Simply booting up a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop can tell people sniffing wireless network traffic a lot about your computer and about you. Soon after a computer powers up, it starts looking for wireless networks and network services. Even if the wireless hardware is then shut-off, a snoop may already have caught interesting data. Much more information […]

He spent almost 7 days playing online games. A 26 year old man from China died after engaging in a 7 day online gaming marathon. The 330 pound 26 year old collapsed after spending almost all the seven days playing online games. China has 20 million Internet users, 2.6 million of them are considered addicts.

Just to add fuel to the heated debate and comparison between Windows Vista and Mac OS X, French analyst Andreas Pfeiffer has sbeen testing ‘user interface friction’, and claims that Vista is slower than both Windows XP and Mac OS X. ‘User interface friction’ has nothing to do with how irritated a user gets when their […]

Digitization firm Apex Publishing said that it has been chosen by the National Library of Australia to support a major newspaper digitization program that will launch later this year. Under the deal, the library will use Apex’s services to build a database covering 1803-1954 using one major newspaper from each state and territory in Australia. […]

New NW-A800 Series MP3 player to compete against iPod Nano. Sony launched in Europe the NW-A800 MP3 & video player featuring from 2GB to 8GB capacities. The ultra thin MP3 player sports a 2-inch LCD screen with up to 30 hours of battery life for music and 8 hours for video. Like Apple iTunes, you […]

Although it has repeatedly denied it has any intention of taking on Microsoft Office, Google introduced Google Apps Premier Edition, a fee-based version of its free Web-based word processing and spreadsheet applications for businesses. For a $50 yearly fee per account, customers will receive the entire Google Apps package with additional business centric features, plus […]

This is a cool device, although the individual features are mediocre, it’s just sweet because they’re all crammed into one little gadget. Takes still photos at 640 x 480, captures video at 320 x 240, audio recording, webcam, and 128 MB USB flash drive. Available for $195 USD.

Chinese officials have shuttered 205 websites in a crackdown on Internet piracy that came partly at the behest of U.S. entertainment interests, Reuters reported. Between the end of September and January, the country investigated 436 cases, 130 of which were at the request of overseas industry associations. In all, 361 sites were ordered to cease […]

Buffalo is introducing a new mouse that offers a D-pad to replace the typical scroll wheel button. The Buffalo BOMU-JK/M has a D-Pad button that allows for scrolling vertically and horizontally, the same D-Pad buttons found on the Playstation and XBOX 360 controllers. This allows for better control for scrolling but scrolling lengthy pages might […]

The Dutch prosecutor’s office is considering legal actions to test the law against child porn in the popular virtual game Second Life. With no clear litigation, it is difficult to act against perpetrators. Linden Lab’s Second Life is an online digital world with almost three million “residents” claimed by the company. Some areas of Second Life […]

Western Europe became the biggest notebook market in the world in fourth quarter of 2006, accounting for 34% of worldwide shipments and beating out United States. In 2005, Western Europe accounted 35% of worldwide notebook sales, compared to 31% with the U.S.

Microsoft is working on a unified search user interface designed to kill Google Desktop and thwart Google’s business software services. Code-named Casino and referred to as OneView, the new application provides one user interface for searching across the desktop, intranets and the Web, according to Microsoft’s Web site. The intent is to crush Google’s efforts […]

While Microsoft’s Windows operating system and software is popular worldwide, its relatively high price puts it out of the financial reach of many in the developing world. As a result, pirated copies of Windows and Office are endemic in some parts of the world, with the percentage of PCs running pirated software approaching 90 percent […]

Second Life, the virtual world that’s becoming increasingly popular in education, will soon add proximity-based 3D voice capabilities, according to developer Linden Lab. But just what is “3D voice?” According to Linden Lab, it’s a technology that allows Second Life residents to speak to one another using spacial awareness algorithms that take distance and direction […]

Blu-ray discs are outselling HD DVD by a ration of 100 to 98.71. Fueled by the rising sales of Playstation 3 equipped with Blu-ray player (and the cheapest at $500/$600), Nielsen VideoScan stats show Blu-ray discs is outselling HD DVD for the first time. The ratio is 100 Blu-ray to every 98.71 HD DVD discs, […]