Windows - XP - Vista

It took a completely different developer to get the game on track, but it looks like Borderlands developer Gearbox is going to make Duke Nukem Forever a reality at last.



Duke Nukem Forever - Gearbox - Duke Nukem - 3D Realms - Borderlands

Now that I’ve been using the GM release for the past 24 hours, I can safely say- iOS 4.1 on iPhone (including the 3G) is the most solid, responsive iOS release to date. With some cool new features to boot.



iPhone - iPhone 3G - IPhone OS - Handhelds - Smartphones

The consumer advocacy group's anti-Google commercial seems to alarmist rather than raising privacy awareness.



Google - Consumer Watchdog - Searching - Search Engines - Eric E. Schmidt

Considering the Magic Mouse's ( Macworld rated 3.5 out of 5 mice ) futuristic, gesture-controlled appeal, replacing its dead AA batteries with new ones might...



AppleMagicMouse - AA battery - Mouse - Rodent - MagicMouse

A clever spammer found a glitch in Facebook's photo upload service that allowed him to spam thousands of users.



Facebook - Spam - E-mail - Social network - Apple

Since Facebook has yet to release a native iPad app--or give any real indication that one is in the works--third parties have capitalized on the opportunity to...



Facebook - IPad - Online Communities - Social Networking - Since Facebook

Hewlett-Packard swooped in with the better bid to overtake Dell and win 3Par, so now we can all sit back and wait for the next acquisition battle to roll around...



Hewlett-Packard - Dell - Apple - HP - Hardware

A Massachusetts high school is using specialized software for reporting bullying incidents after a student's suicide.



Bullying - High school - Suicide - Massachusetts - Violence and Abuse

Twitter now has more than 145 million registered users and many of them still use Twitter's underwhelming Website as a primary access point.



Twitter - Social network - Online Communities - IPhone - Trending and Popularity

Toshiba is the latest to recall laptops that pose a fire hazard or risk of injury--highlighting the growing concern of excessive heat generated from cramming more processing power into smaller portable computers.



Toshiba - Laptop - Hardware - U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission - Notebooks and Laptops

In the Windows systems, the boot.ini file is one of the first files that is accessed when the system starts up.

A Nigerian advance-fee scammer, Okpako Diamreyan, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a federal judge.



Advance-fee fraud - Fraud - Humor - Nigeria - Business

A widely used program for Web spidering can be hijacked for malicious purposes.



Operating system - Linux distribution - Linux - Distributions - Directories

Apple has just announced their annual changes to the company's media devices: this year, the iPod Touch, Nano and Apple TV have all been revamped. Nate Ralph takes a look.



Apple - iPod Touch - iPod - AppleTV - ipodnano

Built-in Firefox Sync and improved responsiveness get Mozilla's Fennec mobile browser off to a good start.



Fennec - Mozilla Foundation - Firefox - Android - Nokia N900

A new study suggests adolescents exposed to driving and racing games may be more inclined to drive recklessly when they get their driving license.



Grand Theft Auto - Racing video game - Video game - Games - Driver's license

Apple claims that the upcoming iOS 4.1 update will resolve the issue with the iPhone 4 proximity sensor, but developers who have tested out the latest release of iOS challenge that claim.



IPhone - Apple - IOS - iPhone 4 - Smartphones

Facebook is apparently blocking Ping integration until the companies can work out coding and capacity issues.



Apple - Facebook - iTunes - Steve Jobs - Social network

Sorry, the contract-free, data-only iPhone is still a fantasy -- although the revamped iPod can do a lot.



IPhone - IpodTouch - iPod - Apple - Apple iPod