Microsoft is planning to end a feature which allows users to block the automatic installation of Windows service packs. The company revealed on Thursday that it would be removing the option of blocking the Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista SP1 updates from the Automatic Update service. Microsoft first created the blocking feature to allow [...]

Final Fantasy is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi and owned by Square Enix that includes video games, motion pictures, and other merchandise. The series began in 1987 as an eponymous console role-playing game (RPG) developed by Square, spawning a video game series that became the central focus of the franchise.[1][2] The franchise has [...]

Sony Ericsson might not be having such financial troubles if they deigned to release handsets like the SE S001 in Europe and the US. Freshly announced for Japanese network KDDI, the Sony Ericsson S001 has a huge 3.3-inch 480 x 854 AMOLED display, an 8.1-megapixel camera with autofocus, flash and smile-shutter control, mobile TV, [...]

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is going to be receiving its first expansion soon – in March, 2009, if you want to be specific. Call to Arms is going to be a free, live expansion that will be gradually rolled out thoughout March, April May and June, 2009. The first portion of the Call to [...]

Sony have announced a new version of their 12.1-inch VAIO G notebook, the Sony VAIO G3 series. Replacing the ageing current range, the new G3 line-up consists of four models, kicking off with a 1.2GHz Core 2 Duo SU9300 then moving up to the 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo SU9400 for the remaining three, [...]

Magpie RSS is a simple, functional PHP inteface for parsing RSS 1.0 (and earlier versions). Magpie RSS is commonly used by number of educational websites although many other sites types using Magpie RSS as well. They used this script to fetch rss feeds onto their website or for any other puroposes. Just wondering why does [...]

This new year is fast becoming the break-out year for signal-boosting femtocell solutions. Both Sprint (NYSE: S) and Verizon are now fully on-board the femtocell bandwagon, and the newly demoted No. 2 US carrier has announced that it will be following suit in short order. AT&T (NYSE: T) has gone official with their AT&T 3G [...]

The phone, called the DSTL1, is shown in a few renderings in the gallery below. Astute readers will note that the button configuration on the phone, as shown, won’t fly for Android. Android phones currently need 5 hardware buttons in order to work (home, back, menu, call send, call end). General Mobile [...]

AT&T and LG have just released the LG CF360, a mobile phone targeted at customers in need of some new affordable wireless equipment. Presented as being a “sleek entertainment phone”, the CF360 is a slider that doesn’t look bad at all, but packs only entry-level features. With a 2-yr contract agreement and after a mail-in [...]

Available until now only for Nokia’s N810 Internet Tablet, Mozilla Firefox Mobile (known under the codename Fennec) might be released pretty soon for Windows Mobile too. The Mozilla Wiki webpage says that the company is “targeting a Milestone release for the first week of February, targeting the HTC Touch Pro.”
As you can see, not all [...]