The long awaited Star Wars: The Force Unleashed game has arrived not just on consoles but for the Nokia N-Gage and iPhone. Sadly, PC gamers will not likely see a port of the game for their platform.

New start up company Willow Creek is using an Open Source philosophy to shorten delivery time of its robots. The company has given the prototype robots an Open Source operating system and has shipped them to various universities and labs for testing and improvement. By making the operating system open source, the company hopes to receive necessary feedback on improvements that will eliminate years of costly lab testing.

In an attempt to extend its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program, Microsoft is now going to tap the refurbished PC market with a new program to further curb piracy of its operating system and extend the WGA presence.

For reason that it wants to reduce the security risk of the entire Windows ecosystem as well as to make its browser available as broadly as possible, Microsoft has removed the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation requirement of IE7 for Windows XP users.

Let’s look at some past failures, Skype, WGA servers, Monster.com losing customer information and now parts of PayPal are offline.  The PayPal subscription payment service went down August 30 and remains down.  PayPal expects a fix to be in place by September 5 or 6 but hopes to have everything back to normal within 24 hours (which would be Labor day, don’t bet on it).

You may remember this past weekend that many users had trouble validating their legally obtained copies of Windows Vista and XP.  The company is now willing to talk about it to a limited extent and has said the problem was due to a human error.

It’s like the infamous computer of the Discovery said, “things like this have cropped up before and they have always been attributed to human error.”  Besides being a deranged homicidal computer, there is truth in that.

It is. It isn’t. It is. It isn’t. It might. Microsoft is after a better search engine and since it can’t or doesn’t want to make its own better what better target than Yahoo. Whatever the case is many analysts think that Microsoft is closer than ever to snatching up Yahoo! for its own nefarious purposes.

The hacker behind last week’s ”Brute Force” Vista key generator has admitted that it was all just joke.

We knew it would only be a matter of time before an illegal, yet “alternative” method to unlock Vista would be available. This day is finally among us; KezNews.com is now offering a brute force method for obtaining a product key for Microsoft Vista.

A Microsoft blogger, Alex Koc, has lashed out at pirates creating devious workarounds for Vista product activation, especially the notorious “frankenbuild” technique. He detailed how Vista will defeat such installations.

Could piracy be a thing of the past with Microsoft leading a new attack on an old problem?

Only a few days after the business edition of Windows Vista finally went to ‘gold’ status, it has already started appearing on pirate sites on the Internet. How quick was that?!

Office 2007 is Microsoft’s big push to once again own the office application suite market. With features 10 years ahead of the competitors, there’s no sign that Microsoft are lowering prices to compete as they don’t feel they need to. So how much does Office 2007 cost?