Microsoft Corp. will cut the price of some versions of Windows Vista, the software maker said late Thursday.

Wired News - AP News

Special thanks to a special client for pointing this problem out to us.  My Outlook 2007 search hasn't worked for months- if you're in the same boat, there's a promising solution here:

Watch out for a Microsoft Outlook 2007 indexing issue in Windows Vista

Microsoft today acknowledged a problem that is preventing Hotmail users from accessing their accounts.
PC World - Microsoft Fixing Hotmail Outage

Mozilla Corp. has been quietly offering live Web support for the Firefox Web browser since the beginning of the year. It is one of the open-source group's experiments in improving the user experience and woo more of them from Microsoft Corp.'s still-dominant Internet Explorer.

Mozilla Offering Live Chat Support for Firefox - New York Times

The problem with a huge Inbox, besides the fact that you can't find anything, is a size limit to Outlook Express and once Outlook Express gets to the size limit, well, goodbye to your email!

Don't Let Outlook Express Get Too Big!

It's official. Toshiba just made a statement saying, " it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders."

Official: HD DVD dead and buried, format war is over - Engadget

The second lengthy BlackBerry outage in less than a year has one consulting company advising clients not to rely solely on the popular smart phones for critical e-mail messages.

PC World - Business Center: Service Outage Gives BlackBerry a Black Eye

A class action lawsuit filed against Palm "claimed that the Treo 600 and Treo 650 smartphones had certain defects, failed at unacceptable rates, and that Palm made misrepresentations concerning the Treo 600 and Treo 650 smartphones," and Palm just decided to settle the whole tiff rather than take it to trial.

Blast from the past: come get your Treo 600 / 650 settlement! - Engadget Mobile

Remember: your photos can be used without your permission if you post them online.

An Icelandic photographer has for a second time encountered the ugly side of Internet photo sharing, finding photos she published at Yahoo's Flickr site being sold by somebody else through the iStockphoto Web site.

Photographer finds Flickr pics sold on iStockphoto | Underexposed - CNET News.com

In a move to curtail retaliation by vengeful sellers in its feedback system, eBay plans to prohibit sellers from posting negative feedback about their customers.

eBay sellers to be banned from criticizing buyers | Tech news blog - CNET News.com