From the MSNBC article: Sprint Nextel is hoping to bite into Apple Computer’s core by launching the first US music download service direct to mobile phones. The Sprint Music Store will enable subscribers of the third-largest mobile carrier to choose from 250,000 songs from all four major music labels and download them for $2.50 each [...]

As p2p elbows its way into the corporate environment, some advocates are suggesting that it’s the perfect replacement for business-critical apps like email. Should email vendors be worried? Base your email transport on something like gnutella, they say, and you’ll diffuse message delivery across a sea of nodes. Blow up a node, and its peers [...]

In a world where one p2p file sharer can soak up over a terabyte of bandwidth a month, ISPs are scrambling to pay their broadband bills while maintaining Quality of Service for bread-and-butter clients, who insist on solid email and web delivery.

MP3 Newswire is running a three-part series on the latest greatest digital media portables that look to take marketshare away from the iPod this holiday season. Part one, part two, and part three cover over 40 new players.

The IBM-built chip features three customized PowerPC computing engines that can each handle two simultaneous tasks at clock speeds greater than 3 gigahertz. It was customized for Microsoft in less than 24 months from the original contract.   "Working with IBM gave us the flexibility to design a processor to give game developers the kind [...]

In the fight against spam, Asia seems to be losing. Over the past few years, servers based in China and South Korea have become major sources of unwanted e-mail as spammers take advantage of loose regulation, low costs, and lax security.   Some of the spammers are locals, others are Americans who find it easy [...]

The agreement settles a long-running dispute between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, and the most powerful company under its jurisdiction.   The settlement comes at a time when ICANN is under attack from China, Iran and other countries that want more direct control over the domain-name system that guides traffic [...]

For a few fearful minutes in late 2004, iMesh co-founder Talmon Marco thought Garth Brooks had sunk his company. Marco was in New York, showing off the technology behind the new iMesh peer-to-peer music service slated for release this Tuesday. The software was supposed to identify and block virtually any copyrighted song being downloaded from [...]

Telecommunications firms, nonprofit organizations and educators are asking the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., to overturn the controversial rules, which dramatically extend the sweep of an 11-year-old surveillance law designed to guarantee police the ability to eavesdrop on telephone calls.   The regulations represent the culmination of years of lobbying by the FBI, [...]

It sounded too Orwellian ever to succeed. In 2000, Korean cellular carrier SK Telecom introduced a service called "find friends" that lets others follow your every move, using a signal beamed from your handset. At the time, many wondered whether anyone would consent to such tracking.   But five years — and countless terrorist attacks, [...]

The lawsuit alleges that Apple launched the music player despite knowing its design would limit its life. The legal action follows a rash of complaints from iPod Nano users who reported cracked and scratched screens. Apple said a bad batch of Nanos had caused those problems and denied the device was more likely to scratch [...]

At the bottom of the Web site, a link through the word "Legal" led to a page that said, "File sharing is not illegal so long as you abide by all relevant copyright laws. Sharing copyrighted material without the permission to do so is illegal." The page further advises users to stay legal by removing [...]

He’s on the right track, but he’s made a dangerous mistake. It’s the software manufacturers that should be held liable, not the individual programmers. Getting this one right will result in more-secure software for everyone; getting it wrong will simply result in a lot of messy lawsuits.   To understand the difference, it’s necessary to [...]

A recent government order mandating that voice over internet protocol services must include the same government-approved wiretapping capabilities as traditional phone companies threatens to cripple peer-to-peer telephone innovation, according to new warnings from civil liberties groups and an internet telephony pioneer.    The new rules from the FCC were  published last month and take effect [...]

Earlier this month, Philadelphia – one of America’s oldest and most historic cities – thrust itself onto the technological frontline by announcing plans to build the biggest municipal wireless internet system in the country. The 135-square-mile network will be built and managed by Earthlink, and will offer low-income residents a service for about $10 (£5.70) [...]

Nominet said it would prefer a system which did not over-regulate the net.   The issue of who controls the backbone of the net, such as domains and traffic routing, will be debated at a United Nations summit in Tunisia next month. The European Union (EU) wants control shifted away from the US to a [...]

With a list price of around $359, the first Satellite Radio/MP3 Player makes a brilliant appearance on the technophiles must-have list. Sporting a sleek black and silver design, I have seen heaven and this must be what it looks like. Girls (and Guys?) will fawn over you after seeing you sport this incredible piece of [...]

In a new report, "Real ID: Big Brother Could Cost Big Money," Citizens Against Government Waste said integrating RFID chips that carry detailed personal information would cost $17.4 billion and could push the cost of a drivers’ license from between $10 and $25 to at least $90.    "With the high price of gasoline and [...]

The group filed suit after lengthy discussions with Google’s management about the company’s Print Library Project broke down, the AAP said on Wednesday.   As part of the project, Google is working to scan all or parts of the book collections of the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, the New York Public Library [...]

The new Power Mac G5 Quad has two 2.5GHz dual-core PowerPC G5 processors. Apple said all Power Macs will now feature dual-core chips and improved graphics cards.   "With quad-core processing, a new PCI Express architecture and the fastest workstation card from Nvidia, the new Power Mac G5 Quad is the most powerful system we’ve [...]