The focus of this release is on a more intuitive GUI, more configurable downloads and more reliable bandwidth throttling. Additionally Phex now includes the www.bluetack.co.uk – bad-host database, a ban-list, which blocks known spam- and secret service IP-ranges. Language support has also been improved. Phex is now completely localised in German and in a funky [...]

Release Date: September 10th, 2005 After almost a year of development, Shareaza version 2.2 has been released. This release is a huge upgrade from 2.1, and has multiple fixes on all supported networks, providing vastly improved multi-network peer-to-peer file sharing capabilities. There are also several new features, including a scheduler, a review viewer, enhanced translations [...]

The cost of migrating from Windows XP to Windows Vista will encourage more companies to seriously consider moving to desktop Linux, the chief executive of open-source and networking company Novell said on Monday. Speaking at Brainshare, the company’s annual European user conference in Barcelona, Novell CEO Jack Messman claimed that the cost of moving desktops [...]

HANGZHOU, China (AFP) – Yahoo Inc. chief Jerry Yang said his company was complying with local laws when information on an Internet user was passed to Chinese police in a move leading to the jailing of a mainland journalist. Yang, speaking at the Alibaba China Internet Summit here, also said he wasn’t happy with the [...]

p2pnet / p2p News:- Heise online is reporting that thousands of charges against P2P users, who have downloaded and shared the PC game Earth 2160, are being filed in Karlsruhe, Germany. A Swiss anti-piracy company called Logistep has been contracted to track down file sharers. Logistep describes itself as a “full service provider” and also [...]

The two-year case against the distributors of Kuro, Taiwan’s most popular peer-to-peer (P2P) software, ended yesterday with unprecedented prison sentences for its distributors and one of its users. "Kuro violated copyright law by offering members software with which to download MP3 music," said Liu Shou-sun, a spokesperson for the Taipei District Court which heard the [...]

It’s a shame US District Colleen McMahon (right) isn’t in Boston. She might have had a thing or two to say about two students, there, who’ve been coerced by the members of the Big Four record label cartel into effectively discounting the maxim, ‘Innocent until proven guilty’. Moreover, they have, to all intents and purposes, [...]

THE music industry will push for more than $1 billion in damages after its landmark court victory over internet music pirates Kazaa. The Sydney-based internet file-sharing company has had $30 million of its assets frozen as record companies try to recoup some of the estimated $3 billion lost in pirated music. "Given the value of [...]

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ — Internet2, the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium led by the research and higher education community, today announced that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) joined Internet2 as corporate members. Both leading industry associations plan to collaborate with the Internet2 [...]

A US politician challenging the pro-Hollywood Utah Senator Orrin Hatch is supporting file-sharing as a means to promote business innovation and keep the internet free. Republican challenger Steve Urquhart is taking a pro-small business and creative commons stance against Hatch, arguing that hobbling file-sharing technology through government legislation, that is enforced through the courts, is [...]

Big Blue’s Infoprint 4100 can print 330 pages per minute, but pricing starts at $500,000. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – IBM is stepping up its push into business publishing by launching what it calls the world’s fastest printing system of its kind. The device, IBM said late Thursday, can churn out Tolstoy’s "War and Peace" in [...]

Video screens have shown up all over in recent years — cell phones, bathrooms, car head rests, subway cars, even elevators. Next up: a solar-powered video panel embedded in a tombstone that plays a clip reminiscent of "This Is Your Life." Sergio Aguirre’s Serenity Panel is all about helping families celebrate the life of a [...]

LONDON, England — Entrepreneur Carl Freer was sick of carrying around several different electronic devices, so he decided to create one that combined all the features in one. (PICTURE: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/09/09/spark.gizmondo/index.html) The self-confessed gaming junkie created Gizmondo, the console that also acts as a text messaging device, portable music and DVD player and a camera. "I’m [...]

As soldiers, hikers and students can testify, it takes energy to haul around a heavy backpack. Now, researchers have developed a backpack that turns that energy into electricity. It doesn’t crank out a lot of juice — just a bit more than 7 watts — but that’s enough to run things like an MP3 player, [...]

Its hiring of Net luminary Vint Cerf signals it may be plotting a stronger push into VoIP and other Web-based telecommunications. Google’s (GOOG ) recruiting rampage is raising eyebrows throughout techdom. But its latest addition, Vinton G. Cerf, could send especially strong reverberations across the telecom landscape. On Sept. 8 Google is expected to announce [...]

Yeah for those of you who listen to the show i apologize thing have gotten really out of hand here in RickLand. The first show of the new Era will have world renowned MAC programmer Julian Caine, he worked and has lead The Xfactor and Poisoned projects and many other projects. Please go ahead and [...]

SAN FRANCISCO–Apple Computer on Wednesday unveiled a tiny new iPod that will replace the popular iPod Mini and a cell phone capable of playing music downloaded from a computer running iTunes.    At an invitation-only event for journalists and others here, Apple CEO Steve Jobs pulled the new iPod Nano from his front pocket and [...]

BEIJING – A French media watchdog said Tuesday that information provided by Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. helped Chinese authorities convict and jail a journalist who had written an e-mail about press restrictions. The harsh criticism from Reporters Without Borders marks the latest instance in which a prominent high-tech company has faced accusations of cooperating with [...]

This one is for the loony books, but if it proves true I think we’re in for big changes in the industry. Atom Chip Corp. is promising to show off a laptop with their new 6.8GHz CPU, which would be impressive enough if it weren’t for the laptop’s other key feature: a "Quantum-Optical" hard drive [...]

BEIJING – A French media watchdog said Tuesday that information provided by Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. helped Chinese authorities convict and jail a journalist who had written an e-mail about press restrictions. The harsh criticism from Reporters Without Borders marks the latest instance in which a prominent high-tech company has faced accusations of cooperating with [...]