The next shot in the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD format wars has been fired this time by the Philips/Lite-ON alliance.  The two companies have worked on producing a $200 Blu-Ray player but there’s a catch and it’s a big one.

Although Vista SP1 isn’t yet available to the public in any form, Microsoft is rolling out some patches to be included in SP1 early because of the plethora of complaints.  Many of them deal with enhancing the reliability and stability of Vista.

Yes, I know a lot of you care, but the question on my mind is "why upgrade?" So many of you are excited over the prospect of having to spend an hour or more jailbreaking our unit with the new firmware only to get a device less functional than before.

Going above and beyond Microsoft in providing a home console that can double as a great media machine, Sony and DivX have combined forces to provide the maturing PS3 with support for the popular DivX video format.

It appears Zunes are outselling iPods at least through stores on our favorite digital, interactive medium, the web. Microsoft’s favorite PMPs are making a huge impact on some of the web’s biggest stores including Amazon and Buy.com.

Microsoft are taking a page from Nintendo’s very popular Virtual Console book, with an upcoming Xbox update set to allow full original Xbox titles to be downloaded from Xbox Live. These titles are expect to cost ~ $15 (1200 Microsoft Points).

The Ricoh Caplio R7 is a point-and-shoot digital camera designed for photography enthusiasts who want wide angle optical zoom capabilities in their cameras.

Priced at US$369 the Caplio R7 is setting a new standard in digital point-and-shoot camera with its wide-angle 28-200mm optical zoom lens.

Bebo today launched their new ‘Open Media’ initiative, immediately differentiating themselves from social network rival Facebook, but setting themselves on a possible collision course with MySpace.

Kevin Colvin, an intern at Anglo Irish Bank, learned a valuable lesson recently: Never lie to your bosses, and then post photos about it on your Facebook account.

Google has launched the Android Developer Challenge to encourage developers to build great mobile applications for its newly released open-source mobile operating system, Android. The Challenge has a total of $10 million in prizes waiting to be won.

A new survey shows that despite continuous warnings to keep personal details safe online, many users are failing to do so. The biggest risk comes from social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Bebo where an incredible 25% of people admit to posting confidential details on their profiles.

Getting a game into the top ten for any system is great news.  Getting all ten is an achievement.  Getting all ten with different variations on a single first-party character is a sign of a serious lack of support.

If you are in the market for a digital camera with a long zoom and image stabalization for under $300, then the Kodak EasyShare Z812IS may be just what you are looking for.

In continuing our coverage of the Monday morning Zune conference call, the Zune product managers interviewed during the meeting hinted at a Zune phone for the future.

It appears that, although it is working hard to rectify the multitude of issues with its current Vista platform, Microsoft has largely redirected its focus on preparation and development for its next platform, Windows 7. An indicator of this would be what appears to be a wishlist of changes users want to see for the next platform which surfaced recently.