AT&T customers to get free ‘Napster To Go’
Today Napster and AT&T announced that they had agreed to a deal to provide some of the top US phone company’s wireless and high-speed Internet customers with free digital music.
Beginning Sunday, April 1, AT&T customers across the company’s nationwide wireless footprint with “qualifying plans,” as well as across the company’s traditional service footprint [...]
Free online video ripping with Zamzar
This easy to use site lets you rip video from internet clips on sites like YouTube and MySpace without any of the usual hassles of software configuration, proper codecs, etc, and also lets you do the same with files already hosted on your own PC.
Zamzar is a free online file conversion site that allows [...]
WiMax: Ready to face p2p users?
It will be a shame to invest RM 300 million in the infrastructure and then realize that 20% of their customers are utilizing 80% of their bandwidth, or it can be as ridiculous as one person eating up the entire state’s bandwidth. This is a no joke prediction, it will definitely happen.
A couple of months [...]
All Nike running shoes to be iPod compatible by year’s end
Nike Inc said last week that it plans to make its entire line of running shoes compatible with Apple Inc’s iPod nano line by the end of this year.
The comment was made Nike president and chief executive Mark Parker on Thursday as the shoe maker released its third-quarter results, saying it had a soft year [...]
“Things may change” for Porn Pop-up teacher
After weeks of e-mails and bad press discrediting the District Attorney’s prosecution of the case, the tide may be turning for So-called porn pop-up teacher Julie Amero. According to Hartford Courant reporter Rick Green the DA may be thinking about backing down from his shameless attack on Amero, her character and her [...]
PIC: Is BitTorrent usage really all about FREE content?
There’s nothing like a good P2P comic strip to start the week off right, and this one comes from Greg Dean over at RealLife.
We’ve seen a number of BitTorrent related comics appear over the last year or so, perhaps due in large part to the way that BitTorrent Inc. has taken P2P mainstream, and also [...]
RIAA: eCommerce Public Enemy #1
With the future of industries such as online radio and peer-to-peer networking hanging in the balance, the pendulum of power is shifting from the hands of the suits at the RIAA into the hands of the public. Those who feel they have been wronged by the organization are collectively beginning to [...]
Girls Gone Wild on BitTorrent
Mantra Films, makers of Girls Gone Wild, plans to offer its girls-baring-all franchise of videos on BitTorrent’s recently launched legal movie download service, company executives told Red Herring.
The move will come soon after the Los Angeles-based company’s international expansion, which was announced Wednesday. GGW set up shop in the United Kingdom about [...]
Mark Cuban: The CableVision DVR Lawsuit is a Mistake
I’m obviously a defender of copyrights. I’m also a defender of fair use. I also think that there is a time to sue, a time to compete and a time to use some sense. CableVision, a Long Island cable MSO, has created a very simple product. It’s a virtual DVR. Rather [...]
Ten reasons why you should buy a Mac
Yes, you can accept Apple’s logic that "it all just works" straight out of the packaging, but there are better reasons for moving to a Mac than a factor that’s just as true of modern PCs these days.
Now there’s an x86-based PC sitting under the hood of every modern Mac, the old [...]
