The IDC is blaming Windows 8 for the market decline of PC sales but in an evolving industry, is Microsoft really at fault or was it OEMs who missed the mark for building desirable products? More...
In a report today, Marin Software - who advise Macy's, Gap and others on web-search ads - predict that Google could make $5 billion from tablet ad clicks alone. More...
Microsoft Corp has announced quarterly revenue of $18.06 billion for the quarter ending June 30, 2012 and operating income and loss per share for the quarter were $192 million and $0.06 per share. More...
Here is an interesting factoid for everyone: Over 3 billion videos are viewed every day on YouTube. In other words, approximately 34,722.22 videos are viewed on the site every second. The Pew Internet & American... More...
In the United Kingdom, a committee of MPs has found that major IT firms have been ripping off government departments when it comes to purchasing and installing new IT infrastructure. The report claims that some... More...
According to a report released by the FCC this week, US broadband consumers in 2009 were getting half of the download speeds advertised by their service providers. In 2009, the median advertised download speed for... More...
Microsoft announced on Thursday, a record fourth-quarter revenue of $16.04 billion for the quarter ended June 30. The financial figures are a 22% increase from the same period of the prior year. Microsoft says this revenue... More...
Gartner published its market share reports on Tuesday for worldwide mobile phone sales in 2009. According to the figures, BlackBerry, iPhone and Android devices have all increased their market share whilst Windows Mobile and Symbian... More...
Oblong's G-Speak is a project from a new line of research at the MIT Media Laboratory. Development first began in 1994 by trying to make information more literally spatial. Examples of technology were created by... More...
Windows Vista shipped to business customers on the last day of November 2006, so the end of November 2007 marks the one year anniversary for supported production use of the product. This paper analyzes the... More...
Out from the tropical island jungles and into the plains of Africa players will go in Ubisoft Montreal's Far Cry 2, a game which we're hoping manages to further along the open-ended first-person shooter genre.... More...
We now have a functional Report News Comment button on the comments of our news posts. As always we encourage you to use this tool to report inappropriate material or other ToS violations, yet at... More...
A Panorama programme claiming that Wi-Fi creates three times as much radiation as mobile phone masts was "misleading", an official BBC complaints ruling has found. Two viewers complained that Panorama exaggerated the grounds for concern... More...
Shares of Dell fell nearly 13 percent Friday as investors took a pessimistic view on plans to reignite the computer maker's fortunes with a strategy that could lower profits in the short term. Shares tumbled... More...
The Center for Environmental Health on Monday said that it is suing Apple based on the report by environmental group Greenpeace. The report, released earlier Monday, found hazardous materials Apple's iPhone. The Greenpeace tests revealed... More...
The good news is Advanced Micro Devices has a hot product on its hands with the recently released Opteron quad-core processors. The less encouraging news is that some system builder partners say they've had trouble... More...
In a bit of a disconcerting study, many mobile phone addicts and BlackBerry junkies report feeling vibrations when there are none, or feeling as if they're wearing a cell phone when they're not. The first... More...
Microsoft Corp is talking to Facebook about buying a minority stake in the fast-growing online social network that could value the company at $10 billion or more, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web... More...
Apple Inc. has signed its first deals with mobile phone operators to offer its iPhone in three of Europe's largest markets, ending a period of intense negotiations, according to a report in the Financial Times... More...
U.S.-based Web sites hosting malware are responsible for the majority of malware distributed on the Internet, according to the Cyveillance "Online Financial Fraud and Identity Theft Report". The security company's report concluded that Web surfers... More...
After fighting one of the US's largest corporate fraud cases, Adelphia Communications founder John Rigas and his son Tim Rigas, the company's former chief financial officer, reported to federal prison in North Carolina today; the... More...
In the first quarter of 2007, security firm Sophos PLC identified 23,864 new malware threats, more than double the 9,450 the company found in the same period last year. The company's report said this growth... More...
Best Buy Company Incorporated and Circuit City Stores Incorporated have both reported high demand for Windows Vista in their retail stores. In separate earnings statements, the two retail companies said that PCs with Vista preinstalled... More...
The German computer magazine CT (English translation using google translate) analyzed the new WGA Notification that is installed during Windows Update. They decided to cancel the installation and immediately after doing so the firewall reported... More...
The European Commission has resisted efforts by Microsoft to make it abandon its report into open-source software, it was revealed this week. But the Commission was swayed into allowing a 10-day period for feedback before... More...
There are two companies who say they have a system that can monitor traffic on roads and highways. They say their systems are based on tracking the signals of cellphones that are inside cars while... More...
Like many real-time strategy games, Supreme Commander has an economic aspect to it, as you must accumulate resources (in this case, energy and mass) and use it to churn out war machines. What makes Supreme... More...
Intel is considering increasing its stake in graphics technology company Nvidia, in order to counter the proposed merger of AMD and ATI, according to a report by Digitimes. The chip maker's share price rose by... More...
Dell, on Monday, said in a statement it will delay the 10-Q filing for the quarter ended Aug. 4 because of questions raised by the "informal" SEC investigation "into certain accounting and financial reporting matters"... More...
Users of Windows Live Messenger can now report suspected sexual predators of children with a mouse click. A "report abuse" icon will soon appear on the chat software as a result of work by... More...
The Defense Department should adopt an open technology model for software procurement and distribution, according to a new report prepared for Sue Payton, deputy undersecretary of Defense for Advanced Systems and Concepts. That report,... More...
Perpetuum Software LLC announces beta release of Report Sharp-Shooter 2.1.The product includes integrated Chart component for interactive graphs and charts creation. Now it is possible to increase the graphical impact of your reports with visually... More...
The 'Merom' Core 2 Duo mobile microprocessor Intel will ship with 'Santa Rosa', next year's Centrino upgrade, will not be quite the same Merom that it's due to launch in August. The two versions of... More...
Microsoft plans to begin patching more than its own software, its first effort got off to a rocky start. By Wednesday, Windows users were complaining of glitches in updating Adobe's Flash Player through the Windows... More...
Apple Computer, which has been known as a company that likes to keep all the secrets in house, according to a report from a web-site, asked Intel Corp. to help develop its commercial PowerMac computers... More...
Advanced Micro Devices is reported to unveil its central processing units (CPUs) in the second quarter of the year 2006, after April, claims a new research note from DRAMeXchange, an analyst firm. But according to... More...
Thanks to OrangeSoul for the heads up in BPN. Singularity is a research project focused on the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools. We... More...
Mozilla has reacted to a Symantec report issued on Monday which said serious vulnerabilities were being found in Mozilla's browsers faster than in Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The study was conducted over the first six months... More...
eBay is in talks to acquire Net phone company Skype for between $2 billion and $3 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Citing people familiar with the matter, the newspaper said the deal would... More...
A recent study by financial analysts at Merrill Lynch Japan suggests that the PlayStation 3 may cost up to $490 dollars to manufacture, with the company predicting that Sony will launch at $399 and take... More...
WholeSecurity, the leading provider of behavioral, on-demand endpoint security solutions, today introduced the Phish Report Network, the Internet industry's first worldwide anti-phishing aggregation service. Initial participants in the new business service include Microsoft, eBay, PayPal,... More...
Microsoft today announced financial results for the second quarter of 2005. Q2 saw revenues of $10.82 billion, a 7% increase on the previous period, along side operating income of $4.75 billion and net income... More...
America's National Basketball Association (NBA) has rejected an approach by publisher Electronic Arts over a possible exclusivity arrangement, according to gaming website IGN. EA and the NBA have yet to confirm or deny the report.... More...
A new report into videogames from the US National Institute on Media and the Family has accused the industry of confusing parents with mixed messages over the importance of the ESRB ratings system. ... More...
National Institute on Media and the Family says game ratings are ineffective; ESRB begs to differ. For the ninth year in a row, the National Institute on Media and the Family released... More...
Google's high profile webmail service, Gmail, is vulnerable to a security exploit that might allow hackers full access to a user's email account simply by knowing the user name, according to reports. The security flaw... More...
On preorders alone, the Nintendo DS is the third best-selling system in Japan this week. The Nintendo DS is the third best-selling video game console for the week of October 11-17, Nikkei... More...
A new playstation could launch in USA next month. It's actually a modified Sony Playstation 2 called PStwo. Along with PStwo comes with GTA: San Andreas. The new version of the console would be around... More...
Spyware & Adware is on the rise according to popular ISP EarthLink and Adware remover Webroot. Together the two companies have scanned over 2.1 million computer systems, and have found 54.8 million traces of... More...
Not all fourth-generation iPod owners are happy lately. It's not a performance problem, but the appearance of smears, scratches and blemishes on the music player's case. It's not just the smears, scratches, and... More...