Toshiba to join the Blu-ray Disk Association

Toshiba has announced that it will be joining the BDA (Blu-ray Disk Association) which is the final chapter to the format war of HD-DVD vs Blu-ray. Toshiba who was the largest heavy-hitter backing the HD-DVD format was in a fierce battle against Blu-ray which was largely impart developed by Sony. When Sony bundled a Blu-ray [...]

Earlier this year, we told the world what the Zune HD was, how it was going to be built, and shocked the world with news of an international launch. Now that we’re getting closer to the September launch, here’s what to expect next month when the Zune HD launches.

Mozilla introduces first alpha of Firefox 3.6

Mozilla announced on Friday the availability of Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1. This alpha comes just two months after the release of Firefox 3.5 and is the first of several developer previews. Codenamed Namoroka, after a national park in Madagascar, Firefox 3.6 is expected to be finalized and released later this year.

New Windows Live Wave 4 services spotted

The first few details about the next iteration of Microsoft’s set of Windows Live software and services, known as Windows Live Wave 4, are beginning to emerge. Two new services, Windows Live Documents and Windows Live Devices, are currently undergoing testing within Microsoft.
Windows Live Documents will replace the existing Office Live Workspaces service, which provides [...]

News has broken today that social networking giant, Facebook, has acquired the website FriendFeed, a company which has had a rather strong influence on many of the commonly-used features that Facebook provides. TechCrunch initially reported the story, and they’re doing their best to try and get more details. So far we’ve seen press releases from [...]

Dell quietly introduces trio of LCD monitors

Dell recently introduced three new LCD monitors without much fanfare, where they are the Dell ST2310 ($229) as seen above, the E2210H ($199) and E2010H ($139) which will be available in 23″, 22″ and 20″ sizes, respectively. All three of them will cater to movie buffs, featuring extra wide 16:9 aspect ratios.
The ST2310 and E2210H [...]

Apple and Google agree not to steal workers

According to sources speaking with TechCrunch, Apple and Google agreed not to “cold hire” each other’s employees. The agreement was apparently in place during Eric Schmidt’s recent tenure on the Apple board of directors but may or may not still be enforced by the two companies. The report also states that the agreement was not [...]

Dell no longer provide 12″ Netbook range

Reports are surfacing that Dell has decided to no longer provide a 12″ Netbook range.
According to Dell this is due to the fact that, according to the user base, 10″ is the ’sweet spot’ for Netbooks and there isn’t a great deal of a market for the slightly larger 12″, as a result the size [...]