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When you make the operating system that runs on the overwhelming majority of the world's PCs, there are a few things that go along with the massive market share. One of them is people who want to run your OS without paying for it. Add comment
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Memcorp are recalling about 102,000 battery packs of portable DVD players sold under the Disney brand. There have been 17 reports of the batteries overheating with three reports of property damage, along with three reports of minor skin irritation. Add comment
Google has released their own complex digital calendar application in an effort to compete with similar services currently offered by competitors such as Yahoo and Microsoft. Add comment
Apple today released Aperture 1.1, a significant update to its all-in-one post production tool for photographers. The Universal update, delayed from last month's expected release, runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs and features dramatically improved RAW image rendering and a new set of advanced RAW adjustment controls. Add comment
Nintendo is planning to make a big thing of its 'Revolution' prototype at May's E3 gaming show. Add comment
Chinese Authorities say they are cracking down on the use of pirate software in the Populous Republic. Add comment
Google, eBay and Amazon might build their own wireless internet if the US telcos move to charge them for sending customers to their sites. Add comment
A new set of Catalyst drivers for ATI's Radeon range of graphics cards has been released. Add comment
Microsoft have released 5 new high priority security updates, available via [url=http://update.microsoft.com]Microsoft Update[/url]. Add comment
AMD today reported yet another successful quarter. With Spansion off its shoulders and boosted by an increase in Opteron processor sales, the company saw its sales climb to $1.33 billion and net income jump to $185 million. Add comment
Yahoo posted a beta version of its online map. The updated service has received much of the look and feel of Google Maps - including the option to display satellite images as well as a hybrid version of a regular map and satellite imagery. Add comment
The new processor, code-named Niagara-II, had its first production run in March and apparently showed few bugs, which should allow Sun to clean up the design in a matter of a few months. While the company did not announce any details on a commercial launch date for the CPU, industry sources speculated that Sun will be aiming for an introduction sometime in 2007. Add comment
For $50 Toys R Us will allow you to pre-order your very own PS3. This offer is only available in the stores, so don't go looking online. Add comment
An environmental group named Save Our Springs (SOS) asked a court in Austin Texas to grant an injunction to halt chipmaker AMD's planned 870,000 square foot development in the area known as Barton springs. The area is home to a rare breed of salamander, amongst other things. Add comment
Disney Online is working on a massively multiplayer online game based on the Pirates of the Caribbean universe. The game will allow players to form pirate crews, customize their human or undead pirate and even hunt for buried treasure. Add comment
Microsoft has officially begun requesting that users running Windows 98, 98 SE and Millennium Edition (Me) upgrade their operating system as soon as possible. The Redmond company will cease all public and technical support for the products on July 11, 2006, including all security updates. Add comment
The April DirectX SDK comes with a v.10 High level shading language (HLSL) compiler and more details on how to use Direct3D 10. Add comment
The Trial of three men accused of killing up to six people with aluminium baseball bats in a dispute over an XBox has started in Orlando. Add comment
Sony will keep on keeping its PS3 prototypes locked away from prying eyes at the next E3 show. Add comment
Bethesda Softworks is sitting pretty high with the announcement of its hit Oblivion for XBox 360 and PC which has now accounted for 13% of PC game sales in the first week of it release and has also become the fastest selling game ever on the Xbox 360, totaling 1.7 million copies sold. Add comment
PC users are being urged to apply software patches that close "critical" vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. Add comment
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