iTunes meets Sony’s PSP
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 directly [...]
Google plans to double Gmail capacity
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 [...]
Hollywood seeks iTunes for film
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 here. [...]
Morpheus 4.8
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. [...]
Mac virus competition halted for ‘legal reasons’
Apple accessory firm DVForge has withdrawn its offer of a $25,000 reward to the first person to infect two G5 PowerMacs with an OS X virus.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 complaints [...]
Justices Seem Responsive to Arguments on File Sharing
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 the [...]
Sony Ordered to Stop PlayStation Sales
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 [...]
Mark Cuban to finance Grokster defense
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 entry [...]
Supreme Court to Decide P2P Legality
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 [...]
Security Flaw Found In Trillian IM Client
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, said [...]
