As a business traveler, I've witnessed a very interesting shift over the past two years. Business fliers, first to watch DVDs or videos on their laptops, are now watching movies and ... (more)

With Apple's last Macworld keynote speech just hours away, Microsoft is again talking up the idea of an "Apple tax" that people pay when they opt for a Mac over a Windows PC. It's ... (more)

Apple has cut deals that will finally enable iTunes to offer songs free of copy protection software from the three largest music labels, according to two sources close to the negotiations. ... (more)

For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote. Unfortunately, my decision to have ... (more)

CreativeFreedom.org.nz Launches With Campaign Against Guilt Upon Accusation Laws In NZ The Creative Freedom Foundation launches today in New Zealand to unite artists who are against ... (more)

Two weeks after the Recording Industry Association of America announced it had struck deals with top internet service providers to cut off unrepentant music sharers, not a single major ... (more)

Nintendo may have cleaned up in console sales in 2008, but more US gamers spent their free time time playing Sony's "last-gen" Playstation 2, according to Nielsen Media Research. The ... (more)

Right now you're probably playing catch up with all the great games that came out the last few months, but you better hurry up. There's a lot more coming in 2009. You can expect everything ... (more)

Comcast recently announced a deal with BitTorrent that left me dazed and confused. It was basically a roundabout way for the cable company to backtrack from its P2P traffic-blocking ... (more)

Amazon recently published a list of its 100 best-selling albums of 2008, and guess which one is on top? It's the Nine Inch Nails album Ghosts I-IV, which band front man Trent Reznor ... (more)

BEIJING - China launched a major crackdown on Internet pornography Monday targeting popular online portals and major search engines such as Google. Seven government agencies will ... (more)

THE Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant. The move, which follows a decision ... (more)

Audiophiles have long argued that vinyl records offer better sound quality compared to CDs or MP3s, but their stoic loyalty in the face of change was seen as little more than nostalgia ... (more)

To Hollywood executives, he's public enemy number one. To film fans around the world, he's a modern-day Robin Hood. As the internet's most prolific pirate makes his 1,000th illegal ... (more)

FRESNO, Calif. – A self-proclaimed teenage computer nerd hopes a new company he’s launched will become an online powerhouse – and he’s got the backing of Microsoft to help him ... (more)

Americans bought more music in 2008 than ever before, but album sales — the music industry's main source of revenue — dropped for a fourth year. According to the Nielsen Co.'s ... (more)

Anti-virus vendor Sophos is reporting that a new trojan horse is attempting to block access to Mininova, the Pirate Bay and Suprbay. The trojan, named Troj/Qhost-AC by Sophos, is changing ... (more)

Microsoft’s pay-per-use computing patent application, uncovered at the end of December, has been rejected by the US Patent & Trademark Office. The application - which described a ... (more)

A slightly changed version of the BD protection suffered the same fate shortly thereafter and now a third version, released only a month ago, has been once again cracked by the SlySoft ... (more)

In a follow up to the RIAA's plans to cease suing downloaders and switch to a tactic of pressuring ISPs for information (a tactic that ISPs are rejecting), more news regarding their ... (more)

Many songs' sales have more than doubled after release in one of the games, and well-known bands have started lining up to provide new music direct to the game makers. Now record labels ... (more)

For the last few years I have been listening to old radio programs on MP3 as I commute to and from work. Thanks to the compression abilities of the MP3 format, collectors of these decades-old ... (more)

Microsoft was not able to slow the market share loss of its Internet Explorer (IE) web browser in December. IE surrendered more than 1.5 points in December, according to Net Applications, ... (more)

Just weeks after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission shut down two companies accused of selling fake antivirus software, a new player has moved into the market, aided by glitches in the ... (more)

The Feb. 17 transition from analog to digital television broadcasts looms and as many as 8 million households are still unprepared, but the government program that subsidizes crucial ... (more)

The Wikimedia Foundation announced Friday that it has reached its goal of raising over $6 million to sustain Wikipedia. With the help of over 125,000 donors from around the world, ... (more)

(CNET) -- Yahoo and Intel built their success upon widespread use of personal computers, but the two companies hope products to be shown at next week's Consumer Electronics Show will ... (more)

On Christmas Eve, Worlds.com filed a complaint against NCsoft for infringing on its virtual world and MMO patent. Worlds.com, which was one of the early virtual world developers from ... (more)

Proving that not even Mickey is immune to the downturn, Disney has decided against coproducing and distributing the third film in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Voyage of the ... (more)

January 1, 2009 -- Newshosting announced today a massive increase in Usenet newsgroup storage capacity to an unprecedented 250 days of binary retention. Newshosting also announced expanded ... (more)