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Social networking is everywhere these days and that hasn't escaped the lexicographers at the Oxford University Press. They have chosen 'unfriend' as the 2009 Word of the Year. Apparently nothing earth-shattering is expected during the...

Sony Corp. of Japan and Sweden's Ericsson have a long established joint venture in the Sony Ericsson line of cell phones. According to Reuters, it was reported in Saturday's Nikkei business daily that Sony would...

Before you pitch both your Xbox and your PlayStation, let's take a look at the technology behind the console-less console that was revealed last night at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. It has...

Cisco Systems is going to go in direct competition with their existing partners such as IBM and HP with the release of their new blade server line. Previously content to offer network connectivity solutions like...

Panasonic Corporation, who legally changed their name from Matsushita Electric Industrial Company on October 1st, has "downwardly revised" their current year profit forecast by a whopping 90%. In their press release they cited the...

Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd decided that HP's future was in the more lucrative world of corporate service contracts when they purchased Electronic Data Systems in May of this year. That move placed them in...

And who said there is never any news on Sunday? Electronic Arts has "terminated discussions" with Take Two, the makers of Grant Theft Auto, after spending nearly seven months working on a potential merger deal....

A consortium of media companies including Alcatel-Lucent, Best Buy, Cisco, Comcast, Fox, HP, Intel, Lions Gate, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Paramount Pictures, Philips, Sony, Toshiba, VeriSign and Warner Bros plan to create a digital video 'ecosystem'....

Apple has released new iPhone 2.1 software on its iTunes online service that offers to decrease dropped calls, improve the battery life, improve e-mail reliability, improve text messaging notification, reduce 3rd-party application crashes and reduce...

A survey by online job site CareerBuilder.com has found that 22% of hiring managers regularly screen social networking sites, like Facebook and MySpace, before hiring new applicants. An additional 9% of hiring managers do not...

Yahoo will offer its 500 million users something new to look at as they plan to revamp several sections of their site, including their home page, over the next few months. Yahoo has had...

After two years of double-digit growth, sales of video games have slowed down. According to NPD market research, sales have slowed from 28% growth in July to only 9% growth in August. Sales in the...

Authorities claim that Jeremy Jaynes sent up to 10 million unsolicited bulk e-mail messages a day from his home in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 2004, he was charged in Virginia due to the location of...

Nationwide market leader Rogers is in the lead with a C$997 million dollar bid for more wireless bandwidth. Telus (at C$879 million) and BCE (at C$738 million) are in second and third place respectively. In...

Will purchasing the newest iPhone make you become a jerk? Are you dreaming of future Zune models but worried what it would do to your reputation? According to the latest U.S. research, if you are...

PricewaterhouseCoopers is about to release a new industry report titled "Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2008-2012". The overall video game industry is expected to grow 10.3% annually but console games will continue to dominate sales...

Best Buy, Canada's largest electronics retailer, will enter the second-hand games market with a test run at six of its Future Shop stores in Calgary, Alberta. They will then expand this venture to all 133...

In what was described as the largest hacking scam in Canadian history, Quebec provincial police raided several homes across Quebec on Wednesday and arrested 16 people between the ages of 17 and 26. The hacking...

A poll by McAfee revealed that while only 2.1% of respondents have ever encountered a virus on their handset and the vast majority had never heard of anyone getting a mobile phone virus, nearly three-quarters...

Rep. Edward Markey, chairman of a House subcommittee on the Internet, has introduced legislation in support of "net neutrality". The bill would prevent broadband Internet providers from unreasonable interference with subscribers' access to content. Some...

Under fire from consumer groups and law professors who have issued formal complaints to the Federal Communications Commission, Comcast has told the FCC that hampering some file-sharing by its subscribers was a justifiable way to...

European Union antitrust regulators have raided Intel's Munich office in Germany seeking evidence they may have broken rules to ensure competition in the market for computer chips. Additional raids were carried out against Britian's DSG...

Britain could follow France in cutting Internet access to users who repeatedly download music or films illegally. In France, warning messages are sent to those who frequently download music or films illegally. If the messages...

Nintendo sold 1.08 million units of its "Super Smash Bros. Brawl" software in 11 days since its January 31 launch in Japan, reaching the 1 million mark faster than any other Wii game. The Wii's...

Bionic Power, a Canadian start-up company, announced last week that it is commercializing a device that will generate electricity from the natural motion of walking and use it to power a broad range of portable...

The bug fixes kept coming Monday, as Apple shipped critical security updates for its Mac OS X operating system. The latest security update fixes several bugs in the Mac Operating system, including eight bugs in...

A major outage hit BlackBerry users in North America on Monday afternoon, cutting off wireless e-mail for everyone. The problem, which BlackBerry owner Research In Motion described as a "critical severity outage" affecting users in...

Thanks to Loppdawg69 for the Netflix email (see the extended news page). BestBuy, the largest U.S. consumer electronics chain, said on Monday it will recommend that consumers choose Sony Corp's Blu-ray...

Microsoft has signed a deal to purchase Danger, the makers of the T-Mobile Sidekick product but otherwise known as the Danger Hiptop to those within the industry. With this move, Microsoft has decidedly entered the...

Have you long suffered without a electronic version of "Littlest Pet Shop"? Well, your worries may be coming to an end soon. Electronic Arts announced upcoming games based on popular Hasbro properties as an important...

We already have Bluetooth that operates separately from Wi-Fi. Both wireless functions are common on today's laptops but they run off separate chips and serve separate tasks. Bluetooth is relatively low bandwidth and relatively short...

Activision, which is awaiting approval of its merger with the games unit of French media giant Vivendi, is continuing to benefit from sales of Guitar Hero 3 and Call of Duty 4. They announced revenues...

Not content with owning the English speaking world, Facebook.com has announced a Spanish version of its popular social network service. Facebook users can change over to Spanish starting on Monday when the option will appear...

The Joint Photographic Experts Group decided earlier this week to officially endorse the Microsoft HD Photo file format as the eventual heir apparent to the JPEG standard. In order to be adopted, the format has...

British chip designer ARM will demo an Android-based prototype mobile phone at the Mobile World Congress wireless show in Barcelona next Monday. Google's open-source Android software platform will be used by T-Mobile and HTC when...

Google announced a series of security products today that are based on technology from their acquisition of Postini (Postini, Inc. is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Google Inc.) The security suite is part of...

Apple today announced new iPhone and iPod models with larger memory capacities to solve the ever growing craze for more portable storage. This move doubles the amount of memory that was previously available on the...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) won the first of many digital music file sharing cases Thursday against a single mother, with a U.S. jury finding her guilty of copyright infringement and fining her...

Have you been waiting since 2005 to purchase a new HDTV that uses surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED) technology? Perhaps you had best look for alternatives as there are now concerns that SED technology will never...

CNN will give away access to an online video service that now costs $25 USD a year, becoming the latest news organization to revamp its revenue model on the web. CNN Spokeswoman Jennifer Martin said...