Some things in this world are ridiculous, like the world "phalanges", but somehow that's not quite as ridiculous as the 11.7 quadrillion euro fine a woman was asked to pay to close her phone account More...

Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong. In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44... More...

Dean Hachamovitch has posted an update on the IE Team Blog in reaction to Bill Gates mentioning IE8 at the Mix 'n Mash event on the Redmond campus yesterday. Bill was talking to some bloggers... More...

Looks like someone at EA has an itchy trigger finger. A page on the Battlefield 2142 website, had information relating to the first booster pack for Battlefield 2142 - Northern Strike. The page is now... More...

Thanks to jefexp for the news. Word is just in that another build of SP2 has managed to slip through Microsoft's hands once again, the previous one being XP SP2 Build 2111. ... More...

Thanks to jefexp for the heads up On the 23rd of April 2004 Microsoft accidently granted a few beta testers access to various builds that are normally reserved for OEM testers. We... More...

Hundreds of BTopenworld's ADSL customers had their service cut off this week because of a clerical error by the telecom giant's broadband arm. The punters had their connection disconnected on and around... More...

OVER ENTHUSIASTIC folk at musicunited.org, which issues stern warnings on its Web site about the unauthorised reproduction and distribution of copyrighted music, found itself with egg on its face yesterday when it appeared to have... More...