A popsci.com writer reports on a swimsuit whose wearers have already broken 11 world records in two months. Will the technology pave the way for a new era in swimming, or will FINA crack down?

The attitude of global warming evangelists is akin to a new religion says sceptic Brian Durrant, editor of the Fleet Street Letter...

Troux Technologies announced that Fiducia, the leading German IT services company for the financial services industry, will implement its software platform, Troux 7, to enable strategic IT planning and to ensure that its extensive SOA program is properly aligned with business and IT transformation initiatives.

Japan's Toshiba Corp waved the white flag in the high-definition home movie war on Tuesday, giving up on its HD DVD format after losing the support of key studios and retailers to the Blu-ray technology backed by Sony Corp.

Last week was a busy one, for TuneTracker Systems. First, they released a new application for their package, named TuneBridge. And then they bought a famous BeOS sampling studio, which they will improve and expand.

eWeek takes a look at Vista's first service pack. On the whole, Vista Service Pack 1, which becomes generally available in mid-March, is a fairly staid update with very little in the way of new features or cosmetic changes. SP1 consists of a rollup of Vista's first year of security and bug fixes

Mozilla has launched the third version of its preview build for Firefox 3, adding numerous enhancements to the next-generation Web browser.

Apple has released the Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopard update. The 180MB download is now available via Software Update, and a restart is required after installation

This is a very important step towards an alpha release of the Haiku operating system, which I personally hope is not to far into the future…

AppDNA, the leading developer of application testing software, today announced that its AppTitude product has been awarded “Approved” status by Broadband Testing, one of Europe’s foremost independent network testing facilities and consultancy organisations for enterprise IT solutions.

Since 11th January details about a security hole in Quicktime, making it possible for criminals to steal private information or gain access to your webbanking details, has been public.

Microsoft earlier today announced that they have made a bid to the Yahoo! Board of Directors. Microsoft’s bid is $31 per share, which would represent a price tag of about $44.6 billion. Microsoft would pay this with 50% stock shares and 50% cash. And it is pretty obvious that this move from Microsoft is to take on the might of Google.

MySQL has been bought by Sun. Right now there is only a brief announcement but it discusses what the acquisition will mean for the core developers, community etc.

According to a news post on the Haiku project website, a new port team is being formed to bring Java technologies to the Haiku platform. The goal of the Haiku Java Team is to port OpenJDK to Haiku, and they would like to see the port included within the structure of Sun's OpenJDK project.

Until very recently, the community of Haiku testers and developers, as well as those curious geeks who wanted to give Haiku a spin, relied on the services of HaikuHost.com to download nightly builds of hard disk raw and VMware images. Now Haiku Files is the new archive of nightly builds.

The iPhone is released in Britain and Germany today. But should we believe the hype? Ben Snook dons his troglodyte's hat and investigates.

Rumours are that Apple are planning to unveil a Nano version of their Mac Mini.

Under pressure from disgrunteled customers and OEMs, disappointed with With Windows Vista, Microsoft has decided to extend the availablity of its predecessor Windows XP.

The i1055 is a portable multimedia player that is sure to be one of the biggest selling of our time. There are two ways in which you can watch films on the iLuv. The first is via a DVD – you press a button and the screen pops up to reveal a slot - and the second way is by connecting it with your iPod.

The team behind the Syllable operating system has released the first development build since the release of Syllable 0.6.4.

Six years has gone by since the birth of the Haiku operating system, Happy Birthday Haiku!

These days there are probably very few, even among the computer savvy, who have heard of the BeOS operating system. But once, not long ago, it was actually deemed to be a possible contender for the desktop. A small band of open source programmers are trying to revive the once and future hope of elegant computing.

Windows XP user are getting a reprieve. Microsoft will be releasing a third Service Pack for the operating system in early 2008.

The iStation Traveller is available to purchase.

The Haiku project recently canceled this year's Waltercon conference, leaving some of its supporters with non-refundable, non-transferable airplane tickets. In response to the last minute cancellation, the community is putting together an impromptu gathering for Haiku users and developers called FalterCon 2007.

The European Commission issued formal charges Friday against Intel Corp., alleging that it used illegal tactics against smaller rival AMD-

Sadly Haiku's official developer and user community conference has been cancelled, but Haiku developer Michael Phipps will speak at the upcoming LinuxWorld conference.

New numbers from web metrics firm Net Applications shows that Windows Vista’s rate of adoption is even worse than earlier believed.

Hewlett-Packard continues to gain market share over Dell in the global market. Worldwide PC shipments rise 12%

The biggest revolution in TV viewing is about to hit us, and it's almost a secret. It has the potential to be one of the biggest consumer revolutions ever. Forget the much hyped single item mass hits like the Apple iPhone. When 3D TV becomes main stream, the impact on consumer spending will be huge.