D. Colo.: CleanFlicks Infringes Movie Copyrights
Judge Richard P. Matsch of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado on Wednesday filed this opinion granting partial summary judgment in favor of the movie studios, finding that C...
At AOL, a Plan for a Clean Break
Should AOL sacrifice its cash cow in hopes of finding a prosperous future? — In two weeks, the board of Time Warner Inc., which owns AOL, will hear a proposal from Jonathan Miller, AOL's chief execu...
A quick note on Click Fraud
There has been a slight upturn in the debate over clickfraud. — The generic response seems to be that its "self correcting". The logic goes that if advertisers using CPC services arent getting the ...
Xplore Technologies Launches New iX104C3 Mobile Computer
Highlights of Security and Accessibility Features in New Rugged Offering — AUSTIN, TX, July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Xplore Technologies® Corp. (TSX:XPL - News), an innovative manufacturer of rug...
'Magnetic memory' chip unveiled
A microchip which can store information like a hard drive has been unveiled by US company Freescale. — The chip, called magnetoresistive random-access memory (Mram), maintains data by relying on mag...
Teenagers used to push Zango on Myspace?
Wouldn't it be nice if someone found a network of websites apparently designed to do nothing else but spread Adware around Myspace? Not only that, but get the innocent end-users themselves to do the ...
Student, Phone Home
CINCINNATI — For Ron Chicken and other freshmen at Montclair State University, the new freedoms that presumably came with college age included a mandatory cell phone with which the school could pinpoi...
Apple pips its rivals with the iPod that talks
FROM Walkman to Talkman. Not content with changing the world's music-listening habits, Apple has come up with another innovation: the talking iPod. — A new generation of machines will use sophistic...
In YouTube Clips, a Political Edge
It starts off like a typical negative ad, with swelling music and pictures of John McCain: "Flip-Flopper? Yes. Waffler? Yes." — But then the Internet spot takes a strange turn: "Eh, whatever. He...
Site-Lookup Service Foils Fraud
Few netizens think about the internet's domain name system: the architecture that invisibly translates a browser's request for, say, wikipedia.org into the numeric IP address where the site is hosted....
Whither Television Programming?
As a follow up to our previous post on TV network activity on the Internet and through iTunes, we've further explored television programming and how it's playing out on the web beyond the major networ...
Announcing the Fake Leopard Screenshot Contest
I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that I am starting to get really pumped up for WWDC, now just under a month away. Why? Well, I'm definitely expecting some new hardware from Apple. Mac Pros seem p...
CaseCamp
Setting aside all of the drama of Rocketboom going down right now, there are a few facts I wanted to set straight because nearly every writer on the face of the internet seems to not know. It's becau...
Kool IM Launches to Battle Meebo
Michigan based Kool IM, an Ajax web chat service that compares to Meebo and eBuddy, launched today. — These services are very popular, particularly with employees and students who are unable to down...
GOOGLE TESTING GDRIVE (CODENAME PLATYPUS)
Okay, Writely accepts new users, no big deal here. And because I am a very interested person, I wanted to know on which system (programming language) it now runs. So I started to append index.jsp, i...
The pain of switching to a new OS
Last week I decided to install a new operating system on one computer in my lab. Not a big deal, really. I install, uninstall, and reinstall various Windows versions all the time. But this particul...
A GUIDE TO OS X SOFTWARE FOR SWITCHERS
I HAVE YET TO SEE — a Switcher's Guide that actually focuses on the Switcher. Most seem more concerned with listing a few personal favorite programs or touting some of the wonderful features of OS ...
Hilary Rosen: Singing a New Song?
For many, the name Hilary Rosen recalls a Recording Industry Association of America bogeywoman who brought the law down on Napster, the Diamond Rio, small-time internet radio and other fan favorites. ...
Are Tape Backup systems obsolete?
One of the most tedious and complex jobs in the world of IT is data backup. Not only is it complex, but the use of mechanical Tape loaders make the system very prone to breakage and the Tapes themsel...
A GUIDE TO OS X SOFTWARE FOR SWITCHERS
I HAVE YET TO SEE — a Switcher's Guide that actually focuses on the Switcher. Most seem more concerned with listing a few personal favorite programs or touting some of the wonderful features of OS ...
Intel aims for 32 cores by 2010
Chicago (IL) and Westlake Village (CA) - Five years ago, Intel envisioned processors running at 20 GHz by the end of this decade. Today we know that the future will look different. CPUs will sacrifi...
BlueAnt X5 Stereo Bluetooth Headset
BlueAnt has recently released the most advanced headset out there to date. The X5 Stereo Bluetooth Headset utilises Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) which is brand new technology allowing t...
Lotus Notes tuned for Linux
IBM plans to unveil on Monday a version of its Lotus Notes desktop collaboration software for Linux. — Lotus Notes on Linux 7.0.1, which will be generally available July 24, is based on the Eclipse ...
The American Wolf.
The Gamerscore Competition has been going on since November and according to the MyGamercard.net Leaderboard is jam packed with gamers who are gunning for that #1 spot. I interviewed ST TheKing back ...