Dell has teamed the Championship Gaming Series to back a College Gaming League, open to students and faculty members, with tournaments that could lead to a pro gaming career for winners.
Britain's Information Commissioner has said he has privacy concerns over the face-blurring technology in Google Street View and will be contacting the company.
Over the last six month, researchers have secretly developed a patch for an error in the DNS system that can let criminals redirect people to fake web pages, even if they typed the right address.
New proposals before the European Parliament could see persistent illegal file sharers banned from the Web, and have governments decide what software is allowable.
As Google starts taking pictures prior to a UK launch of its Street View mapping tool, a privacy group says it's breaking data protection laws and might refer the plan to the Information Commissioner.
The BPI is sending letters that warn of the consequences to hundreds of Virgin Media customers in the UK who illegally share music files, in the hope of stopping them.
Sony has announced a new firmware update for the PS3 which will include Xbox-like trophies, as well as an expansion of the friends list to 100 contacts.
Marc Andreessen, the man who started Netscape all those years ago, has been named as the fourth member of the board at social networking site Facebook.
As of today it will be illegal to use a cell phone while driving in California, unless you use a hands-free device — and CHP warns it will be aggressively enforcing the law over the holiday.
A group of Turkish hackers, NetDevilz, has managed to hack into the body that assigns domain names, just as the body has approved generic domain names.
The European Commission is going to lower the amount operators charge each other to use their networks by 2011, which should lead to lower charges for consumers in Europe.
A Greenpeace survey ranks games company Nintendo last among eco-friendly electronics companies, although Nintendo says that's simply because it didn't provide data.
Visa is paying Facebook $2 million to advertise its small business service on the site and is offering ad credits to businesses from the site that begin using its services.
Microsoft has sent out a letter stating it will continue support for its XP operating system until 2014 and promises to have Windows 7 available by 2010.