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1. OpenOffice debuts analog joystick mouse

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   18 buttons and 52 key commands WarMouse and OpenOffice have introduced an alternative multi-button pointing device. The $75 OpenOfficeMouse features 18 buttons, an analog joystick and support for up to ...

2. Microsoft preps critical security updates

   (Security/Security Features)

   Tuesday patch blitzkrieg Microsoft has confirmed that it is preparing a number of critical patches for both Windows and Office. The 6 updates - three of which are critical - address 15 vulnerabilities ...

3. Apple plans iPhone lockdown

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Jailbreakers beware Apple has apparently stepped up its efforts to thwart the ubiquitous practice of iPhone jailbreaking. Indeed, Club Cupertino is currently seeking a security expert who would be tasked ...

4. Ashmolean in Oxford re-opens this weekend

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Oldest public museum in world It's taken quite a while for the refurb of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford - that's going to be good news for the flocking tourists in this city. The galleries include some ...

5. Microsoft launches Halo Waypoint

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Legends arrive on Xbox Live Microsoft has launched its long-awaited Halo Waypoint for Xbox Live members. The portal offers full-episode previews of Halo Legends, along with developer interviews, trailers, ...

6. 25 laziest cities in America unveiled

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   ... But he holds the world record for a waist of 119 inches at his peak weight of 1,197lbs. He only had two boxes of sausages, a pound of bacon, 12 eggs, a loaf of bread, four hamburgers and four cheeseburgers, ...

7. Nvidia taunts Intel with cartoon parody site

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... is. The site purports to be "a parody of events occurring within the semiconductor sector, with particular focus on its largest, and most commented upon competitor". For the last few days the site has ...

8. Midnight shoppers queue for Droid

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Chimes at midnight for new gadget New Yorkers queued to buy the new Motorola Droid smartphone last night. More than a hundred people keen to be the first to get their digits on the $199.99 gadget queued ...

9. Smartphone users make lousy partners

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... partner turned out to be a pretty poor substitute for the delights of the internet: one in five iPhone users and 12 percent of BlackBerry users confessed to watching porn on their phone (bad for the eyes, ...

10. Lee Harvey Oswald photo wasn't faked

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Can we just accept the moon landing now, too? A digital forensics expert has concluded that the iconic image of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle in one hand and Marxist newspapers in the other was not, ...

11. Beatles download site told to cease and desist

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Baby you're a rich man Music behemoth EMI has won a preliminary victory in its fight to block a download site offering the entire Beatles' back catalogue for download at 25 cents a track. Bluebeat.com ...

12. Global Foundries will bash up Intel's process lead

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Strides'r'us The chief technology officer of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has claimed that the spun-off division that makes its microprocessors will outpace Intel in the foreseeable future. Joe Macri ...

13. Gartner beats up software company in court

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... four categories - Leader, Challenger, Visionary or Niche. ZL took exception to that, and sued Gartner for $132 million. But a district court judge threw out the action yesterday. However, ZL can file ...

14. Tool stops search engines gathering your data

    (Software/Software Features)

    Big Brother won't be able to watch any more Just a day after Google said it was to let users see the information it gathers on them, a team of Catalan researchers has announced a new protocol to stop search ...

15. Twitter turns UI thinking on its head

    (Software/Software Features)

    Cheep, cheep cheep, yeah Adobe, Apple. IBM, Microsoft, and other "platform companies" go to great lengths to assure that application developers adhere to stringent user interface guidelines so that their ...

16. Nvidia reports 3Q revenue jump

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    GPU accelerates profits Nvidia has reported revenue of $903.2 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2010. According to CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, revenue increased 16 percent from the previous quarter and ...

17. Windows 7 sales outpace Vista adoption

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... of promotional activity for the Ultimate version resulted in dollar sales that were 82 percent higher than Vista's. "Microsoft's program of early low-cost pre-sales, high visibility marketing, and aggressive ...

18. Gamers ditch Xbox 360 for PS3 sequels

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... shift the ratio of Xbox 360 to PS3 sales for most major multi-platform releases in its favor among dual owners," OTX analyst Nick Williams told Gamasutra. Williams explained that 15 percent of gamers ...

19. Apple reverses Atom Snow Leopard ban

    (Software/Software Features)

    OS X on a netbook Hackintosh Apple has reportedly restored support for Intel's Atom processor in the latest Snow Leopard build. "Atom appears to have resurrected itself zombie style in 10C535," confirmed ...

20. Adult Friend Finder: paedophiles are just one click away

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Single Parent Gossip author and child safety expert Pat McKenna has discovered disturbing information that provides evidence that the dangers of child porn and paedophiles may be much closer than you ...

21. Smartphone market: Android and iPhone continue to grow

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... me – reached a record for shipments during the third quarter of 2003, with 43.3 million units shipped, up 4.2 percent from the 41.5 million units shipped in the same calendar quarter last year. “With ...

22. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Lone Star Briefings Death to SysMark, terminate 3DmarkAMD is pushing its Vision concept for all that it’s worth and has concluded that in an age when notebooks are all pervasive, the metrics used in the ...

23. DashBoard shows users what Google's got on them

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... has launched a new feature allowing users to see which personal data it's storing, and to control or delete some of it. Google Dashboard summarizes data for each product a customer uses and provides direct ...

24. Space elevator climbs nearly 1km high

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... a $900,000 prize. "The entire team is exceedingly satisfied that our system performed this well today," says the company, which is hoping to improve on its speed today. The LaserMotive system uses a ...

25. Internet users do have friends

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... average amongst cell phone users, nine percent larger for those who share photos online and nine percent bigger for those who use instant messaging. Internet users are apparently 38 percent less likely ...

26. Prosthetic hand gives sensation of touch

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... of Engineering. "Our team is building the interface between the device and the nerves in the arm, connecting cognitive neuroscience with state-of-the-art information technologies." "After only a few ...

27. Wii fails to deliver

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Infinity Ward has claimed that the Nintendo Wii is incapable of delivering the "cinematic experience" required for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Infinity Ward has claimed that the Nintendo Wii is incapable ...

28. Hacker jailbreaks iPhone 3GS with blacksn0w crack

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... 3GS. 
Blacksn0w - which unlocks iPhone OS 3.1.2 and baseband 05.11.07 - was classified as a "tethered jailbreak" crack by AppleInsider. Indeed, the patch reportedly requires a live USB connection (for ...

29. Parallels takes on VMware

    (Software/Software Features)

    Parallels has introduced its Desktop 5 virtualization platform for the Mac. Parallels has introduced its Desktop 5 virtualization platform for the Mac. According to the Renton-based company, Desktop 5 ...

30. Apple brags as apps exceed 100,000 mark

    (Software/Software Features)

    A smug Apple has announced that over 100,000 applications are now available for download from the company's App Store. A smug Apple has announced that over 100,000 rather pointless applications are now ...

31. Carly Fiorina to run for Senate

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Winsome ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina is running for the US Senate seat currently held by Barbara Boxer of California. Winsome ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina is running for the US Senate seat currently held by Barbara ...

32. New York sues Intel for antitrust behavior

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The Attorney General of New York accused Intel of antitrust behavior today. The Attorney General of New York accused Intel of antitrust behavior today Andrew Cuomo alleged that the Santa Clara company ...

33. EMI sues Beatles 25 cent download site

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... Bluebeat also offers streaming content enabling fans to listen to tracks for free. Sir Paul McCartney was quoted 12 months ago as saying he wanted the Beatles' material to be available online, but that ...

34. IBM censured after massive server screw up

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... added. Most of the 27 agencies involved in the data center consolidation have expressed frustration with Big Blue. A survey of the agencies' information technology directors taken in the spring found ...

35. Nvidia may be moving into X86 market

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... program using staff from Transmeta. AmTech analyst Doug Freedman said the only explanation for its vigorous headhunting is that it is considering a move into the x86 CPU market. Freedman thinks that the ...

36. iPhone jailbreakers held hostage

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ...  Their phones would still be safe but for the fact that Apple used a default root password which  many forget to change after jailbreaking. The hacker relied on unchanged root passwords to hack into ...

37. Apple's small-minded strategy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... time Apple's iTunes upgrades have made life more difficult for Pre/iTunes users. The same will be true for Droid users once it gets sync capability for iTunes. Any device with a remote chance of competing ...

38. Beatles are finally for sale

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    The entire Beatles' back catalog is set to be released next month on a new format - an apple-shaped USB device. The entire Beatles' back catalog is set to be released next month on a new format - an apple-shaped ...

39. USB 3 turns into handbag fight between Intel and Nvidia

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... the chipset market and that now that it does not have any competitors, Intel is slowing down its innovation. There might be something in this. Nvidia was trying to push its own nForce chipset and found ...

40. Cops to get long range tasers

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... of Human Electro-Muscular Incapacitation (HEMI) device. Apparently they are a bit worried there is a risk that at close range the projectile itself will seriously injure the person even before the voltage ...

41. Distant galaxy cluster sheds light on 'cosmic skeleton'

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... light-years from Earth. "In our cosmic vicinity, stars form in galaxies and galaxies usually form groups and clusters of galaxies," says Masayuki Tanaka from ESO, who led the new study. "The most widely ...

42. Microsoft overhauls MSN home page

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... Facebook and Twitter feeds. The new beta version can be seen here, and marks the first major change for years. The main difference is the lack of clutter - more than half the links in the previous version ...

43. Verizon Wireless gets writ from AT&T

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... Apple gave AT&T a huge lift by designating it as the carrier for iPhone products.  ...

44. Bioware unshackles Dragon Age: Origins

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Bioware has finally launched its long-awaited Dragon Age: Origins fantasy game for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC platforms. Bioware has finally launched its long-awaited Dragon Age: Origins fantasy game for ...

45. AMD discovers several Fusion mantras, disses Larrabee

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... processor and CPU end up on the same die and the interconnect is thus made far easier. He said that GPU scaling gives 2X performance every 18 months and AMD is not slowing down in CPU perfrmance either. ...

46. Feds indict alleged cable modem hacker

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The US federal government has indicted an Oregon man for allegedly helping customers modify their cable modems to obtain "free" Internet access. The US federal government has indicted an Oregon man for ...

47. Peek ships Twitter gadget for the terminally-sad

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Peek has introduced a Twitter mobile device for social networking addicts and professional narcissists. Peek has introduced a Twitter mobile device for social networking addicts and professional narcissists. ...

48. AMD: The netbook category is all a bit of a blur

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Lone Star Briefings While AMD rolled out its future strategy for notebooks, the conversation turned to categories of PCs. While AMD rolled out its future strategy for notebooks, the conversation turned ...

49. Sony Ericsson Android lumbers into view

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... users retrieve multimedia content from multiple sources, including YouTube, PlayNow as well as the phone itself. The new Xperia is powered by an open UX platform that supports downloads from a number ...

50. UK court rules that global warming is a religious belief, not science

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... a company in Oxfordshire and was made redundant in 2008. He maintained that his beliefs had contributed to his dismissal and earlier this year, a court ruled he could claim for unfair dismissal under employment ...