Bing's high-resolution aerial imagery of the Saudi Arabia area has potentially revealed a secret United States drone base, which you can check out right now by heading to Bing Maps if you like More...

A Poland-based research team claims to have found a way to embed secret data packets inside Skype voice chat calls, which can be pure data, text, voice or even video calls. More...

As Bill Gates prepares to end his full-time work at Microsoft, he tells the BBC in an interview that it wasn't just what Microsoft did, but what his rivals didn't do that let Microsoft get... More...

Acclaimed Apple news site Think Secret is to close, following the settlement of a lawsuit from Apple.The site's proprietor, 22-year-old Harvard student Nick Ciarelli, said in a short statement: "Apple and Think Secret have settled... More...

Security breaches that are allowing the financial details of tens of thousands of Britons to be sold on the internet are to be investigated by the country's information watchdog. Without paying a single penny, The... More...

Random numbers are critical for cryptography: for encryption keys, random authentication challenges, initialization vectors, nonces, key-agreement schemes, generating prime numbers and so on. Break the random-number generator, and most of the time you break the... More...

Windows Home Server was a secret for a long time. We had over 1,000 internal testers at Microsoft prior to announcing the product at CES 2007, some of these people used the product for over... More...

Thanks to information provided by the Secret Service, on June 12 French National Police arrested four on online fraud charges in relation to an international ID theft ring. The arrests were part of an undercover... More...

It is very unusual for Microsoft that there hasn't been a leak yet, if we are to believe Gizmodo's story that Microsoft will announce a new product at 12:01am EST. The new hardware is supposed... More...

There is a well known Windows Vista Upgrade secret in the IT community. In this article I talk about it and the possible legal implications! Please take this article "as-is" I provide no warranty of... More...

UMG vs. Marie Lindor is one of few cases where the defendant is fighting, instead of settling with the RIAA. The record labels consider pricing information (believed to be ~70¢ per track) as a trade... More...

Clickety, clack. Clickety, clack. The rhythmic sounds of fingers tapping away at keyboards are coming from Eugene Kaspersky's "woodpeckers," who make up a virus-hunting crew responsible for tracking computer threats in real time and who... More...

Hidden malware search capabilities within Google which were reserved for antivirus and security research firms just weeks ago have been cracked by hackers, according to security industry sources. specific malware program, according to researchers from... More...

Thanks to Hurmoth on BPN for the heads-up A leading internet lawyer will defend Mac news site Think Secret after it was sued by Apple for publishing details of the company's new... More...

Microsoft made a minority investment Monday in Unix/Linux management vendor Vintela. Neither Microsoft nor Lindon, Utah-based Vintela would comment on the size of the investment. But sources said the amount was less than $10 million.... More...

A Connecticut man was arrested on Tuesday on charges that he illegally sold a secret source code used for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 programs, federal prosecutors said. The Manhattan United States... More...

An undercover investigation led by the U.S. Secret Service has led to the arrests of 28 individuals suspected of being part of a global organized cybercrime network. Charges against the suspects include identity theft, computer... More...

Wings Simulations sends along a new patch for SÖLDNER - Secret Wars, updating their vehicular 3D action game to version 29354. This release implements another huge number of new features, improvements, bug fixes and other... More...

Microsoft's development studio in Japan is recruiting for a top-secret project on its Web site. Microsoft Game Studios in Japan is recruiting for developers to work on a new Xbox project. No... More...

About a month ago, Sun let out the words that they are planning to give away source codes in Solaris and today, CRN has cited an anonymous Sun's employee and revealed that Sun is not... More...

Is Microsoft hiring low-cost foreign companies to write its code? According to a paper that was leaked the answer is yes. The paranoid Seattle labor group claimed Microsoft is indeed working on hiring... More...

VU Games and Monolith Productions will give the media a preview of the next action-packed project from the developer of the No One Lives Forever franchise and Tron 2.0. It's an intense close-quarters combat experience... More...

Encore releases new-'n'-improved sample version of its upcoming shooter. Earlier today, Encore released the second version of its beta demo of Soldner: Secret Wars. The new version, which can be downloaded on... More...

As promised by the ads running on this and other sites, the playable beta demo of SÖLDNER - Secret Wars is now available, offering an oppertunity to try out this upcoming vehicular 3D action game... More...

"The hotly-awaited, tactical multiplayer shooter, SÖLDNER – Secret Wars, will be available in the U.S. on the 4th of May and in Europe on the 27th of May", Gerald Kossär, International Marketing Director, JoWooD Software... More...

THQ reveals that a secret code in the upcoming Scooby-Doo movie will unlock bonus content in its PC and GBA games. THQ has today revealed that secret code in the upcoming Scooby-Doo... More...

LucasArts' fourth Xbox Live content package for Secret Weapons Over Normandy is now available to download. Less than a week since the last one, LucasArts has today released its fourth and final... More...

LucasArts' third Xbox Live content package for Secret Weapons Over Normandy is now available to download. LucasArts has today released its third Secret Weapons Over Normandy content package via Xbox Live. The... More...

Speculation over a major announcement which Microsoft has pledged to make on November 15th, the second anniversary of the Xbox launch date, points to the launch of a new version of Halo with Xbox Live... More...

Something light hearted In what is possibly the biggest news story of the gaming year, hackers broke into Valve Software's Network and stole the source code to Half-Life 2. For complete details... More...

Thanks goes to MadGuy from our forum's who noticed that the Demo had been released on EA's Battlefield:1942 website. Get ready for a World War II experience like you've never imagined. Weapons and... More...

Get ready for a World War II experience like you've never imagined. Weapons and vehicles from the Allied and Axis laboratories are about to see combat for the first time in the stand alone multiplayer... More...

Sun Microsystems has revealed that it secretly signed a deal to license SCO Group's Unix intellectual property in February, before Microsoft made a similar announcement in May. The deal expanded one that... More...

Sega begins research for new game in the Midwest. According to a report from The Southern Illinoisan, a Sega development team is currently visiting the small town of Carbondale, Illinois, to gather... More...

AFTER ATI INTRODUCES its late summer speed update, codenamed the R360, we can reveal today that it is set to make a significant change to eighteen months of R300 architecture. The R350 and R360 are... More...

There will be seven new weapons including one-shot kill knives. Other weapons include the Bren light machine gun, Remington Auto 5 shotgun and the Mauser K98 grenade rifle. Players can put these weapons to use... More...

Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII, the second expansion pack to the highly acclaimed Battlefield 1942 title, significantly enhances the gaming experience by bringing the most bizarre and deadly weapons from the German and Allied... More...

THE END OF A cunning Intel plan to develop an X86-64 microprocessor is not yet nigh, according to sources a micron away from the chip giant. The secret project – first revealed here in the... More...

Russia has become the first country to get its hands on one of the world's most closely guarded corporate secrets -- Microsoft Corp.'s blueprint for its computer programs, the software giant said on Monday. ... More...

A secretive federal court on Monday granted police broad authority to monitor Internet use, record keystrokes and employ other surveillance methods against terror and espionage suspects. In an unexpected and near-complete victory for law enforcement,... More...

Palm has followed Handspring and licensed Research in Motion's extraordinary new technique of generating cold fusion energy at room temperature. RIM has "a history of developing breakthrough wireless solutions", and the fusion... More...

Thanks Mike of WinInsider for this bit of news.. Its code name is "Freon," reflecting the notion that it is the coolest secret project at Microsoft Corp. these days, at least in the eyes of... More...

Activewin have spotted something that follows up nicely on the debate some neowinians had with each other here on the target group for .NET server -and guess what.. Microsoft are plugging it as an Application... More...

Microsoft Excel contains a feature that could expose sensitive corporate data once the document is distributed within a company or among trading partners. The feature allow spreadsheet creators to hide, lock and/or password-protect data... More...

Novell users are finally able to find out why they needed to apply a patch to fix a GroupWise security problem deemed so serious the firm decided to keep it secret. Back... More...

Going and getting a Whopper will have a whole new meaning, with codes being given out to access online content, according to the deal that Burger King has struck with AOL this week. ... More...

New research indicates that terrorists are not using advanced computer tools to hide messages in innocuous-looking web images. In February 2001, US agents suggested that terror groups, including Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaida organisation,... More...

Thanks to dextromethorphan for this scoop. A few days ago it was mere speculation, called X-box2. We can now bring you more information on Microsofts idea for a Homestation PC. Microsoft... More...