In an effort to boost productivity on Sundays worldwide, I’ve decided to start posting the top torrents for the “laziest” day of the week. The findings can give you an idea of what’s available out there and provide you with a guide as to what too look for and what to download, hopefully helping people [...]

Wibree, ZigBee, WUSB, Wimax, WIFI, RFID – So many wireless protocols so much confusion. Trying to sort the wireless mess TFOT explore some of the differences between the standards focusing on the recently announced Wibree currently under development by Nokia. Read more on Wibree and other Wireless animals…

A man in Manchester, England has been convicted of using an MP3 player to hack cash machines. Maxwell Parsons, 41, spent £200,000 of other people’s money after using the machine to read card details. Parsons plugged his MP3 player into the back of free standing cash machines and was able to use it to read [...]

Spike the Vote, the so-called “anti-Digg,” is being auctioned off on eBay because of the owners inability to maintain it. It was previously reported that the site was created as a “bulletproof way to cheat Digg.” Tired of “… 30 elite users (or bots, perhaps) controlling the front page content of digg.com,” they “…created this [...]

For you MAC Afficonados out there, Xtorrent just released a Public Beta 2 version. From the site: The largest change in Beta 2 is an under-the-hood overhaul of the downloads pane. The only visible manifestation of this right now is that the folder structure of downloading torrents can now be browsed, much like in the [...]

Universal Music Group sued MySpace.com on Friday, alleging that the social networking site that bills itself as a source of “user generated” content instead trades on “user stolen” songs and music videos. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, described MySpace as a “vast virtual warehouse” of pirated works from some of [...]

A 31-year-old Raymond man who said he was “completely embarrassed and ashamed,” for illegally downloading copyrighted movies, games and software on the Internet, received two years of probation from a federal court judge on Friday and was ordered to complete 200 hours of community service. Ryan Porter, who pleaded guilty in August to criminal copyright [...]

A defendant in one of the RIAA’s many file-sharing lawsuit will be able to argue that the damages sought by the RIAA are unconstitutionally excessive. The defendant in question, Marie Lindor, was sued by Universal Music Group in early 2006 as part of the RIAA’s legal campaign against file sharing. In all of the cases [...]

Universal Music Group—the world’s largest music distributor and the same folks Microsoft is paying for every Zune player sold—has announced a licensing deal which will put Universal music on the forthcoming ad-supported peer-to-peer file sharing service QTrax. QTrax started off life as a Gnutella client; the operation is now a subsidiary of Australia’s Brilliant Technologies, [...]

The MPAA takes another swipe at fair use rights and aims to stop users from being able to convert DVDs that they own. In another nonsensical move by the MPAA, Load ‘N Go Video has been sued by the MPAA for “illegally” converting users’ DVDs and them loading them onto the users’ iPods for them. [...]

Gamers lined up by the thousands early on Friday, aiming to be one of the first in the United States to buy Sony Corp.’s (6758.T) PlayStation 3, the multimedia and video game machine that is key to the future of the beleaguered electronics and media conglomerate. Several of the weary shoppers had queued for more [...]

A Chinese court cleared Baidu, the Chinese internet search engine, of helping users to download music illegally from the internet today. It’s multimedia search feature, called “MP3 Search,” is able to locate audio file formats such as .MP3, .WMA, and .SWF and was the main target of the lawsuit. The complaint filed by IFPI, the [...]

EMI Music has agreed to license music videos by its slate of recording artists to an online video portal and on-demand cable service operated by Gotuit Media Corp., the companies said Thursday. The multiyear agreement, reached this week, calls for the companies to share revenue from advertising on Gotuit.com. The deal allows only U.S. computer [...]

A Tucson man is one of 72 people named in federal lawsuits filed nationwide this week charging defendants with illegally downloading music. According to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Tucson, Virgil Bandy is accused of downloading songs recorded by the Eagles, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Ideal, Boyz II Men, Allure and [...]

Taiwanese police have shut down a website in Taiwan suspected of pirating movies by uploading them to its servers and making them available to users of a P2P (peer-to-peer) file-sharing network. Authorities confiscated servers and arrested the site administrator of Heymovie.com and one user in a series of raids, the MPA (Motion Picture Association) said [...]

The Pirate Bay acknowledges the high demand for TV content and makes a new user-friendly interface. The Pirate Bay recently added a “nice TV-section on the site” so that users will have an easier time of searching and looking through content for their favorite TV series and episodes. By default the “TV show ” section [...]

DESPITE Microsoft’s anti-piracy measures, cracked copies of its Vista operating system are already available on torrent sites, it’s claimed. One cracked version is called VistaBillGates and comes with a product key, and an “activation crack” that bypasses Vole’s activation process. Apparently Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise Edition has also been cracked. So far Microsoft has refused [...]

With uncertainty looming over its presence on YouTube, Comedy Central is refining its broadband video strategy. The network is launching a revamped version of its online programming platform, MotherLoad, this month with a new syndicated video player at its heart, the network said Wednesday. MotherLoad will be integrated deeper into Comedy-Central.com while offering a syndication [...]

The numbers are in, and it appears that high-definition television is getting Americans to spend more time glued to their TV than ever before. Yay, says Bryan Burns, vice president of strategic planning and development at ESPN HD. HD popularity means better TV sales and more advertising, of course. At a minimum, consumers seem to [...]

Embracing a technology that has unnerved media and telecommunications companies, a major European wireless provider will let customers watch their home cable TV on a cell phone if they also have a device called the Slingbox back at the house. 3 Group will launch the new service in Britain first, starting Dec. 1, followed by [...]