If you thought Google's capacity for high design didn't go far beyond its primary-colored logo, think again. The iGoogle personalized homepage has gotten some new flair thanks to the introduction of iGoogle Artist Themes, a way for Google members to do some digital interior decoration. It might not ....

Microsoft has considered earmarking $1.5 billion to retain Yahoo employees if it acquires the company, according to court documents in a shareholder suit filed against Yahoo.

Microsoft has officially released the long-anticipated Windows XP Service Pack 3 via WIndows Update and the Microsoft Download Center. Although Microsoft is (so far) sticking with its June 30th end-of-life date for Windows XP, Service Pack 3 should give more legs to the company's now-venerable ....

Yahoo announced Tuesday that it's no longer going to power Yahoo Messenger's Internet telephony service with in-house technology: the company has inked a deal with start-up Jajah to replace its phone-to-PC and PC-to-phone communications. Under the agreement, Jajah will start providing the service ....

Matt Damon won't feature in High Moon's new Bourne game, despite being the (emotionless) face of Jason Bourne in the trilogy of popular films. The game is not about celebrity, GI.biz were told, and Damon has seemingly moved on anyway.

Yahoo ignored Microsoft's deadline to respond to its $44.6 billion takeover offer by Saturday, leaving the next move in this chess game to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Microsoft has a number of options, but none of them are particularly appealing and investors are impatient with the lack of ....

If you're taking a sick day tomorrow in order to properly spend the Grand Theft Auto IV launch in an orgiastic reverie of virtual crime, you may not want to bank on your pre-order being delivered on-time... or at all. According to Ars Technica, three UPS drivers have been fired in the last 24 hours ....

A tweet deal for Twitter? Well why not, as they've managed to snag another round of financing.A source familiar with the negotiations tells me that Twitter signed a term sheet for "either $15 million or $20 million" last week. We're still trying to find out who is in, but the word is that it's ....

It seems like everyone has inside info on XP SP3. Not to be outdone, TechARP has an article about the secret pre-release details for the upcoming Service Pack. Interesting stuff. We were the first to break the news on the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and the final RTM schedule of Windows ....

Ubuntu's deep software catalog, focus on usability and active community combine with long-term support to put desktop Linux's best face forward. Canonical has marshaled the best of what the open-source world has to offer in Ubuntu 8.04, a Linux-based operating system that's capable of mounting a ....