The first pictures of the much-rumoured Sony PlayStation Phone prototype have been leaked onto the internet.

Sony has slashed the UK price of its digital download-only handheld, the PSPgo, knocking a healthy £65 off the previous recommended retail price of £225.

Apple will stop bundling Adobe's Flash with Mac OS X, the company confirmed Friday. The new MacBook Air, which debuted earlier in the week, is the first Flash-less system from Apple. Other systems will follow suit as the company clears out inventory of Mac desktops and notebooks that include Flash.

It's official: smut is now allowed on YouTube – so long as it's artistic smut. And with this recognition that not everything that is naked is evil, YouTube appears to have scored one up on the slightly more straitlaced types over at Facebook.

The problem with working in IT is that when we go home, our job often continues. Sometimes, keeping our children's computers running can be a bigger challenge than sorting out the adults at work. But if you install Linux at home, you can avoid the headaches. That's because sound reasons exist for migrating young users from other operating systems.

We love Call of Duty: Black Ops even before it is even out and still a long way away. This promises to be an absolute knock out with 3D incorporated and the trailers have already got expectations swollen beyond sanity. Here is the latest campaign trailer of Black Ops…

The first batch of smartphones powered by Windows Phone 7 are starting to arrive in our inbox. Both Samsung and HTC have announced their launch handsets, in the wake of LG accidentally publishing details of the LG Optimus 7 a little early.

WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange lashed out at the mainstream media during a debate at a London university Thursday, fighting back at a string of unfavorable stories that have appeared since his organization's publication of a cache of U.S. intelligence documents.

An appeals court ruled Tuesday that government funding of embryonic stem cell research can continue for now. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington granted the Obama administration's request to allow the funding from the National Institutes of Health while it appeals a judge's order blocking the research.

Earlier this summer, we noted that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had won a nearly six-year battle with local preservationists to replace a 14-bedroom Spanish Colonial Revival structure he acquired in Woodside, Calif. with something more, um, appropriate. Now we know what Jobs intends. It turns out he wasn't kidding.