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1. 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 ...

2. 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, ...

3. 25 laziest cities in America unveiled

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Mobile is immobile Business Insider has published a list of what it considers are the 25 laziest cities in the USA. Number one is Mobile, AL. A third of its citizens don't exercise, nearly a third watch ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. Lee Harvey Oswald photo wasn't faked

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   ... while remarkable in many aspects, also has its weaknesses,” says Farid. “The visual system can be quite inept at making judgments regarding 3-D geometry, lighting, and shadows.” “It is highly improbable ...

7. 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 ...

8. Sub sinks large Hadron Collider

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   ... realized that temperatures were rising, and that something was up with one of the LHC's cryogenic cooling units. The failure meant that the temperature of the affected cooler rose by five degrees to a ...

9. 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 ...

10. Gartner beats up software company in court

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Magic Quadrant cafuffle may continueA software company that alleged market research company Gartner had libelled it had its case dismissed in America. Research magazine said that ZL had filed a case against ...

11. Twitter turns UI thinking on its head

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... all avatars among those I follow, but, while it shortens urls flawlessly, its multistep process is a pain. On the iPhone Echofon is straightforward, if limited, so I'm beginning to think Twitterific is ...

12. 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 ...

13. Windows 7 sales outpace Vista adoption

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... PCs were up 49 percent in units year-over-year and were up 95 percent over the week prior to launch," said Baker. "But, PC sales growth during the Vista launch was stronger, soaring 68 percent over the ...

14. 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 ...

15. 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 ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... by AFF on a per-click basis suggesting that there is a financial incentive for marketers to place AFF ads wherever possible. AFF pays for that traffic, which means that the service is aware of its origin ...

17. 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 ...

18. 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 ...

19. Chinese foundry violated Taiwanese secrets

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... said that Chartered Semiconductor, which is to merge with AMD foundry spin off Global Foundries, will become the second biggest foundry in the world, and plans to expand its production in its fabs in Singapore ...

20. Space elevator climbs nearly 1km high

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... to orbit with an elevator climbing a fixed cable. The device, created by LaserMotive, made it to the top in a little over four minutes, half the time of the previous record holder, winning its inventors ...

21. Internet users do have friends

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    It seems that technology is not, after all, turning us into a race of socially inadequate hermits. It seems that technology is not, after all, turning us into a race of socially inadequate hermits. In ...

22. Wii fails to deliver

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... and if it's not equal then we won't do it." Meanwhile, Japanese Wii sales have dipped below 50,000 units per week, which recently prompted Nintendo president Satoru Iwata to admit that the situation ...

23. 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 ...

24. New York sues Intel for antitrust behavior

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... statement said that Intel’s behavior was worldwide and systematic. Intel, it continued, used bribery and coercion to maintain its pole position in the marketplace. Currently, Intel is appealing against ...

25. EMI sues Beatles 25 cent download site

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Record company dinosaur EMI has woken from its slumbers and set its lawyers on a US website offering 25 cent downloads of Beatles tracks. Record company dinosaur EMI has woken from its slumbers and ...

26. Nvidia may be moving into X86 market

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    It looks like graphics chip maker Nvidia is building its own x86 development program using staff from Transmeta. It is starting to look like graphics chip maker Nvidia is building its own x86 development ...

27. Apple's small-minded strategy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Apple is acting just like the snotty monopolist it has become in electronic music distribution and combined that lousy attitude with the presumptive arrogance of a smartphone monopolist. Among its few ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... into its mainboards. The news got Nvidia fuming and sent out a press release insisting that Intel was stifling innovation. The graphics chip maker insists that Intel has quashed its abilities to enter ...

29. Cops to get long range tasers

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... people they want to Taser, coppers are looking at new long-range shocking gear. According to New Scientist, a Pentagon project, now in its final stages, to perfect a projectile capable of delivering an ...

30. Microsoft overhauls MSN home page

    (Software/Software Features)

    Microsoft is giving its MSN home page a revamp, with a new, more open look and integrated Facebook and Twitter feeds. Microsoft is giving its MSN home page a revamp, with a new, more open look and integrated ...

31. Verizon Wireless gets writ from AT&T

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    A public spat has blown up after AT&T sued Verizon Wireless over an advertisement alleging it has gaps in its coverage. A public spat has blown up after AT&T sued Verizon Wireless over an advertisement ...

32. 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 ...

33. AMD discovers several Fusion mantras, disses Larrabee

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... and 2011? AMD has several tricks up its sleeve on the big core little core front. In 2011, he said, Ontario will be a very compelling solution. What’s Ontario? One of the hacks in the room said that a ...

34. 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 ...

35. 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 ...

36. Start-up sues over Nook

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... Barnes & Noble and had been discussing its e-reader plans with the bookseller since early this year. Spring Design had been developing an ebook reader called the Alex.  It had many meetings, emails and ...

37. Google Earth invents a town

    (Software/Software Features)

    Google Earth seems to think that England does not have enough towns and has decided to put one of its own in. Google Earth seems to think that England does not have enough towns and has decided to put ...

38. AMD culls Phenoms

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Chipmaker AMD has dragged out several of its Phenom II X4 900 series CPUs for a long walk in a Berlin forest after which they will never be seen again. Chipmaker AMD has dragged out several of its Phenom ...

39. Karmic Koala displays bad karma

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... those options. And of course, its not really nice to have a 32-bit OS on a fully capable 64-bit system." "Fresh install on laptop - Terrible. Would not install from CD (I tried 3!), had to use Live USB. ...

40. Why Apple should license Windows 7

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... reality is both firms are as dramatically different as their CEOs are. Microsoft at its core is an operating system and tools company, it is at its strongest when it is selling things that others turn ...

41. Creative Labs debuts Zii powered MediaBook

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Creative Labs has debuted a prototype e-reader at its annual general conference. Creative Labs has debuted a prototype e-reader at its annual general conference. According to EpiZenTer, the MediaBook ...

42. Mozilla Firefox 3.6 beta spotted in the wild

    (Software/Software Features)

    Mozilla has released its long-awaited Firefox 3.6 beta. Mozilla has released its long-awaited Firefox 3.6 beta. The latest version of the popular browser offers a number of "improvements" for both developers ...

43. Apple drops Atom bomb on Hackintosh netbook rebels

    (Software/Software Features)

    Apple has stepped up its war of attrition against Hackintosh rebels by disabling support for Intel's Atom processor in the next version of Snow Leopard. Apple has stepped up its war of attrition against ...

44. Ruiz quits Globalfoundries

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    AMD spinoff Globalfoundries has announced that Hector Ruiz has quit as chairman with immediate effect. AMD spinoff Globalfoundries has announced that Hector Ruiz has quit as chairman with immediate effect. ...

45. Apple gambles on killing iPhone subsidy

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    When and if Apple signs a deal with Verizon to flog its iPhone it is likely that the price of the gadget will rise. When and if Apple signs a deal with Verizon to flog its iPhone it is likely that the ...

46. ATI HD 5900 spotted in the wild

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... according to Alien Babel. The site had been asking around and found out that ATI has decided to drop the “X2” nomenclature and its upcoming dual GPU-on-a-PCB cards. The card that was supposed to be ...

47. Gamer hardware to turn war into a game

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    An outfit that makes 3-D touch controllers for video and computer games has just been recruited by the US Army to make controls for its war droids. An outfit that makes 3-D touch controllers for video ...

48. Gmail users lose service all weekend

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... is completely unacceptable!" The company is now acknowledging the problem on its apps status dashboard, and is promising an update today. It says that fewer than 0.001 percent of its customers worldwide ...

49. The NSA's Latest Listening Post

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The National Security Agency has started work on its new $2 billion data center in Utah. The National Security Agency has started work on its new one-million square foot, $2 billion data center in ...

50. Robot fish could monitor water quality

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... circuits in a sort of electro-active central nervous system. Infrared sensors also could be used for 'eyes'. The robots will communicate wirelessly with a docking station after surfacing at programmed ...