Microsoft recently purchased the Powerset, a search engine company based in Silicon Valley that can processes natural-language questions and produces a list of answers based on Wikipedia articles. After their recent attempts to acquire Yahoo’s search engine, perhaps it’s trying to use this technology to upgrade Live.com

At a wedding the bride is supposed to have something old, something borrowed, something new and something blue and a silver sixpence in her shoe.  All of that for good luck.  Vista is just old(er) operating systems with a shiny new face on it.
Not that this is a totally bad thing.  Vista is working [...]

Sounding more like a character from a play than an electric car, Subaru is about to introduce a new electric prototype at the G8 summit in Hokkaido, Japan.  This little electric plug in will be bigger than many of the electric cars previewed so far that are only two seaters.

Rumours are that you won’t need to queue up overnight outside an Apple store for an iPhone – Best Buy and Radio Shack just might stock them too.

As the Apple hypemachine keeps rolling, software developers are falling all over themselves to cash in on Apple’s upcoming App Store.

Which current-gen console has the best games due out over the next few months? Is it the Sony PS3, Microsoft Xbox 360 or [...]

Windows 7, the replacement to the disastrous Windows Vista, is coming. It’s just a matter of when, which is a question that came closer to being answered over the last week with Microsoft finally giving a hint over the release date.

This doesn’t necessarily affect all Vista users and it seems primarily targeted at users of Asus laptops.  However, it may expand beyond that but I cannot be certain.  If this problem has cropped up on your Asus laptop here’s a relatively easy fix for it.
According to several discussions the problem usually happens after an [...]

NBC is broadcasting the Olympics live online, and thrilling online sports fans everywhere.

Not so thrilled are other news agencies, reports the AP. There’s some anger among the news outlets with claims that NBC is being high-handed with its broadcasting rights to the point of burdensome restrictions.

Stealth imagery. It sounds more spy than photographic, doesn’t it? One man is bringing stealth imaging to photography. Now say what that will inevitably lead to out loud: stealth imagery marketing. It’s real. It’s here. It’s intrusive. And viral marketers everywhere are salivating over it.

A new recognition system developed by the University of Bristol is helping researchers to study African penguins without tagging them. The system has a 98 percent success rate in individually identifying 20,000 penguins over the course of a month. The technology could even be expanded to observe other endangered species.

An iMac in every room and now iPhone integration in cars? Apple has definitely made an impression, and its products are becoming products that consumers just have to have. Mercedes-Benz is getting ready to launch a device that places the device into the center console.

It was recently revealed on the latest issue of Famitsu that PS3 will indeed be getting their own Tales game much like Tales of Vesperia which is exclusive to the Xbox 360. It [...]

Google recently revealed a new feature that enables you to play YouTube videos, Picasa albums, and multimedia content from your computer to any device with Universal Plug-and-Play. No hardware installation is necessary. Simply add the Google Media Server gadget to your Google Desktop and your ready to go.

You know what really grinds my gears? Cell phone carriers don’t reveal what phones they will be hosting until just about the time those phones are scheduled to be hitting shelves. Luckily, as America is pretty much last to catch almost every decent handset, we can occasionally get some help from our buddies across the pond.