Google is now in the beta stages of a service that will have an experienced researcher do research for you. There are a total of 500 researchers that are currently working for Google. Of course, this is not a free service. After specifying what you want to be researched, you enter a value from $2 [...]

A new version of gtk-gnutella has been released. Download it on

No. Ok, Do you know how to get the most out of your next system? CPUPlanet has an easy to understand article that breaks down into the simplest terms the relationship between the clock-speed of your cpu and the memory bus it has access to. It also gives a couple mentions of what’s on the [...]

The EU is very active in supporting Open Source development by providing financial aids to European projects of interest, like OpenEvidence that was approved to be realized by a consortium of technology providers and users from 4 countries: Belgium, France, Italy and Estonia. In this contest C&A is very proud to announce its OpenEvidence participation, [...]

A very interesting story on The Reg about the RIAAs plans to collect multiple royalties for web casting, and also the fact that with regards to the current action they are taking against webcasters, a fantastic 1,800 labels and artists out of 1,800 asked, did not support the RIAA over the current action they are [...]

U2 fans can hear some of the band’s less well known tracks from their forthcoming Best Of album online. The site will also include rare B-sides and remixed tracks which feature on the strictly limited edition release ‘The Best Of The B-sides’. Their official website is streaming a new track every day in the run-up [...]

Jimmy Cliff, the legendary reggae pioneer launches his new album « Fantastic Plastic People » in UK. This new album, produced by Dave Stewart contains 12 new songs including hot titles like « Terror (September 11)» or « War in Jerusalem » , amazing duets with Sting, Annie Lennox and Joe Strummer (The Clash) and [...]

The Internet and cable television video-on-demand company Intertainer will shut down next week while it pursues a federal lawsuit alleging the major movie studios are conspiring to force it out of business. Read the full story from the San Francisco Chronicle Click Here

“Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said its upcoming Opteron microprocessor will feature better integer performance than all other server processors, setting up a possible race with Intel Corp. to move to dual-core server processors as early as next year. AMD’s 64-bit X86 processor running at 2 GHz in a 32-bit mode will hit an estimated SPECint [...]

“Steve Wozniak, Apple Computer’s co-founder and one of the key people behind the PC revolution, believes the seemingly unrelenting upgrade cycle is leveling off–creating economic problems for some technology makers, but giving financial relief to buyers. According to Wozniak, the inefficiencies built into microtechnologies meant companies were building products with forced obsolescence. Although end users [...]

Record label hand-puppet Cary Sherman (otherwise known as the president and general counsel of the RIAA) has taken the bait dangled by Consumer Electronics Association CEO Gary Shapiro, and issued a tiresome, point-by-point rebuttal through CNET News.com. No surprises to be found, of course, as Sherman dutifully rejects the Fair Use, Betamax, “no tangible harm” [...]

“On September 16th a lawsuit against Lik Sang International Limited and it’s directors was filed in the High Court of Hong Kong by the companies Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft alleging infringment of copyrighted material by the selling of Mod Chips or other development and backup devices for the Plaintiffs consoles. On September 17th, the High [...]

OpenCola, the mutant offspring of Napster and Dogpile, have announced their last beta release before going “gold master candidate”. OpenCola searches through eight different search engines, indexes a couple thousand news sites and blogs, allows you to search the shared folders of other OpenCola users, and has a chat feature. They’re promising a six month [...]

An artist named Jimmy Cliff is now promoting his new album using file sharing to distribute his music. It’d be great to see more artists like him. Check out his album, “Fantastic Plastic People”, here.

Tree Technologies’ The Bridge is finally available ! The Bridge contains 20 searching and sharing clubs, through which users can search precisely for the files they need on our P2P network. All this, along with a powerful Web search engine, will allow users to take their search to another level, giving them useful links related [...]

Between October 15 and the end of the year, XBox will include two free games with the purchase of a $199 XBox. The games are:”Sega GT 2002,” a racing game, and “Jet Set Radio Future”. Typically a new game for the XBox costs $49.95. The reason behind this is to reach a wider consumer rate. [...]

Songspy buckled under pressure of the RIAA. From IMG: “UPDATE: As of October 15, 2002 Songspy.com will be down as we begin to negotiate license deals with the record labels. We are forced to do this to Upgrade the songspy client to bring you the next generation of peer-2-peer. Because of harassment from the RIAA. [...]

Byline: "MP3 has been the king for some time, but there are a few audio compression formats waiting in line to take over. What advantages do they have? Who has more support? How can you try them now? Find out in this article." Who would want to replace MP3s? After I posted an article entitled [...]

An international standards team is close to approving a new compression format for digital video, promising improvements as well as a few uncertainties for emerging multimedia technology. Known as H.264, among other designations, the new format is turning heads over claims that it can deliver DVD-quality broadcasts over the Internet using considerably fewer network resources [...]

After weeks of waiting, the Zeropaid.com File Sharing Soldier t-shirts are finally here and ready to be shipped to your front door! Recently we decided to stop offering Cafe Press t-shirts due to quality requirements. We wanted to be in charge of our eCommerce here at Zeropaid.com so we could offer our customers the best [...]