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The battle of the browsers always comes down to Mozilla’s open-source Firefox and Micrsoft’s tight-lidded Internet Explorer, and no matter how hard Opera, Flock, Safara, and the rest of the alternate browser try to join the fight, there just doesn’t appear to be room for a third contender. Or is there?
Fenrir, a Japanse software company, [...]

If you installed Firefox 3 since its release, you may have noticed that Mozilla issued an update for the browser today. The update wasn’t major, fixing a small list of security flaws and bugs discovered since release.
Some of the fixes include problems with Firefox 2 sitting side by side with Firefox 3, security certification [...]

A Boston attorney, called Hal Levitte, has sued Google over ads that cost him $136.11 but allegedly didn’t yield any useful results. According to him, Google is defrauding its advertising customers by charging them for clicks from “parked” websites that the search giant knows are worthless.

The complaint states that parked domain and error page [...]

In a world so plagued by identity theft and security concerns, knowing that security holes are being patched in places where you store sensitive data is important. Thus it is no surprise that Facebook wanted to announce that they had patched a security flaw which could have exposed users birthdates. Sophos originally made the [...]

Another high-profile security concern in the news today, Google has been caught with its pants down regarding people who have registered accounts with them. Due to a bug (or perhaps “feature”?) inside Gmail, it is possible to retrieve someone’s name that is attached to their Gmail account, whether or not you are befriended to [...]

There was much hype surrounding Microsoft’s DirectX 10 API before its release, and since its debut, we’ve seen a handful of games take advantage of the new instruction sets. But there still lacks that killer game that blows every DX9 title out of the water and many gamers still resent the decision to tie DX10 [...]

Yahoo’s Board has formally rejected a fresh proposal from Microsoft to buy only its search operations. The proposal was advanced to Yahoo on Friday accompanied with a derisory deadline of only 24 hrs. Microsoft had proposed to buy Yahoo’s search operations for $1 billion and promised to pick up 16% stake in the remaining company [...]

Microsoft has revealed their impending peripheral releases for the 2008 Holiday season. It is the new Arc Mouse, a collapsible wireless mouse designed to be both stylish and portable. Priced at $59.95, the Arc will be released this Holiday Season.

“Featuring a revolutionary new design shaped like a crescent moon, Arc folds closed to reduce in [...]

Even though an Xbox 360 price drop is rumored to be imminent, no matching price drop is currently being planned by Sony. Despite sales for the PS3 still remaining weak compared to the Wii and 360, Sony is staying the course and has commented that they will not reduce pricing on their console.
According to Sony, [...]

Solid-state drives are steadily dropping in price, and Samsung seems to be taking another step in that direction today by announcing it has begun mass producing of its 64GB and 128GB SSDs, which utilize the slower – but cheaper – multi-level cell technology.

The drives are available in 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch form factors and provide [...]