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Nintendo confirmed Wednesday that the larger-screened Nintendo DSi XL will be launching in North America on March 28 for $189.99, complete with pre-loaded software.
The handheld, which boasts a screen 93 percent larger than the older DS Lite hardware, will come pre-loaded with Brain Age Express: Arts & Letters, Brain Age...
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Apple’s phenomenal iTunes Store has just crossed another milestone, as the store sold 10 billionth music track yesterday afternoon, the company announced.
Apple launched the store back in 2003, when it was exclusively serving music tracks only and hence named as iTunes Music Store, but later on it went on...
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Microsoft is about to give millions of Windows users the option of choosing another web browser from their own Internet Explorer.
The change follows an agreement made with European competition authorities, who ruled that bundling IE with Windows abused Microsoft’s dominant position.
Windows users in Europe who are running Internet Explorer as...
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Catching a few z’s during the middle of the day may improve your memory, a study by the University of California at Berkley found.
A power nap indeed works to recharge the brain, improving memory, according to findings of a study on sleep and midday napping by researchers from the University...
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The venerable picture editing software Photoshop turns 20 this week, with celebrations re-uniting the team that designed it, as well as on – of course – Facebook and Twitter.
Photoshop has become the byword for picture editing, and is seemingly ubiquitous in the modern world.
The National Association of Photoshop Professionals...
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Google may be earning an alleged $500 million a year via companies and individuals who register deceptive website addresses.
The claim centres on a controversial scheme known as “typosquatting”, the practice of registering a misspelled variant of a popular web domain. For example, a typosquatter might register “newscientsist.com” in the hope...
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A new type of computer virus is known to have breached almost 75,000 computers in 2,500 organizations around the world, including user accounts of popular social network websites, according Internet security firm NetWitness.
The latest virus — known as “Kneber botnet” — gathers login credentials to online financial systems, social...
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Microsoft unveiled the next version of its operating system for mobile phones, Windows Phone 7 Series, featuring a move away from applications and towards functions.
“It’s all about the phone and how consumers react to the device,” said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, opening a news conference held outside the Mobile...
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WINDOWS USERS have been complaining that they have fallen victim to the dreaded Microsoft ‘blue screen of death’ on their computers after they installed the Vole’s latest security updates.
Forum posts complaining about the problem mostly come from XP users but there are few from Windows 7 customers too. Users posted...
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This week, several Microsoft employees took the liberty of describing Windows 8 for us, without actually describing Windows 8 for us. An MSDN blog titled, “Whats in store for the next Windows,” which was promptly taken down by MS, bragged:
“The minimum that folks can take for granted is that the...
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Google says there’s already plenty of social networking information out there, and what the world really needs is a way to wrangle Twitter, MySpace and Facebook to tame information overload — and if its “solution” guts the existing players, so much the better for the search giant.
Google has largely failed...
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Microsoft warning of IE Bug, turns PC into public file server
Microsoft has issued Security Advisory (980088) to address a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer that may allow information disclosure for Windows XP users or for users who have disabled Internet Explorer Protected Mode. The advisory explains that content can...
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Is Microsoft looking to close the gaps between major OS updates? A posting on an MSDN blog may shed some serious light on Microsoft’s upcoming release schedule.
According to Chris Green, a developer who recently finished working for Microsoft, Windows 8 mainstream support is targeted for 07/01/2011 which is...
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Jobs was discussing all things Apple flavoured at a company town hall meeting at One Infinite Loop in Cupertino.
Reports by Macrumors and Wired quote Jobs as saying that Google’s “Don’t be evil” mantra is “bullshit”.
It appears Google and Apple’s relationship has gotten rocky, with Google recently ...
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