No surprise here that Apple is number one in MP3, though with a market share that has grown from two-thirds market share to nearly three-out-of-every four players. SanDisk remains at ... (more)

Pandora's on the ropes, Imeem is taking off, Grooveshark relaunched today with recommendations and a long list of cool features, Blip.fm threatens to make Muxtape look like old news ... (more)

The international music trade group IFPI says that "three strikes" rules against online copyright infringement have taken over the world in the last nine months, and they are an "idea ... (more)

Judge George O'Toole ruled today that the MIT students accused of attempting to defraud the Massachussetts Bay Transit Authority had not, in fact, done so, and refused the MBTA's request ... (more)

Japan's trade ministry said on Tuesday that three fires had been caused by overheating Apple iPod nanos, which it said could be due to a battery defect. No one was injured in the ... (more)

The countdown to Internet Explorer (IE) 8 Beta 2 is on. Microsoft said the consumer-focused IE 8 test release would be available in August. There are just 11 days left…. No doubt, ... (more)

The IOC (International Olympic Committee) wants the Swedish government to act on The Pirate Bay and the rampant piracy of the Olympic games. Good luck with that! ... (more)

If you walked through a mall in the United States over the past couple of years, odds are that you saw the Power Player Super Joy console on sale at one of those center-aisle carts ... (more)

A relative newcomer to the search engine world, TinEye, may not appeal to a mass audience. It can, however, help photographers and artists keep track of how their work is used across ... (more)

Jim Griffin works to monetize digital music for Warner, but he's fully aware of just how easy it is not to pay. Griffin hopes to change that through blanket licensing, making music ... (more)

Wish I could read minds because I'd love to know what the representatives from Comcast and Verizon were thinking as they listened to lobbyists from the recording and film industries ... (more)

You had to see this one coming. Less than six months after becoming the hipster time-wasting destination of choice, popular music-sharing site Muxtape was suddenly offline on Monday. ... (more)

Anderson, SC (PRWEB) August 19, 2008 -- Newsdemon.com announced today the availability of free Usenet services for University professors and qualified charities. With this offer, ... (more)

After losing out in the battle to define the high-definition successor of the DVD, Toshiba has turned its attention to the next best thing: the DVD. On Monday, the Japanese electronics ... (more)

Extraordinarily lifelike characters are to begin appearing in films and computer games thanks to a new type of animation technology. Emily - the woman in this embedded video - was produced ... (more)

In an official letter to Swedish Minister of Justice, the International Olympic Committee has asked for "assistance" from the Swedish government with preventing video clips from the ... (more)

A British woman who put a game on a file-sharing network has been ordered to pay damages to the game's creator. Topware Interactive has won more than £16,000 following legal action ... (more)

Researchers find a combination of materials that self-assembles into a nanoscale battery that can be printed directly onto a conducting surface. An added twist in the technique is that ... (more)

Much of the cyberwarfare discussion over the past week has focused directly on Georgia, but the United States may be just as vulnerable. Shifting security scenarios and the rapid pace ... (more)

More Americans are getting their daily news from the Internet than ever before, and the numbers of those turning to the Internet instead of traditional sources continue to grow. ... (more)

There have been a number of hints that computers preloaded with Windows XP remain a hit with some users, but the impact of these sales may be greater in PR terms than financial ones. ... (more)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Fred von Lohman has found that two sites that stream ad-supported music simply send their users MP3s with minimal steps taken to obscure their content. ... (more)

Informal operations that recycle computers are generating unacceptable levels of pollution, and we currently lack of policies that can deal with the problem. ... (more)

Microsoft is feeling Sony's heat when it comes to hardware sales in the US, and the 360 continues to falter worldwide. How to fix these things is a complicated question, but Ars is ... (more)

Last year, Devil Mountain benchmarked Vista and XP performance using other performance-testing tools and concluded that XP was much faster. Barth said things haven't changed since then. ... (more)

Giganews, Inc., the world's foremost premium Usenet access provider, announced today that it has observed that several high-volume newsgroups are poised to exceed the article numbering ... (more)

August 18, 2008 (Computerworld) Adware company Zango Inc. profits from copyright infringement, a Harvard University researcher charged today, after the company claimed that sites serving ... (more)

Come on, internet. Just bring us proper movie streaming already. If any more proof were needed that physical media needs to go, and soon, we bring you exhibit A: The Netflix Outage. The ... (more)

The team behind the Shareaza client have recently had a tough time, having been the victim of a music industry conspiracy to steal their brand name and destroy goodwill. Undeterred ... (more)

A Canadian industry analyst says network service providers may be overreacting to the threat of file sharing applications and their impact on bandwidth. Why Verizon may have the right ... (more)