TECHNOLOGY

"Dropbox said they couldn't access your files and now they can," writes Betanews commenter Malcarada Volanga. "Dropbox can not be trusted about the claims they make, this is the main reason why I will not be using their services."

Yesterday, Edge reported that the PlayStation Network outage is negatively affecting PS3, with gamers trading in their consoles -- half for cash, the rest for Xbox 360. Today, the story is being picked up everywhere, it seems, and repeated as gospel.

There's pretty good chance that you are one of the millions of people who have a Facebook account. While the social network has an undeniably huge user base, there are few who would claim that there is not room for improvement.

Is the waiting finally over, or is Sony making more promises? Today, the entertainment giant announced partial PlayStation Network restoration, after a 24-day self-inflicted outage. PSN is being restored in Europe and the United States and, at that, on a rolling basis.

Ten years ago today, I stepped into the world of Apple retail. Company CEO Steve Jobs hosted a group of journalists to see the first Apple Store, which opened at Tysons Corner Center in McLean, Va., on May 19, 2001

Millions of users of Google Inc.'s (GOOG) blog publishing service were not able to access or publish with Blogger for most of the day yesterday. No, it wasn't a Playstation-like event where Sony was prompted to shut the gaming site after hackers stole millions of credit card and other personal information from member.

The consumer PC market isn't floundering because of the iPad, in fact, the rate of cannibalization is actually declining among more recent purchasers, according to market researcher The NPD Group's Apple iPad Owner Study II report.

NBN Co has contracted Fujitsu Australia as its prime alliance partner to deliver fibre infrastructure to New Developments. Fujitsu will manage the design, construction and associated works for the deployment of fibre to new developments, with the initial value estimated at over $100M for the first 12 months.

The 21-year antitrust battle Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has been fighting with the U.S. government ends today, May 12.

American pop star Lady Gaga has invaded the virtual farms of Farmville and has her own GagaVille to promote her singles included in her album "Born This Way," online games producer Zynga has announced.

Continuing its foray in iOS software Adobe today released three companion apps for Photoshop CS5. The apps provide a range of new ways to interact with Photoshop with your iPad starting with Adobe Eazel, which enables you to paint and draw on the screen of your iPad using a range of tools before sending the completed work of art to your PC or Mac, or sharing it via email.

NirSoft is famous for creating some of the best free Windows utilities around: tiny, portable and packed with useful features. If you'd like to sample what the company has to offer then you could spend an hour or two browsing the site, individually downloading anything that appeals.

Today, at Google I/O, Google revealed that the first Chrome OS laptops, or Chromebooks, will be available for order on June 15 in the United States. Prices will start at $349 for an 11.6-inch model.

In the Wednesday keynote at Google I/O in San Francisco, Google disclosed some information about the Chrome Web Store that should be of key importance to web application developers and those measuring the profitability of development in that area

For years, an accidental security flaw in the way Facebook handled embedded frames allowed applications developers to access information on a user's profile that installed that application.

Microsoft announced a definitive agreement to buy Skype for $8.5 billion. The deal is simply stunning, for the potential brand reach Microsoft will gain, the boost to its real-time communications strategy and the potential for empowering Windows Phone-powered handsets with robust video communications.

Facebook has 7.5 million users who are underage and are not supposed to be using the social networking site, according to an American consumer advocacy publication.

Google Inc. (GOOG) unveiled at its annual Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco yesterday, a new online music service, based on a "cloud" system for storing and streaming music.

There has been a game even more similar to Crossbows and Catapults that was released at the same time as Angry Birds called Crush the Castle by Armor Games. In the cross-plaform mobile and flash game, the player uses a trebuchet to fling projectiles at castles and buildings, eliminating the inhabitants. It was a bit more seriously drawn and put-together than Angry Birds, stylistically not unlike Terry Gilliam's animated scenes in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

With the launch of the iPad 2 in February, more consumers either switched to buying an alternative device, or simply held back from buying PCs.

At the Android Keynote on the first day of Google I/O 2011, Google announced the next version of Android called Ice Cream Sandwich will unify tablets, phones, and Google TV devices under a single version of the operating system.

In related news, hacktivist group Anonymous seemed to back off its initial complete denial of responsibility for the PSN hack in a video posted to YouTube on Monday.

Galaxy promises to have an exciting future with the release of Honeycomb 3.1 and HSPA+ connectivity with the carrier-subsidized 3G model (this version is Wi-Fi only).

There were enough leaks in Google's streaming music plans to sink Titanic. So it was no surprise that earlier today at Google I/O, the search and information giant launched a cloud locker for your tunes.

YouTube, the video-sharing Web site of Google Inc. (GOOG), is adding around 3,000 new movie titles for rent available to users in the U.S., according to an announcement by Salar Kamangar, Head of YouTube.

Microsoft Corporation is near to securing a deal to purchase the Internet phone company Skype Technologies costing $7 to $8 billion.

Gamers world-wide are in for another visual treat and experience as they can be the ones to lead the assault into the simulation videogame battleground set in the background of the late Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden's abode in Pakistan.

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (SingTel) has announced that its chairman, Chumpol NaLamlieng, is stepping down in July

Street slang words like thang and innit have now been added to Scrabble Dictionary. Part of the list includes words grrl, cookery, keema, alu, and thousands more.