According to Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft is readying a new platform for telco carriers to offer subscribers Windows Live and other forthcoming Microsoft services. Foley had a chance to take a peek at... More...

Not to be confused with the firmware updated released last month, this update will bring the Zune software to the same version number: 2.3. The update, which will not be a major one (judging by... More...

At the CES 2008 show in Las Vegas, flash solid state disk pioneer BiTMICRO Networks announced its plan to launch an 832GB version of the E-Disk Altima SATA flash SSD in 2.5-inch form factor. The... More...

Nvidia Corp., the world's largest designer of discrete graphics processing units (GPUs), reportedly plans to update its lineup of expensive graphics cards with at least two new offerings later in the quarter. The most powerful... More...

The Microsoft Zune team plans to soon release firmware version 2.3 for the portable multimedia device. The download isn’t up yet, but I’ll be updating this newspost when it does go up. The update... More...

nVidia is certainly planning on make lots of hay this Christmas, rolling out revisions to its mid-range GeForce 8 series and raking in the cash on the technology it has spent the last few years... More...

ATI CrossFire multi-GPU technology was announced in mid-2005, but has not really gained widespread popularity since then, partly because ATI's flagship graphics products faced delays and partly because Nvidia put tremendous efforts into popularization of... More...

Nvidia Corporation not only plans to refresh its lineup of performance graphics accelerators this year, but also intends to introduce its 3-way SLI multi-GPU technology, which is apparently Nvidia's new "ultimate gaming platform". Initially Nvidia... More...

Microsoft will release five sets of security patches next Tuesday, including a critical update for users of Windows 2000, the company said Thursday. With the remaining four security updates rated as "important" by Microsoft, this... More...

Nvidia Corporation has done the unthinkable in the world of 3D graphics cards: the number one graphics card producer claims its new technology will combine low power consumption with high performance. Nvidia's new Hybrid SLI... More...

Sapphire Technology, one of the world's largest producers of graphics cards, is planning to release three graphics cards featuring ATI Rialto bridge, which allows GPUs originally architected for PCI Express to work on platforms supporting... More...

Intel offers up cheaper, simpler mobile platform for consumers Just over a year ago, Microsoft and Intel announced the Origami platform which would lay the foundation for Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs). UMPCs were supposed... More...

Microsoft plans on Monday to officially announce Windows Mobile 6, formerly code-named Crossbow, at the 3GSM trade show in Barcelona. The first devices using the software aren't expected until spring, however, with the bulk of... More...

Intel's plan to develop an x86-based system-on-a-chip line is well known - we reported on it way back in August 2005, for instance - but only now are details of the XScale replacement starting to... More...

Almost a month earlier than expected, Yahoo will launch its new advertising management 'Panama' system on February 5, 2007. Main competitor? Google's AdSense pay-per-click programme. Yahoo's new system is expected to be very similar to... More...

Toronto Hydro Telecom's recently installed a six-square kilometer Wi-Fi hotspot in downtown Toronto that will deliver Internet upload and download rates at a consistent 5 Mbps. The Wi-Fi deployment called OneZone is the largest in... More...

Fujitsu has announced the new Loox T-Series sub-notebooks, all pre-loaded with Windows Vista Home Premium. There are four models available, T50: 1.2GHz Celeron M processor, 512MB of RAM, 60GB hard drive T50U: 1.2GHz Celeron M... More...

In a bid to increase pressure on arch-rival ATI, a division of Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia Corp. reportedly prepares a more affordable version of its GeForce 8800 graphics card. The novelty, on the other hand,... More...

LAS VEGAS -- New movie releases, more market entrants, improved technology and 1.8 million HD DVD players from Toshiba are the weapons companies plan to use in the format battle against rival Blu-ray Disc this... More...

At least five more G80-based graphics chips are on their way from Nvidia, if entries in the latest driver package to leak out of the GPU maker's labs is anything to go by. According to... More...

After years of waiting, U.S. business customers will finally have a chance to get their hands on Windows Vista and Office 2007 when Microsoft launches the products on November 30 at an event in New... More...

Early in 2007, Seagate Technology will begin shipping its first widely available hard drives with built-in encryption. The Momentus 5400 FDE.2 (which stands for Full Disk Encryption 2) will include a special encryption chip that... More...

Thanks to MHashmi for the heads up! The world's largest software company said Thursday it had acquired privately held Colloquis Inc., which makes software that lets customers instant-message with a computer to get answers to... More...

Toshiba will soon put its second generation of HD DVD players on sale in the U.S. The Tokyo company kicked off the high-definition movie battle in the U.S. earlier this year when it put its... More...

Samsung is to take the digital music fight to Apple by launching its own song download service in the UK, France and Germany, the South Korean giant revealed today. Details of the service remain scarce,... More...

Nvidia Corp., a leading supplier of graphics processors, is reportedly planning to unveil a graphics card that is likely to offer performance between the levels of the GeForce 7900 GT and the GeForce 7900 GTX... More...

Microsoft is readying the next—and seemingly final public—beta builds of its Office 2007 client and SharePoint Server 2007 server products, according to bloggers inside and outside the company. Last week, Microsoft notified Office testers officially... More...

BenQ is gearing up to ship what it claims is the world's first computer monitor with an HDMI port. The 24in FP241W will support the full 1080p HD resolution when it ships this coming September.... More...

Intel's next-generation chipset for WiMax devices will support either fixed or mobile versions of the wireless broadband technology, and all the equipment vendors that have adopted the company's current product plan to use the new... More...

Universal Music Group is to bring no-frills CDs to the UK in a bid to match the iTunes Music Store's price point. The scheme targets old, back-catalogue releases rather than new or recent titles. According... More...

ATI Technologies, a leading supplier of graphics processors and multimedia technologies, may be ready with the top-to-bottom lineup of DirectX 10-supporting graphics processor and a chipset with built-in DirectX 10 graphics core as early as... More...

Microsoft have announced their new image format which is a competitor to standards like JPEG and PNG.Windows Media Photo is a new file format for continuous-tone still images that surpasses the limitations of existing image... More...

Once a Microsoft Research project, Microsoft's forthcoming P2P-based storage engine will be targeted at the growing market for managing and delivering compliance and reference data. Microsoft is working to commercialize "BitVault," a Microsoft Research technology... More...

Dell is expected to unveil new business notebooks with built-insupport for wide-area network connection options, wide-screen displays, and a dual-core processor optionTuesday evening. Included in the unveiling are the Latitude D620... More...

Windows Defender Beta 2 will add support for Outlook, a new interface, and automated updates to the spyware definitions and scanning engine. Where Beta 1 has been available only for Windows XP, Beta 2 will... More...

According to Mary Fo Foley of Microsoft-Watch the giant software company is planning new services following the much talked about "re-org" of the company last week. New services that are currently on the... More...

America Online has announced it will offer a new Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) service starting October 4, entering a heated race for Internet-based telephone services. The service, called TotalTalk, will enable calls to be... More...

The Mozilla Foundation has shipped release candidates for a new version of its Firefox Web browser to provide a thorough fix for a known code execution security vulnerability. The Firefox 1.0.7 makeover comes just one... More...

Mess.be is reporting that Microsoft is readying a MSN Messenger 7.5 Public Preview. Messenger Beta sites are currently displaying holder content ready for a release soon. According to Microsoft: ... More...

Microsoft is looking to extend the reach of its Office Communicator 2005 instant-messaging (IM) client via a new version that will be completely Web-based. Microsoft is set to kick off on July 15 a first... More...

With Longhorn more than a year out and Microsoft interested in getting older PCs up to Windows XP, the solution Microsoft seems to have hit on is to create a leaner version of Windows XP.... More...

Sun Microsystems plans to ship StarOffice 8 by the end of August, and to add Russian, Polish, and Dutch versions of the productivity suite within a year after that. StarOffice, Sun's product to rival Microsoft's... More...

Web giant Yahoo is poised to launch a new digital store and music player, aiming to compete more directly with Apple Computer's successful iTunes service, according to sources familiar with the project. ... More...

According to Mary Jo @ Microsoft-Watch.com, Microsoft is preparing to release a Subscription based service of Anti-Virus and Spyware. code-named A1. The development is strictly limited to those on the dev team and close partners.... More...

Sun Microsystems Inc. officials on Tuesday offered new details on its open-source strategy. The company said publicly what most industry players understood for a long time: Sun's top priority is supporting its Solaris operating system... More...

Next month, Sony will ship what it claims is the world's first external DVD recorder that can also operate without a host computer. Sony's DVDirect ships with a suite of Windows XP/2000 DVD... More...

Skype plans to offer a business telephone service for "individuals and workgroups, not CIOs" that the free Internet phone service provider believes will shake-up another major telephone market. Winning over business will not be an... More...

ATI will ship its first PCI Express chipsets next month, initially targeting AMD processors, followed by Intel-oriented versions in November. And the new chipsets will ship under a new brand, Radeon Xpress. So claims Anandtech,... More...

Microsoft is very close to releasing its newest iteration of DirectX. Dubbed the "Windows Graphics Foundation" (WGF), Microsoft will reunite DirectDraw and Direct3D into one package allowing the graphics subsystem of a PC to be... More...

Microsoft Corp. is looking to several anticipated titles, its online gaming service and a new video chat application to propel sales of its Xbox console in Japan during the year-end shopping season. The Xbox has... More...