Sony's latest version of "Home" is relying on the stereotype that gamers don't leave the house to meet people. Jack Buser, Sony's director of the PS3 virtual platform, showed writer ...

What's wrong with the PS3 BioShock demo? A lot, according to some people who have given the demo a spin. Ripten brings us side-by-side screenshot comparisons of the demo for the upcoming BioShock ...

FaceBook, MySpace, linkedin, and so many other social networking sites offer great ways to connect with people - and lose touch with reality (and the total time spent on a computer). That is even ...

Yahoo's outlook has gone from bad to worse in the past week. Google announced that the ad deal the company had made with Yahoo is on hold pending regulatory investigation, and the company's stock ...

Cloud computing is at its peak of hype. In fact, it's probably about to jump the shark. Savvy enterprise IT managers know there's little reason to embrace cloud this early in its development. But, ...

I'm going to assume that your PC delivers sound just fine outside of YouTube. No sound at all is a whole other question. Any number of things can block YouTube audio, but one of these three fixes ...

Online video is in the midst of a crisis. It's not a crisis of creativity -- the amount of content being uploaded every day, and the range of quality programming are truly astounding. Rather, the ...

Technology stocks were badly hurt in Monday morning's selloff, with eBay, RIM and Apple stock down more than 6% within an hour of the market's open. Even Microsoft, which is sitting on a large cash ...

CNN is "doing its best to provide [the Securities and Exchange Commission] with information about the posting" on CNN's iReport "citizen journalism" site that claimed Apple CEO ...

Widget maker Gigya crowed about its latest funding round this week: an $11 million Series C round led by DAG Ventures. Odds are that only the signature on the dotted line remained before the market ...

AeA, a technology group whose members include Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Apple, is praising the House of Representatives' support of the Emergency Economic Stability Act. The House voted in favor ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission will investigate a false report that claimed Steve Jobs had suffered a major heart attack, according to Bloomberg News. The report was posted on the CNN ...

Gawker Media is laying off 19 of its 133 editorial staff, according to a memo by publisher Nick Denton. Denton blamed economic factors for the layoffs. He said that while Gawker's advertising sales ...

It's been a strange old week here at CIO Towers. Regular readers of this site (and even some irregular ones) will know that this reporter considers himself merely a recorder of the shifting sands of ...

First, the good news: As far as I can determine, Steve Jobs did not have a heart attack Friday morning, and was not rushed to the emergency room. But you might think otherwise if you dialed up ...

As the dust continues to settle today after the false report published on CNN's iReport that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a massive heart attack, investigation into the source of the story ...

Photosynth.net, a fairly new Web site from Live Labs, Microsoft's applied research arm, automatically stitches together your digital photographs to create a somewhat abstract but high-resolution ...

Google has responded to my question about potential product plans related to public records. The official statement: "While we're always working on new products to better serve our users, ...

The stock of Apple Inc. (AAPL) dropped briefly this morning from $106.12 to $97.45 after a report was published on CNNi -- CNN's website for "citizen journalists" -- that claimed CEO Steve ...

Apple has denied a report on CNN's citizen journalism site, iReport, that claims Apple CEO Steve Jobs suffered a heart attack. Katie Cotton, VP Worldwide Communications for Apple, says the report ...

Notebookreview.com's listing of the most popular laptop reviews for September includes three unexpected contenders: Reviews for Atom-powered "netbooks." One of them, the Acer Aspire One, ...

By default, Facebook will push notifications to your e-mail informing you that you were sent a message, a friend request, or tagged in a photo (among other items) on the service. Some users who ...

Thursday was a miserable day on Wall Street, with the Dow losing 348 points, or about 3.5%. That was bad enough, but in the tech sector, the pain was even deeper: The Nasdaq lost about 4.5%, with ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivered the keynote speech at his company's London conference "Technologies to Change Your Business: How Customers Are Implementing Tomorrow's Strategies Today". CIO ...

As we've discussed in prior hints, iTunes 8 removed a number of preferences that were available in iTunes 7. In the Set some missing iTunes 8 preferences hints blog, I explained how to set four of ...