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To kick off the festive season, Mojang has cut the price of Realms, and is now also offering a free trial to all new customers who have not used Realms previously.

Apple's Tim Cook spent some time making fun of Android at WWDC, saying that many who owned Android phones had bought them "by mistake", and berating the fragmentation and malware problems of the OS.

As some of you have noted on our forum, yesterday an important service announcement accidentally went out to a large audience of Windows Live Messenger users with the following message: "Important service...

Netflix, one of the largest online DVD rental companies in the United States with over 10 million subscribers, today announced a disappointing 20% rate increase for Blu-ray subscribers. In the announcement Jessie Becker, VP...

Update: Virgin has now updated its site with the full details on its 50mbps service here. Virgin Media is expected to unveil its 50Mbps broadband service at a press briefing this morning. It will be...

Microsoft could re-think plans to phase out its Windows XP operating system by June 30 if customers show they want to keep it but so far they have not, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said. "XP...

Open-source darling MySQL is facing a new uprising within its customer base over plans disclosed this week to reserve some key upcoming features, and their source code, for paying users of its namesake database. Officials...

AT&T announced today that it is boosting speeds for some of its AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet customers and offering AT&T broadband customers access to free Wi-Fi hotspots across the country. AT&T says that more...

AT&T Inc, the exclusive U.S. carrier for Apple Inc's iPhone said on Thursday it ended 2007 with "just at or slightly under 2 million iPhone customers." "We had very solid sales results in October and...

Music Industry Piracy Investigations has released a guide entitled "Internet Caf̩ Guide РAre You and Your Customers Doing the Right Thing?", which outlines how to get music legally online and the possible consequences for...

A survey looking at UK broadband services has revealed a downturn in customer satisfaction levels. Customer complaints now outnumber service-related enquiries by 52% to 48%, the study by market research firm JD Power found. According...

Staff at Carphone Warehouse, the UK-based mobile communications retailer, are alleged to be misleading customers about Apple's iPhone insurance policy, the BBC has claimed. The information being communicated to prospective buyers or customers, who expressed...

Federal prosecutors have withdrawn a subpoena seeking the identities of thousands of people who bought used books through online retailer Amazon.com Inc., newly unsealed court records show. The withdrawal came after a judge ruled the...

In a definite "outside the box" move designed to boost holiday sales, computer-maker Dell Inc. has enlisted Burt Reynolds, Ice-T, and other celebrities to help customers raise money to buy products for themselves or others....

After announcing a $200 price cut for the iPhone, Apple quickly realized that it needs to take care of its annoyed early adopters. Steve Jobs received tons of angry emails from customers and on September...

Dell Incorporated has unveiled six Vostro PCs (four laptop and two desktop models) for the small business market that will ship without bundled "trialware", if buyers so choose. These preinstalled applications, search settings, trial editions...

Apple Incorporated Chief Executive Steve Jobs has indicated he is unlikely to give in to calls from the music industry to add a subscription-based model to Apple's wildly popular iTunes online music store. "Never say...

A federal judge has ordered Vonage not to accept any new customers while it continues to infringe on Verizon Communications patents covering some aspects of Internet phone calls. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton said it...

Google Incorported is having problems keeping its uptime pledge to some paying customers of its Google Apps suite of hosted services. Little over a month after introducing Google Apps' Premier version, which includes a 99.99%...

On the Apple's tech support forum, customers reported that the new AirPort Extreme recognizes the Wii and the PS3 but not the Xbox 360 unless all security, including password protection, is disabled on the AirPort...

Despite recent reports that Microsoft's latest offering is a fake scam site we have received confirmation from the giant software company that US members are able to get a copy of Vista and Office 2007...

Apparently today was the agreed upon date to launch (or "prelaunch," anyway) svelte new mobiles that we'd been waiting ever so patiently on, as this discovery comes just hours after Motorola officially released its MOTOFONE...

This just in from Nick White on the Windows Vista Team Blog, thanks to betax for the heads up. I encourage you to download and install Windows Vista RC2. We're almost finished with Windows Vista...

Phil Liu of Microsoft has reported problems with the Windows Genuine Advantage authentication method for Volume License Key (VLK) customers and a temporary work-around. "Just a heads up on an issue related to (Volume) VLK...

Hackers have obtained credit card details of 19,000 online shoppers from telecoms company AT&T. The US company said it had notified shoppers at its online store of the security breach, which affected people buying high-speed...

Dell is offering refunds to customers in China who sued the company saying their laptops had different microprocessors than advertised. Dell, the second biggest PC maker in China after Lenovo, was sued by 19 people...

In an echo of the furore that met the release of the original eMac, Apple has withdrawn its new education-only iMac from sale to individuals. The new product was available for purchase by individual...

Apple's television ads for its new Macs boast that for years, Intel'schips have been "trapped inside PCs--dull little boxes, dutifullyperforming dull little tasks." Now, the voiceover proclaims, the Intel processor will finally be set free....

After being promised by August 12th and then the week of August 15th, Sony has finally made good on its promise to release version 2.0 of the Playstation Portable Firmware. The biggest addition to...