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Motorola Sends Out Cease-And-Desist Notices to Sites Offering Early Droid X Froyo Updates

Motorola earned a bit of a black eye from the modding community by introducing a hardware e-fuse used to enforce software restrictions, and they certainly aren’t helping their case by sending out cease-and-desist letters to sites offering “unofficia… [...]

Leaked Version of Office 15 Suggests Microsoft is Working on a new Application called “Lime”

Office 14 (2010) has only been out a few months now, but a leaked pre-alpha build of Office 15 suggests that Microsoft is planning a new application known at this point only as “Microsoft Lime”. Very little is known about Lime at this point, howev… [...]

Firefox 4 Beta 4 Gives Users the Option to try Direct2D GPU Acceleration

Microsoft made waves in the browser community by being the first to announce GPU accelerated browsing, but oddly enough, it looks like they will be in a neck and neck race with Mozilla to be the first to market with the new feature in an official rele… [...]

Private World of Warcraft Server Gets Slapped With an $88 Million Penalty

Ever thought of starting up your own World of Warcraft server? Given the billions of dollars Blizzard has raked in over the years we don’t blame you, but a recent court ruling suggests it probably isn’t worth the effort. A federal judge has awarde… [...]

Malware-infected Mainframe May Have Doomed Spanish Airliner

Spanair flight number JK 5022, which crashed seconds after taking off from Madrid’s Barajas airport on August 20, 2008, may have been doomed  by a malware-infected mainframe responsible for identifying technical snags, it has now emerged. A pre… [...]

HP to Launch WebOS Tablet Early Next Year

HP has always maintained that it bought Palm for its intellectual property and not because it wanted to be in the smartphone business. Talking of IP, WebOS is arguably Palm’s most valuable asset. The PC maker sees WebOS being used extensively across… [...]

Belgian ISP Posts List of Top Bandwidth Users

Many ISPs around the world have taken to instituting restricting bandwidth caps, but Belgian ISP Telenet has a fairly amicable system. Lower priced, slower service is capped between 50 and 80GB pr month, but higher packages are governed only by fair us… [...]

Google Sells Out of Developer Nexus Ones

A few weeks ago, Google closed down their online sales of Nexus One phones with the promise they would be made available to developers. Shortly thereafter, the Google developer site did indeed begin offering registered developers the option to purchase… [...]