The news, which came in a statement on Friday, may not have come as a complete surprise to Mac users: Microsoft announced back in June 2003 that it was ending Mac support for IE.   Microsoft has not upgraded the software in three years, leaving IE 5–rather than version 6, which is available for Windows–as [...]

Take Cisco. The company "earns $500 million a year in revenues [in China] and holds 60 percent of the Chinese market for routers, switches, and other sophisticated networking gear."   That includes "the watchdog router that prevents Internet users in China from gaining access to banned websites."   And it includes Policenet, which "connects officials [...]

Bell Canada launched a full track music download service powered by Groove Mobile, which also enables a similar service recently launched by Sprint Nextel Corp.   Bell Canada said consumers are charged $2.58 per song and that the service is available using the Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. A920 device.   A Bell Canada spokesman said [...]

The plan was announced on Monday by Current Communications Group, a service provider that specializes in broadband service over power lines (BPL), and TXU Electric Delivery, the largest electric company in Texas.   The companies estimate that roughly 2 million homes and businesses in northern Texas will be able to subscribe to the new service [...]

The people behind the site, which now uses the URL Releases4u.net, say that linking to pirated files isn’t illegal as long they don’t host them.   Releases4U was a popular site because the links were checked for content and quality. The site was closed, along with its Dutch rival ShareConnector, after Dutch anti piracy organisation [...]

This tutorial explains how to make any x86 Operating System run on the newly released VMware Player with the least amount of hassle. Using the method explained here, you could be running Mandriva Linux 2006 from your own Windows XP box in 15 minutes.

In 2005, music execs found themselves boxed in by P2P, iPod, boring albums, and prices higher than the market was willing to bear. They responded by rootkitting customers’ computers, planting viruses on file sharing networks, and suing grandmothers. Amazingly, sales still fell. Email Battles suggests a different avenue for building customer loyalty.

The Senate on Friday rejected attempts to reauthorize several provisions of the USA Patriot Act as infringing too much on Americans’ privacy, dealing a major defeat to President Bush and Republican leaders. In a crucial vote Friday morning as Congress raced toward adjournment, the bill’s Senate supporters were not able to garner the 60 votes [...]

Few on the planet know rootkits as well as holy_father, the mysterious creator of Hacker Defender. As the Sony BMG story just won’t go away, Email Battles asked holy_father for his insights. As usual, he didn’t disappoint.

Problem People like the riaa, mpaa, and others are on a copyright enforcing rampage, destroying innocent victims along the way. They are using automated tools (web spiders) to find people hosting ‘illegal’ content to sue. Sometimes the spiders catch innocent people in their web of evil.   Solution Since our politicians think the RIAA’a well-being [...]

Hollywood isn’t merely singling Communist China out for Special Attention.   During the holiday season, its Keystone Kops are also going after Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand, with Australia and New Zealand thrown in for good measure.   "Glickman made the announcement during his keynote [...]

Google Music will allow a user to type in the name of a band, artist, album or song in the main Google search bar special, and results will appear at the top, accompanied by icons of music notes, said Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google.   Items that can [...]

However, the number of actual music files being traded has stayed high, indicating that the most active downloaders remain online, the research company said.   The drop of 11 percent–from June, when an estimated 6.4 million households downloaded at least one music file, to October, when 5.7 million households downloaded at least one file–seems to [...]

The adware program often is used as an entry-point for various cyber threats from viruses to Trojan Horses that can cause damage to their computer systems. "In the past six months we’ve seen a trend in multi-stage attacks against machines," Patrick Hinojosa, chief technology officer at Panda Software USA, said Wednesday. "There are several reasons [...]

G2G Share (originally named G2G Exchange) was one of the most innovative P2P concepts to emerge in years, harnessing the combined power of every participant’s Gmail account to perform as a dedicated 2-gigabyte file server. There are several applications available, such as Peer2Mail and Gmail Drive that will transform an ordinary email account into a [...]

A DVD that retails for $21.99 could cost a local man more than $100,000, News 5′s John London reported. Russell Lee is either a slick film pirate or an unwitting victim of someone who fits that description.   Paramount, which distributes "Coach Carter," presents an unflattering picture of him, saying he not only obtained the [...]

Once again, Apple’s iPod is expected to be the hottest gift of the holiday season. That should be great news for the recording industry, right? After all, many of the 10 million or so new iPod owners surely will rush to Apple Computer Inc.’s (AAPL ) iTunes Music Store to load up on songs.   [...]

MTV Networks and Microsoft will join forces to design and develop a new digital music service, the companies said Tuesday.   The service, to be called Urge, is due to launch in 2006 and will be integrated into a new version of Microsoft’s Windows Media Player.   Plans call for the service to offer more [...]

The study for Motorola said it was three times more than those surveyed in Germany, Italy or France.   A quarter of the 1,000 Britons surveyed owned a digital music player, the second highest ownership of the European states surveyed, behind Spain.   The UK also had the highest percentage of people aged over 50 [...]

Okay, it has long been debated how best to protect your PC while using P2P applications. Its like the old Pepsi vs Coke debate, firewalll vs Peer Guardian. Well, here I intend to offer up credible pros and cons for using Peer Guardian 2.   Firstly, PG2 blocks IP addresses BEFORE they can connect, blocking [...]