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From our front-page news:Apple unveiled their new iPod lineup last Wednesday, and the reviews began trickling out on the web immediately. The most in-depth review thus far would have to be Ars Technica's look at both the Nano and Classic. They go a bit further than simply telling you what's new...

From our front-page news:I admit that I am still a huge fan of the audio CD, but the fact is, it's a dying breed, especially in an age when downloading a track you want can be done in under a minute. The record industry also realizes this, so to spice up holiday sales, they plan to release...

The Volkswagen Group threw a major shindig in Frankfurt earlier tonight at which it showed off all the new wares its introducing to the public at the Frankfurt show beginning tomorrow. The car that has assuredly generated the most heavy breathing this evening is the...

If you don't have a credit card, chances are you know how arduous attempting to make an online purchase can be. Bill2Phone caters to people like you, and also those who simply don't want to use their credit cards online. We sit down with the Bill2Phone team to better understand what their...

At last week's Austin GDC, we had the opportunity to sit down with Vivox, a company that's been implementing advanced voice communication technology in many popular online games, including EVE Online. Read on for our comprehensive interview and also thoughts from our experiences with the...

From our front-page news:It has been well over a year since NVIDIA first launched their EPP (Enhanced Memory Profiles) specification, but until now there hasn't been any real "competition". I put that in quotes, because it's not really a technology that has competition involved. However...

From our front-page news:Yes, iPhone news truly never ends. It was starting to feel like iPhoneSimFree was a hoax by the constant delay, but today that theory has been proven wrong. Engadget is reporting that the software is now available and can be purchased by anyone who owns an iPhone. As...

From BBspot: Cupertino, CA – Early adopters of the iPhone weren't the only ones receiving in-store credit from Steve Jobs. In an overlooked announcement, Jobs said that early adopters of the Apple Lisa would be receiving a $7000 in-store credit. Apple released the Lisa in January of 1983 for...

From our front-page news:AMD today launches their long-awaited Barcelona-based Opteron server processors. Since K8 first launched, not much has changed architecturally, but Barcelona changes that. In addition to Barcelona being AMD's first Quad-Core offering, it's also the first native Quad-Core...

From our front-page news:Reports were released a few weeks ago finding that AMD Opteron-based servers were far more power-efficient when compared to Intel's offerings. Intel refuted those reports, stating that they put no thought into overall efficiency. Essentially, their thoughts are that an...

From our front-page news:Have you ever received a cell phone bill that included charges you didn't expect? Chances are if you didn't, then you don't use a cell phone. All too often, providers will sneak hidden charges onto your phone bill in hopes you won't notice. Too often, it works. Finally...

In less than three years, Mozilla's Firefox has amassed 400 million downloads. The whole shift towards using the Firefox web browser was sparked in November 2004 by a Spread Firefox campaign in which tens of thousands of users spawned 25 million downloads. The buttons and banners placed on...

From our front-page news: Apple does a great job of making sure that iPhone news don't leave the front-page of any website, including ours. There are a few interesting developments to come to light over the weekend, including a new deal with InterDigital Inc. to deliver 3G technologies to the...

From our front-page news:Why is it when large companies begin right-ing their wrongs, they don't usually take long to settle back to their old ways? When Sony released their Playstation 3 80GB edition, it was found that the emulation hardware was non-existent, and instead, it would all be...

From our front-page news: The UK has recently passed a new law that prohibits texting-while-driving. If you are caught in the act, you could face upwards of two years in prison, a lofty hike from the simple £2,500 fine for careless driving. Talking on your cell phone also carries a penalty...

From our front-page news:The past few months have been great to the storage market, but few of the major announcements have come from Seagate. This comes as a stark contrast to last year, when they released the largest notebook and desktop drives available at the time. They are now finally...

From our front-page news:With AMD's landmark announcement the other day about opening up their Linux GPU drivers, all heads are now turning to NVIDIA to see what they will be doing. Unlike ATI, there is no official NVIDIA "open driver" for Linux, although they do contribute to the basic "nv"...

From our front-page news:Intel has announced plans to open up Fab 68, a 300mm wafer fabrication facility in Dalian, China. This major fabrication facility will cost $2.5 billion, effectively bringing Intel's total investment in China to $4 billion. Once construction completes in 2010, it will...

From our front-page news: Over the years, there have been few worthwhile online language-translation tools, namely because all of them offer foolish results. One I have relied on for a while though, has been Babelfish, which was actually one of the first such tools on the web. Microsoft, not...

Sensing component company Omron has created what it calls "smile measurement software," which rates the amount of happiness that human subject of a photo are exhibiting. On the face of it (ouch!), the applications aren't too obvious: then you consider that this could easily be used by robots to...