The Supreme Court will hear violent video games lawsuit.
Taking up a new First Amendment test of disturbing images, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear California’s appeal of a decision that struck down a state law prohibiting the sale or rental of violent video games to minors.
The justices’ decision to accept the case, which will [...]

Advanced Micro Devices has introduced a six-core desktop processor about six weeks after Intel launched a more powerful competitor, but at a much higher price.
The AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition, released Tuesday, is a 45-nanometer processor that works with existing AM3 and AM2+ socket motherboards running older AMD products. Swapping chips requires only [...]

BlackBerry users often complain that their devices need a faster browser and better touchscreen technology. That’s what they are going to get in the third quarter when Research In Motion plans to launch its new 6.0 operating system, according to the company.
RIM, whose low-key public relations style is the polar opposite of Apple’s iPhone hype, [...]

As chief executive of the Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), Malcolm Corbett is well acquainted with the issues surrounding the national rollout of optical fibre-based next generation broadband access (NGA), and has some interesting views on how best to fund it.
The INCA aims to co-ordinate the emerging patchwork of regional and local NGA projects, bringing [...]

Telecoms and media giant Virgin Media added 38,300 new cable subscribers in the first quarter of 2010, boosting overall revenue to £963m, up 2.9 per cent year on year.
Virgin Media chief executive Neil Berkett said: "Higher gross additions, low churn and increased ARPU [average revenue per user] enabled us to deliver year-on-year cable subscription growth [...]

Before the recession, corporate green IT agendas were on target. When times got harder, green turned to red as cost cuts were made.
Organisations shelved their green strategies, but were missing a trick. They treated greenIT too much as an environmental gesture rather than an opportunity to do more with less. Most abolished or delayed their [...]

Information security organisations will run a series of national public competitions as a way of recruiting staff for the UK’s future cyber security workforce.
The Cyber Security Challenge UK is being held by industry leaders who have designed, built and implemented a range of online games that aim to replicate the problems cyber security professionals deal [...]

Remember RIM? The good folks who brought you the BlackBerry and transformed the smartphone market? They’re back at it.
The company has announced plans to roll out two new BlackBerrys loaded with computing features, including one that counts as the smallest device RIM has ever brought to market.
In a separate announcement, RIM said that it is [...]

Earlier this month, in a report entitled Ensuring You Have Mainframe Skills Through 2020, analyst Gartner warned of an impending mainframe skills gap. A generation of experienced IT staff are approaching retirement just as the mainframe is experiencing a renaissance.
The world’s top 25 banks run on mainframes and there are more Cobol transactions in a [...]

For some, it’s just a Facebook page intended to get some laughs. But, for others, it’s a website so offensive, they think Facebook should take it down.
The online survey asked if President Obama should be killed.
A page created by an anonymous user reads, “DEAR LORD, THIS YEAR YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTOR, PATRICK SWAYZIE. YOU [...]