's what this means: future one terabit... More...
When it comes to quad-core chips, good things come to those who wait, AMD believes. After years of being outplayed by AMD, Intel beat its rival to the punch by releasing its quad-core Xeon 5300... More...
The long-anticipated 1.10 version of the IEEE 802.11n draft standard was approved unanimously in an IEEE task group meeting held in London in mid-January. According to Atheros CTO Bill McFarland, who attended the meeting, all... More...
Motorola's first Linux handset for the US market, the RIZR Z6, is also likely to be the first in the industry to run an "open" operating system - Linux, Symbian OS or Windows on a... More...
Well, Epic's Mark Rein has once again devastated PC users . He has denied us Gears of War. He shall pay! Anyway, all this started when someone noticed in a new set of Nvidia drivers... More...
WinSnap is a small but powerful utility for taking and editing screenshots. It can easily capture windows of non-rectangular form with the background of your choice, automatically perform simple canvas transformations and coloring effects, add... More...
Holiday 2006 Issue. PC Gamer (US version). Page 28. Look at the picture. OK, I know the issue isn't out yet on store shelves, so here's what is happening. Apparently PC Gamer... More...
Google is once again underscoring its commitment to the Mac platform, with a major presence planned for MacExpo, which opens tomorrow. MacExpo organisers have confirmed this presence on behalf of search engine giant. ... More...
Novell is changing the file system software used by default in its Suse Linux operating system, aligning with rival Red Hat and moving away from a project whose future has become entangled with the fate... More...
Adobe has acquired vector graphics technology developed by Actimagine. Actimagine develops, patents, and licenses software solutions in the field of video and interactive vector graphics. The acquisition will extend the reach of Adobe mobile technologies,... More...
AMD will let computer makers pop specialized coprocessors into sockets that otherwise would house an AMD primary processor such as Opteron or Athlon. It's an expansion of the Torrenza initiative which provides a way for... More...
Linspire, the innovative Linux house founded by Internet entrepreneur Michael Robertson, has jettisoned the $20 annual subscription fee it was charging for its basic Click 'N Run open-source software download service. Users can now download... More...
VIA PadLock™ Cryptographic Service Provider utilizes real-time VIA PadLock hardware security to strengthen and accelerate security for online, desktop, embedded and mobile applications VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies... More...
Nice catch ShawnZ! who posted about the following article in Back page News. It seems that the Office 12 Beta serial codes handed out for free by Microsoft work on any version of office. However,... More...
Apple is asking movie studios to include iPod-ready versions of their films on future Blu-Ray disc releases. CNN claims Apple - who signed up to support the Blu-Ray standard in March 2005 - is using... More...
Microsoft is preparing to roll out its Windows Live OneCare securityproduct, it is offering some people the $49.95-a-year service for free On Tuesday, Microsoft sent e-mail invitations to a select number ofpeople who have... More...
A site boasting to offer irreverent Apple news boasted some frankly irrelevant news yesterday. An opinion piece titled " Will Vista Be the Last Operating System Microsoft Produces?" suggested that after Vista, that's it... More...
EA sends word that The Godfather has now shipped out to retailers and is available in stores now in North America and will be available in European stores on March 24th. The game is available... More...
As might be expected, Advanced Micro Devices doesn't think much of Intel's performance claims for its upcoming Conroe and Merom products. "It's driven by the fact that they can't talk about their... More...
ATI has officially announced its Mobility Radeon X1600, the first member of its new Radeon X1000series to be available for notebooks. Like its desktop counterpart, theMobility Radeon X1600 has an unconventional architecture with 12 pixelpipes,... More...
At a glance Jonathan Wendel may not seem intimidating, but meet his alter-ego "Fatal1ty" on the playing fields some of the world's most popular shooters and you're likely to end up in a crumpled heap... More...
Microsoft predicts that it will sell 4.5 to 5.5 million Xbox 360 consoles in the fiscal year that ends June 30, 2006. Sales of the much anticipated console begin November 22nd in the North... More...
Thanks Jugalator. Charlotte, N.C.-based Scientigop owns two patents (No. 5,842,213 and No. 6,393,426) covering the transfer of "data in neutral forms." These patents, one of which was applied for in 1997, are infringed upon by... More...
Microsoft has today announced that the Xbox 360 controller will work with the upcoming Xbox 360 console, as well as with computers that have the Windows XP operating system. It will go on sale in... More...
More than three million US consumers fell victim to bank fraud in the past year, with some $2.75bn being lost through ATMs. Many of their account numbers and PINs were gained over the internet, using... More...
For the past several years, Microsoft has been promising that Longhorn would deliver some substantial security, reliability and performance improvements. But until the worldwide partner conference in Minneapolis in mid-July, company officials had not quantified... More...
A new variant of the mass-mailing Sober worm has been discovered and is spreading among consumer PC users. Sober.P, which operates in a similar fashion to other Sober worms, uses a subject header... More...
Microsoft Corp. today announced intellectual property (IP) licensing agreements with a series of high-growth companies that will utilize Windows® fonts, a set of traffic-related technologies from Microsoft Research and Windows Connect Now technology to pursue... More...
Finnish anti-virus research company F-Secure reports that the first mobile phone virus, called Cabir, has made it's way to the United States since it's discovery in the Philippines over eight months ago. The Cabir virus... More...
US-based mobile games publisher Kayak Interactive has announced that it has acquired Swedish firm Synergenix Interactive, in a move which will see both their publishing and technology divisions being combined. The terms of... More...
Until recently, it was impossible to add text or graphics to the outside of dual-sided discs due to the fact that it contains optical data on both sides. Aside from the inner ring of the... More...
The success of alternative browsers such as Mozilla Foundation's Firefox may ultimately have an unexpected side effect. It may be causing Microsoft to be more aggressive in leveraging its dominance of Internet client software, says... More...
XGI HAS DECIDED to brand and to introduce its own range of cards based on the chips it makes. We know that ATI has done this in the past, and that 3DFX was doing this... More...