Kotaku is a popular gaming blog that is part of the same network as Gizmodo and Lifehacker, and today they have been on a rollercoaster ride with Sony. Seeing that they are so popular there is no doubt that Sony would want to be on their good side to help promote future product releases, but Kotaku did something that Sony wasn’t too fond of.

Wired News recently did an experiment with Digg to prove a point, and it’s drawing quite a bit of attention. Annalee Newitz of Wired News set up a pointless blog filled with pictures of crowds of people. She says the intent was to be as random and boring as possible with no originality and no analysis. After the blog was all set, she submitted it to Digg.

We haven’t really heard much about the Zune since it launched, other than an update here and there. The last we heard was when it became Vista Compatible back in December. The latest news is that Update 1.3 will be available soon.

The RIAA is back at it again! And this time, instead of going after younger kids and teens, they’re going after college students. They are taking a different route with the college students by trying to persuade them to settle the disputes out of court which means less hassle for the RIAA but more money.

For the last 5–hours (maybe more) my Gmail account has been inaccessible, and it is times like these that makes me worry that I could have just lost all of my emails. Sure, I have seen Gmail outages before, but when they are as extensive as this one it really makes me question the stability.

Just yesterday, Google gave some insight as to how many clicks are fraudulent within their AdWords/AdSense program, but they also explained their system for detecting click fraud. It’s one of those things that they have to deal with proactively because it happens each day. 

We’ve mentioned Windows Genuine Advantage over and over now.

Adobe recently announced their plans to release an online version of Photoshop, their popular image editing application.  It will be a “light version” made using Flex, and is expected in the next six months.

Many of you probably have files residing on your computer that haven’t been touched in ages. You may even have documents created years ago that you haven’t found a need to remove, or maybe there are some programs that you never got around to uninstalling. The problem is trying to find these unnecessary files and programs so that you can get around to removing them.