Now's a better than ever time to join our Folding@home group, which is currently ranked at #332 in the world! Check out how you can contribute to our team and help medical research as well More...

Update: You can view the image Here Microsoft and CNN will be teaming up, along with viewers from Barack Obama's inauguration on Tuesday to create a 3D image of the moment Obama takes the... More...

The popular group known as the iPhone Dev Team has worked hard to release an iPhone 3G unlock for no charge to the general public. Their hard work goes unpaid and is only for... More...

The unofficial iPhone dev team have confirmed moments ago that they have completed an iPhone 3G unlock and are currently packaging a user-friendly application with the simplicity that you see in other applications from the... More...

Jensen Harris from the Office 2007 design team gave a very rare presentation at Microsoft's MIX08 event yesterday about not what the Office 2007 Fluent (Ribbon) interface is about, but instead how it came to... More...

On Thursday, February 14 at 11 am PST, all PC versions of Team Fortress 2, the class-based multiplayer action game named PC Game of the Year by Gamespy.com, will receive its largest update since the... More...

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include: Team Fortress 2 Added new capture the flag map... More...

Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include: Team Fortress 2 Added new option for medigun beam... More...

Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows... More...

The United Nations, Google and Cisco have put together a global campaign, the Millennium Development Goals, that tracks progress towards decreasing global poverty by 2015. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the project, called MDG Monitor,... More...

I thought our fellow members may want to keep their eyes on this one. The Microsoft Surface team has launched an official blog today to keep those interested updated on the latest happenings with one... More...

Cesar Menendez, a Microsoft employee working on Zune, had some interesting things to note when Channel 10 interviewed him. It turns out that the newly released Zune 4 ($150), Zune 8 ($200) and Zune 80... More...

Toshiba Corporation and Microsoft Corporation have announced plans to launch the Advanced Interactivity Consortium to extend interactive features in HD DVD. The consortium will be a platform for companies to collaborate on improving the digital... More...

Samsung Electronics said it agreed Sunday to develop new premium electronic products with Italian luxury goods designer Giorgio Armani. Under the business tie-up the two firms would jointly develop mobile phones, flat-screen televisions and other... More...

The Orange Box-featuring Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Team Fortress 2, and Portal, as well as the complete Half-Life 2 experience to date-is now available for pre-purchase via Steam, a leading online platform for the distribution... More...

Heres your chance to make a difference in the way Group Policies are setup in future versions of Windows, the Group Policy team has setup a survey that targets IT admins specifically that use Group... More...

Taiwanese companies E-ten Information Systems and Arima Communications have signed a technology agreement to develop 3G and 3.5G smartphones around the Windows Mobile OS, combining their technical expertise to deliver at least four new Windows... More...

Two months after much of Estonia's online infrastructure was targeted by an online attack, the U.S government is sending a representative from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team to help analyze... More...

Amazon.com and Microsoft have announced the 1,000 HD DVD Indies Project: an effort to make it easier for independent filmmakers to produce and distribute movies in high-definition. Amazon's CustomFlix unit plans to bring as many... More...

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has confirmed two major pieces of information regarding recently reported company actions. First off, the company plans to relocate from their Redmond, WA offices to a site possibly in... More...

In partnership with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Blizzard recently welcomed Ezra Chatterton, a 10-year-old who has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, into our headquarters for a day and gave him several unique opportunities. We have... More...

Some new information regarding Team Fortress 2 has spilled out, thanks to an article in the German gaming magazine PC Action for this month. Thanks to some users over at Halflife2.net a general summary in... More...

Vodafone has signed an exclusive partnership deal with social networking Web site MySpace , allowing its customers to access and update their MySpace pages from their mobile phones, according to the telecom giant. The deal... More...

Although MySpace and eBay have not made any public announcements, Wall Street Journal is reporting that for several months, News Corp.'s Web network MySpace has been in talks with online auction company eBay Inc. about... More...

Remember Microsoft's Blue&Me project with Fiat, the one that equipped select models with an in-car computer system with all kinds of connectivity functionality? Well, we've learned from a source close to Microsoft's car-computer project... More...

Oh dear! What's the world coming too? Blogger Niall Kennedy was not happy that Microsoft RSS team blog hotlinked a picture without permission. The blogger replaced the picture with a male human being speading his... More...

Konami and Microsoft are teaming up on a Pro Evolution Soccer 6 Xbox 360 premium hardware bundle, due out on 27th October priced GBP 299. The full package consists of an Xbox 360 premium console... More...

Konami has teamed up with sportswear giant Reebok to cross-promote brands ahead of the release of Pro Evolution Soccer 6 in Europe later this month. As well as the Reebok brand appearing in-game, the two... More...

Thanks to JJ_ for the heads up on this follow-up story of when Microsoft invited Firefox developers to Redmond. Back in August, Ars reported that Sam Ramji, Director of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab, invited... More...

Yahoo! opened it's doors this Friday and Saturday for the first Yahoo! Hack Day, designed to let teams of developers build applications and projects using the Yahoo! APIs, with the most creative winning prizes. This... More...

Just five years since Apple released iPods that integrate with iTunes, Apple foes Real Networks and SanDisk are teaming up in an attempt to emulate that iTunes/iPod ecosystem. Real and SanDisk plan to release... More...

Thanks to jerry once again for the head's up. As promised, Valve has released a small teaser trailer for the recently reannounced Team Fortress 2. The trailer, while not very... More...

Thanks to Umbrello and qdave for the original story I'm not going to bother summing this up. I am actually so excited that I can hardly type right now. To... More...

Toshiba Corp. and other Japanese chip makers on Tuesday scrapped a tentative plan to set up a microchip foundry but said they will standardize technology to make cutting-edge chips in a latest effort to join... More...

Apple recently asked the engineering team behind its Aperture photo editing and management software to leave, Think Secret has learned. The move, which resulted in the departure of several engineers while others were transferred to... More...

Skype,the hugely successful voice-over IP (VoIP) provider and Bebo, the UK's largesthigh school and college communication website have announced apartnership to bring the benefits of Skype to users of the Bebo service. ... More...

Company job postings call for art leads to work on unannounced PC title from the crew behind the first two Diablo games. It's been more than four and a half... More...

Siemens and IBM are teaming up to offer VoIP (Voice over IP) technology to the enterprise. The two companies are planning to intergrate Siemens HiPath softswitches for VoIP into... More...

The MSN Beta team is currently recruiting likely candidates to test an array of new services and products from the Windows Live family. Successful applicants may be asked to test MSN Messenger 8... More...

Toshiba Corp. and NEC Electronics Corp, both of Japan, announced on Wednesday that they will be working together to jointly develop the technology required to produce next generation semiconductors. Their goal is to come up... More...

The Nigerian government and Microsoft signed an agreement Friday calling for the software giant to help law enforcement break up crime rings that use the Internet for fraud and theft. It's the first-ever agreement Microsoft... More...

In a surprising partnership announced Monday, Research in Motion Ltd. and Palm Inc. are going to work together to offer RIM's Blackberry wireless e-mail service over Palm's Treo 650. The product should see store... More...

On Saturday, Stanford University's robot vehicle "Stanley" won the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Grand Challenge in the Mojave Desert, taking home a $2 million first prize. Entrants into the race had to navigate... More...

Banking on the idea that mobile phones will replace digital music players, Napster and Sony Ericsson plan to announce today a joint venture to make a music-downloading service available to cell phone operators. ... More...

Alienware, the leading manufacturer of high-performance gaming desktops, notebooks, media centers and professional computing systems, announced that they have reached an agreement with Kyocera Wireless to develop advanced gaming accessories for mobile phones. The two... More...

As Microsoft Corp. readies its new application development tool set for team development, a raft of Java and other platform tool vendors are delivering solutions of their own—now. Gupta Technologies LLC, DataSource Inc., JBoss Inc.... More...

Enthusiasts of the point-and-click adventure game, take heart: There's a new development studio pledging to resurrect the dying genre. Industry veterans Dan Connors, Kevin Bruner, and Troy Molander, along with other key members of the... More...

If you love games and music well then you'll be glad to know that Xbox Live is teaming up with House of Blues to deliver some of the hottest music acts to the "Game With... More...

NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processors, today announced a collaboration with Blizzard Entertainment® for World of Warcraft®, the highly anticipated massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) set to... More...

Microsoft Games Studios sheds employees as third parties fill sports game pipeline. In an apparent concession to the strength of EA Sports' muscle, Microsoft has permanently benched much of its internal sports-game... More...