Today Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that the public beta of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 will become available in November.
Office 2010, formerly known under its code name “Office 14″, is going to be released in two different flavors: 32-bit and 64-bit, making it the first Office to support both platforms. Another interesting [...]

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Well, I guess we are closing in on the launch of DX11 class cards from ATI. And rumors start to pop up on the web. Some of them are pulled directly out of the *** of some websites in order to get some extra pageviews. This one, however, might be true.
It is now rumored that [...]

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AMD today announced the immediate availability of the new Six-Core AMD Opteron EE processor at 40W ACP.
BTW note that AMD mystically diverted from TDP (peak wattage) tiwards ACP which is Average CPU power (!).
Delivering up to 31 percent higher performance-per-watt over standard Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, the Six-Core AMD Opteron EE processor is tailored to [...]

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It seems that the rumors about Nvidia’s first DirectX 11 GPU, the GT300, leaving the engineering labs already in September are becoming more and more solidified.
These early demonstrations to partners are most likely targeted to divert at least some of the attention from ATI’s release of their next generation graphic cards in September.
Apparently, driver development [...]

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A man in Stamford, Connecticut is now in police custody after taking his PowerMac G5 computer to an Apple store for repairs relating to problems with image files. Raymond Miller took his computer to the Genius Bar at his local Apple store saying that he was having trouble with image files; when the technician started [...]

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Users are able to get their hands on the latest Facebook 3.0 application for the iPhone a little early, directly from Apple via the AppStore. The application is believed to be in the final stages of approval, moving from Apple’s review process to the App Store.
The new release brings an updated UI for Facebook, offering [...]

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On Thursday, The Pirate Bay got moved step closer to being sold to a Swedish software company that hopes to turn the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker into a legitimate pay-to-download service, which will be based on how much computer power you share with the website.
GGF (Global Gaming Factory) shareholders approved the $8.5 million transaction on [...]

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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 [...]

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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.

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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.

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