Valve co-founder Gabe Newell has made known his objections to digital rights management in games, claiming that copy-protection systems diminish the value of a product. Speaking last night at the Game Developers Choice awards – where he picked up the Pioneer Award – Newell cited what he saw as a central problem with DRM.

The world is one step closer to holding the Apple iPad in its shaking hands: consumers can pre-order iPads on the Apple Website starting, March 12, at 5:30 a.m. PST.

Sony recently launched PlayStation Move, the company's highly anticipated motion control system that translates your real world movements into video game moves.

While websites such as Facebook usually play a passive, benign role in crimes that headlines might suggest are entirely attributable to them, this is one case where the death of a young woman was indeed caused by the ease of constructing a false Facebook identity, coupled with a tragic ignorance of the signs we should all look for, and the rules we should all follow.

170 Chinese punters have filed a complaint through their lawyers for the government to recall faulty HP laptops.

Sony Computer Entertainment America announced that purchases and rental of HD movies from the 6 major studios, namely, 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution are available on the Playstation Network video delivery service. This news simultaneously crowns the Playstation 3 as the first game console with HD movies from those studios.

You may not know it, but your gadgets have a hidden agenda. Each device contains its own widening universe of services and applications, many delivered via the Internet. They are designed to keep you wedded to a particular company's ecosystem and set of products.

The Mozilla Foundation is best known for Firefox, but as Foundation head Mitchell Baker recently told us, the group's mission is not merely to produce a browser that kills Internet Explorer.

New figures suggest Facebook's financials are healthier than expected - with the site on course to break a billion dollars of revenue by the end of the year.

The iPad may do well, but its success will likely be due more to Apple's marketing genius than to its features, functions or form factor. It seems that mistakes were made in the development of this product -- from its unfortunate name to its size to its intended purposes. Of course, Apple is pretty good at correcting its mistakes, too.