Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7, brings a slew of tweaks and improvements. While most adjustments are under the hood, the graphical user interface has received a facelift as well. One of the first changes...
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British firm BSkyB has joined forces with Microsoft to give Xbox 360 owners the chance to watch live television and on demand content on their consoles. The Sky Player will come to Xbox in the...
Microsoft Corp. and Research In Motion (RIM) today announced an agreement to provide Microsoft Windows Live services on BlackBerry® smartphones. As a result of this collaboration, BlackBerry smartphone customers will enjoy easy mobile access to...
America Movil, the leading wireless services provider in Latin America, and Yahoo! Incorporated, a leading global Internet company, have partnered to make Yahoo!'s mobile services available to millions of consumers in 16 countries throughout Latin...
The Pirate Bay is currently working on an OiNK replacement in an attempt to bring the hundreds of thousands of music albums back online that disappeared during the raid. The replacement will be released within...
Due to continued demand, particularly from Internet cafe and emerging markets, for AGP-based products, Nvidia is scheduled to launch an updated bridge chip which supports the company's newer GPUs in October, according to sources at...
Facebook may not change the world, but it's changed one of the world's largest banks. HSBC had planned to collect overdraft fees for Brits leaving university this summer, but after thousands of students mounted an...
Although the PlayStation 2 is clearly a last-generation gaming system, Sony knows that the PS2 is still hot item. A report from Nielsen GamePlay Metrics finds that as much as 42% of all console use...
As well as homing in on visual feasts around the globe, users of Google Earth may soon be able to listen to the sounds that accompany them. A Californian company has created software that...
Falling Leaf Systems has stareted up the Alky Project (currently in alpha), which aims to liberate DirectX 10 gaming from the confines of Vista and bring it first to Windows XP, and then to Linux...
TiVo Inc. on Monday said it will begin testing a feature in the coming weeks to let some subscribers transfer recorded television programing to Apple iPod digital music players or Sony's PlayStation portable devices, sending...
Nintendo Co. will begin selling an adaptor for its DS and Game Boy Advance handheld game players to allow them to play music and video, the company said, matching a popular feature on Sony's portable...
Adobe Systems Inc. has warned of two serious security flaws affecting Windows, Mac OS X and Unix versions of its Acrobat software. The bugs could allow an attacker to execute malicious code on a user's...
ATI Technologies, the world's top supplier of discrete graphics processing units, said it would adopt technologies that its arch-rival NVIDIA Corp. has been promoting for a while in future. While the Markham, Ontario-based graphics chip...
Apple Computer has scheduled a special event for next week, fueling speculation that the company could be ready to introduce an updated model of its iPod digital music player. In an invitation...
Club 3D, a European graphics card vendor, and S3 Graphics, a graphics processors designer, recently announced the release of a graphics card that is equipped with TV tuner in addition to HDTV and multimedia capabilities,...
As we speak, there is speculation amongst the maths community about one of its most cryptic questions. Why are prime numbers prime numbers? What defines there seemingly random pattern? The question is called the Riemann...
Microsoft's online PC game network shows off its upcoming online-and-offline adaptation of the classic board game. At the recent Gen Con Indy 2004 event, Microsoft showed off the Windows version of Settlers...
Apple and long time partner Motorola have announced plans to allow users of Apple's iTunes to transfer their songs to Motorola cell phones. This will be done either USB or Bluetooth, but isn't expected...
Electronic Arts has announced that the next console evolution of the hugely popular Sims franchise, The Urbz: Sims in the City, is set to appear on the Nintendo DS around the time of the platform's...
Thanks xStainDx. Lenovo, a subsidiary of Chinese largest computer maker Legend, is projected to market the world's first notebook with two displays. The laptop code-named Vela will be launched sometime in Q4 2004 and will...
NVIDIA Corporation will add firewall capabilities into its Athlon 64-supporting chipsets due next year. The move's key aim is to provide more security for enterprises adopting 64-bit technology from Advanced Micro Devices. Sources close to...
Intel disclosed plans to integrate WLAN capabilities into its next-generation desktop chipset code-named Grantsdale. Earlier the company did not disclose plans to add support for Wi-Fi into its next year's mainstream core-logic. The move may...
Namco Hometek Inc. announced today that it has expanded its relationship with Hip Interactive Corp to license several of Namco's key video-game properties for the PC. Hip Interactive will develop and distribute PC versions of...
Thanks andrewfee for posting this on our forums. Microsoft is to bring a brand new, green version of its Xbox hardware to market. The unit will be a retail version of the translucent...
The television industry says it's on track to switch to all-digital TV. But the chair of a powerful House committee wants it to hasten the conversion, and to protect consumers from shouldering the costs of...
Thanks to neo1980 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. and Verizon Wireless have formed a broad alliance to bring services and content from the Microsoft Network, including instant messaging , to Verizon's...
Thanks www.entcity.com for this. Strategic Partnership Delivers the Ultimate "Sky Cam" with EarthViewer 3D Inviting consumers to view the digital world from their desktops, NVIDIA® Corporation announced that it has...
Thanks to ShOcKz1104 for posting this in the BPN section of the forums. A new version of Microsoft's MSN Internet service will ship this fall, the company revealed this week, but may bring with it...
In a surprising move, Nintendo Co. Ltd announced today that they'll be developing a GameCube arcade board known as the Triforce with Namco and Sega. According to Nintendo's news story this cooperative...
Thanks to Hasan for the heads up on this upcoming XPlay software. This is from mediafour.com: Your Apple iPod can indeed work with Windows. Though it is not soon enough for some of our...
The open-source community, through Linux software development company Ximian, has embarked on a development effort to bring Microsoft's .Net platform to Linux. Called the Mono Project, this effort encompasses creating a development environment that will...
