Icuity iWear for iPod represent a remarkable realization of the videoshades referred to by science fiction writers less than twenty years ago. Yes, iPod has a great little screen. But why not relax with a 44-inch virtual screen—a movie experience that fits right in your pocket. Check the specs: * Twin high-resolution 320×240 (230,000 pixels) [...]

Apple did take the wraps off of a new iPod today, but it was not the mythical “true video iPod” that we’ve been waiting for since last year. The company looks to be focusing on improving the video playback experience, however, touting a 60 percent brighter screen and better battery performance when playing video. The [...]

While German police have seized several Tor servers, Tor executive director Shava Nerad says that Tor itself is not under attack, that the police haven’t charged any Tor server operators and the organization expects the servers will be returned without incident. We are simply part of a very wide net that they cast trying to [...]

Adobe is set to announce Tuesday that it is launching a photo-sharing Web site in about three weeks. Photoshop Showcase will work with the next versions of Adobe’s consumer-targeted photo and video editing software–Photoshop Elements 5.0 and Premiere Elements 3.0–which will both be released alongside Showcase.

According to court documents filed today MetaMachine, the company behind eDonkey, has agreed to pay a $30 million dollar settlement to the RIAA and cease distribution of its eDonkey, eDonkey 2000, Overnet and other software versions. A message left for users on the eDonkey site reads: The eDonkey2000 Network is no longer available. If you [...]

Yahoo Inc. is offering free group conference calling services from Vapps Inc. to the roughly 80 million users of Yahoo’s instant-message and Web telephone-calling service, the companies said on Monday. The service, called ConFreeCall, will be available for download through Yahoo Messenger with Voice service, allowing friends or families to hold free conference calls to [...]

Government negotiators and broadcast officials descend on Geneva this week to continue negotiations on a treaty that few people have heard about, yet one which may have damaging long-term consequences for consumers, technology companies, telecommunications providers, and the Internet. The World Intellectual Property Organization’s Broadcast Treaty began several years ago as an initiative to address [...]

Google has released a new module for its personalized homepage. On its own, this is not terrifically exciting news, but the “Interesting Items For You” feature is a reminder of how much information Google actually collects about you, and it illustrates the creative uses to which that data can be put. The module is straightforward: [...]

Uncork the bottle of rum, because the pirates are coming. Following in the footsteps of Sweden’s successful Piratpartiet, a group of German activists have founded a Piratenpartei of their own. The party wants to carve out space for itself in the traditional political establishment, and held a meeting yesterday in which it did all the [...]

Last night, German authorities raided seven data centers in search of child pornography trafficking or evidence thereof, seizing a total of ten servers in the process. This would be a routine incident in the worldwide battle against underage porn distribution, if not for the fact that some of these machines were running TOR anonymyzing proxy [...]

I love VoIP phone services. Unlimited long distance at half the price of landline phones but with four times the features. What’s not to love? A new generation of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phones, routers and other equipment are nearly idiot-proof to install and use by both consumers and businesses. But a funny thing [...]

Napster is aiming to take some customers away from Apple iTunes by launching a new scheme under which they would be giving away an MP3 player worth about £30 to all new subscribers to their digital music service in Britain. The company is offering a 512MB version of a SanDisk music player to customers who [...]

Just checked out Blogmusik.net, thanks to the folks from TechCrunch, who advise people to check the site out before it gets pulled. Blogmusik offers on-demand listening to users via a Flash interface made to look like an iPod. Search for an artist or song and you’ll get the results that you can start listening to [...]

As more of our assets take a digital form, questions about defining ownership and property rights have become quite complex. Many in the entertainment industry have taken a contradictory stance, claiming that digital assets should be treated like physical goods on issues like theft and piracy, while denying the right of first sale, when applied [...]

Universities – USC especially – are at a crossroads: Do they exist to promote scholarship, or do they exist to protect the business models of entertainment companies at any cost? As students were returning to the USC campus for the 2006-2007 year, they were sent an ominous memo on “Copyright Compliance,” signed by Michael Pearce, [...]

THE RECORDING Industry of America Association (RIAA) is trying a new legal dance in its p2p case against Paul Wilke. Wilke has told the RIAA to go forth and multiply over its claims that he pirated a selection of music. He has said some of the music that the RIAA claims he downloaded he didn’t, [...]

To discourage illegal file-sharing and reduce the network clutter that often accompanies it, many colleges and universities have entered into contracts with legal music downloading services such as Napster, Ruckus, and Cdigix in the past few years. But early results of these partnerships suggest that many students aren’t taking advantage of the services, mostly because [...]

Without Pretrial Discovery the RIAA does Not Have Enough Facts to Oppose Paul Wilke’s Summary Judgment Motion In Elektra v. Wilke, the Chicago RIAA case in which defendant Paul Wilke has moved for summary judgment, the RIAA has filed a motion for “expedited discovery”, alleging that it does not have sufficient evidence to withstand Mr. [...]

Apple has added ever more extras to its digital music-player in a bid to stem falling sales. But fears are rising that the device is now too common to be cutting edge The Mermaid, Puddle Dock, is not the first place you might go in search of the cool and cutting edge. That will not [...]

The video-sharing Web site is a runaway success — everywhere but on the bottom line. YouTube Inc. is the Internet company to beat these days. Wowed by its meteoric rise — the 19-month-old site dishes up 100 million daily videos — startups and giants alike are crowding into the video-sharing market. Microsoft Corp. (MSFT ) [...]