
Tired of blaming GPS on petty mishaps like the destruction of cars, a demolition crew in Georgia has managed to accidentally destroy an entirely wrong house based on GPS coordinates. Oddly enough, it wasn’t even the first time they’d been by: the man who cuts the grass noticed that the power box was missing from [...]

Sorry, preorderers – you’ve once again gotten gamed by the quick-draw Nokia flagship stores in New York and Chicago who’ve received stock of the black version of the N97 today. You can’t buy the units just yet, but they’ll be available tomorrow morning — the only catch is that there are established waitlists at both locations, so you might [...]

In collaboration with AMD, Seagate announced Monday its demonstration of a new hard drive Serial ATA (SATA) interface, tentatively called SATA3, that offers speeds up to 6Gbps, or 600MBps. (SATA3, or SATA 6GB/second, was developed by the Serial ATA International Organization under the Serial ATA Revision 3.0 specifications.) Currently most consumer-grade computers use either the [...]

ATI, the graphics division of AMD, is working with its board partners and several major e-tailers to lower prices on some key products. The ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB will drop $50 in price, from the $199 segment down to $149. It will compete in this price point primarily against NVIDIA’s GTS 250 1GB rebrand [...]

Asus has used the CeBIT show in Hanover to make a raft of announcements, including a standalone computer keyboard and a concept dual-screen notebook. The firm was most keen to show off its Eee Keyboard PC, first seen at CES in January, which it said packed the functionality of a complete desktop PC into the [...]

Worldwide PC shipments are expected to plunge this year to 257 million units, a drop of 11.9 percent – the biggest ever in the industry, according to a new report. Mobile phone sales are also declining. Both emerging and mature markets are affected, which is especially bad news for Silicon Valley because emerging markets have [...]

Facebook users are being urged to be wary of third-party apps after it was revealed hackers have launched another hoax program designed to steal social networker’s login details. Sophos says that the ‘F a c e b o o k – closing down!!!’ app sends bogus emails to users’ contacts, claiming they’ve been reported “for [...]