Philadelphia - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will be arguing this Thursday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia, urging the court to block ... (more)

GENERAL SANTOS, the Philippines — After a day of barbering, Rodolfo Gregorio went to his neighborhood karaoke bar still smelling of talcum powder. Putting aside his glass of Red Horse ... (more)

A New York man has sued security software maker Symantec for automatically renewing his subscription to Norton Antivirus, alleging that the company did not notify him before charging ... (more)

A report this week laying out a strategy for social search has been getting a good deal of attention in tech circles. The paper, “Anatomy of a Large Scale Social Search Engine,” ... (more)

The battery, which has powered our lives for generations, may soon be consigned to the dustbin of history. British scientists say they have created a plastic that can store and ... (more)

EMI, the music giant controlled by Guy Hands's Terra Firma, lost a staggering £1.8bn last year leaving it in desperate need of a £120m cash injection to stave off lender Citigroup ... (more)

The history of P2P file sharing service Kazaa (which actually started life as “KaZaA”) is known to most of us born in the eighties or before, and consists mainly of copyright related ... (more)

People tend to equate BitTorrent with piracy, and we’re not going to pretend that there isn’t a lot of loot out there on torrent sites. However, there’s also plenty of opportunity ... (more)

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has won reexamination of an illegitimate patent on voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) that could cripple the adoption of new ... (more)

The EA Play Label of Electronic Arts Inc. has announced the celebration of the ten year anniversary of The Sims, the groundbreaking game that allowed players to create and live a virtual, ... (more)

The electronic systems in modern cars and trucks - under new scrutiny as regulators continue to raise concerns about Toyota vehicles - are packed with up to 100 million lines of computer ... (more)

Mozilla confirmed late Thursday that it failed to detect malware in a pair of Firefox add-ons, which may have infected up to 4,600 users. The add-ons have been removed from Firefox's ... (more)

The Authors Guild agreed to a controversial settlement with Google because it feared repeating the mistakes that the music industry has made in dealing with digital works, it said Friday. Google ... (more)

Australian band Men at Work could be substantially out of pocket after Sydney federal court ruled that the flute riff from ripped off from Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree. The ... (more)

If you're one of the more than 25 million Comcast subscribers, the bill you get next month may be for a service called Xfinity. Beginning February 12, Comcast will begin rebranding ... (more)

Video game makers should begin to emerge in 2010 from one of their worst industry downturns on record, but investors remain cautious about a sector that has been plagued by bad news. ... (more)

After stripping SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone of its 3G streaming capabilities last year, AT&T has changed course and "approved" a version of the app with 3G streaming for sale in the ... (more)

Your brain has about 10 different clues which it uses to detect depth. When you’re in the theatre [watching a 3D movie] you’re only getting one clue – which is parallax. So ... (more)

Microsoft has issued Security Advisory (980088) to address a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer that may allow information disclosure for Windows XP users or for ... (more)

An increasingly creaky version of the web's most popular web server has finally been retired after twelve years serving billions of pages. The Apache Software Foundation has released ... (more)

Five years ago the MPAA sued Alex Hanff, the man who later brought data pirate brought Phorm to its knees, for 150 million dollars for owning DVDR-CORE, the DVD bittorrent community. It ... (more)

uTorrent 2.0 went gold a few days ago, and the latest stable version of the incredibly popular torrent client introduces several useful new features for those who haven't been playing ... (more)

Anyone with an e-mail account likely knows that police can peek inside it if they have a paper search warrant. But cybercrime investigators are frustrated by the speed of traditional ... (more)

IINET has won a landmark Federal Court battle against a clutch of Hollywood movie studio heavyweights which alleged the Perth-based internet service provider had encouraged copyright ... (more)

The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) on Tuesday hosted representatives of the Motion Picture Association of America and seven movie studios, along ... (more)

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- If you watched the Grammy Awards Sunday night, it would appear all is well in the recording industry. But at the end of last year, the music business was ... (more)

WASHINGTON (AFP) – News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday there have been "very early" talks with director James Cameron about making a sequel to his box office record-breaking ... (more)

Switzerland-base development and design firm Jilion recently launched a site demonstrating their latest project, SublimeVideo, an HTML5-based video player. Although not publicly available ... (more)

The state of South Australia has a new election law that went into effect January 6, and its effect was shocking: anonymous political speech on the Internet was simply destroyed. The ... (more)

"Three strikes" may be controversial when applied to Internet disconnections for copyright infringement, but I suspect broad agreement could be had on applying the principle to the ... (more)