Well, this is certainly surprising. Sony closed out its Gamescom 2011 keynote with the startling announcement that the PlayStation 3 (presumably the standard, 160GB model) has had its price cut across the globe: It's now $249.99 in the U.S., €249.99 in Europe and ¥24,980 in Japan. According to Sony's Andrew House, this new price point is available immediately. As in, right now. This hot second.

We were testing our new certificate functionality with the Word 2007 template and once I opened the template file from the network location I got the following message:

The macros in this project are disable. Please refer to the online help or documentation of the host application to determine how to enable macros.

Google announced today that it intends to purchase smartphone maker Motorola Mobility for a staggering $12.5 billion in order to obtain its mobile-related patent holdings and hardware business. According to Google, this move will accelerate the online giant's Android ecosystem, which until now was made up largely of independent partners. But it's sure to attract intense antitrust scrutiny as well.

"Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners, and developers," Google CEO Larry Page said in a prepared statement.

You might experience the following issue with the Windows 2008 R2 Server.

When you try to access the server using UNC path, you might get the following error:

Error code 0x80070043 - The Network name cannot be found

It looks like the sly fox is ready to make its worldwide debut a few days early. In typical Mozilla fashion, a complete build of Firefox 6 is now unofficially available for your downloading pleasure, three days ahead of schedule.

If you're looking for a major facelift to the desktop edition, you won't find one here -- most of the new features aren't cosmetic. Perhaps most visibly, you'll find the domain name of the page you're parked on highlighted in the address bar. On the Android side, version 6 makes much bigger promises, like a "fresh visual style in Chrome Gingerbread," enhanced image scaling, and, perhaps most importantly, it's "faster and uses less memory."