StarForce 3? Known to human as the toughest copy protection. After near misses and numerous attempts, it looks like the beast has been taken down. So what exactly is StarForce 3? StarForce 3 is a CD / DVD copy protection system designed for developers and publishers who wish to protect their software and files distributed [...]

Cabos is Gnutella file sharing program based on LimeWire and Acquisition. It is free software. No spyware. No adware. Guaranteed. What’s New? Completed Dutch localization. (thanks! > Ger, Rudy) Now automatically detects & notify personal firewall blocking. Fixed download folder menus. Fixed removing inactive uploads. Fixed connection issues when the computer is idle. Allow to [...]

The Mozilla Foundation on Friday shipped a new version of its Thunderbird mail client to plug a potentially serious URL parsing security hole affecting Linux users. The open-source group described Thunderbird 1.0.7 as a "security and stability update" that provides a comprehensive fix for the URL parsing bug that was also flagged in the Firefox [...]

The European Union has unveiled plans to require all telephone and Internet traffic to be logged and stored for up to a year in order to help combat organized crime and terrorism.   The plan was unveiled on Wednesday by the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, and would require the approval of the European [...]

No thanks, says a U.S. government official.   The United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is ready to take over governance of the Internet from the U.S., ITU head Yoshio Utsumi said today. The U.S. has clashed with the European Union and much of the rest of the world over the future of the Internet. [...]

The common electric socket will serve as your home’s connection to broadband with a new chip developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. — doing away with all the Ethernet cables or the hassle of hooking up to a wireless network device.   Products are still being developed, but gadgets embedded with the chip from the [...]

A Warner Music executive has threatened to cut off Apple if Steve Jobs continues to refuse to give ground on iTunes Music Store pricing. Digital strategy chief Michael Nash said during a discussion at a wireless telecoms conference that the music industry has let Apple get too much power in the digital downloads market. ‘What [...]

Microsoft Corp. is hoping to lure hobbyist programmers and young children to the Windows operating system through a Web site and forthcoming version of Visual Studio aimed at making Windows development easy and fun, a company spokesman said Thursday.   On a Web site called Coding4Fun, Microsoft is inviting third parties to submit content that [...]

DirecTV satellite subscribers will be able to tune in several XM Satellite Radio channels free beginning in November, XM announced Thursday, escalating the Washington company’s war with New York rival Sirius Satellite Radio.   DirecTV is the nation’s leading satellite service with more than 14 million customers. Starting on Nov. 15, they will receive 72 [...]

Malicious code masquerading as a trusted application could trick a ZoneAlarm firewall into letting it connect to the Internet, security experts have warned.   The issue affects the popular free ZoneAlarm firewall and default installations of version 5.5 and earlier of the paid product, maker Zone Labs said in a security advisory on Thursday. Default [...]

Sony has apologized for an advertising campaign for its PlayStation game console which featured a young man wearing a crown of thorns with the slogan "Ten years of passion".   Some Catholics were outraged by the adverts, which ran in newspapers and magazines to celebrate the product’s tenth anniversary. "This time they’ve gone too far," [...]

The Patent Office has rejected — at least for now — claims at the center of a dispute that could shut down the mobile e-mail service   Research In Motion the Canadian manufacturer of the popular BlackBerry wireless e-mail devices, has scored an important victory in its long-running patent dispute with a Virginia holding company [...]

New independent games company that will offer original content via digital download   Fed up with the current business model that limits independent game developers today, industry veterans Greg Costikyan and Dr. Johnny Wilson today announced the formation of a new independent games company called Manifesto Games.   Costikyan and Wilson have been frustrated by [...]

If a post on the video game blog, Joystiq, is to be believed, there may be some ominous signs for Sony and its forthcoming PlayStation 3 console.   According to the post, rumors are bouncing around Dutch, German and Japanese Web sites that some developers are worried that the PS3 isn’t right for them.   [...]

A beer mat that knows when a glass is nearly empty and automatically asks for a refill has been created by thirsty researchers in Germany.   Andreas Butz at the University of Munich and Michael Schmitz from Saarland University came up with the idea while out drinking with their students.   The disc-shaped mat can [...]

Sony is engaged in a tug-of-war with hackers who keep cracking its PlayStation Portable software to unlock the device and run their own applications on it.   The company is preparing another update to the PSP firmware to fix a recently disclosed bug that lets hackers downgrade the PSP system software and run their own, [...]

Sony’s PlayStation console has won an Emmy from the US National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS).   The console was honoured with the Outstanding Achievement in Technology and Advanced New Media award for its early work on 3D polygon-based gaming.    "Emerging technologies in digital media play an important role in the way [...]

Legal action has been taken against 757 people in the US accused of using file-sharing networks to illegally share music online. It brings the total number of online copyright infringement cases brought by the US music industry to 14,800. The Recording Industry Association of America trade group said about 64 of those charged in the [...]

"There will be a Service Pack 3 for Windows XP," Bernard Ourghanlian, technical and security director at Microsoft France, confirmed, revealing that Microsoft’s OS is set for another major update.   Windows XP’s Service Pack 2, which which came out last September, deeply modified the operating system by updating its security.   Windows XP SP3 [...]

After a summer-long delay, Eastman Kodak has begun shipping the first digital camera with WiFi Latest News about WiFi wireless technology to e-mail photos directly to friends and family without a computer.   Users of the new EasyShare-One, priced at US$599, can send photos directly through a WiFi transmitter at home or work, or pay [...]