The music industry is filled with creative types, and many seem to be wearing suits these days. Consider the latest idea from the business suite at Warner Music Group, which is rummaging like the rest of the industry for new sources of revenue: when search engines like Google formally launch their new video-search sites, Warner [...]

What sets the BIN/CUE file format apart from an ISO file format is that it has a CUE file, which is a "table of contents" that tells the burning program how the data, or BIN, is laid out. The BIN file is the actual data. An ISO image file is a duplicate copy of a [...]

The announcement marks China’s latest attempt to leverage its manufacturing muscle to play by its own terms in the home video market. Up to 80 percent of DVD players are made in China, but makers have to cough up around 40 percent of the cost of each player to license holders, according to Chinese reports. [...]

If there’s some digital media you’d like to see cracked — a copy-protected DVD, say — then now’s the time to tell the U.S. Copyright Office.   The Copyright Office is conducting a periodic review of anti-cracking provisions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and is seeking submissions from the public.   In the last [...]

It figures to be a busy patch day for Windows system administrators next Tuesday. As part of its monthly security update release cycle,   Microsoft Corp. plans to ship nine bulletins with fixes for holes in the Windows operating system. An advance notice from Redmond’s security response center said eight of the bulletins will address [...]

Al-Qaida has put job advertisements on the Internet, asking for supporters to help put together its Web statements and video montages, an Arabic newspaper reported.   London-based Asharq Alawsat said on its Web site this week that al-Qaida had "vacant positions" for video production and editing statements, footage and international media coverage about militants in [...]

Wouldn’t it be great if you could buy and download your favorite episodes of Sex in the City from a Web site? Unfortunately, that scenario is probably a long way off, according to a panel of Internet executives sounding off on the future of entertainment and media at the Web 2.0 conference here Thursday.   [...]

Sony has lost a legal battle in Australia over the modifying of its PlayStation games console.   The High Court has ruled that chipping the console so that it can play imported games does not breach copyright law. The ruling ends a four-year legal battle between Sony and a supplier of so-called mod chips, which [...]

After troubled negotiations in Geneva, the US may be forced to relinquish control of the internet to a coalition of governments.   Old allies in world politics, representatives from the UK and US sat just feet away from each other, but all looked straight ahead as Hendon explained the EU had decided to end the [...]

Security experts at Symantec Corp. say they have found the first Trojan virus that targets Sony Playstation Portable systems. Trojan.PSPBrick has been rated Symantec’s lowest threat rating — Category 1 on a scale of five. There are no confirmed infections, Symantec added. Sony protected its PSP device by making sure that users can play only [...]

Security specialist Symantec Corp. Wednesday announced an agreement with the world’s largest cell phone maker, Nokia, to pre-load its Series 60-based smart phones with its Mobile Security software.   The software is customized for the open-source Symbian mobile device operating system, which runs Nokia’s standard applications on the Series 60 phones. The announcement follows a [...]

Convinced that businesses will use nonmalicious worms to cut down on network security costs, a high-profile security researcher is pushing ahead with a new framework for creating a "controlled worm" that can be used for beneficial purposes.   Dave Aitel, vulnerability researcher at New York-based Immunity Inc., unveiled a research-level demo of the "Nematode" framework [...]

Welcome to a world where teacups melt through saucers and everyone walks through walls IS it possible to walk through walls?   Can solid objects really pass through each other? Moses Chan thinks they can, and he says he has the proof. Chan and his colleagues at Pennsylvania State University have created the world’s first [...]

The record industry may next aim its legal guns at satellite radio due to a dispute involving new portable players which let listeners record and store songs, an analyst and industry sources said on Wednesday.   The record industry, led by major labels, such as Vivendi Universal’, Warner Music Group Corp, EMI Group Plc and [...]

With third client now in orbit, Space Adventures looks beyond space station.   This week’s trip to the international space station serves as the big payoff for millionaire passenger Greg Olsen — but it also represents a big payday for Space Adventures, the Arlington, Va.-based firm that arranged three multimillion-dollar trips to the station and [...]

Incident heightens biologists’ fears about Everglades ecosystem The alligator has some foreign competition at the top of the Everglades food chain, and the results of the struggle are horror-movie messy.   A 13-foot Burmese python recently burst after it apparently tried to swallow a live, six-foot alligator whole, authorities said.   The incident has heightened [...]

Microsoft has no plans to tweak its Office productivity suite for Linux anytime soon, despite the growing popularity of open source on the desktop, according to a company executive.   Speaking at the LinuxWorld conference in London on Wednesday, Nick McGrath, Microsoft’s head of platform strategy, said that the software maker had no intention of [...]

Two major Internet backbone companies are feuding, potentially cutting off significant swaths of the Internet for some of each other’s customers.   On Wednesday, network company Level 3 Communications cut off its direct "peering" connections to another big network company called Cogent Communications. That technical action means that some customers on each company’s network now [...]

Scientists have taught dolphins to combine both rhythm and vocalisations to produce music, resulting in an extremely high-pitched, short version of the Batman theme song.   The findings, outlined in two studies, are the first time that nonhuman mammals have demonstrated they can recognise rhythms and reproduce them vocally.   "Humans are sensitive to rhythms [...]

Physicists in Australia have slowed a speeding laser pulse and captured it in a crystal, a feat that could be instrumental in creating quantum computers.   The scientists slowed the laser light pulse from 300,000 kilometers per second to just several hundred meters per second, allowing them to capture the pulse for about a second. [...]