Recently, Mazda announced that it will be unveiling its crossover vehicle the Kazamai at the Moscow International Motor Show this August. Next month they plan to reveal the sporty vehicle’s environmental performance specifics, but they are currently boasting that the car will “deliver exciting driving dynamics, frugal fuel consumption and greatly reduced CO2 emissions.”

Yesterday we wrote about concerns regarding Steve Jobs' health and its impact on Apple. In the latest development, the New York Times reports Jobs revealed to associates he had a surgical procedure this year aimed at solving a problem that caused his apparent weight loss. According to the author of NYTimes article, Jobs said concerns about his health are "greatly exaggerated." He reassured associates and several members of the Apple board that he is feeling well. Most importantly, Jobs revealed, for the first time, that four years after he underwent the Whipple treatment, he is now cancer free.

New York’s Governor David Paterson has signed a new video game labeling law that critics claim is too lenient and too broad.  The law will require visible labeling on video games sold in retail stores and will also create an advisory panel to study game ratings and the link between violent games and crime.  Game console makers will also be forced to include parental lockout features by 2010.

Microsoft painted a rosy picture of increasing Windows Vista demand during its most recent quarter conference call, but the reality may look different, if the results of a survey of systems management appliance is somewhat correct: Apparently, six out of ten IT Managers have no plans to replace an older Windows operating system with Vista and almost all say that the recently released Service Pack 1 did not change their opinion and almost half of respondents said that they may be considering other operating systems as alternatives to Windows Vista. Is Microsoft gambling the huge enterprise client market away?

From Pakistani engineering, through Danish organization, with Luxembourg VC cash, and on to world domination. Vopium wants to be the first native VoIP app on your iPhone.

Hard drive makers are quickly learning to deal with the economic downturn by lowering their cost. The increasing mass storage threat from NAND flash devices is answered with perpendicular magnetic recording technology, which enables the industry to stay at least one step ahead of NAND capacity levels and protect its most important markets.   

Opinion - Vista is to Microsoft as heart bypass surgery is to the old. Yes, it will keep you alive, but it’ll suck the life out of you in the process. There was a time when there were people who knew how to make a personal computer. You would have thought that Microsoft would know, but Vista proves that they don’t get it. On the other hand, nature abhors a vacuum, unless it is a Dyson, so where are the new computer makers? Is anyone going to make a computer to replace the comatose PC?

Scientists from Microsoft Research and the University of Washington claim to have developed a new display technology that could be four times as efficient in terms of backlight transmission as today’s LCDs and display perfect black color. At the same time the display technology could be manufactured economically, the researchers claim. Their idea: Telescopic pixels that are equipped with a pair of mirrors.

Microsoft is hosting its XNA Gamefest conference in Seattle, and first news is coming in. Prepare yourself, it's big. First of all, starting with today, all Games for Windows - LIVE multiplayer services are completely free. Achievements, TruSkill matchaking, cross-platform play with Xbox 360 (on cross-platform games, such as Champions Online) - all of the features that went with GfW – LIVE Gold service became free. This is a logical move, since users of PC platform pay for operating system, while owners of Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles get their operating system for free (well not exactly free, but it’s integrated into the price).

After a very rocky start, Sony is now much more optimistic about the sales potential of its game console: Sony hopes the PS3 will outsell the PS2 eventually.

Researchers at Ohio State University have been commissioned by NASA to provide a GPS like system for astronauts on the moon. NASA is planning to get its astronauts on the lunar surface by 2020. They know where the moon is, but they don't want anyone getting lost while they're up there because no one will be able to read a map by then.

Mozilla updated both Firefox 2 and 3 in order to plug security critical security holes, squash some annoying bugs and deliver a few user-centric tweaks. Although users are recommended to update their browser, TG Daily noticed that some popular add-ons for Firefox 3 are not yet compatible with the patched browser.

Most of E3 was pretty ho hum, but D-BOX, a small company from Quebec, showed us what can only be described as "rocking chairs on stereoids". D-BOX is not the first company to offer interactive racing or flying seats, but products we tested offered quite a compelling experience.

Intel’s latest round of processor price represents a very subtle adjustment of prices the market widely seems to have accepted. However, it is clear that the company is reacting to AMD’s aggressive dual-, triple- and quad-core pricing strategy: Entry-level quad-core processors can now be purchased for less than $200. All Intel dual-core processor are now sitting well below this critical mark that divides the processor market into mainstream and performance products.

Apple and AT&T stores are slowly rolling out the new 3G iPhone, but die-hard fans can get one right away … if they plunk down some serious cash.  The phones are being offered on Craigslist and eBay and in some cases the asking price is just insane.  One eBay seller is offering the 16 GB phone for $1499, while Los Angeles area Craigslist ads have the phone selling for approximately $1200.