Just two weeks after the previously released set of updates. Tomorrow, on January 27, 2009, Microsoft will be pushing a couple of updates and patches for Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP... More...

President-elect Barrack Obama is preparing to delay the switch over from analog to digital as one of his first duties as president, stating that many Americans are not ready for the switch. The cut... More...

Electronic Arts is to release a free online version of the popular Battlefield game to be supported by adverts and micro payments. The PC game, Battlefield Heroes, will be available only online later this year,... More...

A top official with the U.S. White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) gave her strongest endorsement yet to software as a service, saying Wednesday it can help federal agencies cut development costs. A... More...

Advanced Micro Devices has revised an October pledge to make its new quad-core Opteron processors "widely available" by the end of the year and won't ship large quantities to the channel until the first quarter... More...

Microsoft is at work on a project to enable everyday developers to build Web applications, just as easily as folks have built Visual Basic applications over the years. The project to enable this is called... More...

Microsoft is continuing its thrust to help developers write more secure and better quality code. The Redmond, Wash., software company is putting new code analysis features into the next version of its development tools suite,... More...

According to the Windows Live Messenger blog, users of Windows XP and Vista will soon (if they haven't already), be forced to upgrade to WLMessenger 8.1 for security reasons described in security bulletin MS07-054. "Some... More...

Mozilla Corp.'s next update to Firefox will sport several new safer surfing features, the company's chief of security said Wednesday, but users won't see the most important changes. On track and expected to make it... More...

ASRock has launched its ConRoe1333-series motherboards featuring FSB support up to 1333MHz. ASRock adopts the Intel 945GC A2 stepping chipset for the series. Although Intel's official maximum FSB support for the chipset is only up... More...

It's unusual, but confirmation of the availability of Windows Vista's first service pack came Tuesday not from Microsoft Corp., but from the U.S. Department of Justice. Tucked into the government's 27-page joint status settlement report... More...

AMD is preparing to replace its current processor numbering scheme for desktop processors with a new naming scheme which combines two letters and a four-digit number, according to Leslie Sobon, director of product and brand... More...

According the the NPD Group (who are these guys anyway?) 2006 was a pretty good year for PC gaming. No, PC gaming isn't dead like everyone says every time new consoles come out. Far from... More...

Microsoft wants to make sure consumers and small businesses know there are myriad ways they can acquire Windows Vista -- particularly in premium versions -- when it becomes generally available on Jan. 30. On Thursday,... More...

The E.U. Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes was asked, by a number of European Union investigators, to formally charge Intel on grounds of illegal business tactics. The case was filed in 2000 by AMD regarding Intel... More...

In a bid to remain internationally competitive and encourage technological advancement, the city of Paris has made plans to blanket the entire city with free wireless internet access by the end of 2007. The system... More...

The U.S. Department of Justice will push for new legislation that requires all commercial Web sites to label every page that includes adult material in an effort to protect Web surfers from pornography, the agency... More...

A California court in San Jose on Thursday is scheduled to hear a case brought by Apple Computer that eventually could answer an unsettled legal question: Should online journalists receive the same rights as traditional... More...

While laptops are great for working on the go and saving space, their tendency to transform into little more than glorified, oversized paperweights after becoming obsolete has always been a problem. Intel is looking... More...

Any PR, even bad, is good PR it seems with Rockstar. The game publisher has announced another controversial title due to hit the shelves October this year. Rockstar Games describes the upcoming title... More...

Blizzard's World of Warcraft is now officially the largest MMOG in the world, with the title boasting some 3.5 million paying subscribers worldwide - including 1.5 million in China, where the game only launched in... More...

Researchers are working on technology that could offer seven times as much storage. Researchers in Japan have reported success in an advanced data-storage technology that could help yield hard drives with capacities... More...

If your e-mail does not have a Sender ID, Microsoft wants to junk your message. Sometime around November, Hotmail and MSN will flag as potential spam those messages that do not have the... More...

UK telco BT today announced that 500 exchanges around the country would be receiving upgrades to give customers living in those areas access to high speed SDSL. SDSL is a DSL variant, offering high download... More...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. plans to challenge the NAND flash market dominated by Samsung and Toshiba with a new, hybrid flash memory designed for removable storage. The "ORNAND" flash, scheduled for an introduction in 2005,... More...

PalmOne is aiming to sharpen up its image with the launch of the Treo 650 on Monday. As previously reported, the smart phone update has a higher-resolution screen and a faster... More...

Sun Microsystems is backing European Union efforts to standardize office document formats, including a proposal that would enable people to switch easily between Microsoft-based documents and those created with open-source software. In... More...

Intel Corp. has decided to push back the launch date for its 4GHz Pentium 4 desktop processor to the first quarter of 2005, after reviewing its launch schedules and determining it would not be able... More...

Sun is hoping to gain widespread public recognition like Intel, Microsoft, and Apple. As Sun Microsystems is searching for ways to make Java into a brand name. Competitors have benefited greatly from this... More...

Sun is hoping that a 30 minute TV show will help boost the recognition of Java. The name of the show is "Mobile Entertainment World", and it will be a 30 minute program that... More...

Sales of the Nintendo GameCube have risen above the Xbox for the first time since November, according to the latest set of hardware sales figures from UK research body Chart-Track. For the seven-day period to... More...

The Sun-Tomax solution was to get rid of the Windows servers and substitute a cluster of eight Sun servers running Linux sitting in a data-center that is professionally managed in a high-availability environment. In September,... More...

Microsoft's chairman talks up the business benefits of blogging, RSS, online meetings and other user-empowerment technologies to 100 top CEOs. How do you explain Real Simple Syndication (RSS) to 100 CEOs, some... More...

Microsoft has delayed the planned release date of its next update to Windows XP by about a month, CNET News.com has learned. The software maker had originally said Windows XP Service Pack... More...

DISTRIBUTORS AND partners of ATI have received a document which explains the Canadian firm's strategy on PCI Express. Well, it's a little bit more than that. The document we saw is positively theological in tone,... More...

Biometric technology that scans faces, fingerprints or other physical characteristics to confirm people's identities is about to get its biggest, most public test: at US border checkpoints. Yet significant questions loom about whether the US... More...

Military projects will require new Internet protocol to handle address explosion. The next version of the Internet Protocol, which provides a 128-bit standard to transmit data, is getting a jump-start for adoption... More...

Sun CEO Scott McNealy will bring service provider partner Verizon on stage during his keynote at JavaOne on Friday to demonstrate how Juxtapose (JXTA) peer-to-peer technology better enables collaboration between corporate users, Sun executives said.... More...

LET US NOT forget that as well as producing chipsets that take AMD and Intel microprocessors, Via also produces a family of CPUs of its own. And the firm appears to have made something of... More...

Visual Studio.Net 2003, due out 24 April, played down as a 'fit and finish' release Microsoft has claimed that enhancements to its .Net programming tools will allow developers to build more secure... More...

Macromedia on Monday will announce a new software-by-subscription program along with an upgrade to its MX line of products. The company's new subscription service, Macromedia DevNet, will come in two flavors. The professional version gives... More...

Microsoft will soon make a final presentation to seek a settlement with the European Commission of its probe into the U.S. software giant, a person close to the situation said Wednesday. The source said the... More...

Thanks xStainDx for posting in BPN. With millions of tax forms making their annual pilgrimage through the U.S. mail system to taxpayers' homes, the Internal Revenue Service is promoting using the Internet... More...

GINGER GROUP the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said today it is pushing the US Library of Congress, North America's copyright "watchdog" to accept that people be allowed to skip "commercials" on DVD and also watch DVDs... More...

Thanks youm0nt from our BPN Forum Drive triples the storage and hits twice the speed of old Zip drives, but will CD-RW lovers care? Using a USB 2.0 interface, this external... More...

Thanks Bink of WindowsXP.nu who passed me a copy of this leaked internal document currently doing the rounds at Redmond. It seems either Microsoft is really excited about having MS internals test SP3 at... More...

With Longhorn set to enter beta testing next year, Microsoft has begun to make plans for supporting new hardware technologies in the upcoming version of Windows. At the top of the list is the inclusion... More...