Planes, trains and automobiles are where digital video wants to do some boredom busting. Scores of companies are betting there’s gold in helping go-go commuters and road warriors catch the latest episodes of 24 and Grey’s Antatomy. Apple downloads movies to iPods. Cell phone carriers stream TV shows to handsets. Sling Media’s Slingbox connects users [...]

Google is set to announce Monday that it is working with officials in four U.S. states to make sure all the public information they have online is easily accessible through the company’s search engine. As part of a voluntary public-private sector partnership, Google has been helping technology managers in Arizona, California, Utah and Virginia remove [...]

The Bush administration on Monday targeted China, Russia and 10 other nations for extra scrutiny in the piracy of American movies, music, computer programs and other copyrighted materials. The 12 nations were put on a “priority watch list” in the area of copyright piracy, which costs the American industry billions of dollars in lost sales [...]

Electronics giant Sony has sparked a major row over animal cruelty and the ethics of the computer industry by using a freshly slaughtered goat to promote a violent video game. The corpse of the decapitated animal was the centrepiece of a party to celebrate the launch of the God Of War II game for the [...]

Computers and music have been linked since the earliest days of the mainframe, when giant machines controlled primitive synthesizers. Recently, however, a significant advancement has taken place in the field of computer music with the development of software that can not only transcribe polyphonic music in real time, but can also play back complex harmonies [...]

BBC shows such as Doctor Who and EastEnders are to be made available on-demand after the BBC’s iPlayer service was given the green light. The service – which will launch later this year – allows viewers to watch programmes online for seven days after their first TV broadcast. Episodes can also be downloaded and stored [...]

“Playble” will give users the option of paying whatever monthly subscription fee they can afford. First hinted at perhaps in a blog posting on The Pirate Bay’s site, and then mentioned in somewhat more detail in an article in the LA Times, the famed Swedish pirates are working on a new music sharing site that [...]

Tired of paying for ringtones? Well here are the best 5 ways to get free ringtones for your cell phone all for free. You might be surprised at how easy it is to get free ringtones. http://mobile17.com Use your own music, photos, pictures, and animations to create free ringtones and graphics: online, without needing software [...]

Wants to gauge eyeVio’s reception in Japan first before it launches overseas. Sensing an opportunity in the bustling world of online video distribution, Sony is scheduled to it try out its new “YouTube killer” tomorrow that will also allow users to upload and distribute their own videos. “This is part of Sony’s quiet software revolution,” [...]

I had a chance to finally test drive the new Grooveshark P2P music download site, and it’s been well worth the wait. A while back I wrote about a soon to be unleashed new music download service where BOTH copyright holders as well as community content uploaders will be compensated. As I mentioned, Grooveshark will [...]

Ken Kutaragi, the inventor of the PlayStation video game consoles, steps down as CEO amid increased competition from Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo Wii. The inventor of Sony Corp.’s PlayStation video game consoles, Ken Kutaragi, will retire as chief executive of the Japanese company’s game division on June 19, the company said Thursday. Kutaragi, 56, known as [...]

Following the largest-ever annual decline in Canada’s music market – a 12 percent drop from 2005 to 2006 – sales of CDs, music DVDs and other “physical” music formats fell an unprecedented 35 percent in the first quarter of 2007 compared with the same period a year earlier, the Canadian Recording Industry Association reported today. [...]

Joost, the Internet TV company founded by Europe’s top Web entrepreneurs, has taken a big step towards commercial viability by signing up 31 advertisers worldwide ahead of the launch of its free service. The company, aiming to become a new kind of global cable TV network on the Web, was started last year by Niklas [...]

Bored? Want to watch Prison Break? TV Links lets you watch Prison Break and dozens of other TV shows, cartoons, and anime on-demand whenever and wherever you like. With TVLinks you can stream Prison Break on-demand for free. There’s a cool site I found that allows you to watch many of your favorite shows “YouTube [...]

Says customers not into renting music — and I agree. Record labels have been supposedly asking Apple to introduce a music subscription service to its iTunes digital music download store in an attempt to increase profits but, Steve Jobs is adamant that “customers don’t seem to be interested in it”. Apple is gearing up for [...]

In an open letter to students, the university announces that it will now restrict the use of all “P2P, or file-sharing on the campus computer network”. Ohio University has currently received the most complaints from the RIAA regarding illegal music downloading to date, having received some 1,287 notices since last September, and averaging 10-15 new [...]

There has been an understandable public outcry against the RIAA’s attempts to more than triple the sound recording copyright royalties on Internet radio. (See Save Internet Radio from Corporate Money Grab) One solution proposed by Webcasters is to just not play RIAA-member songs under the assumption that then they don’t have to pay the royalty [...]

People who claim they have been wrongly accused of illegally sharing computer games on P2P networks should stand up to their accusers, a legal expert said today. The comments came as Davenport Lyons, the law firm taking action for games publisher Zuxxez, continues to chase 500 British people it claims illegally shared the game Dream [...]

Although Apple has repeatedly said that its iTunes Store operates at “just above break even,” a thorough analysis of the service’s economics suggests it turns a profit roughly in line with the company average, with recent events paving the way for even greater gains. Based on per-song cost estimates, the ubiquitous iTunes service generates an [...]

MICROSOFT HAS let it be known that the behaviour of Windows Vista beta copies is about to change fairly substantially. From May 31, anybody using a beta copy of the OS will find that their machine reboots every two hours, and that intermediate access will be limited to base-level file retrieval. That means that you [...]