If you’ve been surfing around you might have seen the news of Battlefield Heroes being delayed till later in the year. Well for the next 4 weeks the site will be posting a new article twice a week offering Beta keys, the first 20 comments on these will receive one. Also over those weekends the [...]

The Hacker from Blighty, Garry McKinnon, has recently lost his most recent battle to prevent his expedition to the US on counts of hacking. Gary, who is being charged in excess of $700,000 in damages, is taking his case to the European court, which is expected to take at least a couple of years before [...]

Richard Branson and designer Burt Rutan unveiled the “WhiteKnightTwo” (WK2) in the Mojave desert – the vehicle which will carry the equally badly named “SpaceShipTwo” (SS2) into what is technically a sub-orbit around the Earth. After previously only seen as a computer generated render, it’s good to see the vehicle in the flesh. Especially so [...]

China has just overtaken the US, as the country with the largest online population in the world. China, according to sources, has a massive 253 million people surfing the net. They may be online, but as we know, they aren’t exactly experiencing the net to it’s “fullest” shall we say, with censorship and government restrictions [...]

Need I say anymore? I think XKCD has said it all!.. Users eh?

That’s right, it’s that time of year again. That time when all the System Administrators around the world will be showered with gifts, praised upon and otherwise treated like binary Gods amongst their peers. Tomorrow, on Friday, it will be Sys Admin Appreciation Day! To find out how you can treat that special geek in [...]

Even though still technically in Beta (isn’t everything in Google “Beta?”) the search giant has announced today that anybody can now use their Wikipedia replacement, Knol. The system is based around the idea of users being accountable for what they write. And if people are accountable, they’re more likely to concentrate a little more on [...]

Terry Childs, who I recently reported had been accused of locking the “FiberWAN” system for San Francisco’s local goverment, has given up the password to allow people back in. I guess the pressure just got to him in the end – I have visions of government workers with towels and jugs of water working him [...]

While surfing the waves or the world wide web I came across a very funny video of gaming glitches and just had to share with the people of TechSnake. Enjoy and don’t drink hot drinks while watching

The proxy battle that has been in the wings since the start of this whole affair with Carl Icahn, has finally been resolved. Mr Icahn, is to take a seat on the board, plus another 2 members, which will be voted on from a list of 9 possible candidates. The board will expand to 11 [...]