Moonlight 2 expands Silverlight capabilities for Linux

From InfoWorld: The Novell-sponsored Mono Project will announce on Thursday availability of Moonlight 2, an open source browser plug-in that brings to Unix and Linux desktops the capabilities of the Microsoft Silverlight multimedia platform.

The company also will announce an...

Final Fantasy XIV Online Beta Rolled Out

From PC World: While I was up in the air yesterday crossing the pond, Square Enix launched its Final Fantasy XIV beta program, giving Final Fantasy buffs a shot at early access. If you already know all there is to know about the game, you can skip straight to the action by visiting...

Windows 7 leaving Redmond's help desk less busy

From CNET News.com: There are many ways to measure how Windows 7 is doing. There are reports on new PC sales, tallies of boxed copy sales, and surveys of planned enterprise adoption, to name a few.

But one of the most encouraging signs for Microsoft is the lack of phone calls it is...

RIM confirms BlackBerry e-mail outage

From CNET News.com: Talk about unfortunate timing. Research In Motion (RIMM) has confirmed reports that Blackberry users across North America have been experiencing e-mail problems this morning. Evidently, the outage is affecting all BlackBerry users who rely on RIM's Internet-based...

Blu-ray 3D Specifications Finalized

From DailyTech: CES 2010 is only a few weeks away and one of the new technologies that is most interesting that will be unveiled at the show is 3D Blu-ray. Blu-ray in 3D will provide 1080p resolution to each eye allowing for full HD playback of 3D movies with compatible displays...

New Apps Bring Video Recording to Old iPhones

From PC World: Recording video on your iPhone is no longer a luxury of just the folks with jailbroken phones or an iPhone 3GS. Apple has approved two separate apps this week in the App Store - Camcorder and iVideoCamera - both retailing for 99 cents. Unfortunately, there are memory...

Twitter touts top trends of 2009

From CNET News.com: Iran's elections topped Twitter's list of most popular topics of 2009, according to the microblogging site.

"Among all the keywords, hashtags, and phrases that proliferated throughout the year, one topic surfaced repeatedly," the company wrote in a blog post...

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