Wii fans, get ready to play games online! Nintendo is once again teaming up with GameSpy to bring multiplayer online games to the Wii, something Nintendo has been criticized for previously.

The technology from GameSpy would be provided to game publishers so that they can incorporate the multiplayer online option into their games.  This means that people would be able to create lists of friends for different games, advanced matchmaking would

I haven’t been able to find an official release date for Mozilla Thunderbird 2, but it is definitely coming up. They are moving into the release candidate (RC) stage and from that I would guess that a release is due within a month or so. Thunderbird 1.5 had two release candidates before its final release in January 2006, which covered nearly two months in time. Thunderbird 2, however, is looking very stable so it

Google has added a feature to Google Video that is something Gmail should have received first. When sending a video to a friend you see a form similar to the one pictured below, and now you can click on the “To” link to display a popup window for your contacts:

It is a nice feature that I think may come in handy, but why isn’t it available in

A nice surprise recently appeared on the online UK Apple Store that confirms what people have been saying all along. Late last night and early today while searching for “Mac Pro,” the first result displayed an option that said “Now quad-core or 8–core processing power.”The image below is a screenshot of the listing from Tuaw.com who managed to get there before it was taken down.

Not too long after the buzz started to

Google Phone rumors have been floating around the web for a while, and as expected, have caused quite the buzz.  Last we knew, the image to the right was said to be the Google phone. This image has been plastered all over the web and really hasn’t provided many details on what to expect.

The phone is said to be much like a Blackberry device, “running C++ at the core with an operating

Ouch! YouTube is probably feeling the burn with this one.  Viacom has decided to slap YouTube with a $1 billion lawsuit over damages for copyright infringement. We knew they weren’t getting along so well after Viacom cracked the whip and demanded YouTube remove 100,000 unauthorized video clips. They mean serious business at this point, and now YouTube and Google will have a battle to fight.

What does this mean for

I never thought that Dell would actually get serious about offering Linux PC’s for consumers. I figured the IdeaStorm site would have been another one of those feedback systems that are there to make consumers feel like they were being listened to, but I think Dell may really be getting serious about this.

Just a short while ago on the Direct2Dell blog they posted about