Microsoft recently announced its acquisition of Navic, a company that makes technologies for targeted, interactive ads on digital cable.With that move Microsoft is entering the unknown territory of television advertising,...

Michael Fiola, who was convicted of possessing child pornography, was cleared of the charges after the computer forensic reports revealed that his laptop was infected with detrimental software that was surreptitiously...

Toshiba is intensifying the competition in the laptop market by introducing a new absolutely slim 2.4-pound laptop that features a 128-GB DVD drive and a solid-state drive.In contrast, other super slim laptops such as the Apple...

The popular crowd voting site Reddit.com in a major decision announced its intention to go open source.The new change in Reddit's policy is all set to bring in improvements to the site by independent programmers, while also...

The Bill is a radical revision of sex crime law in Scotland and broadly follows last December's recommendations of the Law Commission of Scotland. Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill described it as a "once in a...

The deal only applies to the US and Canada at the moment and US authorities have said they will investigate it, but it is likely that European authorities would also examine the deal if it were extended to the EU.The agreement...

AEP2008 PRO most noteworthy feature may be its flexibility and military grade encryption: program includes 17 encryption algorithms (AES, TWOFISH, MARS, etc). 18 secure files erasure algorithms including: U.S. DoD 5200.28, GOST...

This is a great looking board with plenty of expansion capabilities - two PCIe 2.0 16x slots, three PCIe 2.0 1x slots and two PCI slots give plenty of room for expansion cards; six internal SATA2 and two eSATA connectors, 10 USB...

The 8800GT/GTX series really dominated the market, with the hilariously titled 'next gen' 9 series again pulling ahead of ATI.It seems though, ATI's strategy was not to dominate Nvidia from the top down, but rather to sneak some...

There is an emerging movement afoot amongst consumers and the media that has been labeled the “participatory culture”.Defined as new ways of life that lead people to create and circulate new self-made content...

It  is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use...

To date, there have been only a handful of reports that have hinted that mobiles may - just - be bad for your health. But even then, the results are inconclusive.But they are pretty good for popcorn, as these videos clearly...

I was a tad amused to read on the Indian newswires that a 16-year-old teenager arrested for online fraud has said that college was useless when it comes to meeting his needs for an extravagant lifestyle.The lifestyle the teenager...

Beleagured Internet giant Yahoo! is looking forward to saw off the challenges of Hotmail and Gmail with a new domain name, Ymail.com, which will be available as from tomorrow to existing and new Yahoo! customers. More than 260...

Adobe is working on an emulator to allow the iPhone to run Flash, something that is sorely missed by many users and which could potentially deprive Adobe of a very lucrative market. Apple has been very adamant that it won't use...

China's Intellectual Property Watchdog is reportedly investigating anti-monopoly claims targeting Microsoft and other international software companies. According to Agence France Press (citing Xinhua Financial News and...

Sony Ericsson joined the handset party on Tuesday with a number of ho hum mobiles and one interesting one.  Whereas the iPhone has only 2 little megapixels, SE announced that their new C905 Cybershot would have a camera...

Skype has released a beta of the fourth version of its popular eponymous Voice over IP application; Skype 4.0 is a radical departure from the current Skype interface with more emphasis on Video. Video, which represents about 28...

In an age where accomplished customer service is seen as an imperative commercial requirement, it may come as a shock to learn that complaints in this area continue to grow 14 per cent, year on year. Poorly managed customer...

Security firm Finjan revealed that it discovered medical, business and airline data stolen and traded by cybercriminals using targeted campaign on a server controlled by hackers (Crimeserver) containing more than 500Mb of premium...

The iPhone maker is currently working on a Javascript framework that enables Web applications behave like desktop apps in a bid to take down Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe's Flash (ed: And AIR as well). The platform is the...