As a teenager, my dad and I visited many car dealerships in search for my first car. During one of these trips, a salesman mentioned the corvette as having a terrible resale value. It turns out he was terribly wrong.

With the release of Vista pre-RC1 to testers, Microsoft was hoping that it would come through various tests faster than Vista.  This is what the company has been hinting at all along, that Vista SP1 would be the cure all for every performance related issues users have been experiencing in Vista but sadly, that does not look like it will be the case.

Google has announced that its registered users in the US and Australia can now move the Google Maps’ place markers for their homes and businesses to the correct locations.

Vodafone, perhaps jealous over T-Mobile’s grab at iPhone exclusivity in Germany, just hit the iPhone service provider with a restraining order.

The Wii and Xbox 360 are currently battling hard to stay at the top of the hardware sales charts, while the PS3 battles to hang on to their coattails, but according to Sega, the fight isn’t over yet, and the Playstation 3 could end up trouncing the Xbox 360 and Wii.

The Samsung NV20 is a point-and-shoot digital camera designed for experienced digital camera owner looking for a step up model that breaks free of the ‘me-too’ look and feel that many manufacturers often follow.

It appears the war of HD-DVD vs Blu-ray will be a major battleground this holiday season, and both sides are firing fresh salvos.

While Apple knew that the Boot Camp utility could help increase Intel-based Macs sales, the company has warned that its presence could cause some developers to discontinue writing application for the Mac OS X.

As if working with the government in the justice ministry isn’t enough, the good people in the Dutch justice system perform their citizenly duties of…editing Wikipedia entries on the clock. The only problem with that is that the justice department doesn’t (at this time) particularly want a team of Wikipedia scholars.

This is firmly in the Land of Rumors for now, but word has started circulating that Google may be sniffing around Skype.

AOL just announced the availability of its latest form of advertising, the video ticker ad, a type of banner ad that overlays across streaming video. In the announcement, AOL didn’t forget the competition, throwing a jab Google’s way for recently developing a more "rudimentary" form of the same idea.

It seems that Apple may be collecting data on all iPhone users worldwide by a string of code hidden in the Weather and Stocks applications. What’s more, iPhone users have given them permission by signing the Apple Terms of Service.

The question comes up with every new generation of consoles; will there ever be a single standardized console?  Gamasutra asked four professional analysts and their answers were not as surprising as you would think.

E-books: they’re either the next big thing or the next to die out if you go by the numerous articles written about them. While the rest of us wait for a consensus from the tech pundits, Amazon is betting on their new e-book reader to capture dollars and make buying and reading e-books as easy as ordering a burger to go.

The Dutch Justice Department has banned all its 30,000 employees from using Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, according to a spokesperson from the department.

The move follows after the Dutch magazine Intermediair reported that some 800 entries had been edited from the department’s computers.