In this week’s show we start in Europe where the European Commission accepted Microsoft’s commitments to offer browser choice, putting an end to the Commission’s antitrust investigation. While Microsoft may be out of trouble, Intel is back in trouble, this time with the U.S. Federal Trade...

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) revealed this Thursday a host of new innovations to be featured its next iteration of the popular Bluetooth wireless protocol. Version 4.0 of the Bluetooth Core Specification comes shortly after the faster 3.0 spec, which was announced back in April of this year....

Science buffs got an early Christmas present when rare video was released showing a spectacular undersea volcanic eruption deep in the Pacific Ocean. The West Mata volcano sits nearly 4,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific in an area bordered by Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa. It was discovered in May by...

Online reviews powerhouse Yelp might just be what Google needs to help rid the world of 40-pound tomes with yellow pages. Throughout the second half of 2009, Google has had its eyes squarely on one of the last remaining online advertising markets it does not dominate: local. With a series of moves, Google...

IRAQI insurgents have used cheap off-the-shelf software to hack into video feeds from US predator drones. The Wall Street Journal reports that Iranian-backed Shiite insurgents used software programs such as SkyGrabber – available online for $US25.95 ($29.30) – to capture live video footage from...