You’re standing in the Apple store, looking up and down the row of MacBooks and MacBook Pros; one is silver and slightly bigger, and one is white or black…but when it comes down to your bank account, is silver really all that worth it?  The answer is a thousand times yes, and here are 5 reasons why.

With the recent released of Google’s Gadget utility for Mac OS X, the company is encouraging developers to make sure their developed gadgets run on both Windows and Mac OS X platforms and to tag those which only run for a particular platform.

Does the tagline "what you need, when you need it" ring a bell? Try visiting guugle.com if you need a reminder, but don’t click on any links or images! That tagline should be familiar to anyone who surfs the web regularly and runs into the periodic slumfest of advertising and phishing scams. While Dell certainly isn’t the first target of this kind of black market campaign, they’re mixing things up by taking the cybersquatters to court.

Apple used to tout the prowess of the PowerPC processor as compared to Intel processors but once the Core Duo line came out, that was the end of PowerPC inside Macs as Intel processors were proven once and for all to be faster, a lot faster.  This has lead to many users running Windows through BootCamp or through Parallels but some hidden code suggests OSX might be capable of running Windows apps without Windows.

There are unsettling, and as yet unsubstantiated rumours flying around that long time Gamespot reviewer Jeff Gerstmann has been fired after giving Kane & Lynch a mediocre review. Why would that be worthy of a firing? The site had recently started running a pretty all encompassing advertising campaign for the game, and those two elements don’t combine very well.

The BlackBerry 9000 specs are out, and they’re lookin’ pretty good. The iPhone rival features a large touch screen, which we already knew, but it’s the Intel inside that gets us all hot and bothered. It turns out the device is packin’ some real heat, and I’m not talking about its core running temperature.

While it shouldn’t come as any big surprise to people, Google has officially announced it will bid in the upcoming 700MHz auction.

MTV Networks, the biggest division of Viacom Inc. has announced plans to make every South Park episode available online for free as part of a plan to make the show available to a larger audience.

Despite the fact that users are expressing their dislike of the new Beacon advertising News Feed, Facebook is saying it will stick by the new feature.

The Wii is carrying on its incredible stint as the must have console, and gadget of this year. Along with it, there’s a huge shortage of the Nintendo machines available, with Wiis selling out as soon as they hit the stores both in the US and UK. Will these shortages help sales of the PS3 and Xbox 360, or actively hinder them.

It’s easy to forget that every purchase made online creates a unique record stored on a remote server somewhere. Follow enough of those footprints and it’s possible to learn a lot about someone, including insight into their buying habits, location and hobbies. In 2006, the U.S. Attorney’s office ordered Amazon to turn over records for thousands of customers who had purchased books from a reseller on Amazon’s system. While pursuing their case the government decided civil liberty was secondary to . . .

The Fujifilm Finepix F50fd  is a point-and-shoot  digital camera designed for digital photographers looking for a top-of-the-line compact digital camera.

Priced at US$299  the FinePix F50fd  is  a super-compact digital camera that takes beautiful shots with the most advanced features and technology available giving users no option to miss great shots.

NBC recently killed its iTunes contract with Apple, so the company’s been searching for a way to offer new and old episodes of its large catalog of shows. Today, Netflix announced that it will help to fill that need.

Though Google is at the top of the search engine food chain, the mega site is taking a page from successful social indexing sites like Digg by testing out a new feature that will allow users to vote up their favorite search results and ignore results that aren’t individually pertinent.

IBM is suing a company that is allegedly selling unsafe counterfeit laptop batteries.

In court papers filed last week in the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, IBM says that Shentech.com is “offering counterfeit IBM products which pose a substantial threat to the safety of the consuming public,” Information Week writes.