MySpace has only been receiving bad press lately, but hopefully that will change now that Justin Timberlake joined with Specific Media to buy it for $35 million from News Corp.
Ever imagine life without a mouse? Well, Kevin Purdy of ITWorld tried it out for a week. His results are actually pretty interesting. I may as well not just copy everything he said, so go read his report here.
World of Warcraft, the amazingly popular, totally addictive, massively multiplayer online RPG will now be free to play, but only up to level 20. While it still has 11.4 million subscribers, World of Warcraft's popularity has been falling.
We all know what a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) is, but how many of us know how they're made? A printer named Advanced Circuits let the guys over at Base2 take a tour, and they took pictures!
Rising from the ashes of Google Buzz, Google launched a new social networking websites called Google+ (Google Plus). Currently it's only available to a select few people, but it will be open up to more soon.
To reduce all of the time it takes for the US Representatives to do all of their business, a more secure version of Skype, as well as Oovoo, will be given to everyone to use.
Back in May, Adata announced the S511 series of SSDs. Well, they're out, kind of. Using the SandForce SF-2200 chip, they deliver breakneck speeds. A list of speeds and prices will come after the article. All the drives run with SATA 6Gb/s.
If you're a frequent user of Netflix's Instant Streaming service, you probably noticed that you can no longer watch movies from Sony through Starz Play.
White ARRIS is showing off a cable that can transfer information at 4.5Gbps, Comcast was showing off their next generation of technology: 1Gbps Cable Internet.
If you tried to buy Crysis 2 on Steam lately, you've probably had a problem doing so. Valve pulled the FPS from their store because thanks to Origin, EA's newly-released competitor to Steam.
For you ATI video card users out there, AMD released their newest version of the Catalyst drivers. As always, there are new features and there are bug fixes. New features will be below.
Pandora finished out strong today on the NYSE at 17.42 (according to Google Finance), above the starting price of $16 according to an LA Times article.
If you're a member of pretty much any website related to Bethesda, it's recommended that you change your password. If you use said password anywhere else, change it everywhere it's used.
Software Engineer at Google Amit Singhal, at Google Inside Search, unveiled quite a few new search options for Google. Even though mobile searches have surpassed desktop searches, both platforms will be getting updates.
Live in the Chicago area? ARRIS, "a global communications technology company specializing in the design, engineering and supply of technology supporting triple- and quad-play broadband services for residential and business customers around…
Razer, the uber-famous gaming peripheral maker, has developed a new "4G" sensor that it will start to apply to re-released version of the Mamba and the Imperator.
New from Spire Corp, a maker of all sorts of computer peripherals, is an intriguingly-designed CPU cooler. Instead of many rectangular fins, this uses fins on a swirl.
Google Chrome 12 was released (not a beta). With it a bunch of bug fixes as well as a few new features, which will be below. You can check out the press release here and download it here.
Samsung announced yesterday that they'll be releasing a 500GB-per-platter 1TB laptop hard drive. Named the Samsung Spinpoint M8, the drive runs on SATA 3Gb/s with an 8MB buffer.
Due to the fact that a, "significant percentage of these drives do not perform to specifications," Corsair is recalling one particular drive in the Force 3 Series of their SSDs.
Based off of Mozilla Labs' Chromeless platform, a British programmer named Ben Franics has come up with a prototype for a web-shell much like Google's Chrome OS called "Webian:" If you’re anything like me then you’ll find that most of the s…
If you're a regular user of Skype, you've may have noticed this morning that you couldn't log in. Skype is aware of the problem, and they're working on fixing it as we speak.
Thanks to E3, we now have an official release date for Battlefield 3: October 25. This, so it is rather obvious, is to have it compete with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
Have you ever tried brute-force attacking a password with a CPU? Then you probably know that when you get up to more characters with symbols, letters, and numbers, it could theoretically take hundreds of years to break the password.
If you haven't already heard, NVIDIA released the GeForce 275.33 drivers on Wednesday. There's a few things they fixed from the beta, as well as other updates and bug fixes. Download the drivers here, and check out the release notes here.
Pandora, the wildly popular online music streaming service that uses the Music Genome project to find music similar to other music you actually like, has filed for a $109.5 million IPO (initial public offering).
Have a Netflix, Pandora, Grooveshark, Hulu Plus, or any paid subscription that you give out the login information for to friends? That's soon to become illegal. In Tennessee, anyway.
Just hours after Apple's security update to fix problems with the Mac Defender malware, theirs an updated version called "Mdinstall.jpg" going around. Another name for it is Mac Guard. If you see this file floating around, stay far away.
For performance users, OCZ's Revodrives have become pretty popular. It combines the PCI Express bus with the speed of an SSD to get some extremely fast read and write speeds.
Back in February Apple released a developer-version of OS X Lion, and now they've given a time-frame for the consumer release: summer 2011. Like I said before, there are a ton of new features, some of which seem very useful.
Gigabyte announced their new 14" M2432 laptop, complete with its own docking station. This isn't any regular old docking station, mind you. The docking station has its own GPU inside of it, which is a GT 440 with 1GB DDR5 VRAM.
