Skype was unaware of a major privacy problem affecting Skype users in China, the company's president said Thursday. In a blog posting to the eBay subsidiary's corporate blog, Skype President Josh Silverman said his company...
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When we reported about the leak of a BuckCherry track last week, and specifically the band's response to it, we hinted that this could be a covert form of self-promotion. Indeed, after a few days...
That's the year we'll make contact, and not before. A Microsoft source confirmed to Neowin that Windows 7 would not be released next year and that it is still on track for 2010, already disclosed...
After both public and private betas galore, Microsoft is set to make the final, gold Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 bits available, most likely this week. Last week, I've been getting reports of SP1...
ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, reportedly aims to release its next-generation code-named R700-series graphics processing units (GPUs) in mid-2008. The news comes as a surprise, as earlier it was revealed that the...
Tomorrow Xbox Live Arcade users will finally get their button smashing needs filled when the long awaited Konami Coin-Op classic Track & Field gets released for 400 MS points! Featuring the original game of course,...
IBM's software can quickly create an epidemiological model for how an infectious disease, such as bird flu, is likely to geographically spread over time based on certain parameters including population, road maps, airport locations, travel...
Before you get all excited, I should emphasize that the source of this news post is a blog. In my defence, it is a fairly trusted one and Bink has already approved it. Fiji has...
MySpace isn't all about age restrictions to keep teens safe from sexual assaults. It turns out drug dealers love MySpace too! Michael Wayne Pilkerton, 20, of Suffolk was charged after police used an informant to...
Open-source database maker MySQL AB will soon release the alpha version of its Falcon storage engine, designed for high-volume Web server environments, a company executive said Wednesday. News of the release slipped out early, but...
French hardware site Clubic is reporting that the a faulty resistor has been found on the 8800GTX model making the card unstable at high load and may cause image corruption (or tearing). nVIDIA has said...
FBI Director Robert Mueller on Tuesday called on Internet service providers to record their customers' online activities, a move that anticipates a fierce debate over privacy and law enforcement in Washington next year. "Terrorists coordinate...
Microsoft said Thursday it was on track to launch its Windows Vista operating system in Europe in January but again asked the European Commission to detail concerns it may have with the system. "The release...
Intel, the world's largest microprocessor manufacturer, has created test chips made using the 45nm fabrication process and expects to see processors, flash memory, and other products based on the technology available in the second half...
After much quarreling, the groups responsible for determining wireless standards are closer to reaching a compromise. If the revised draft being presented next week is approved, we can expect to see Wi-Fi devices using...
US publisher THQ has almost completed negotiations to sign Juice Games' street racing title Juiced, reuniting the Fund 4 Games owned title with the Acclaim-owned name - while legal clouds gather over Exclaim's involvement. According...
UK newspaper, The Independent has uncovered data suggesting that Apple make as little as $0.04 per track sold. Apple operates iTunes in the US and Europe, which is the largest legal music download provider. The...
Late Monday Microsoft announced that it's still on track to deliver its own anti-virus software. Mike Nash (Microsoft's chief of security business unit) said that this anti-virus software will ship separately from Windows. ...
To rebut The SCO Group's claims on his brainchild, Linux creator Linus Torvalds says he plunged into a bit of detective work. The endeavor to prove who wrote what code and when for his freely...
Microsoft is moving ahead with plans to deliver its XML programming language to programmers inside and outside the company. By mid-year, Microsoft plans to make its XML programming language – currently code-named...
The question has been asked before, but the issue has new urgency now for investors in Sun Microsystems Inc., who have seen their stock tread water over the past year even as other big-name tech...
Software designed by humans will always have flaws, says Microsoft, but the company argues that its security record is improving Microsoft has admitted it does not expect to ever release completely secure,...
Intel says that its Tri-Gate transistor, a futuristic transistor that will let electricity flow more freely inside chips, is moving closer to reality. The Tri-Gate transistor, one of the tools that may let Intel continue...
The Global Release Indentifier, or GRid, is a code akin to the Universal Product Code (UPC) bar code found on a CD or cassette tape in stores. GRid's aim is to track each time...
Computer experts are trying to determine if a virus-like attack on the Internet over the weekend originated in Hong Kong as the president of South Korea, the hardest hit nation, ordered officials to safeguard that...
Despite President Bush's formal go-ahead on the first phase of missile defense deployment, the coast is clear for the time being on the entry of Santa Claus into American air space. According...
Dell Computer Corp. is on track to meet its financial targets in the current quarter despite a series of warnings from its competitors, a spokesman said on Friday. "We are on course...
Several search companies are offering technology to help government agencies organise their records. It could stop anti-terrorist information from falling through the cracks. Some US government officials engaged in the so-called war on terror...
Compaq Computer Corp. Chief Executive Michael Capellas said on Wednesday his company and Hewlett-Packard Co. were determined to hold shareholder votes in March on their $22.3 billion merger, and said regulatory approval was on track...
Just when you thought you had a handle on popup's, popunders and Shoshkeles, Microsoft now wants to know what your watching, when your watching on it's Interactive TV system! Gees, what next.... ...
Software developer Macromedia has signed a deal with WebSideStory, a Web site analytics company, to offer site developers a custom tool to track consumer interaction with sites built in Flash. Flash, an...
Microsoft is ready to go ahead with the full-scale launch of its new Windows XP operating system next month, with a major event in New York City as the city recovers from last week's attack...