But corporate parent CBS Corporation announced Friday that it will resurrect the CBS Records brand name. The original CBS Records was sold to Sony in 1988, and its assets are now part of Sony Music Entertainment. The difference this round is the focus. Instead of the eponymous vinyl product, or even CDs, the initial target [...]

Charged with illegally downloading music ranging from gospel classics to Snoop Dogg’s “Back Up Off Me,” two Middle Tennesseans have been sued in the last month by the Recording Industry Association of America. The suits allege that a Gallatin woman and a Columbia-area man have downloaded music through the file-sharing program Kazaa, and have distributed [...]

According to a recent report from Statistics Sweden, SCB, one in five of Swedish internet users, about 1.3 million people, has used a P2P file-sharing program at least once in their lives, The survey was part of a study to look into the online habits of Swedish internet users.. E-mail and news were the number [...]

The power of Dish Network in a portable video player doesn’t limit you as much as you think it might. I recently reviewed the Wolverine ESP and I want to compare the two here in this review. Both are quite portable but let me show you more about the Pocket Dish player so that you [...]

Every few years, someone predicts the imminent collapse of the Internet. Bob Metcalfe–Ethernet inventor, 3Com founder, and Technology Review patron–famously said at a 1995 Web conference that he would eat his words from a pessimistic Infoworld column if the Web didn’t disappear within a year under the strain of traffic overloads and other problems. In [...]

Though the margin of error in the survey is unclear, and the methodology behind selecting survey respondents is shaky at best, the results nonetheless give some insight into what emerging TV trends may hold for the future of TV viewing habits in Australia. According to a recent research study conducted by University of Sydney honors [...]

Looking for a way to bypass the network censors either at school or at work? Well, Psiphon may just be the program that you’ve been searching for. There’s a wide range of ways to circumnavigate the censors on your network, be it the Torpark browser, proxy sites, or anonymizers but, none are as simple and [...]

Someone by the nickname of Dr Chang has managed to permanently activate Windows without buying it! I’m not sure about this because I have not tried Windows Vista and the crack yet. However, Dr. Chang has included screenshots to proof that it’s true that he managed to crack Windows Vista activation. Dr. Chang tried pushing [...]

Belkin came out with the first version of the TuneStage which allowed users to utilize their iPods as a wireless remote control and jukebox for home stereo systems. It supposedly would allow you more control over your system and give your music a chance to be heard somewhere besides via your headphones. Now, Belkin has [...]

Want to give your iPod nano all the love in the world? Take a look at the new Matias Armor for an excellent combination of protection and usability but keeping to the personal desire for a sleek look. Light-weight and rugged aircraft grade aluminum makes up the outer shell of the case and protects your [...]

Looking to shore up the concerns of copyright holders whose works may be posted illegally on video file-sharing sites throughout the web, Philips Electronics is launching its new MediaHedge service. The goal of the new service is to allow “…both the entertainment industry and the end-user to optimally sell, share and distribute content with respect [...]

The creator of Winny, the Japanese P2P file-sharing program, has been convicted in Kyoto District Court of assisting in copyright infringement. It is the first time that a software developer in Japan has been held responsible for the illegal activities of others. Isamu Kaneko, a 36 year-old former teaching assistant at the University of Tokyo’s [...]

The Nintendo Wii is the fastest-selling games console in Australian history, snatching the title from Microsoft’s Xbox 360. In the first four days since its launch last Thursday, 32,901 Wii units were sold nationwide, said Daniel Morse, games analyst at GfK. This compared with the previous record of 30,421 Xbox 360s sold in the four [...]

Skype, the Internet calling service owned by eBay, said Tuesday that as of Jan. 1 it would begin charging $30 a year for unlimited calls to landline and mobile phones within the United States and Canada. Those calls had been free since last spring. The new annual fee for unlimited calling, while still nominal compared [...]

Apple has denied a report which claims US sales at its iTunes Music Store fell by 65% in the first half of 2006. Research group Forrester said it was too soon to say whether its findings showed that buyers were “reaching their saturation level for digital music”. Apple said the report is “simply incorrect”, but [...]

Tape It Off The Internet, or TIOTI for short, could be the shape of things to come for the way the BitTorrent community views and watches television programming. Though a little rough around th edges, it is still in BETA mind you, it makes for an easy way to monitor and track both TV episodes [...]

emWavePC by HeartMath seems to be the answer to every geeks stress problems. Sized like a credit card, the biofeedback program will teach you to breathe in a way that will relieve your stress. If you have ever experienced biofeedback, you will know how relevant a product like this could be. With it’s 3.37 x [...]

Summary: There have been 3 court cases in the US where sites were forced to take down links leading to infringing material on external sites. The sites were found guilty of ‘contributory infringement’ for simply linking. Although unclear the law leans in favor of content owner so if you linked to copyrighted material and don’t [...]

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is on a rampage, launching legal attacks against average Americans from coast to coast. After over 18,000 lawsuits and counting against P2P users, file sharing has continued to increase rapidly. Meanwhile, music fans, like 12 year-old Brianna LaHara, college student Cassi Hunt, and parent of five Cecilia Gonzalez, [...]

Microsoft Corp, Hewlett-Packard Co and other high-tech companies are preparing to push for data-privacy legislation next year to replace what they consider an outdated patchwork of state and federal laws that are inconsistent and burdensome. “We think the time has come for a comprehensive privacy bill that would protect consumers’ personal information while still allowing [...]