This shouldn't come as any surprise, the ATRAC audio format has been waning ever since it was introduced to the market but Sony just had to be different.  The initial round of Sony players featured ATRAC support only and then later (too late) in the game did Sony decide to support MP3 files.  Also problematic was the fact you had to use SonicStage to rip and transfer music.

It’s a week until the beat goes on… what does Steve Jobs have in-store for all of us?

With the announcement on Tuesday of the next Apple media event scheduled for September 5th in San Francisco, speculation is at a fever pitch as to what will be introduced.

You may remember this past weekend that many users had trouble validating their legally obtained copies of Windows Vista and XP.  The company is now willing to talk about it to a limited extent and has said the problem was due to a human error.

Halo 3 just reached a sell-through of one million in North America and is expected to shatter day-one entertainment sales records on its release, September 25.

Nokia is out to challenge the iPhone with the launch of its own digital music store and new touch screen mobile handsets.

Though superhero fantasies tend to manifest themselves in poor, super power-less knockoffs that sell for much too high a price on eBay, there is one superhero that might become a reality: an italian researcher has made claims that materials similar to that which geckos use to cling to walls and ceilings can be recreated and implemented for climbing the Empire State Building…just like Spiderman.

Sony's Micro Vault USB memory sticks could make your PC vulnerable to hackers, according to Finnish security company F-Secure.

Micro Vault memory sticks have a built in fingerprint reader that comes with software that creates a hidden directory on the host PC's hard disk. According to F-Secure, the hidden Micro Vault directory could be used by Rootkit programs, a type of malware, to conceal themselves.

Its just like Night Rider! Ok, not really. 

Sadly the car can't drive itself, nor does it have a sarcastic sense of humor and cool blinky lights on the hood. Though you can send it directions to the nearest Blockbuster via the web, and have your GPS know where you want to go when you get in to drive.

More that seven months since early copies of Windows Vista reached businesses and organizations, Microsoft finds several enterprises are still not using Vista. Large number of enterprises opted to wait for the release of SP1 while few others are either starting to evaluate the OS or currently evaluating and deploying Vista.

We told our readers about the theft of 1.6 million records from Monster.com two days before they saw fit to notify their own users. Even then, affected users have not yet gotten an email, they are just greeted with a "Security Notice" on Monster.com's homepage…if they happen to visit it.

There are those that say Vista is riddled with problems, crashes and all sorts of other ills even 9 months after it’s initial release.  The problem is people aren’t upgrading their hardware as well, if anything, Vista likes new hardware.

Valve Software founder and Half Life creator Gable Newell has decided that perhaps, perhaps his company should begin developing games for the Wii.  The purpose would be to take advantage of its unique control system as opposed to the relatively standard controls on the Xbox 360 and PS3.

…but Sony's not sure exactly which Christmas. Sony Ericsson's, Peter Ahnegard, shares his company's thoughts about a possible Playstation branded phone.

Details are vague, but Sony Ericsson wants to introduce a Playstation branded phone eventually in the same way it has introduced Bravia, Walkman, and Cybershot phones.

It's not a good day in the land of BitTorrent admins as an anti-piracy group hunts down fleeing admins.

According to TorrentFreak, the BREIN anti-piracy group of the Netherlands is on to the identities of more BitTorrent tracker site admins.

Who ever said police states need to be all secret-y and dark? Not Beijing! Starting Saturday, cute anime cops will pop up on the user’s screen every half hour and walk, bike or drive around giving friendly authoritarian reminders to stay away from illegal Internet content.