In a move to tap into the growing popularity of the digital device type that Apple’s iPod has made a household name, the Walt Disney Co. yesterday announced plans to peddle a kid-sized MP3 Latest News about MP3 player.   Disney Mix Sticks is about the size of a pack of gum, holds about 60 [...]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) this week dealt Microsoft a blow that may not be a knock-out punch, but comes pretty close to hobbling its argument that Internet Explorer (IE) does not infringe on a Web browser patent because prior art makes the patent invalid.   The USPTO reviewed and reaffirmed the patent [...]

Virgin Records said Tuesday it would release the Rolling Stones’ latest album on a new encrypted flash memory card that will allow users to preview and buy locked tracks from four of the veteran rockers’ previous albums.   The memory card, dubbed Gruvi, is manufactured by Sunnyvale, Calif.-based SanDisk Corp., and will be available in [...]

According to the German tech blog http://www.technology-ninja.com, someone has succeeded in getting iTunes to run on his Windows Mobile handheld.   With the touch of your finger you can scroll through songs and adjust features such as equalizer, playlists, etc..   He was not actually able to buy anything on iTunes, it apparently crashed when [...]

Eight people have been charged by US authorities with the illegal online release of the final Star Wars film before it appeared in cinemas.   The US attorney in Los Angeles filed a copyright infringement charge against Albert Valente, 28, of Lakewood, California, for taking the Star Wars copy from the post-production house where he [...]

Web search firm Google has formed a partnership with US space agency Nasa in an effort to harness new technology which could boost the space programme.   Google is to build a new office complex on the site of Nasa’s research facility in California, close to its own headquarters in Silicon Valley.  The two companies [...]

A senior U.S. official rejected calls on Thursday for a U.N. body to take over control of the main computers that direct traffic on the Internet, reiterating U.S. intentions to keep its historical role as the medium’s principal overseer.   "We will not agree to the U.N. taking over the management of the Internet," said [...]

Display screens crack easily on a small number of iPod Nano digital music players, Apple Computer Inc. acknowledged Wednesday, saying it would replace flawed units.   Apple was responding to a flurry of complaints posted to online forums and community sites about faulty screens on the Nano, the tiny music player the company launched earlier [...]

A California senator has suggested that because file-sharing networks continue to house illegal files, they should be shut down. Intellectual property protection "can’t function in a country where the high-tech services become such that you can’t protect copyright," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said Wednesday at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. The session centered on [...]

A California senator has suggested that because file-sharing networks continue to house illegal files, they should be shut down. Intellectual property protection "can’t function in a country where the high-tech services become such that you can’t protect copyright," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said Wednesday at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. The session centered on [...]

BitTorrent, the company that created this year’s hottest p2p file sharing software, is raising $8.75 million in venture capital from Menlo Park (Calif.)-based Doll Capital Management in order to create a legal digital distribution system using the technology. According to the business plan, content from big names and independent producers alike (Games, videos, films and [...]

Ever since WinMX was sent a Cease and Desist Order, Zeropaid has taken on hundreds of throusands of new users exploring new P2P options. Vladd44.com has released a patch to allow primary or secondary connections for WinMX. This host patch allows you to connect to WinMX as you once could. 1. Open My Computer 2. [...]

Last week, Apple CEO Steve Jobs called the music industry "greedy" when it began pressuring Apple to raise prices of individual tracks above the current 99¢ level at the iTunes Music Store. That didn’t go over too well with some industry execs. Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman, Jr. all but confirmed it with his [...]

In a bizarre case of art imitating life, players of the Blizzard Entertainment game World of Warcraft suddenly found their characters dying from a mysteriously rampant plague that ravaged their virtual world.   The plague began innocently enough. Blizzard introduced a new dungeon area in the world, intended to give high-level players a bit of a challenge. [...]

The internet has fundamentally changed the relationship between music’s so-called "big four" labels, independents and consumers, industry analysts have said. Seventy per cent of the world’s music market is controlled by four companies – EMI, Warner, SonyBMG and Universal.The labels not only control what is released, but also influence radio and TV airplay, as well [...]

Here at Zeropaid.com, we have seen our fair share of file sharing networks come and go over the past 5 years. As you might know, Zeropaid.com is the premier file sharing / P2P portal; assisting millions of technology enthusiasts discover P2P technology. The departure of WinMX comes at no better time, technology has grown tremendously [...]

Michigan court rules: Case dismissed "with prejudice" against mother; No attorneys fees; Guradian ad litem must be appointed for 13 year old defendant. In an actively contested case in federal court in Michigan, Priority Records LLC et al v. Candy Chan, the RIAA was forced to withdraw its case against a mother. Priority Records v. [...]

PEP, the Prodigem Enclosure Puller, is a small php script which find all the enclosures in an RSS 2.0 feed URL, and utilizing Prodigem’s new bittorrent API will have a torrent created and seeded for each. As an example of just what this exactly means, Prodigem is now using PEP to automatically torrent the top [...]

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 Released Wednesday September 21st, 2005 Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7, a security and stability update to the flagship Mozilla browser, is now available for download. Fixes are included for the international domain name (IDN) link buffer overflow vulnerability and the Linux command line URL parsing flaw. There are also other security and stability changes, [...]

It is the end of an era folks. The WinMX P2P network is no longer running. The Peer Cache servers as well as the company website are no more. As of late last night (approx. 4-6 hours ago) the servers went down and users were no longer able to connect to the network. This is [...]