The first town ever auctioned on eBay soon will be back up for sale on the online auction site. Nearly two years after he bought the tiny town of Bridgeville, Orange County financial adviser Bruce Krall said Friday he plans to re-auction the Humboldt County hamlet on eBay next month.

Hong Kong – A single parent who claims he doesn’t know how to switch on a computer is being sued by seven record companies for illegally uploading music on to the internet, a Hong Kong news report said Sunday.

I wanted to post some thoughts on the online experience of Call of Duty 2, since I have been playing the game a lot I thought I would share some ideas.

Analysts say the French are on to something that the rest of the world has yet to figure out: It needs to set rules for this new market now or risk one or two U.S. companies taking control of online access to music, video and TV.

One thing that’s become clear in all of the recording industry’s lawsuits against file sharers, is they feel they pretty much have free reign in what they should be allowed to do. That’s why they originally wanted ISPs to just hand over names without having to file a lawsuit, and why they tend to take [...]

Flash back to 1998 or 1999, when most of us accessed the Interweb through telephone lines. AOL ruled the geography of the web as the king of dial-up. This was so because AOL was “good enough” for most of what the web had to offer at the time. Sure, visiting websites involved a ten to [...]

The Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) commissioned a new 144-page report of radio and consumer survey results, based on data collected between February 17 and 22 by Pollara, Inc. in 1229 telephone interviews with respondents above the age of 13. The purpose of the study was to collect data that the CRIA could submit to [...]

Microsoft later this year plans to release Windows Vista, the long-awaited successor to Windows XP. The operating system is being designed to shut the door on spyware. It will introduce important changes at the heart of the operating system, as well as to Internet Explorer, and include Windows Defender, an anti-spyware tool. “The spyware threat [...]

The launch of Windows Vista will not only fatten the pockets of Gates’ but it will also bring with it DirectX 10. “It will offer six to eight times the graphics performance of DirectX 9.0″ Set to ship at the end of the year, Windows Vista will be Microsoft’s first major operating system release since [...]

A federal judge on Friday ordered Google Inc. to give the Bush administration a peek inside its search engine, but rebuffed the government’s demand for a list of people’s search requests — potentially sensitive information that the company had fought to protect.

The Specialist has followed this up and it looks like months of hard work have come to an end, with the Xbox 360 firmware being well and truly hacked, the security details posted a few days ago are said to be proof as well as a video, this hack will not be made available publicly [...]

As expected, hackers have found a way to run Microsoft Corp.’s Windows XP operating system on new Macintosh computers, winning an ad hoc contest and a $13,854 cash prize to boot.

It looks like Newzmonster has finally closed down their site after many promising comments stating they would stay online despite if legal pressure came their way. But things didn’t go to plan with Newzmonster and they came to a decision that many P2P sites hate to make.

If anyone here gets an email from somebody by the name of BeatKing saying you should do an update for the forum, do not open it as it contains the trojan Tro.Downloader.loadadv. Here is more info on the trojan: http://research.sunbelt-software.com/threat_display.cfm?name=Tro.Downloader.loadadv&threatid=42410

French parliamentarians finished drafting a law on Friday that would open up Apple Computer’s market-leading iTunes online music store to portable music players other than its popular iPods.

Six Tech Companies to Demonstrate Content Distribution and Filtering Technology Los Angeles – – Beginning on Tuesday, March 21 in Las Vegas, the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) will host a technology booth at TelecomNEXT, featuring several companies who will display some of the latest online distribution platforms and filtering tools which could [...]

It’s official: When the first HD-DVD players, from Toshiba, begin arriving in stores this month, there won’t be any software for at least another three weeks.

A musical instrument and sound gear Web site that advertises its relationship with artists such as Dave Matthews, Carlos Santana and Mary J. Blige notified some customers that their credit card information may have been stolen.

A new kind of denial-of-service attack has emerged that delivers a heftier blow to organizations’ systems than previously seen DOS threats, according to VeriSign’s security chief.

360 gamers will get a year of free music videos and other content from artists signed to Epic Records under a promotion deal between the record label and Microsoft Corp., the companies said Thursday.