The Music Industry's New Extortion Scheme
Musicians themselves may just be crazy, but the music labels are dangerously stupid, and need to be stopped before they can do any further damage to the music industry. Case in point: Warner Music, f...
Major Web sites hit with growing Web attack
A blossoming Web attack, first reported by security researcher Dancho Danchev earlier this month, has expanded to hit more than a million Web pages, including many well-known sites. — “The number an...
Dell offers sub-$1,000 Blu-ray laptop
The end of the next-generation DVD format battle may not mean a long victory lap for inflated Blu-ray prices after all. — Dell, which has more than a little clout in the PC market, on Friday announc...
The Nokia N810 - WiMAX Edition
Ok, there's no official announcement yet but Nokia has again let the cat out of the bag a bit too early — four days too early to be exact as we can probably guess that the new Nokia N810 Internet Tabl...
The quiet boom of paidContent, and its new chief executive
Rafat Ali's digital media empire has grown, again. I'll disclaim right away - I used to work for him and am in awe of what he has created since ditching the life of a staff journalist all those years...
NVIDIA drivers responsible for nearly 30% of Vista crashes in 2007
That huge bundle of damning emails and documents Microsoft produced as part of the Vista-capable lawsuit is full of fascinating information about how the company developed, planned, and launched Vista...
What's Yahoo worth to Microsoft without Alibaba?
One of Yahoo's best arguments for getting Microsoft to raise its offer to acquire the company-the portal's stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba-is in jeopardy courtesy of antitrust regulations in...
Here's a throwback idea that might offer a way out for Microsoft
Ray Ozzie is one of the most well-respected computer scientists around. He pioneered innovations in groupware software during previous stints at Lotus and Groove and now is working to bring Microsoft...
Red Hat posts great 2008 fiscal year earnings
Anyone under the delusion that you can't make money from open source and Linux should have been on Red Hat's 2008 fiscal year earnings call on March 27. — If they had been, they would have heard Red...
Amazon.com Telling POD Publishers - Let BookSurge Print Your Books, or Else...
MPAA to broadband providers: Pull the plug on pirates
HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—The Motion Picture Association of America is calling on broadband providers to pull the plug on copyright-infringing users. — Jim Williams, the MPAA's chief technology officer and ...
Gartner Clarifies 3G iPhone Reports
The technology research firm says it doesn't know whether Apple has actually ordered 10 million iPhones that support 3G networks, as was reported on the Web. — Technology research firm Gartner on Th...
Did the internet get away with it?
Video games have been the focus of pretty much all of the coverage of the Byron Review, including our own. — The reason is simple - when it comes to legislation, only the games industry is being aff...