While Firefox and Thunderbird are the poster children of open-source Internet application success, the program suite they sprang from, Mozilla, was reborn Jan. 30 under a new name: SeaMonkey.   Like the now obsolete Mozilla Application Suite, SeaMonkey 1.0 includes a Web browser and e-mail client, as well as a WYSIWYG Web page composer and [...]

The firm will sell movies and TV shows over the internet in Germany, Austria and Switzerland from March.   Its In2Movies service will use the same file-sharing technology that has led to an increase in movie piracy.   Warner Bros did not reveal price details but said it planned to widen its international use of [...]

The Zeropaid staff has been working on ways to bring social networking to the site and we are proud to release our latest additions. As we continue to grow as an online community, it is our job to maximize communication. If you have any ideas on how we can improve things, please post your thoughts [...]

The High Court order follows a 12-month covert investigation by the Federation Against Software Theft (Fast).   Among the internet providers are BT, NTL, Telewest and Tiscali.   Over the next two weeks, they are expected to provide the names, addresses and other personal details of the alleged file-sharers.

On that date the Nyxem virus is set to delete Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Acrobat files on infected machines.   Nyxem is thought to have caught out many people by promising porn to those who open the attachments on e-mail messages carrying the virus.   Anti-virus companies have stopped lots of copies, suggesting it had [...]

In a move that shows Hollywood is examining the benefits of a technology it long reviled, Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. is expected to announce today that it will sell movies and television shows online in Germany using peer-to-peer technology. Warner Bros. is working with Bertelsmann AG and its subsidiary Arvato to create a service [...]

But the group, a federation commissioned by the film and entertainment software industry, has rejected claims it is being investigated for bribing administrators of warez release groups to facilitate the raids. Local and federal police, along with Interpol, raided over 300 homes and offices this week in Germany, Austria, Holland, Poland, Israel, the Czech Republic, [...]

It also asked the ombudsman to investigate three other download services. The CCN reckons ITMS and other such services fall foul of the law in a number of key areas.   For starters, it believes many of the terms and conditions the store imposes on buyers are unreasonable in that they strongly favour ITMS over [...]

The company, which last week said it would self-censor its Chinese search engine to appease the country’s government, objects to the commission’s proposals to extend regulations in the Television Without Frontiers directive (TWFD) to cover video content shown on the internet.   James Purnell, the minister for creative industries, has backed Google’s stance. He said: [...]

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday confirmed that it’s considering plans to build its own portable music player to rival Apple Computer Inc.’s iPod BusinessWeek reported Thursday that the Redmond, Wash., software maker was working on plans to develop its own device, rather than just rely on partners to take on Apple, which is becoming a dominant [...]

About a year back, NASA started experimenting with BitTorrent technology with the World Wind project, World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D. NASA’s latest project Visible Earth, is [...]

How to rip and burn DVDs using the popular WinAVI program. There are many programs to choose from when creating a DVD. WinAVI and Nero seem to be the most popular, the latter being my personal favorite. Now in additon to converting your video files they both are able to burn them to disc as [...]

The UK music industry has won a landmark court case in its fight against illegal online music sharing. High Court judges ordered two men to pay the British Phonographic Industry between £1,500 and £5,000 for making thousands of songs available online. One of the men said he did not know he was acting illegally, the [...]

Justin Reynolds, one of the first consumers ever sued by the music industry, said he felt betrayed by the bands he once loved. Reynolds was forced to pay $4,000 as part of a settlement agreement with the RIAA. “This really affected my attitude towards music,” said Reynolds, who continues to download music and refuses to [...]

The BBC says the level of traffic to the site from within Iran has dropped sharply over the last three days.   No official explanation has been given. The BBC has expressed concern at the action, saying it deprives many Iranians of a trusted source of news.   The BBC said it would be approaching [...]

The Mountain View, Calif.-based company planned to roll out a new version of its search engine bearing China’s Web suffix ".cn," on Wednesday.   A Chinese-language version of Google’s search engine has previously been available through the company’s dot-com address in the United States. By creating a unique address for China, Google hopes to make [...]

The Motion Picture Assn. of America, the leader in the global fight against movie piracy, is being accused of unlawfully making a bootleg copy of a documentary that takes a critical look at the MPAA’s film ratings system.   The MPAA admitted Monday that it had duplicated "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" without the [...]

Preliminary official figures at 11 p.m. (0400 GMT Tuesday) showed the Conservatives winning or ahead in 122 electoral districts compared to 103 for the Liberals of Prime Minister Paul Martin.   The result was a personal triumph for Conservative leader Stephen Harper, a 46-year-old economist who forced through the creation of the party in December [...]

If industry rumblings are correct, the recording industry may be preparing a legal assault against ISPs. Multiple industry sources to Digital Music News have pointed to the possibility, and recent comments by IFPI chairman John Kennedy correlate with the chatter. "It’s been a year since I asked for (the ISPs’) cooperation, and I’ve effectively had [...]

Statistics gathered by Nielsen NetRatings shows that traffic to iTunes grew by 241% in 2005.   Between December 2004 and 2005 the numbers of people going to the site grew from 6.1 million to 20.7 million.   The figures mean that about 14% of the net’s active population are regularly using the iTunes service.