Microsoft spills COFEE on your secrets

Microsoft spills COFEE on your secrets

If you thought the security features developed by Microsoft were intended to keep your private data private in the face of adversity, think again: according to a report in the Seattle Times the software giant is offering investigatory agencies a device capable of bypassing pretty much every security measure currently built into its Windows operating system.

Apple to introduce haptics to iPhone

Apple to introduce haptics to iPhone

According to a report over at CNet citing “an anonymous Apple employee”, everyone's favourite fashion accessory cum communicator is due to get haptic feedback technology courtesy of specialists Immersion.

3G iPhones made by Foxconn, coming June

3G iPhones made by Foxconn, coming June

Despite no official word coming from Apple, everyone pretty much knows the 3G iPhone is coming very soon. Just to further cement things, Chinese paper

Exclusive game reviews ethically troubling?

Exclusive game reviews ethically troubling?

Games journalism has had a tough time as of late, with many alleging that the industry is spotted with corruption after the woefully-titled Gerstman-gate. The onslaught hasn't finished yet either as Variety call the practices of sites like IGN in to question.

Nvidia introduces GeForce 9600 GSO

Nvidia introduces GeForce 9600 GSO

Nvidia has quietly introduced another new member in the GeForce 9-series called the GeForce 9600 GSO.

We've been pretty hard on Nvidia in some respects because, while there hasn't been a lot

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Spore demo coming June 17th

Spore demo coming June 17th

EA has confirmed that the demo of the highly anticipated Spore, which includes the creature creator mode from the full game, will be available June 17th.

The creature creator mode gives players a chance to go fully hands on with the alien editor and design their own monsters from scratch, adding limbs and shaping bodies however they want. It's something that we certainly thought was very impressive in our hands-on preview of

Ballmer: XP will stay if customers want it

Ballmer: XP will stay if customers want it

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that the software giant may re-evaluate its plans to stop shipping Windows XP to customers and system builders on 30th June if its customer feedback changes.

InPhase launches holographic storage

InPhase launches holographic storage

If you've finally got round to buying a next-generation removable storage device – having waited to ascertain the victor in the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray battle – then perhaps it's not a good time to mention the next-next-gen – holographic storage.

Seagate ships billionth drive

Seagate ships billionth drive

Storage supremo Seagate has joyfully announced that it has become the first company to officially ship over a billion hard drives – a total storage space of around 79 exabytes, or 79 million terabytes.

Peter Jackson's Halo team is hiring

Peter Jackson's Halo team is hiring
Microsoft has officially confirmed that it is now recruiting staff to work on a game set in the Halo universe with Peter Jackson.

Peter Jackson, who directed such classic films as Brain Dead and Bad Taste before moving on to low-budget horror flicks like The Lord of the Rings trilogy, has long been a fan of Halo and was previously confirmed to be involved in creating two new games for Microsoft set in the series. True, that confirmation came a long, long time ago and in a galaxy far, far away, but Microsoft has apparently on just started work on the project.

Intel cuts processor prices

Intel cuts processor prices
Intel has announced that it has cut the price on three of its processors in its latest round of price cuts, while it has also introduced a few new models as well.

The biggest change is the Core 2 Quad Q6700, which first launched as a Core 2 Extreme in November 2006 then carrying a price tag of $999 USD per chip in 1,000 unit trays.

With the latest price change, it's now sitting at just $266 USD per chip in the same quantities – this is down from its previous $530 USD price point and represents a 50 percent price cut and effectively kicks AMD's Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition into touch.

Earthworm Jim 4 announced

Earthworm Jim 4 announced
Earthworm Jim – the name itself is enough to grab the total attention of pretty much an entire generation who became fascinated with the garden grub and his cosmic adventure. That entire generation then will be happy to know that Interplay, publisher of the original series of games, has just signed a deal to create a fourth game.

And a new cartoon series. And a feature-length movie.

Doug TenNapel, the original creator of the character, was in the spotlight particularly today as he signed a deal to take over the role of ‘Creative Consultant’ for future

Epic working on UT3 360 mod support

Epic working on UT3 360 mod support
Epic have been getting a lot of bad press lately, but one thing is for certain and that is that the Unreal developer certainly hasn't been neglecting the console market lately, as proved by the efforts being made to get Unreal Tournament 3 working on the Xbox 360.

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