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Microsoft's Futile Attempt at Search Engines

Microsoft has once again declared its intention to battle Google for the search engine market. The company has decided to try and improve on its search style and capabilities, but these efforts have gone on for the last couple of ...READ»

Nintendo Leads the Console Game War

There are two sites that estimate sales of video game consoles, VG Charts and Nex Gen Wars, fueling the fanboy feuds over which company has the better product. Perhaps the feuds will end now. Nintendo is estimated to have sold about ...READ»

BlackBerry Pearl Proves Consumers Want Smartphones

Amidst all the Apple iPhone hoopla, I've been remiss to mention that Tmobile has made its most popular phone, the BlackBerry Pearl, available in a second color -- white. That most users of the popular handset use it for personal ...READ»

Windows Vista Guidebook

Windows Vista went on sale today, but reports reveal that no one was lining up to get a copy of the latest operating system released by the Redmond-based Microsoft Corp. Sales results of the operating system will more likely be ...READ»

The iPhone Means Witchcraft

Have you seen Mad TV cast member Michael McDonald's parody of Steve Jobs introduction of the iPhone? A friend just sent me the link, and it's kind of hilarious.READ»

Multi-Touch Computing In Action

It looks like we won't have to wait until the year 2054 to experience real multi-touch computing, as the film Minority Report infers. Some of us may have already seen a demo video of Microsoft researcher Andrew D. Wilson diplaying ...READ»

MySpace Tightens Security

Last night I attempted to login to MySpace to accept a friend request, but the system wouldn't let me in. When I attempted again this morning, I noticed that the site had added CAPTCHA (a type of challenge-response test used in ...READ»

Going Mobile

Having only recently signed an 18-month contract on a Sony Ericsson P990i smartphone, I spent much of last week kicking myself. I wanted a slim black Apple iPhone, not the silver brick weighing down my jacket pocket. But this week, ...READ»

Finding the Right IM App for My Smartphone

I own a Tmobile MDA, and I was none too pleased with the OZ IM software that came preinstalled on the device. I upgraded to the MDA from a Sidekick II not too long after its initial release. I wanted the services that I got on the ...READ»

High Definition Headache

With several announcements at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas this week, the high-definition landscape has become a quagmire. The hi-def war was once a simple battle between Sony's Blu-ray and Toshiba's HD-DVD--each format ...READ»

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