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24 Nov 2008 20:35:16 GMT

by Roman Loyola and Ben Long, Macworld.com For serious and professional photographers, Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) cameras are the way to go.

24 Nov 2008 15:44:07 GMT

By KC Jones Police in Florida are investigating the role of Web site moderators and discussion board members in a live streaming video of a teen's suicide last week.

24 Nov 2008 23:55:53 GMT

By Heather Havenstein November 24, 2008 (Computerworld) Google Inc.'s new search customization tool, SearchWiki, has quickly generated criticism for its lack of an opt-out option and perceived privacy threats.

24 Nov 2008 17:16:36 GMT

by Chloe Albanesius Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer will be called in for questioning about his role in a controversial Vista marketing campaign that prompted a consumer lawsuit.

24 Nov 2008 16:16:57 GMT

By Lester Haines ? Get more from this author A US woman who sent some nude snaps of herself to her hubby's mobe got a nasty shock when they turned up online - complete with her name, address and telephone number.

24 Nov 2008 21:01:34 GMT

On Monday, Opera Mini 4.2 beta became the first third party browser for Google Android, joining a beta released for Java phones just two weeks ago (review).

24 Nov 2008 20:57:38 GMT

By Katie Marsal Apple is facing a new lawsuit over the iPhone's Safari web browser just as the company's lax policy on employee email retention is brought into question regarding a separate suit.

24 Nov 2008 07:36:24 GMT

By Tracey Amick, Live 5 News (WCSC) CHARLESTON SC - More than 1600 inmates are locked up at the Lieber Correctional Facility in Dorchester County.

24 Nov 2008 06:11:27 GMT

By ALAN STERN A CANCER is overtaking our space agency: the routine acquiescence to immense cost increases in projects. Unmistakable new indications of this illness surfaced last month with NASA?s decision to spend at least $100 million more on its ...

24 Nov 2008 03:11:15 GMT

A federal judge in Seattle has ordered Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to testify in a class action lawsuit against Microsoft that alleges the company misled consumers in a marketing campaign for its Windows Vista operating system in which computers sold ...

24 Nov 2008 05:14:44 GMT

The CEO of electric vehicle startup Better Place, Shai Agassi, declared last week at San Francisco?s City Hall that we?re on the verge of delivering the era of ?Car 2.0.

24 Nov 2008 03:10:38 GMT

Microsoft is expected to rebrand and relaunch its Windows Live Search, according to various reports on the Web. There have been tremors on the Web that Microsoft was considering a new brand name for Live Search, and now LiveSide.

24 Nov 2008 02:06:57 GMT

By Jonathan Fickies By Roger Yu, USA TODAY Monday, Virgin America plans to become the latest airline to offer in-flight Wi-Fi Internet, a service with a problematic past that still promises far-ranging flexibility in entertainment.

24 Nov 2008 02:40:26 GMT

HOUSTON (AP) - Astronauts tinkered Sunday with a troublesome piece of equipment designed to help convert urine and sweat into drinkable water, which is vital to allowing the international space station crew to double to six.

24 Nov 2008 03:13:38 GMT

By Wolfgang Gruener The curiosity in President-elect Barack Obama's phone records came with a high price tag for Verizon Wireless employees.

24 Nov 2008 02:05:33 GMT

By Oren Dorell, USA TODAY When Abraham Biggs broadcast the last moments of his life on the Internet, he joined a small fraternity of troubled young people who gained notoriety through death.

23 Nov 2008 20:41:10 GMT

Fanedit.org, the most popular "FanEdit" site on the Web, has recently announced that after two years of being online, they have received a DMCA warning from the MPAA and taken down all their download links at the request of their US-based web host. For those unfamiliar, a FanEdit of a film is "a new take on existing movie material. Anything can be changed, improved, restructured for a different watching experience and only the sky is the limit." Basically, fans edit existing films and add scenes, remove scenes, add music, add CGI, whatever they want, and recompile it as a FanEdit. The site, since the beginning has said you should not download the edits unless you own the original on VHS, DVD or Blu-ray, and even went as far as to place links to Amazon pages so you can purchase the original. Apparently this was not enough. Boon23, founder of the site, says: "We all knew this day would come, but on the other side we all hoped, it would never. 3 days ago the MPAA has filed a DMCA warning against our download links. The result: 2 days of downtime, in which we removed all download links and all reference to them, making Fanedit.org just a showcase for fanedits without any possibility for the visitor to download. Our torrents page: Gone. Our Rapidshare lists: gone. And it’s the same on the forum. Yes, this is a heavy and painful blow by the movie industry against a free art form, against creativity without commercial interest, against sharing between people, who all own the original versions. It seems you own your own DVDs a lot less than you thought you did. BUT: We will prevail. Even without the links we will continue to inform you about new releases, because one thing is for sure: FANEDITS ARE NOT DEAD. It is just a bit more difficult to get a hold of them. But the internet is a vast place and he who searches will find it somewhere else." Of course, as is always the case, the MPAA's decision to target fanedits.org has brought massive amounts of traffic to the site, making sure that FanEdits will not die anytime soon. Well done MPAA, your attempt to kill creative freedoms has backfired, again.

23 Nov 2008 19:02:54 GMT

(In Nov. 21 story headlined ... "Palm cutting jobs as competition intensifies", corrects graph 5 to reflect that device is expected to be released in first half of 2009) SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Struggling smartphone maker Palm Inc (PALM.

23 Nov 2008 19:31:01 GMT

The BlackBerry Storm 9530 smartphone for Verizon Wireless is probably RIM's most hotly anticipated device of the year - even more so than its flagship QWERTY keyboard equipped phone, the Bold 9000.

23 Nov 2008 00:48:40 GMT

Google vice president, Sundar Pichai told The Times Online that after Chrome exits beta in January 2009, Google will begin an aggressive push to boost the browser's marketshare, exploring ways to make Chrome more ubiquitous, and that they'll "probably ...

23 Nov 2008 00:42:59 GMT

By ROBERT PATRICK Nick Ut AP This Sept. 4, 2008 file photo shows Lori Drew, a Missouri woman who allegedly perpetrated a MySpace hoax that drove her daughter's 13-year-old classmate to suicide, leaving court in Los Angeles.

23 Nov 2008 02:35:33 GMT

By NICHOLAS WADE A RESEARCHER at Pennsylvania State University, Stephan Schuster, said in the journal Nature last week that he might be able to regenerate a mammoth from ancient DNA for just $10 million.

23 Nov 2008 04:34:03 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Lower fuel prices present a "unique opportunity" to hedge buying up to four years out, the chief executive of airline Virgin America said on Saturday.

23 Nov 2008 04:30:19 GMT

Verizon has apparently quietly fired the employees who couldn't resist the temptation of peeking at the President-elect's cellular records, according to several news reports.

23 Nov 2008 06:08:04 GMT

HOUSTON, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Two astronauts spent seven hours Saturday working high above Earth on the International Space Station, lubricating a joint that moves the solar array.

23 Nov 2008 02:40:25 GMT

MIAMI (AP) - The father of a college student whose suicide was broadcast live over a webcam said Saturday he was appalled by the virtual audience that egged on his son and called for tougher regulation of Internet sites.

22 Nov 2008 01:41:35 GMT

By Robert McMillan On Friday, prosecutors reached a plea agreement with the former Connecticut schoolteacher who at one time faced up to 40 years in prison after being convicted of endangering minors.

22 Nov 2008 04:23:35 GMT

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that the much anticipated World of Warcraft expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King, has sold over 2.8 million copies on its launch date, making it the fastest selling PC game in history. The previous record holder was WoW expansion pack The Burning Crusade, which sold 2.4 million copies on its first day. "We're grateful for the incredible support that players around the world have continued to show for World of Warcraft," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "Wrath of the Lich King contains some of the best content we've created for the game so far, and we look forward to seeing even more players log in to experience it in the days ahead."

22 Nov 2008 21:03:44 GMT

In an effort to stop the growing piracy of Blu-ray discs in the region, Sony Pictures has become the first Hollywood studio to distribute Blu-ray titles in China. The studio will distribute 20 current and catalog titles in the format for 205 yuan ($30 USD) a price that it almost certainly way to high for the low-wage country. A few of the movies available are "Hancock," "Kung Fu Hustle," the "Spider-Man" trilogy, "Hitch," "The Pursuit of Happyness" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." None of the other major studios have announced plans to release Blu-rays in China but it appears that Disney and Warner Bros. are close. "We will launch once (local) Blu-ray replication capability is ready -- hopefully in the first or second quarter," a Disney spokesman said. At first, Sony's Blu-rays will be imported to China, but local production will begin within a year. The company expects local production to drop expenses and eventually the MSRP of the titles. The MPA added recently that bootleg Blu-ray AVCHD discs will account for 10 percent of Chinese piracy within the next six months.

22 Nov 2008 21:23:13 GMT

Denon Electronics, makers of high end home theater equipment, have announced they will be giving away free copies of both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight in Blu-ray with the purchase of any one of their three standalone Blu-ray players. The three players are the $749 USD DVD-1800BD, $999 DVD-2500BTCI or $1,999 DVD-3800BDCI, and the timeframe to purchase them is between Nov. 23 and Jan. 10. After the purchase, simply fill out a claim form and send in the proof of purchase from the player and the company will send the two Blu-ray films back to you. “The Dark Knight truly epitomizes what this high-resolution format has to offer for home entertainment, both in terms of high-quality content, image and sound,” added Joe Stinziano, senior VP of sales and marketing at Denon. “Most importantly, our Blu-ray promotion with Warner is designed to benefit both our valued retail partners as well as consumers by generating excitement for Blu-ray products. Consumers will be looking for a strong value this holiday, season and an attractive offer tied to the year’s highest grossing film will help drive store traffic and sales.”

22 Nov 2008 21:39:31 GMT

The Korean-based company MyRacer has announced the launch of its first portable Flash gaming console, the MF101. The small handheld has a 2.4-inch, 290K color LCD screen with 320x240 resolution and uses a 192MHz ARM processor. The console has 1GB of internal memory which the company says can hold about 1000 Flash-based games. The media device can also play back text, music, photos and even movies as well as additional support for subway map views. It is unclear whether the console can play full Flash-based games or only those available with Flash Lite, but even if it is the latter, there are many Flash Lite games as well. The handheld has two directional pads as well as shoulder keys. An SD slot allows for expandable memory. The MF101 is available in Korea for the equivalent of $66 USD but some retailers are exporting it to North America for the equivalent of $104 USD.

22 Nov 2008 22:12:42 GMT

According to a Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun report, Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, is planning to launch its own mobile phone service in Japan next spring. The move, if true, will intensify the already tight competition of cell phone carriers in Japan. Nokia is "expected to use lines owned by Japan's biggest mobile phone carrier, NTT Docomo Inc, under an arrangement called mobile virtual network operator," added the paper. The service will first be offered with high-end models in order to "establish a strong brand." Despite being the biggest handset maker in the world, Nokia has only a 1 percent market share in Japan.

22 Nov 2008 06:28:00 EST

, We caught a glimpse of the HP xw9400 quite a while back when it was first announced, but it's now available on HP's site and we've got the full details on the mammoth's innards. There are quite a few customizable options, including AMD's Dual-Core Shanghai Opteron CPUs (from 2.0GHz to 2.5GHz), up to 32GB MHz DDR SDRAM, NIVIDIA nForce Professional 3600 or 3050 chipsets, and available NVIDIA Quadro FX cards with up to 1GB of memory. There are also five internal and two external drive bays and eight USB 2.0 ports. The behemoth starts at $2,399 and runs as high as $6,299. Hit the read link for the widest array of specifications you can possibly ever imagine.[Via Information Week] DesktopsHP's Shanghai-packing xw9400 workstation available now originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

22 Nov 2008 15:01:00 EST

Dell's Studio XPS had "winner" written all over it from the get-go. With practically every other Core i7 rig on the market catering specifically to gamers who were willing to pay a premium for an equally cutting edge GPU, this machine directed itself to everyone who just wanted to do everything but game (and do so quickly). The kids over at DesktopReview were able to take the sub-$1,000 box for a spin, and while they weren't too fond of the relatively plain chassis, it was pretty much thumbs-up everywhere else. Performance in everyday applications was stellar, gaming was better than average and the value was unbeatable. Overall, the Studio XPS is darn close to the perfect machine for folks who want to compute quickly and play a game or two on the side, but rather than taking our word for it, we'd suggest hitting the read link and having a look for yourself.[Thanks, Max] DesktopsDell's Core i7-packin' Studio XPS hits the review bench originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

22 Nov 2008 17:16:48 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - From electric cars to electronic trees on dashboards that sprout leaves when you drive in a more economical way, nothing is off limits for auto manufacturers seeking to show their green credentials.

22 Nov 2008 14:09:00 GMT

As the Nintendo Wii enters its second year in the world, the sales continue, the dust settles (on the console, some would say incorrectly), and new possibilities lay on the horizon.

22 Nov 2008 19:28:13 GMT

By Gregg Keizer November 22, 2008 (Computerworld) A federal judge on Friday ordered Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to testify in the "Vista Capable" class-action lawsuit, rejecting the company's contention that Ballmer knew nothing about loosening ...

22 Nov 2008 18:58:06 GMT

This NASA computer graphic shows three craters in the eastern Hellas region of Mars containing concealed glaciers detected by radar.

22 Nov 2008 11:05:53 GMT

By Andy Patrizio: More stories by this author: Now that Apple has put most -- but not all -- of the complaints about the iPhone 3G's performance behind it, the company has turned its attention to adding new functionality and tweaking the existing apps ...

22 Nov 2008 22:44:04 GMT

by Michael Arrington on November 22, 2008 Users are reporting that the recent changes to Google?s search engine, called SearchWiki, have simply disappeared from the site.

22 Nov 2008 04:23:35 GMT

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that the much anticipated World of Warcraft expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King, has sold over 2.8 million copies on its launch date, making it the fastest selling PC game in history. The previous record holder was WoW expansion pack The Burning Crusade, which sold 2.4 million copies on its first day. "We're grateful for the incredible support that players around the world have continued to show for World of Warcraft," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "Wrath of the Lich King contains some of the best content we've created for the game so far, and we look forward to seeing even more players log in to experience it in the days ahead."

22 Nov 2008 04:51:33 GMT

A jury has found Sony guilty of copyright infringement and ordered the electronics giant to pay $18.5 million USD in monetary compensation to Agere Systems. Sony was found guilty of "wilfully violating copyrighted technology on a number of devices" including the mylo personal communicator, the PlayStation Portable and the Network Walkman audio players. The patent in question relates to a "wireless local area network apparatus." Although Agere won the case, it is not clear whether the ordered compensation is what the company had hoped for. The original claim stated Agere wanted compensation for lost profits as well as monetary damages equal to 300 percent of the lost profits.

22 Nov 2008 05:17:07 GMT

Despite word this week from Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime that there will be ample Wii supply for the holiday season, giant video game retailer Gamestop believes differently. David Carlson, Gamestop CFO, said he expects the retailer to be out of Wiis before Christmas and also expects to have little to no supply of Wii Fit or the full band versions of Guitar Hero World Tour. "Wii Fit is in very, very short supply. It sells through as quickly as it hits the stores," added Carlson. "And although the Wii hardware is in very good supply right now we believe it may as well be out of stock by the holiday season." Despite ramp ups in production, the Wii remains in short supply thanks to high demand that does not reflect the overall economic downturn.

22 Nov 2008 05:38:37 GMT

According to VideoGamer, beginning in January 2009 all new Sony PlayStation 3 game releases will be required to support the popular Trophy system. Despite being a rumor for a week or so, a Sony official has confirmed the information is correct, noting "Yes from Jan 09 all games must have trophies." The Trophy system was added in July with the 2.40 firmware update and was seen as the PS3's answer to the popular achievement system on the Xbox 360.

22 Nov 2008 00:00:14 GMT

By Sharon Noguchi Steve Miller checks text messages on his phone at the Cornell Campus Center in Winter Park, Florida in this file photo.

22 Nov 2008 03:46:42 GMT

A judge on Friday ruled tha Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will have to testify in a class-action suit over the "Vista Capable" logo program that Microsoft ran ahead of the launch of Windows Vista.

22 Nov 2008 06:31:49 GMT

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's revolutionary new space water recycling system is having serious hiccups. The $154 million device for turning astronauts' urine and sweat into drinking water aboard the international space station shut down again ...

22 Nov 2008 03:57:25 GMT

The 2.2 version update adds several features to both devices, as well as a host of security and stability improvements. Users will now be able to use the Google street view function on the built-in Maps application for both handsets.

22 Nov 2008 04:01:44 GMT

By Cecilia Kang None of President-elect Barack Obama's voice mails were listened to nor were his e-mails viewed by Verizon Wireless employees who accessed his personal cellphone account, a spokesman on the transition team said yesterday.

22 Nov 2008 02:04:07 GMT

The iPhone has stolen the hearts of millions, but nowadays it's far from the only slick-looking touch-screen phone in town. Two recent additions to the pack are T-Mobile's G1, which launched last month, and Research In Motion's BlackBerry Storm, ...