Freecom has announced the "world's smallest 2.5in external hard drive" in the form of its new Mobile Drive XXS.

VMware – developers of VMware Fusion, the virtualization software for running Windows on a Mac – rushed out an emergency patch last week after a software-development snafu crippled the virtual servers of some users of its ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 products for server virtualisation.

There are those who bemoan the lackluster camera on the iPhone, and there are those who decide to do something about it.

Faced with huge song royalty increases, Net radio may soon face extinction. That is according to Internet radio Webcaster Pandora's founder Tim Westergren. He told the Washington Post his popular music Webcasting site is about to go offline because of increases in royalties his company must pay to the music industry. Westergren says that the Copyright Royalty Board's agreement with SoundExchange, the royalties collecting arm of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), is about to increase fees Pandora pays and thereby turn its small profits into a deficit.

More than one in every three new PCs is downgraded from Windows Vista to the older Windows XP, either at the factory or by the buyer, according to a US performance and metrics researcher.

A British woman has been ordered to pay £16,000 in costs and damages after she put a computer game on a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network.

Mercury Software Japan has introduced new iTabi cases for the iPhone 3G.

The story of Apple's strong management may begin with Steve Jobs, but it certainly doesn't end there. Apple enjoys a deep bench of executive talent – one of the reasons the company has thrived in recent years.

WaveMaker on Monday introduced Visual Ajax Studio 4.0, a new version of their Web 2.0 development engine. Visual Ajax Studio is offered under a dual license; it's distributed either for free as open source (under the AGPL v3 model) or a commercial license, with prices starting at US$599 (£321).

Apple is showing three new Get a Mac ads in the US.

Electronic Arts, maker of some of the most popular digital sports games in the world, will allow its US$2 billion bid for the publisher of popular game title Grand Theft Auto expire late Monday in the U.S., both companies said.

Apple said it had 21,600 full-time employees at the end of its 2007 fiscal year. But as far as some people who follow the company's every move are concerned, there's only one employee at Apple who matters.

Microsoft will begin alpha testing the next version of Office in November or December, according to a blog posting by a Microsoft employee.

Apple's added yet another partner to its extensive list of iPhone 3G cohorts: Turkish mobile phone provider Turkcell.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission released documents on Monday that may indicate that the first Android phone will hit the U.S. market in November.

Late Friday night Google solved the third Gmail outage of the past two weeks, but questions remain about the stability of the Webmail service, which is affecting the Google Apps hosted software suite.

Apple is offering a 60-day extension to MobileMe accounts to make up from problems users have suffered since the service’s launch. This is the second such extension that Apple has offered; in mid-July, the company offered a free 30 day addition.

Two weeks after releasing iPhone OS 2.0.1, Apple today updated the iPhone software to version 2.0.2.

Dell's attempt to register 'cloud computing' as a trademark have taken a setback, after the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ruled that it has become a generic term used by many companies.

TransGaming announced Monday that it has published a Macintosh version of Bioware’s Jade Empire Special Edition. Available for download through GameTree Online, TransGaming’s e-commerce site, Jade Empire Special Edition costs $39.95 (£21.40).