Torrentspy names alleged MPAA hacker
A month after accusing the Motion Picture Association of America of conspiring to commit data theft, the operators of a file search engine presented more details regarding the alleged relationship bet...
BloggerCon: Citizen media-users know more
The second discussion session at BloggerCon was led by Jay Rosen, associate professor of journalism at NYU. Rosen listed several questions and topics to kick off the discussion. The Docnographer Doc...
Google Is Testing Ads for Video Service
Google, the search engine company, said yesterday that it had started testing advertisements on its video site, matching a capability long offered by other major Internet sites. — Until now, Google ...
A Bad Trade: Will Congress Unwittingly Repeal the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Violate Our Trade Treaties?
Synopsis — In his recent IPI Ideas paper "Will Congress Circumvent the DMCA?," Richard Epstein notes how the "other purposes" of Rep. Boucher's (D-VA) H.R. 1201 …
Next Game Controller: Your Phone
Researchers are turning cell phones into motion-detection game controllers similar to Nintendo's new Wii device. — In a recent demonstration, the Human Interface Technology Laboratory in New Zealand...
Maxthon: China's hip browser
Web surfers in China frustrated by censorship in search engines are increasingly turning to a little-known Internet browser with a big following in the Middle Kingdom. — Maxthon, a browser made by a...
Novell ditches top execs
The board of Novell has dismissed two top executives, including chief executive Jack Messman,as part of a management shake-up at the software and networking firm.
Commentary: The Problem Of Pay-Per-Action Ads
"Finally, a search engine offering true pay-per-performance advertising." It's not Google, though, which, it was leaked, is testing a new CPA (cost-per-action) format. It's Snap, created by the same...
F88 Wrist Watch Mobile Phone
CEC Corp in China specially made this wrist watch phone to one of the China's most famous ping pong player, the GSM F88 Watch. It is available to the market at the price of 8,888Yuan which is about U...
Microsoft swims upstream on security
Microsoft's security ambitions don't stop with the consumer. The company also has an eye on the multibillion-dollar enterprise security market. — Now that it's launched the Windows Live OneCare sec...
PostApp launches WidgetBox, a marketplace for widgets
Stealth start-up PostApp announced at Thursday's SuperNova Connected Innovators session the launch tomorrow of WidgetBox, its new beta marketplace for managed web based widgets, and $1.5 million in fu...
10 Reasons Why High Definition DVD Formats Have Already Failed
I'm not typically a doom and gloom kind of guy - really, I'm rather optimistic. But this pending format release/war is simply the most ridiculous thing I've seen in a long time. The hype machine is ...