The record industry has asked UK ISPs to permanently ban illegal file sharers from accessing the Internet. And if they don't agree to the harsh new punishment? Then the government will step in and increase the official legislation meant to deal with the problem.

Second Life emerged victorious in its first encounter with NBC's The Office. But the episode hinted at more Second Life cameos to come.

As last night's episode began, Office-worker Jim teased his oddball co-worker Dwight about logging in.

Our little Penguin is getting dissed from a very unlikely source, InfoWorld. Randall Kennedy (InfoWorld) casts his pearls of misguided wisdom in his 5-part series "Why Ubuntu (Still) Sucks." Frankly, I am shocked that anyone can honestly and professionally write about something that they are so uninformed about. Whatever happened to "write what you know?"

Despite the refusal of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) to grant Manhunt 2 a certificate for sale as a physical product in shops, a legal loophole that allows the controversial game to be legally sold to UK gamers has been spotted and confirmed.

Apple have announced that one in six iPhones sold (that's over a quarter of a million handsets) has been cracked to allow connection to networks other than AT&T, and that's just counting SIM hacks. Including software modifications that allow the use of unauthorized software the number is thought to be twice that.

Graphic cards are now more powerful then ever, rivaling a CPU as to what it can do, basically a processor exists now, only to coordinate interactions between hardware devices and do the mundane things.  Some new software is harnessing the power of the new generation of graphic cards by using them to crack passwords.

It's official, well, sort of. Google is enabling IMAP for Gmail, which is wonderful if you like to use third-party email applications on more than one computer and/or mobile device.

A Newsvine user busted a powerful PR firm's stealth campaign with just a few clicks, and a simple question. "Why does Newsvine allow political PR organizations to seed "astroturf" content?"

Why there is so much speculation amongst critics and writers outside the Apple realm about the possibility of Apple loading their machines with either Windows or Linux escapes me; however, I want to put the critics to bed with a few reasons why Apple would never be so foolish as to advocate the use of alternate operating systems on its machines.

While the rest of the consumer world outside of U.S. borders enjoys the latest and greatest cellular technology and service, U.S. consumers are forced to suffer the effects of outdated and oppressive carrier rules and regulations. Is there any hope that the U.S. cellular industry can ever catch up to the leading countries' levels of quality and innovation?

Hitachi has decided to stop producing home PCs amid sluggish sales and stiff competitions from the leading international manufacturers like HP, Dell, Acer and Lenovo.

The company will end production of the existing Prius models at a plant in Toyokawa in the central Japan prefecture of Aichi, the officials said.

Samsung has developed the world’s first 64-gigabit flash memory chip based on 30 nanometer production technology, capable of storing 80 DVD movies or 32,000 MP3 music files.

As if Vista didn’t have enough negative press already, Microsoft has confirmed that updating something as simple as your video card driver could cause the installed copy of Vista to deactivate and require revalidation.

Microsoft programmers have been building a new slimmed down Windows kernel called MinWin, which the next operating system, currently codenamed Windows 7, will be built upon. Unlike Vista's bloated demands on your PC, MinWin operates using just 25mb of disc space. Is this finally the end of system bloat?

When NBC left Apple’s iTunes Store, some saw it as a sign the download service may be in danger.  Never one to to sit back quietly, Steve Jobs has been beating the streets for innovative deals.