After posting leaked photos of upcoming Best Buy, Kmart, and other circulars, the gaming blog now has a GameStop employee’s cell-phone snapshots of shelf art and an internal memo announcing that the Xbox 360 Pro (aka the Premium) would drop to $299.99 on Sunday, July 13. Not coincidentally, E3 kicks off the next day with–you [...]

Toodledo has far more features than you’re bound to use. Those looking for more, including a file storage system for group to-do collaboration, as well as an analytics system that crunches through your task history to find trends, can be had with two premium plans that run $15 and $30 a year respectively. You can [...]

Of course, it’s still quite likely that we’ll see a 5D replacement sometime this year and that we’ll probably hear some fairly accurate details about it from a blog site way before Canon decides to put out an official pronouncement. At least we haven’t seen any hissy fits from Canon reps about a Web full [...]

Your boss might block access to Facebook on the job, but that hasn’t stopped Forrester Research from estimating that social networking will be a huge priority of “Enterprise 2.0.”
Behind social networking, the Forrester report asserts that the “Enterprise 2.0″ landscape of 2013 will consist of mashups ($682 million), RSS technologies ($563 million), wikis ($451 million), [...]

On Tuesday, Opera sewed up a short beta run of Opera Mini 4.1. After a mere month and a half, the Norwegian software company declared the cell phone browser build stable enough to institute as the latest product standard.
The wide world of Opera browser products can admittedly get a little confusing. As a refresher, Opera [...]

Oddly enough, prices for NAND and DRAM haven’t moved in lockstep following natural disasters. A study by Jim Handy of Objective Analysis found that while NAND prices climbed after a March 2007 earthquake in Japan, they didn’t also rise after a July earthquake. In contrast, DRAM prices fell right away after both events even [...]

The server move calls into question just how different Windows 7 is going to be from Windows Vista on the desktop side. Steven Sinofsky, the head of development for the desktop version of Windows, has said that Windows 7 on the PC side would not make major changes to things like the kernel and driver [...]

The rest is history. Hi5 is now getting better performance on its PostgreSQL deployment and using less hardware. Sure, it’s paying EnterpriseDB for the service, but saving money in the process.
Hi5 is one of the world’s largest social networks, with over 56 million monthly visitors. It’s a company that demands maximum scale and performance from [...]

In total, 10 countries in the list accounted for nearly 75 percent of all attacks, Akamai said. These countries included Argentina, Brazil, Japan, India, South Korea, and Taiwan.
This was the first report issued by Akamai. The company plans to publish further reports each quarter.
Within the U.S. the tiny states of Delaware and Rhode Island had [...]

In addition to needing someone to manage their home “IT” needs, Kheradpir believes that consumers want more personalized content. Again, a high-speed network can help facilitate this. For example, Verizon has added widgets to its latest Fios upgrade that allow third-party developers to create applications for personalized local weather, traffic, and horoscopes. One Verizon engineer [...]