Google has acquired Panoramio, a Spanish photo-sharing website that lets people upload photos and identify where they were taken by placing them on Google Earth or Google Maps.

If you’ve ever been unfortunate enough to own a Dell and need customer support, you will immediately catch on to the above joke.  Dell has announced that they will be letting around 8,800 employees find new employment as part of the revamping process begun by Michael Dell as of late.  Can the personnel cut bring Dell back to the top of the computer building business?

Mac Guy does not hate PC Guy, is the take away from the much hyped Steve Jobs and Bill Gates gabfest/love-in at the D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California.

I don’t know how this happened but it is likely a publicity stunt by ATi to get more users on board with their cards. ATi has been outdone by nVidia on more than one occasion and right now and it was second on the market (behind nVidia) with DirectX 10 capable video cards.

By now, you’ve probably already heard of Microsoft’s former ‘top secret’ project, known as Surface, which is a table-shaped computer that boasts a 30″ touch screen for interactive ‘touch’ computing. It’s certainly a great idea, but everyone seems to be missing the fact that this technology has been done before, in a prototype known as Bumptop.

“Well we really screwed this one up…” LiveJournal announced to their users today.

A 27-year-old notorious spammer, once sued by Microsoft, was arrested in Seattle, Washington, after a federal grand jury indicted him for mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering.

You too will be able to watch low-resolution, user-generated video content on your expensive, wide-screen television, thanks to a new partnership between Apple and YouTube.

Welcome to the new world of mobile computing. A new paper-based computing platform has been unveiled by a California-based corporation, Livescribe. Simply put, Livescribe transforms plain paper into a computer screen with a pen, known as a Smartpen (which is just about as neat as the Flash-based intro on the Livescribe website) that bridges the gap between the paper and digital worlds.

Google seems to be taking further steps to protect its users from viruses and malware. Aside from providing warnings when users click on links believed to lead to suspect websites, Google has acquired GreenBorder, an Internet security company that helps protect web users against malware.

Everyone’s getting word of the hot, new search engine in town, known as MyLiveSearch; which, appropriately named, is the Internet’s first, true ‘real-time’ search engine. But we’re not comparing Zunes to iPods, so don’t let any other site challenge your common sense as they portray MyLiveSearch to be a competitor to Google.

Check out this cool new feature on Google Maps! It’s called Street View. It’s basically a massive collection of images, from select cities in the U.S., in which a user can view a 360 degree panoramic image from any street supported in Google Maps.

It appears that Apple will be selling a different “second-generation” version of the iPhone in non-US markets, according to reports in the Chinese-language Taiwanese Commercial Times and Economic Daily News.

Despite recent changes in Google’s data-retention policy, data protection officials from 27 European countries have written to Google warning that the search giant may be in breach European privacy rules because of the way it stores data on individual searches.

You’ve all seen those “are you human” boxes at the bottom of web sites, usually in registration sections, that are meant to differentiate between a computer and a human. The boxes, filled with an image of text, require the user type the text shown in the image to prove he/she is human. These boxes are known as CAPTCHAs,  have found a genius new use through the clever thinking of a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist.

Vista is not Longhorn, it’s more of a cousin to it since it is missing some features that were present in Longhorn. Longhorn is back and better than ever, complete with restored WinFS functionality, Aero Glass and the default sidebar that we all know and love.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are to take the stage on Wednesday of this week for a 75 minute joint interview. We all know that there is no love lost between these two but they must have some kind of mutual respect for one another, otherwise I don’t think this would be happening.