Would you like to stream video content from your home equipment to your PSP from anywhere? Apple and Sony have some good news for you. New Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer mentioned during his speech at the recent CEATEC event in Japan that Sony intended to bring TV streaming features to its Portable PlayStation. Not [...]

MTV Networks, a division of Viacom, has acquired online video purveyor iFilm for $49 million, the companies said Friday. As previously reported, the deal was expected to come together this week. iFilm, a privately held company in Los Angeles, distributes short videos from Hollywood studios and amateur filmmakers over the Web, drawing more than 10 [...]

The Open Source Development Labs, an industry consortium devoted to improving Linux, plans to launch an initiative Monday to bring the open-source operating system to mobile phones.   OSDL’s Mobile Linux Initiative is intended to improve Linux for the small, but increasingly powerful, devices. It’s also set up to spur development of applications, outline requirements [...]

Project Neon is the latest and greatest concoction from that crack team of software mechanics over at DIVX, Inc.. I originally got an e-mail about this delectable (can I say that here?) piece of software about a week and a half ago from Chris of ZEROPAID fame, but took the time to get my apartment [...]

Now DVD Decrypter does many things, but all I’m going to discuss here is how to burn a BIN, CUE, or ISO files with this program. The .BIN / .CUE CD image format was made popular by the CDRWin software. Afterwards many programs have started supporting or partially supporting it, including: Nero, Blindwrite, CloneCD, FireBurner. [...]

Looking for a way to get its security gadgets into the hands of average consumers, RSA Security plans to test a new Web authentication service.   The security company’s new RSA Authentication Service is designed to let consumers securely access multiple Web sites using a single RSA security credential, such as the company’s password-generating hardware [...]

Curtains, a large blue pair to be exact, are the images being used in an estimated $50 million campaign to promote AOL.com as a free Web portal. The campaign, in online and offline versions, depicts computer users parting the curtains to reveal a bright white light on the other side.   "The new AOL.com," the [...]

An American-led military invasion of Afghanistan took just months to uproot al-Qaida from the rocky slopes of Tora Bora and the White Mountains. But nearly four years later, even the combined might of the United States and its allies have had a far more difficult time scouring the Internet for the shadowy network of Islamic [...]

This tiny Baltic republic is breaking new ground in digital democracy. This week, the country nicknamed "e-Stonia" because of its tech-savvy population became the first country in the world to hold an election allowing voters nationwide to cast ballots over the Internet.   Less than 10,000 people, or 1 percent of registered voters, participated online [...]

Pat Misterovich, a stay-at-home and budding one-man company entrepreneur, has created a piece of pure ol’ fashioned American ingenuity at its finest–a fully functioning PEZ dispensing MP3 player.   Inspired by the guy who turned an Altoids tin into iPOD speakers, he decided that a PEZ dispenser would be the perfect haven to nestle a [...]

Steven Spielberg, who worked his magic with ET, is now looking do the same with games giant Electronic Arts (EA).   The acclaimed film director has agreed to develop three original games with EA’s Los Angeles studios. Work has already started on the first of the three projects, which EA says will be a next [...]

BT is extending a trial of its faster broadband service to prepare for its roll-out across the UK next spring.   The trial starts next month and will help prepare the so-called "Max" service, which offers speeds of up to 8Mbps (megabits per second). BT’s broadband network currently offers download speeds of up to 2Mbps. [...]

The body that represents the film industry is taking legal action against six websites posing as legitimate film and music download services.   The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) filed the suits in New York state courts. It accused the services of charging to re-direct people to file-sharing sites where they can access illegal [...]

European consumers are being forced to pay usage rights on legal copy-protected music downloads multiple times because of outdated private copy levies, according to a study. The Business Software Alliance issued a report Thursday urging that the extra taxation that most European countries have added to music downloads be scrapped. The BSA said the rise [...]

A federal grand jury indicted three men on Wednesday in what prosecutors are calling the largest bust of pirated CDs in U.S. history. The indictment follows the arrest last week of Ye Teng Wen, 29, Hao He, 30, and Yaobin Zhai, 33, on charges of illegally reproducing 325,000 music and software CDs. Two of the [...]

Apple Computer on Wednesday unveiled its long-rumored video iPod, as well as a new iMac and an updated version of iTunes that lets users buy music videos, TV shows and movies. The iPod has "been a huge hit for us, so it’s time to replace it," Apple CEO Steve Jobs said as he showed off [...]

Users of Microsoft and Yahoo’s instant messaging (IM) services will soon have millions of new people to chat with after the two companies announced plans to make each service compatible with the other. Combining the two services will allow 275 million customers of Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger to swap free instant text messages with [...]

MICROSOFT HAS engaged with the modding enemy but it doesn’t seem to know it’s done it. Unfortunately that is what seems to have happened. With the reports of any number from 10 to 14 Xbox 360s stolen in Germany pouring in, the facts have finally started to come out. It appears that the German modchip [...]

Datel have done it again! This is truly what all PSP owners have been waiting for! 4GB of storage! Up until now, the largest storage that has been available to PSP owners was the 1Gb Pro Duo Memory Stick. Then within the last week or so, we have seen the emergence of the 2Gb Memory [...]

Mark Cuban is hiring staff that could form the nucleus of a new DVD label, Wired News has learned, a move that comes as the dot-com billionaire attempts to shatter Hollywood’s release window system by making first-run films available simultaneously in theaters, on cable TV, online and on DVD. The label is expected to launch [...]