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Over 74,000 students in the U.S. registered for the Imagine Cup which is like the Olympics for technology. Watch some of the planet-saving ideas in software and game design as students prepare for their first round of judging here in Redmond. Link Removed More...

An early build of Windows 8 seems to indicate the operating system is being tooled by Microsoft to compete against Apple's iOS. read more Link Removed

Microsoft plans to file a formal complaint with the European Commission Thursday, accusing Google of abusing its position as the region's dominant search engine. The software giant -- once subject to its own landmark antitrust investigation in the United States and Link Removed -- claimed in...

Dish voted by Italians as one that helps sum up nation could be placed on cultural heritage list On a roll after securing Unesco status for the Mediterranean diet, Italy is mulling over an attempt to place the Neapolitan pizza in the pantheon of cultural icons drawn up by the United...

Britain's first so-called Roundabout Idol has been launched, with the aim of finding the Matt Cardle equivalent of the UK's favourite traffic island. Motorists are being invited to send in pictures of their best and most hated roundabouts in a bid to help car leasing service...

Apple's iPad 2 tablet PC launched exactly 1 week ago (March 2, 2011). And while Apple is hoping that thousands of consumers will rush out and purchase the new iPad 2, some analysts suggest that holding off until the iPad 3 becomes available might actually be a better idea. iPad 2: New Dual...

We’re now hearing some new rumors that are citing completely different dates from what we’ve heard in the past. These are the first set of rumors to not agree with the previous Link Removed leaked, including Link Removed. According to Businessweek’s sources, public testing of the next Windows...

Jimmy's the cat with his very own party trick and Kyusha's the fluffy kitten who loves tight spots. Who will win this week's Freak Out: Battle of the weird photos? Kyusha the playful kitten from Moscow managed to knock Ambam off his feet in last week's Freak Out, and now she's up against...

A feminist group in Ukraine has protested a radio station competition to "win a wife" in the most eye-catching way possible -- by removing clothes. The Femen Movement is angered by a contest organized by a New Zealand radio station that offered a listener the opportunity to travel to Ukraine...

When the 39th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race starts in Anchorage on Saturday, 62 mushers and their dogs will embark on an annual trek that has evolved far from its shoestring roots. The leading contenders are professionals, working year-round to prepare for the race and financed by corporate...

After more than five decades featuring over 1,100 songs, the Eurovision Song Contest, widely considered Europe's favorite TV show, is gearing up for its May 14 finale. Countries, represented by their individual public broadcasters, compete in the show every year, which is transmitted to all...

Microsoft’s tablet ambitions may reach fruition a lot earlier than previously expected, according to the latest leaks from the company, with Windows 8 based slates running frugal ARM chipsets tipped for as early as the end of this year. Business Insider ‘s sources claim Microsoft has set around...

The winter is a much loved season by many sportive individuals. The snow and the low temperatures create the best conditions for winter related sports. There are many winter sports practiced all over the world during winter. Some originally winter sports can be practiced indoors so skating, ice...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition. More...

The back-and-forth between AT&T and Verizon over the quality of their wireless services ended up making its way into some high-profile primetime commercials. But it's not the only fight that Verizon has been waging with competitors. The company also took issue with advertising run by Time...

Elite Gamers Set Marathon Record by Playing Video Game for 50 Hours He just set a whole slew of world records for playing video games and knows just where he's going to put the official certificate from Guinness World Records. "I'll put it right next to my master's degree," Dino said...

World's Longest Handshake Record Within Grasp A good, firm handshake shouldn't last more than two or three seconds. Any longer and it starts to get a bit awkward. Unless, of course, you're trying to set a world record. Last night, four teams of two from around the world congregated...

DonanimHaber have revealed early Link Removed indications for AMD's much anticipated next-gen Bulldozer architecture, in the form of Zambezi CPUs. The benchmarks were sourced from an official AMD document, in three categories, Media, Rendering and Games, and the Bulldozer 8-core sampled ended up...

A longstanding player in the tablet market for the past nine years, Motion Computing has seen Apple blow past it with the iPad. So can it make it up now, and how will Steve Ballmer's coming announcements affect it? Motion Computing was one of the first companies to really try to make tablets...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition from tablet computers based on software from Google and Apple. Link Removed