Will Android become the dominant mobile OS?

Can Google's Android strategy be compared to Microsoft's tactical offensive  against Apple in the late 1980s?

Play a game, do a line of coke

An obviously confused UK counselor and therapist has compared playing a two-hour game to snorting a line of cocaine.

Report: Next-gen Apple TV "based directly" on iPhone 4

Apple is reportedly prepping a next-gen TV which will be "based directly" on the iPhone 4 and carry a $99 price tag.

Mafia II PhysX trailer kicks some serious ass

2K Games has released a new Mafia II PhysX trailer that kicks some serious ass. 

Robots party before starting new jobs

There are eleven robots with thumping heads today, one presumes, after the first robot graduation party.

CO2 'burp' may have ended last ice age

Scientists think they've found the source of a huge carbon dioxide 'burp' which helped to end the last ice age 18,000 years ago.

Three charged over massive fake anti-virus scam

Three men have been charged over a $100 million scam involving fake anti-virus software.

Brits and Japanese queue all night for iPad

It didn't quite match the iPad's US launch, but hundreds of people waited outside Apple's London store all night to snap up one of the devices when it opened at 8.00 this morning.

Pakistanis launch home-grown version of Facebook

Pakistanis unable to deal with the sea of filth and blasphemy that is Facebook have created their own alternative.

Ardi wasn't human ancestor, says team

A team of scientists says that habitat evidence shows that Ardipithecus ramidus - claimed last year as the earliest human ancestor - was nothing of the sort.

Oregon issues restraining order against Google

An Oregon judge has ordered Google to preserve WiFi data that was accidentally collected by the company’s Street View cars.

40% of 2010 iPhone sales have been to businesses

AT&T made a quick blurb today that year-to-date sales of the iPhone have been more heavily concentrated with business customers than has been typical with the consumer-oriented device.

Fring launches two-way video calling for Android devices

Fring has enabled free, two-way Internet video calling for Android-based devices. 


Best Buy announces Tivo TV with no DVR functionality. What?

You can just picture it, can't you? Best Buy executives saying "let's build a TV with a Tivo interface, but strip away everything that most people associate with Tivo." Makes sense, doesn't it?

Hollywood snubs Steve Jobs, refuses to abandon Flash

A number of Hollywood heavyweights - including Time Warner and NBC - have snubbed Steve Jobs and his "magical" iPad by adamantly refusing to abandon Flash.

Geezer magazines on iPad = Disaster

Wired is on the iPad. So what? iPadifying your publication just cheapens a product that has difficulty staying relevant.

Senior Palm designer ditches WebOS for Android

Palm's senior director of Human Interface and User Experience has ditched WebOS for Google's Android.

X-51A WaveRider hits Mach 5

The sleek X-51A WaveRider managed to achieve a top speed of Mach 5 at an altitude of 70,000 feet during a recent test flight by the US Air Force.

Glitch deletes $600,000 worth of records from Santa Clara

More than a million archived images stored on Santa Clara County Housing Authority computers have been unintentionally scrubbed out, and it's going to cost $600,000 to get them back.

Report: Apple iPhone fails security 101

A security researcher has claimed that Apple's iPhone fails to adequately protect user data from unauthorized access.