Nokia Corp. on Monday said it is working with Apple Computer Inc. in developing an open-source web browser for advanced cellular phones. The browser is expected to be available to licensees of Nokia’s Series 60 Platform in the first half of next year. The software uses the same open-source components, WebCore and JavaScriptCore, that are [...]

Entertainment company 226 Music Group has decided to make the most of the recent boom in the portable music player industry, led by the popular iPod, by creating a special division for podcasting. A podcast is an audio file in MP3 format delivered online via RSS feed subscriptions. 226 is planning to use the popularity [...]

Sprint Corp. and Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. have announced a deal that will allow some Sprint customers to receive satellite radio over their cell phones, possibly sometime this summer. The agreement, announced Tuesday, is the first between a satellite radio company and a wireless company and expands Sprint’s wireless entertainment package. The Overland Park-based company [...]

A new company from Norway called IPdrum, is planning to bring Skype to all mobile phone users worldwide by using a simple cable they have designed. The IPdrum Mobile Cable connects Skype to a mobile telephone via the mobile telephone network, Skype users will be able to take advantage of worldwide calling for local rates. [...]

Declining CD sales can’t be blamed on file-sharing networks alone, according to a new report. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said Monday that digital music piracy is a problem, but other factors–such as the rise in the number of entertainment sources–are more likely to have had a significant impact on music [...]

Snocap, Napster founder Shawn Fanning’s attempt to turn P2P into a legitimate sales channel, has opened its content-monitoring registry to a wider range of content providers. It’s a major step not only in establishing Snocap as a key tool in preventing online copyright infringement but also in building up the company as a business. Snocap’s [...]

The record labels are in pursuit of a new class of music pirates — not the millions who download bootlegged songs over the Internet but those who copy music CDs for their friends. The music industry considers the seemingly innocuous act of duplicating a music CD for someone else “casual piracy,” a practice that surpasses [...]

K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codecs are required to encode and/or decode (play) audio and video. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of all the movies that [...]

File-swapping networks alone are not to blame for the recording industry’s woes and might plausibly be converted into legitimate channels for distributing music, one of Europe’s most influential economic bodies has concluded. In a report issued Monday, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development — a Paris-based alliance of developed nations — also suggested that [...]

When disposable cameras first hit the shops they were seen as one of the ultimate manifestations of the throwaway, modern age. Of course, they never were ‘disposable’ but instead should have been thought of as recyclable. The disposed-of camera was simply loaded up with film and sold onto the next shopper. Now we find digital [...]

Under all the hubbub surrounding the new BitTorrent.com search engine and PirateBay’s new look, most have overlooked the fact that a new kid on the block has been growing in the underground. The site is Torrent Typhoon which boasts access to over 444,000 torrents. How? It searches all of the major Torrent web sites like [...]

Several students from the Spring 2005 class have offered proposals to deal with the ‘P2P Problem’. Interesting reads! "This past Spring semester, our class looked at the challenges posed by peer-to-peer technologies to the current state of copyright law and policy. Many students wrote quite insightful papers and Pam asked a few of them for [...]

This Week! Anoher fine installment of the revolution. This week Episode 5 of P2P Revolution feaures an interview from Michael Weiss of Streamcast Networks. Also featured this week, rapper Fokissed and of course this weeks P2P stats. Stop by the ZP Radio ZP Radio Forum and chat with Rick, his guests, and more. Download Episode [...]

“This is terrific news. Canada is one step closer to having a copyright law that will reflect the realities of the digital marketplace and allow the music industry a chance to prosper. We want to thank the government and the opposition parties for their support in getting to this stage.” Graham Henderson, CRIA (Canadian Recording [...]

The international recording industry signed up a global children’s charity Wednesday to promote its anti-piracy message to parents around the world, suggesting that many adults have no idea what their children are up to on home computers. The International Federation of Phonographic Industries, or IFPI, will use record stores, supermarkets and schools, libraries and websites [...]

Symantec has filed suit in defence of its right to produce tools that classify programs from Hotbar.com as adware. Symantec is not seeking damages as part of the suit. Instead the security giant is asking a court to rule that certain Hotbar program files are indeed adware and can be treated as computer security risks. [...]

GUI Improved: add Search button to search torrent in torrent website GUI Improved: remove the drop-down menu of the Web button GUI Improved: open all links using user default browser GUI Improved: add three network mode when creating .torrent file GUI Improved: add a light in the status bar indicate the DHT Network status GUI [...]

Anatomic P2P, a promising BitTorrent project has released GUI Client 0.1 Beta, the release is available on all major OS’s. For those of you that don’t know what Atomic P2P is, it’s a open source project attempting to decentralize BitTorrent using a supernode caching system. Screenshots can be found here: http://developer.berlios.de/dbimage.php?id=1660 Check out more BitTorrent [...]

Perhaps this story should be titled “Is NPD and the collective news media smoking crack?” They are claiming that WinMX is the most popular source for downloading music on the internet, followed closely by iTunes. Their metric for this is that “2.1 million households” downloaded at least one song off WinMX. That’s funny, I can [...]

In an effort to help and inform file sharers of the possible criminal charges that could be brought up against them, TorrentSpy is now actively removing pre-release material from the index of their website. Every torrent details page at the site is now displaying the following message: Warning to File Sharers File sharing of music, [...]