If you've ever found yourself in London, unable to find a toilet and furiously hopping around to contain the yellow flood whose release feels imminent, I have good news: Westminster City Council, which covers London's...
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EBay Inc, the world's largest online auctioneer and payments company, launched on Wednesday a Web site allowing ordinary investors to buy securities aimed at improving conditions in the world's poorest countries. MicroPlace, located at https://www.microplace.com,...
With the July launch of InviteShare, users can sign up for free and trade invites to online beta testing programs. Once one submits their e-mail address to lists kept at the site for particular start-ups,...
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...
Representative Ric Keller feels that colleges in America are places where students learn to steal "billions of dollars in intellectual property from hardworking people whose jobs hang in the balance" and his new bill (HR...
new online music service lets people share music stored on their PCs with other computer users or those with Web-enabled mobile phones. Using the free Avvenu Music Player launching this week, users can select tracks...
Google enhanced its Google Maps application to include coupons that businesses can create and display free of charge. The new service, announced yesterday, allows a business to fill out a form on Google's Web site...
ATI Technologies, one of the world's largest suppliers of graphics processors, has unveiled its first DirectX 10 software development kit that provides programmers examples of DirectX 10 code and samples to allow them to start...
Oops! Microsoft A new version of MSN Messenger is one of the projects currently being worked on by the Windows Live team. The beta version, ostensibly called MSN Messenger 8...
An unpatched design flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser could give malicious hackers an easy way to use the undefined undefined Google Desktop application to covertly hijack user information. Matan Gillon,...
An ambitious new Google Inc. service lets anyone upload almost anything to a publicly searchable database, potentially laying the groundwork for a foray by the Internet juggernaut into classified advertising. The venture,...
Researchers at Hewlett-Packard believe they have developed a manufacturing technique that will allow chip makers to push the performance envelope after conventional transistors reach the atomic level, the company is expected to announce Thursday. ...
More than 295,000 virus-infected emails were sent to companies in the UK in May before anti-virus vendors could issue signature updates, according to email filtering firm BlackSpider Technologies. It's long been known that there is...
Chris Gorog is convinced people won't continue to pay $1 a song for online music. That is despite Apple's record string of recent achievements, including 200 million songs sold at its iTunes Music Store, and...
A developer in Tokyo has created an add-on for Vodafone handsets that's meant to be used as a night filter to let people take pictures with their phones in the dark. Unfortunately,...
Microsoft Corp.'s Virtual PC software has been lauded by critics as a convenient way for Mac users to run Windows applications on their Macs, but what if you need to do the opposite? Maui, Hawaii-based...
IBM is creating technology that will enable microprocessors to monitor, regulate and heal themselves. The Armonk, N.Y., company on Friday unveiled its eFuse chip-morphing technology, designed to enable processors to dynamically adjust themselves in response...
Thanks to nathanintu for posting this in the BPN. "America Online has quietly flipped a switch in its instant-messaging service that lets users log on concurrently from multiple locations. Like other...
One of the most insane things I've ever read in my entire life just made me laugh and cry. Stop the press, don't install Microsoft Office 2003 guys, it's the world's most dangerous virus according...
Microsoft Corp. yesterday gave more details of its plan to let employees sell their otherwise worthless stock options to an investment bank. The plan, announced in July, is an outgrowth of the...
The recording industry is turning file-swappers' own tools against them with a new campaign that will send warnings to people who are offering copyrighted materials online. Tapping into the chat functions...
"As previously reported in The INQ, network operator Orange had originally taken steps to prevent anyone unlocking their SPV smartphone in order to allow 'unsigned' applications to be run on the handset. This incensed a...
Talking to leading French financial newspaper, Les Echos, Microsoft boss Bill Gates let slip some of the features to be included in the Xbox 2 and how it will launch its assault on the living...
Mommy.. I want this for Christmas! A smart alarm clock that will allow you a lie-in or wake you up early depending on traffic conditions has been invented by researchers at Brunel University in southern...
Advanced Micro Devices is sampling a new flash memory chip that promises to double storage capacity and give Intel a run for its money in the market for cellular phones and other consumer electronics devices....
Chubby cheeks. A cute button nose. Tiny fingers and toes. A newborn can melt hearts and turn sane adults into cooing, babbling fools. Expectant parents who can't wait to...
It looks like our good old friend Steve Gibson has decided to get into the mix, with the recent UPnP fiasco for Windows XP (and below) by releasing a program "UnPlug n'Pray", which as Steve...
Prepare yourself for the l337ness of what longhorn really looks like :P, i always knew we would go back to this someday ;) Longhorn Screenshots :evil: lol Edit: For those...
