A small California software maker has developed a program designed to bring at least part of Apple Computer’s iTunes experience to the new Sony PlayStation Portable. The software, the latest in Information Appliance Associates’ series of PocketMac tools to link handheld devices with PCs and Apple computers, allows consumers to sync music from iTunes playlists [...]

Google plans to offer a bottomless cup of storage with its Gmail Web-based e-mail service, dramatically raising the bar for rivals in the sharply competitive business for the second time in a year. The Mountain View, Calif.-based Web giant on Friday plans to double the free storage on Gmail from 1GB to 2GB, said Georges [...]

SANTA MONICA, Calif.–Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment is trying to develop and own the next iTunes–but for films. “We want to set business models, pricing models, distribution models like (Apple Computer CEO Steve) Jobs did for music, but for the film industry,” Michael Arrieta, senior vice president of Sony Pictures, said at the Digital Hollywood conference [...]

Morpheus is a communications tool that allows users to connect together with users of the Morpheus software as well as other peer-to-peer technologies to form a user network. Morpheus users may search for and share any kind of computer file (including text, images, audio, video, and software files) with any other user of the network. [...]

Apple accessory firm DVForge has withdrawn its offer of a $25,000 reward to the first person to infect two G5 PowerMacs with an OS X virus. Plans to hold a $25,000 virus writing competition to infect the Apple OS X have been scrapped after the company behind the scheme backed down over “legal problems” and [...]

The much-heralded Supreme Court showdown in the Grokster case today between old-fashioned entertainment and new-fangled technology found the justices surprisingly responsive to warnings from Grokster and its allies that a broad definition of copyright infringement could curtail innovation. Justice David H. Souter asked Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., the lawyer arguing for the Hollywood studios and [...]

Sony has been ordered by a U.S. court to pay about $90 million in damages and to halt game console sales in the United States in a patent infringement case against Immersion, the company’s game unit said Monday. Sony Computer Entertainment said it disagreed with the decision by a federal district court in California and [...]

Billionaire Mark Cuban has announced that he will finance Grokster’s defense against MGM’s peer-to-peer lawsuit, which is expected to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. Cuban, the entrepreneur who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion and who’s now president of HDNet, a provider of high-definition TV programming, wrote in a blog [...]

The United States Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday a landmark case that could have far-reaching consequences for both copyright holders and the technology industry. At issue is whether two P2P network operators, Grokster and StreamCast are liable for the copyright infringement committed by their users. Both file-sharing companies contend that P2P networks can be [...]

The popular Trillian instant-messaging client contains a security flaw that could allow a hacker to gain control of a person’s computer, a software company said Friday. To take advantage of the vulnerability, the hacker would have to use an advanced technique called DNS cache poisoning, which redirects PC users from real sites to spoofed copies, [...]

At first glance, the mobile phone looks exactly like a conventional cell phone. On the side of the housing there is a swivel bracket that holds the projector unit. The light source is a tiny semiconductor laser that emits monochrome light to project a real-time image of the display. Depending on the position of the [...]

Rap impresario 50 Cent may be riding atop the Billboard charts on the strength of his hit single “Candy Shop,” but music lovers of all kinds will soon be able to mix their passions for beats and sweets if one gadget maker’s plans come to fruition. That’s right, the candy market’s best-known handheld device, the [...]

Cabos 0.3.2 is out. It contains some improvements and bug fixes.About Cabos:Cabos is simplest Gnutella file sharing program. It is free software, no spyware, no adware.Website:http://cabos.sourceforge.jp/Change Log:Improved multi-sourced downloading.Improved search results.Improved unicode searching.Fixed some minor bugs.Remember downloaded state in search results.Remember window state properly (Windows Only).Gray out only shared files.

EDIT: If they win the last injunction, Lexar is in a position to strangle royalties out of allot of manufaturers of Flash based technology. Making Sandisk and some others products illegal. ~Moneoa A jury in California this week ordered Toshiba and one of its U.S. subsidiaries to pay an additional $84 million in damages to [...]

The Canadian government has proposed several copyright amendments that would serve to crack down on file sharing, preventing Internet users from freely swapping music, books and movies online. “This is terrific news,” said Canadian Recording Industry Association President Graham Henderson. “Canada is one step closer to having a copyright law that will reflect the realities [...]

Two competing visions of the future of high-speed Internet services will face off before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, in a closely watched case that could set the rules of the road for broadband competition in America for years to come. At stake is whether cable broadband providers must share their lines with rivals–as [...]

In its life span Zp has proudly brought you news and info from the p2p community, I am pleased to announce that once again we deliver with a new P2P Show by a Zeropaid Community Member to debut on Zp. Zeropaid News has asked Rick the producer (mxpwx in the ZP community) a few questions [...]

Motorola has unveiled phones designed for music addicts or for people sick of carrying a separate MP3 player. One of the new handsets, E680i, is designed to let people transfer, store and catalog music. It can be used with Bluetooth headphones. The phone is compatible with formats such as MP3 and WMA. It also features [...]

Peer-to-peer software provider Sharman Networks and its related parties, which stand accused of copyright infringement by the Australian recording industry, collectively denied the charges against them during closing statements Wednesday. The record labels say that users of Sharman’s software, Kazaa, download billions of files each month without paying royalties to copyright owners. Previously during the [...]

A new Firefox extension that lets people customize their experience of the sites they visit is stirring excitement among Web surfers and consternation among security experts. The extension, dubbed Greasemonkey, lets people run what’s known as a “user script,” which alters a Web page as it’s downloaded. That capability has gained the extension an avid [...]