One of Britain’s local councils published details of a highly sensitive spy center online. The premise, a covert MI5 operations center, now has potentially dangerous information about it available in the public domain.

Toshiba recently revealed the first Cell powered HD TV to hit the market. The Cell technology has been used in other hi-def technology, such as the PS3 for its super-computer-like computational capabilities. This may be the first offspring to come out of the deal between Toshiba and Sony.

We’ve all probably had a frustrating experience at one point or another with a down Web site. Be it a blog you’re particularly into, a shopping site, or the latest viral video who’s server couldn’t handle a big surge in Web traffic when it got popular–down Web sites are no fun. Now a new Web site will let you know when your site of choice is back up again, so you don’t have to keep hitting that refresh button.

Faced with drastically lower global economic expectations, handset manufacturing giant Nokia says that they will pull out of the lucrative (but quirky) Japanese cell phone market, one of the largest in the world. Nokia has announced that they will stop developing and manufacturing handsets for Japanese partners NTT DoCoMo and Softbank Mobile, effective immediately.

Rumors abound on the business side of the technology market. This has never been more true than in the on-again, off-again romance between Microsoft and Yahoo!. Today there is a new rumor floating about that a new deal is in the works, this time involving the total sale of Yahoo! to Microsoft, the installation of a complete new management team at Yahoo!, and the involvement of players from AOL and Fox Interactive.

Black Friday has been and gone, and the results from retailers are starting to come in. But it seems on first sight that online retailers have done much better than expected, with sales up on last year despite the economic downturn. Has Cyber Monday come early, or is this holiday season going to be less bleak than first thought?

Facebook is reportedly attempting to extend its reach on the Web, enabling users to log into other websites using the Facebook credentials through a new program called Facebook Connect.

Some analysts have been quick to predict that the sales of Blu-ray movies would suffer due to the economic downturn. However, it seems like they were all wrong. Last month, Blu-ray movie sales have reached an all time high and it looks like things are just heating up.

When you’re doing a Web search, sometimes simply using Google or Yahoo! doesn’t quite cut it and you have to go to several different sites and perform your search in order to find exactly what you were looking for. The site Soovie is designed to make that process a little easier by searching seven different sites simultaneously for what you’re looking for.

Netbooks are in the news again, but for different reasons. Michael Arrington is proclaiming their insignificance, while Intel is having second thoughts about the machines they were touting as if they were the Second Coming.

What do you do with your PC when you decide to hock it for a brand spanking new system? Do you bin it, destroy it in a fit of rage, sell it, or give it to a friend, relative, or charity in dire need? It seems most of us choose one of the first two options because the majority of used PCs go unused beyond the first owner.

Multiple firms have started cracking down more harshly on people they suspect of illegally sharing, especially in the UK. But some of these firms seem to be operating a very harsh and unfair system of weeding out lawbreakers. Thankfully, longtime computer games developer Atari has seen the light.

Torrenting, or “sharing,” files on the internet is more commonplace today than it has been ever before; those who take part in torrents are aware of the legal implications of downloading movies, music and applications on the sly. It’s something else entirely when people who don’t even use the Internet are accused of downloading illegally, and not just downloading family movies like Kung Fu Panda…try hardcore gay porn titles.

Wake up like normal and walk away empty handed; wake up early and get a shot at the big time; don’t go to bed…and you have a fighting chance. Black Friday electronics and entertainment shopping isn’t for the faint of heart, and this year was particularly gritty and violent.

In a move sure to rankle European cell phone providers, telecommunication ministers in Europe, acting for the European Commission, placed price caps on roaming Short Message Service (SMS) messages, commonly known as text messages. The price cut was substantial, reducing retail text message prices from an average of 0.29 Euros to 0.11 Euros. The wholesale rate has been capped at 0.04 Euros.

Joost seemed to have a chance to joust with marketplace leaders as recently as a year ago, but fell on hard times. The video start-up, the brain child of Niklas Zennström (founder of Skype) and Janus Friis (founder of Kazaa) seemed to lose traction before it ever got out of the box. Now things are looking up again. Joost has announced an application that will allow customers to stream all Joost content onto the iPhone for free.

In the early days of computing, everyone knew that computer errors were created through faulty human input.  It was known as the “garbage in/garbage out”(GIGO) rule.  Unfortunately, the government has always been of the opinion that computers are infallible, no matter how many times it is proven wrong.  Take the Homeland Security Administration for example.