As of late, many conflicting reports are saying that altough iPod sales continue to rise, iTunes store music sales are decreasing. They go on to state that sales now are 65% lower than in January, with average transaction sizes dropping by 7%. I think this is really crazy. Why? Apple never... (Read More)

Everyone is up-in-the-arms about Nintendo's new console beating Sony's. The sales of the Wii in November (roughly 467,000) are more than double the PS3 sales (147,000), according to NPD. But what most articles about this don't talk about: the PS2 is still winning, and easily. It managed to sell... (Read More)

I'm always excited when I see people inventing new uses for existing devices. Linux kernel developers have been working hard, and have now added PS3 support for the Linux kernel. Sony helped by contributing patches for the machine, which have now been merged into the kernel. This will be included... (Read More)

Research In Motion (RIM) is now suing the hand held maker Samsung, claiming that Samsung's new product named "Blackjack", released earlier last month, is causing lost revenues and misleading consumers into thinking that Blackjack is another product in the Blackberry line. Now at first thought, the... (Read More)

Monday, Sun Microsystems released the latest version of Java -- Java Standard Edition 6. It's available to developers in the Sun Developer Network (http://java.sun.com). The final release is planned to ship in January. Java's taken a lot of time for this release. They've worked at it for at least... (Read More)

It seems like users are doing exactly what Nintendo intended when they created the fancy Wii controller. Users are having so much fun, they're getting carried away when playing their video games, and literally throwing it around. The Wii-mote, a uniquely designed game controller for Nintendo's Wii... (Read More)

Do you want to create C++ programs faster? You might want to try this coding method. C++ is supposed to be "superior" to C in terms of usability, upgradability, and all the fancy features. Yes, these are all good features, but if you use C++ the way it was designed, this means writing your program... (Read More)

Why doesn't everyone switch to Linux? Is it because it's too difficult? Not exactly. The problem with Linux isn't because you have to run millions of commands to start it up, it's because it gives users too many options. Commercial companies like Microsoft standardize their product when they... (Read More)

Ever since computer's hard drives became large enough to hold substantial amounts of information, people have been trying to store music on their computers. Which is fine until they start "sharing" it. Since the beginning of music sharing, record companies have been trying to halt this illegal... (Read More)

MySpace seems to be where all the kids go -- it's the online meeting place for a lot of young people. But it also seems to be a place where pedophiles hang out, something that MySpace is trying to change. It seems as though MySpace is trying to incorporate one big website out of all the others; it... (Read More)

Oh boy. If Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, is correct, he may soon be facing a lawsuit big enough to cripple a small country. In his podcast, he gets drunk and tells "vague details" of the much rumored iPhone. He starts off by saying, "I have a little bit of inside information on the Apple phone",... (Read More)

Microsoft has finally launched the long-awaited Windows Vista. Will it sell well? It's already pretty obvious that Windows Vista will have a hard time competing against Microsoft's previous operating system, Windows XP. Many businesses are happy with it, and see no reason to switch. Still others... (Read More)

All 3 major game consoles have been released -- Microsoft's Xbox 360, Nintendo's Wii, and Sony's Playstation 3. Out of all of these, the PlayStation 3 appears to be losing. Why? The previous generation console, the PS2, dominated consoles created by Microsoft and Nintendo. The answer lies in the... (Read More)

Microsoft just released their iPod killer -- except that it isn't killing the iPod. Although it looks promising, it has had a number of negative Zune reviews. It may seem like the Zune is a total flop, after all, "it's from MS". But no, I don't think that is the problem. The problem is testing.... (Read More)

When computer systems get "owned", you may think it takes a master-geek with an extensive amount of knowledge to hack into tightly-secured systems. After all, security bugs are quickly found out, and patches can be released within a few days. But when securing a computer system or network,... (Read More)

http://answers.google.com/answers/ That URL will soon lose its usefulness for answering your questions. Google is now going to abandon its Google Answers service at the end of this week, which it launched 4 years ago. Google is not entirely clear on why they are quitting it, other than " was a... (Read More)

The French parliament is now going to dump Windows in favour of open-source. More specifically, Linux. The planned switch date is June 2007, with over 1000 parliament workers switching. No word yet on what Linux distribution they're going to use, or what email client -- one thing is for sure:... (Read More)

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b2.html "Firefox 2 Beta 2 is a developer preview release of our next generation Firefox browser and it is being made available for testing purposes only. Firefox 2 Beta 2 is intended for Web application developers and our testing community.... (Read More)

Google. That is something that more people should use, instead of turning to forums like DaniWeb first, clogging up everything. Google is the website you should turn first when you have a problem, because chances are that someone else has had a very similar problem. Why don't people do it? I... (Read More)

I few months ago, I found the AOL Music Archive. I found it interesting the way you can listen to full songs, from thousands of artists, for free, especially when music stores like iTunes Music Store only give you 30 second previews. Even more interesting, with Firefox, it's quite easy to download... (Read More)

I know a few days ago, I wrote a glowing review of Leopard. But after a few days, I changed my opinion: Commercial operating systems cost way too much for the features you get. Let's take a look at Leopard, Apple's next-gen OS: Leopard Time Machine I don't have much to criticize here, other than... (Read More)