Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Mar. 12–The mild-mannered accountant plugging away at your taxes might be jamming to Nine Inch Nails. The co-worker next to you? Rocking out to Journey. If they have iPods — and more and more people do — many workers are taking their music libraries with them to work. They say it [...]

Jeff Bezos sure is brave for his decision to rival Apple’s line of iPods. Amazon will be entering the digital music business with its own MP3 players and music service. In fact, Bezos is chatting with Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, and EMI Group PLC in hopes to launch the music service [...]

Most people will consider downloading music off the Internet to be illegal. However, when done the right way, it should be perfectly legal. If you have ever used Google to do research or gotten pictures off the Internet, were you breaking the law? The answer is no, because the users of Google aren’t turning around [...]

FRAMINGHAM — The continued refusal by major credit card associations and financial institutions to identify the source of a data compromise that has resulted in a wave of debit card fraud worldwide is fueling concerns about the scope of the problem.

Internet Explorer isn’t the only application to enjoy a resurgence in Windows Vista — Microsoft is readying a new desktop e-mail client that will be integrated into Windows Live and eventually replace Outlook Express. Dubbed Windows Live Mail Desktop, the product is currently in beta testing. As IE development stagnated following the release of Windows [...]

Verisign said Monday that it had entered into a definitive agreement to purchase file-sharing firm Kontiki. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company was bought for $62 million, and the transaction is expected to close by the end of the month. The technology acquired from the deal would power VeriSign’s new Broadband Content Services platform, which would [...]

Dave Greubel stared at the Star-Telegram article in astonishment. There was his name, sandwiched into a list of strangers. The headline on the Aug. 25 article: “10 sued over downloads.” Greubel, 51, of Arlington, learned from the article that he was being sued by a group of record companies and accused of distributing copyrighted music [...]

uTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients. Download uTorrent Now 2006-03-07: Version 1.5 (build 436) – Feature: Setting to determine the number of uTorrent [...]

Last month, the Motion Picture Association of America announced one of its boldest sorties yet against online piracy: a barrage of seven federal lawsuits against some of the highest-profile BitTorrent sites, Usenet hosts and peer-to-peer services. Among the targets: isoHunt, TorrentSpy and eDonkey. But, as always, one prominent site is missing from the movie industry’s [...]

A new Valley-based start up is updating the old idea of a swap meet for music fans. LaLa.com provides a site where you can find and trade legitimate CDs with other members. LaLa gives you a stack of cases and envelopes, and each CD you acquire from other members costs you $1, plus postage. That’s [...]

SC Mediom Global SRL today released MacLoader for both PC and Mac, the most modern way to download to your heart’s content around the clock with blazing-speed, from the only truly anonymous download service in the world… right from your desktop! “AOL recently blocked its 32+ million users from accessing the world’s largest file archive, [...]

Moconews is reporting that Nokia’s high-end N91 phone—the hefty, metal model with a built-in 4GB hard disk—has been pushed back to the third quarter of 2006, despite originally being scheduled to ship around last Christmas. The hangup? Implementing Microsoft’s Windows Media DRM, which for unstated reasons has proven more difficult for Nokia to include than [...]

Siemens unveils peer-to-peer technology for voice communications in the business environment service called HiPath BizIP. HiPath BizIP shifts the switching intelligence that used to be concentrated in the PBX to the desktop sets themselves. This means that these phones can be connected directly to the existing LAN infrastructure and eliminate the need for a separate [...]

The French government has become more aggressive in moving to block attempts by its legislature to legalize peer-to-peer downloads, with the country’s Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy having harsh words for file sharers after a meeting with popular French artists. The original bill aimed to punish those who break laws by copying CDs and DVDs and [...]

Google has agreed to acquire Upstartle, an early stage start-up which has developed a word processor accessible through a web browser. Upstartle’s Writely application is currently in beta and does not allow any new users to sign-up. The software lets users share and edit documents through a web browser and provides online storage. The software [...]

According to the BBC, 30% of Internet traffic is now accounted for by BitTorrent, the popular Peer-to-Peer software. Is the percentage so high on your corporate network? As discussed the BBC article, BitTorrent traffic is increasingly being encrypted – largely to avoid ISP’s traffic shaping efforts, but also in an attempt to cover up any [...]

File-sharing company AllPeers said Tuesday it received a first round of funding from two venture capital firms that backed last year’s huge peer-to-peer winner, the VoIP service Skype. AllPeers co-founder and CEO Cedric Maloux declined to disclose the amount of funding from Mangrove Capital Partners and Index Ventures, but said it was less than $5 [...]

A pair of security bugs in cryptography software could allow an attacker to insert content into a digitally signed message or forge signatures on files. The flaws lie in the open-source GNU Privacy Guard software, also known as GnuPG and GPG, the GnuPG group said in two alerts. The software, a free replacement for the [...]

Dodd, an 18-year-old from Salinas, Calif., was one of 20 contestants at Thursday’s San Francisco stop of Legoland California’s seven-city search for a new master model builder. In each city, the Legoland judges are picking several finalists, each of whom will be invited to the May 23 finals at the Carlsbad, Calif., theme park. And [...]

The new draft would see fines for home users who illegally download music and films, as well jail sentences for those who distribute anti-copyright software. Interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy said file-sharing was "theft".   The government wants to delete an amendment which lets users download as much as they like for a small fee. In [...]