At its Z3 launch event yesterday, Samsung claimed that its Tizen OS is the second-largest operating system in the budget segment in India, ahead of Microsoft's Windows Phone.
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According to the lads at Tech Radar, Google's just today announced some rather admirable increases in profits; they've managed to pull in £900m in the second quarter of this year alone. Apparently, total revenues for...
Supreme Commander gets a new life with the announcement that Supreme Commander Gold is now available on Impulse. Supreme Commander Gold combines the awesome action of both Supreme Commander and Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance....
Lynden Lab's Second Life virtual world was so popular that people were investing in virtual real estate and making significant sums of money off their investments. This was in the glory days last year and...
Thanks to the Dell's decision to open the company's newest and most advanced manufacturing facility in Poland, Dell production and personalization capabilities will now be closer to increasing numbers of consumers and businesses in Central...
A Turkish court has again blocked access to the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube because of clips allegedly insulting the country's founding father; the first ban was also due to clips deemed disrespectful to Mustafa...
Security researchers Dino Dai Zovi and Charlie Miller have found a way to exploit an unpatched QuickTime vulnerability to steal Linden Dollars from users in the Second Life virtual world. Dai Zovi (the hacker behind...
Mozilla Corp. will probably release a Firefox update tomorrow to patch a bug in the just-released 2.0.0.10 version, according to the company's bug database. If so, it would mark the first time that Mozilla has...
IBM and Second Life creator Linden Lab have teamed up to further advance digital 3D worlds. The partnership seeks to accelerate the development of open standards to promote the creation of more digital 3D environments....
We have a rather odd story this Saturday coming all the way from the idyllic digital shores of Second Life. Last Month entrepreneur Kevin Alderman, founder of Eros LLC, a company specializing in the manufacture...
Lufthansa is planning to launch broadband internet connection services on its laung haul routes by early next year, a company spokesperson confirmed to vnunet.com. The airline is currently in the final stage of its request...
Microsoft is adding photo sharing and Web-based hosted storage to Windows Live on Wednesday, though for now the services will be limited to a few thousand preselected testers.The first new service, Windows Live Photo Gallery...
XM Satellite Radio is experiencing a second day of outages after software problems resulted in the loss of one of the network's four satellites. Company officials initially expected to correct the problem yesterday evening, but...
Second Life is being investigated by German police following allegations that some members are trading child pornography in the online world. The investigation follows a report by a German TV news programme which uncovered...
Research firm comScore has found that throughout March, 61% of active Second Life residents were from Europe, compared to 19% from North America and 13% from Asia Pacific. Germany had the most Second Life residents,...
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2007 second quarter ended March 31, 2007. The Company posted revenue of $5.26 billion and net quarterly profit of $770 million, or $.87 per diluted share. These...
US boffins have unveiled a prototype for a revolutionary new general-purpose processor which they claim has the potential to clock up trillions of calculations per second. The Tera-op Reliable Intelligently adaptive Processing System (Trips) was...
Silverlight, the rich media technology that Microsoft Corp. trotted out last week, isn't Redmond's only attack on Adobe Systems Inc.'s multimedia dominance. In addition to Silverlight, touted as a potential Flash-killer, Microsoft is quietly putting...
Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest PC vendor, has filed another lawsuit against its fastest growing rival, Acer, as competition in the PC industry continues to heat up. The new suit alleges that Acer and a U.S....
Asus has decided it is time to replace the R2H, which the company launched last year with a price tag under $1,000 USD. The R2H features a 900MHz Celeron M ULV processor, 768MB of...
The Palo Alto, California-based VMware has announced that Beta 2 of its free "Fusion" virtualization software for Macintosh desktops and laptops can now be downloaded from its Web site. VMware launched the original beta on...
The animated avatars for members of the popular virtual world Second Life are about to get more realistic. Massachusetts-based Vivox said that its technology will enable the three-dimensional avatars representing people in Second Life to...
Google's PC search software is vulnerable to a variation on a little-known Web-based attack called anti-DNS pinning that could give an attacker access to any data indexed by Google Desktop, security researchers said this week....
Sweden is hoping to increase the country's profile by establishing an officially sanctioned embassy in the Second Life virtual online world. A digitally created building will be based on Sweden's actual embassy in Washington and...
Second Life, the popular three-dimensional virtual world, seems to be becoming an attractive option for many owners wanting to advertise their companies. AOL's Second Life section, dubbed AOL Pointe, will be available for beta testing...
Joining CNET News, Reuters has now opened a new news bureau inside Linden Lab's "parallel world" game Second Life. The story here is that Reuters will now bring their own news, photos, and video news...
AmanithVG is a crossplatform implementation of OpenVG, the new API for hardware accelerated 2D vector and raster graphics. Differently from any other OpenVG implementation, AmanithVG is entirely built on top of OpenGL (from 1.1 to...
Microsoft has been hit with a second lawsuit over Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), its antipiracy program that checks if the Windows operating system on a machine has a valid license. The class-action suit was...
Sun Microsystems has released a Beta 2 version of its Java Standard Edition 6, formerly known under the codename Project Mustang. Java SE 6 is the runtime environment that allows Java applications to run on...
Intel has decided to borrow the sequential naming scheme it used for its famous Pentium brand and apply it to the new Core line of chips. Earlier this year, Intel released the Core Duo processor,...
The next Longhorn server beta is due "shortly" but the final product won't ship until the second half of 2007. During his keynote at the Microsoft Management Summit 2006, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of...
This week Kristin, Derek and Brad discuss Microsoft's ongoing embroilment with the European Union over monopolistic practices, and the Senate considers the fairness of the way the Internet is currently run, i.e.,...
Windows Defender Beta 2 will add support for Outlook, a new interface, and automated updates to the spyware definitions and scanning engine. Where Beta 1 has been available only for Windows XP, Beta 2 will...
Round two begins for Microsoft, as they are faced with yet another WMF vulnerability. A hacker who goes by the name "concoruder" posted his two newly discovered WMF vulnerabilities on Monday, on the popular security...
The second installment of Triton, the next generation of AOL Instant Messenger, has left AOL's beta sandbox. As first reported by BetaNews, Triton is a replacement for the existing AIM 5.9 series client...
A federal appeals court has denied Lexmark's request to consider reimposing an injunction against a firm that makes components that allow generic replacement ink cartridges to work in Lexmark printers. The ruling by the US...
Another key Mozilla Developer, Darin Fisher, announced today that he has joined Google inc. Ben Goodger, on Monday, announced that he had joined Google Inc but pledged to continue work on the...
Bungie lives up to its promises of regular updates, adding Team Slayer and Rumble Training to matchmaking. Call it Halo 2.2. Bungie's second major Halo 2 update was announced by the company...
When was the last time Microsoft released an upgrade that got you really excited? An upgrade you wanted because it did something new that you actually needed done? I'm not talking about a security fix...
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday unanimously passed a second bill targeting perpetrators of computer "spyware" that hides in users' computers and monitors their activities. The House voted 415 to 0 to stiffen jail...
