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A US judge has ruled that Google, the owners of YouTube, must make its entire viewing log available to Viacom who are presently engaged with Google concerning allegations of copyright infringement in what the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has termed as being ‘set-back to privacy rights’.

Whilst Microsoft’s dislike of all things Apple is well documented – MS even have ‘iPod Amnesty Bins’ in their headquarters to allow its staff to liberate themselves from Apple’s clutches – its being reported that MS are offering free iPods (namely Apple’s iPod Nano, Shuffle and Touch models) as an …

Firstly, to put our usual flippancy aside, we should make it clear that there’s no signs that any forthcoming electric car from James ‘whatever I touch turns to gold’ Dyson will in fact clean roads whilst in transit but it is known that Sir Dyson is now working on developing …

If you are still mesmerised by the picture quality of Full HD, which comes in at 1920 x 1080 resolution, then the news that NHK have showcased an 8K projection system capable of producing images that equate to a staggering sixteen times full 1080p HD quality (7680 x 4320 resolution …

AMD have announced that their new AMD FireStream 9250 next generation double-precision floating point ‘Stream’ processor, which serves to build on the capabilities of AMD’s FireStream 9170, has succeeded in breaking the one teraflop barrier for single precision performance during the International Supercomputing Conference being held in Germany.

We have tried our utmost to stay on top of developments concerning Asus’s new versions of its highly popular Eee PC – namely the new Eee PC 901, 10″ Eee PC 1000 and 10″ Eee PC 1000/H – and, by way of a brief update, we felt obliged to offer …

Following a development period of some three years, Mozilla have today announced that their new FireFox 3 browser (release candidate) will become available for download on June 17 and, having tried the beta, we can confirm that FF3 is not only a great deal faster but its also, thankfully, far …

According to ‘several sources close to the hard drive industry’ Western Digital is purportedly working on a new 20,000rpm version of its VelociRaptor, at the time of writing the world’s fastest SATA HDD, which is intended to directly compete against solid state drives in offering comparable speeds but with potentially …

Best Buy have just announced that they will be testing a new electronics recycling program in 117 of its stores in the US which, in serving to compliment Best Buy’s current recycling scheme, will ‘help consumers take environmentally-responsible action with their old electronics’.

Having only just posted yesterday concerning the exciting news that the Phoenix Lander appears to have found ice just under the surface of Mars we thought it somewhat incumbent on us to offer a brief heads un concerning iTunes U now offering free Phoenix Mars Mission movies for download for …

According to a press release just made available to us, Sharper Image, who filed for bankruptcy auction on May 29, 2008, have begun their store closure sale offering between 20% and 40% discounts on their $50 million inventory of products meaning that there are serious bargains to be had for …