Depending on where you're from Bing Daily Deals and MSN Offers, in conjunction with Tippr, are offering consumers deals and discounts for "places you'll love" across a number of US cities. More...

With so much headline space being devoted to Google+ in recent weeks - and Google itself admitting that its new social networking product isn’t ready for businesses just yet - business users may have been... More...

According to a new report released today, Google will soon launch a new site aimed at offering discounts to online buyers following the unsuccessful push to acquire discount giant Groupon just months ago. Based around the... More...

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...

Verizon has introduced a new in home personal cell phone tower that connects to your broadband connection so users can get a full signal within a 5000 square foot area. The unit connects... More...

Amazon.com recently unveiled it's latest accessory sale, and one of the more popular items that went on sale is an Xbox Live Gold Subscription. Amazon has marked down the price by nearly 40% to $29.97.... More...

Gmail owners, Google, wanted "to go beyond simple color customization" and have announced 30 new themes. There's many new themes to fit your style, a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your... More...

Google has launched a new program to allow users to opt-in to getting updated builds of even more frequently then normal. Not only will users who opt-in to this service get more updates, their feedback... More...

Microsoft is going a step further with their Live Search cashback offer. They are doubling the rewards just in time as part of their back to school deal. Here is an excerpt from Microsoft PressPass:... More...

Microsoft Corp. is offering $44.6 billion in cash and stock for search engine operator Yahoo Inc. in a move to boost its competitive position in the online services market. The unexpected announcement Friday comes as... More...

For those about to yell "dupe story!", this is a follow-up to the previous newspost. It turns out that the Associated Press’ information was correct. Since introducing PC-based movie watching last year, the company had... More...

Microsoft Corporation is offering 6.6 billion NOK (or approximately $1.2 billion USD) for the acquisition of Fast Search & Transfer, a leading provider of enterprise search solutions. FAST's board of directors has unanimously recommended that... More...

In order to extend its influence, Al-Qaida's media wing, al-Sahab, announced the availability of eight Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri video messages for cell phones. In a written message introducing the new cell phone... More...

Microsoft’s Zune is about to experience the holidays, retail style. Starting tomorrow, major retailers will begin offering various deals, price cuts and giveaways related to the Zune 4, Zune 8 and Zune 80. Maybe we’ll... More...

Vision is making three films available for download free of charge, provided that the viewer is prepared to watch advertisements. Mischief Night, Played and The Punk Rock Movie can be downloaded and viewed using an... More...

The cheap Venturer HD DVD rumours have finally turned to rock solid fact. It may not cost $98.87 but, on the other hand, it does not appear to be a limited time offer. The largest... More...

Martin Slater, lead programmer at 2K Australia which worked on the PC version of Bioshock, has been speaking about DirectX 10 and how it "offers your gameplay nothing". Reported on Kotaku, Slater spoke about DX10... More...

Despite the retail giant's plans to offer a sub-$200 Toshiba HD DVD player, Walmart was recently beaten to the punch time-wise by CircuitCity and now price-wise by BestBuy. Toshiba's HD-A2, which started out at $500,... More...

The Eclipse Foundation will make available Monday Eclipse RAP (Rich Ajax Platform) 1.0, an AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) server for building and deploying rich Internet applications. Leveraging the Eclipse component model that based on... More...

The University of California at Berkeley took a dive into the Web 2.0 world with Wednesday's launch of a program that offers entire course lectures and special events on YouTube to all Internet users without... More...

After the launch of Microsoft's Halo 3 there were reports that some customers received scratched discs in their pack due to poor case design. As of now till 31/12/07 Microsoft will replace any damaged Halo... More...

If you're like most internet users, you'll watch a few YouTube videos per week; now imagine if you could earn college credits while watching YouTube videos. Before you begin laughing, let me refer you to... 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...

Google has introduced technologies that will allow people in India to use local languages in search queries and that will generate content in local languages. Internet growth in India is expected to come from outside... More...

Corsair Memory Incorporated has launched its new Flash Padlock drive: a USB flash drive secured with a five-button PIN-based "padlock" built into the drive itself. The PIN interface forces the user to hit the unlock... More...

Flexible paper batteries could meet the energy demands of the next generation of gadgets, says a team of researchers. They have produced a sample slightly larger than a postage stamp that can release about 2.3... More...

AOL has quietly stopped offering its free Active Virus Shield software in favor of a competing alternative from vendor McAfee. The free anti-virus software, based on technology from Kaspersky Lab, had been available for the... More...

Dell has signed a deal with a U.K. mobile phone retailer to distribute free laptops with the purchase of a broadband Internet access subscription, continuing the company's push into the retail market. Starting in September,... More...

The Business Software Alliance, the global organization representing the nation's leading software manufacturers, will intensify efforts to battle software piracy in the workplace by increasing its current rewards incentive from $200,000 to $1 million from... More...

Five weeks after an errant virus update crippled thousands of Chinese PCs, Symantec Corporation is compensating users by giving them free backup software (Norton Save & Restore 2.0) and extending their subscription to Norton Antivirus... More...

What a difference 540,000 pixels make. I'm talking in this case about the latest MacBook Pro to grace my desk, the top-of-the-line 17-in. model with a glossy 1,920-by-1,200-pixel high-resolution screen tricked out with a 7,200-rpm... More...

AT&T Incorporated has started offering a broadband Internet service for $10 a month, cheaper than any advertised plan. The DSL plan introduced Saturday is part of the concessions made by AT&T to the Federal Communications... More...

Looking to bolster Linux in enterprise environments, Novell is offering its first service pack for Suse Linux Enterprise 10, with capabilities for new quad-core processors. The company also announced Monday commercial availability plans for Suse... More...

Sun Microsystems chief executive Jonathan Schwartz is looking to make peace with the development community behind the Linux operating system. A day after Linux creator Linus Torvalds lashed out against the server vendor over its... More...

IBM Corporation has agreed to buy Telelogic AB, a Swedish developer of software development tools, for about $745 million in cash. If shareholders and government agencies approve the deal, Telelogic would become part of IBM's... More...

Google is making its controversial engine available to publishers interested in putting it on their Web sites. This is the first time Google's Book Search service has been available outside of its main site in... More...

Microsoft has enhanced its Windows Live Search Maps with a 3D map of New York, and throughout the day plans to rollout 3D cityscapes of U.S. cities Austin, Texas; Cape Coral, Florida; Cincinnati; Indianapolis; Savannah,... More...

IBM admitted that a contractor is believed to have lost multiple tapes containing identifying information on an undisclosed number of current and former IBM employees. The tapes hold employment data on them, including names, addresses,... More...

Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, plans to offer the first pre-paid cards for Skype VoIP calls along with a line of Skype certified headsets, webcams, and handsets that it will sell in the Internet and... More...

Popular social networking website Facebook has began offering free listings of classified advertising via a service called Marketplace, allowing users to search for or offer jobs, sell items or request services. The service will be... More...

Yahoo has launched a web-based version of its free instant messaging service, allowing users to access their instant messaging contacts when on a computer with an Internet connection but without the Yahoo! Messenger software. Their... More...

Online storage startup Berkeley Data Systems, which only three days earlier announced it had signed General Electric to a multimillion-dollar backup contract, was back in the storage news April 26 with the public beta release... More...

Looking back, I have posted quite a number of news articles on solid state disk drives. Let me tell you, I'm not about to stop. They are quieter and cooler, faster and lighter, and consume... More...

You've got to love competition, price slashing is great. Originally projected to have a price tag of $599 after shown off at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the Toshiba HD-A20 HD DVD... More...

Apple Incorporated first popularized selling songs online for 99 cents apiece and now hopes to buoy interest in albums. By giving customers credit for purchases of full albums from which they have bought individual tracks,... More...

Gateway, the third largest PC vendor in the United States, is launching a new Intel-based small form factor desktop. The Irvine, California-based company is advertising the 2610N desktop as a small form factor PC with... More...

Royal Philips Electronics has introduced the Xenium NRG, a mobile phone that uses a single standard-sized AAA battery as a backup for an extra three hours of talk time when the main battery dies, which... More...

The RIAA has released figures regarding its recent campaign against file sharing at US colleges and universities: only 116 students of 400 have used their new web site to settle copyright infringement claims, meaning 284... More...

In a filing Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Apple said 114,695 options issued between 1997 and 2002 were erroneously assigned grant dates that preceded the finalization of those grants. As a... More...

Asus has decided it is time to replace the R2H, which the company launched last year with a price tag under $1,000 USD. The R2H features a 900MHz Celeron M ULV processor, 768MB of... More...