At the E3 Expo, Nintendo has introduced a new paradigm for video games and home entertainment: Wii U, a new console that includes a controller with a 6.2-inch screen.
The pair of T-Mobile UK employees who stole confidential subscriber data and sold it to a rival wireless company in 2008 were hit with £73,700 ($121,000) in "fines and confiscation costs" this week as a part of their hearing at Chester Crown Court (Case# T20100382), if the fines are not paid, the men face up to 18 months in prison.
Mozilla has released a major update to its all-in-one application suite, SeaMonkey.
The Australian workplace is set to be a more flexible and mobile-orientated environment, according to a new survey.
Thursday, American chipmaker Texas Instruments unveiled a new 2.4GHz wireless audio streaming chip and wireless headset development kit designed for portable audio players and audiophile-level consumer audio solutions.
RP Data is offering three free property valuation estimates to every person who signs up on their Facebook page.
Remember me? I'm the one who wrote right here at Betanews that Google Chromebooks are a waste -- gimme Windows and a good browser -- just 24 days ago.
Is Microsoft's contract with analyst firm IDC up for renewal? Hey, the software giant's fiscal year ends June 30, so it could be.
This week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce announced it is migrating its 25,000 e-mail inboxes to a cloud-based solution which will integrate calendar, contact, and collaboration tools.
Another great scoop from MacRumors: All the recent attention iOS 5 has distracted people from the new beta of OS X Lion.
I hate rumor stories, especially on Fridays. The slowest news day of the week tends to magnify the smallest rumor into a gargantuan story linked and repeated across the web. Today's ditty: Apple supposedly is recalling Verizon 3G iPad 2s.
More and more of us are working from home these days, and whether you're in the service of The Company or working for yourself, your computer will play a vital part in your day-to-day routine.
Apple will deeply integrate Twitter into iOS 5 when it releases this Fall, but not Facebook.
Australian actor Russell Crowe apologized over his tweets against circumcision, a ritual practiced by Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Thursday night, he said in his Twitter account, "Circumcision is barbaric and stupid. Who are you to correct nature? Is it real that GOD requires a donation of foreskin? Babies are perfect."
After 14 years, Duke Nukem has finally reached shelves and online in Duke Nukem Forever, though the "steroidal one-man army who never fails and always get the babes" may no longer be that appealing to today's gamers.
Some 66,000 Australian Institute of Company Directors members and clients had their information stolen after a computer was stolen with their personal information stored inside.
Hewlett Packard, hoping to tap into a market dominated by Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet, announced Thursday that the Wi-Fi version of HP TouchPad will be available next month.
An Australian mechanical designer has finally made the dreams of every Star Wars fan come true: he's built a real life Hoverbike. Chris Malloy, an Australian mechanical designer has been building the Hoverbike in his garage for the past two and half years and now it's ready to go to production.
At the World Wide Developers Conference, Apple announced that iOS5 will have some 200 features but only ten of them were named at the event. The two-hour affair focused mainly on iCloud and OS X 10.7 “Lion”. However, there are other iOS5 updates to look forward to.
Male teenagers mostly from Queensland recently created sex-rating pages called “root rater” Facebook groups. In relation to this, page users were affiliated through universities, geographical location or sexual preference.
The plunging stock market value of Nintendo this week caught the Japanese game console maker by surprise, which came following the Tuesday launch of its next-generation Wii U.
The first true Honeycomb tablet went on sale yesterday -- preorders for most folks and actual hardware for people lucky enough to be in New York and close to the Best Buy Union Square.
Microsoft is sending notifications to Windows Mobile 6.x users this week that it is discontinuing My Phone service, and shutting down the Windows Marketplace for Mobile site for the legacy mobile OS family.
Midas Medici Group Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: MMED), an innovative green IT company in the fields of virtualization, cloud computing and data management, as well as Smart Grid solutions, today announced that its Czech Republic-based CommodityPoint business has acquired the assets of Energy Hedge Fund Center, LLC ("EHFC"), a web portal and community for clients interested in hedge funds in the energy and commodity sectors.
Google came out with its new '+1" button. This is Google's newest foray into the social scene, although they claim this is yet the social network to rival Facebook. The +1 button is a small icon that will become featured in searches done on Google. The idea is that when you see a search result you like, you will +1 it, thus telling others in your Google social group that you like the result.
Dropbox is a versatile tool: it's used for backing up, syncing and file-sharing, but it's not without its drawbacks. Like any other folder on your Mac, you only know something has changed when you manually check it.
As a knowledgeable PC user, experienced in the ways of Windows, you're probably used to helping out your friends with their various computer issues.
There was a time when important people claimed that Java was the future of computing and major industry companies -- even Microsoft! -- bought into it.
In a stunning defeat. The country's highest court ruled against Microsoft in its appeal regarding XML patents.
It seems as though the attention of the tech world has been focused solely on the activities of Apple this what -- what with Monday's Worldwide Developer Conference keynote, which feature iCloud, iOS 5 and Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
