Not everyone is slashing jobs in these grim economic times. Microsoft Corp. has no plans to cut back on research spending and plans to add workers in the coming year, senior executive ... (more)

Lively, a virtual reality service from Google Inc., is dying. The company plans to shut down the service at the end of the year, reflecting Lively's inability to stand out from the ... (more)

In a striking display of the power of live video, Abraham K. Biggs committed suicide on Wednesday while broadcasting himself on video site Justin.tv. As we understand it from various ... (more)

In SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, the defendant's witness includes, among others: -John Perry Barlow (former songwriter for The Grateful Dead) -Prof. Johan Pouwelse (technical and ... (more)

Appearing to cave to Hollywood demands, Apple has quietly added a restrictive copyright protection mechanism to its new MacBooks that is preventing customers from watching movies on ... (more)

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today announced that it has denied the Canadian Association of Internet Providers’ (CAIP) request that Bell ... (more)

Truth be told, the state of Tennessee didn't need a lot of prodding from the recording industry to pass a law that requires universities and colleges to filter for unauthorized music ... (more)

LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors in court on Wednesday depicted a woman accused of creating a phony account on MySpace to taunt a 13-year-old girl as cravenly preying on the “vulnerable” ... (more)

Every police force in the UK was tonight scouring the leaked British National party membership list for names of serving officers, after the Merseyside force confirmed it was investigating ... (more)

The Australian film and television industry has launched a major legal action against one of Australia's largest internet service providers for allegedly allowing its users to download ... (more)

NASA has successfuly conducted a first test of a deep space communications network modelled on the internet. "This is the first step in creating a totally new space communications ... (more)

Microsoft on Tuesday said it is changing its strategy for offering PC antivirus software, with plans to discontinue its subscription-based consumer security suite and instead offer ... (more)

Last week, the RIAA celebrated the signing of a ridiculous new law in Tennessee that says: Each public and private institution of higher education in the state that has student ... (more)

November 18, 2008 (Computerworld) The shutdown last week of a U.S.-based Web hosting company crippled more than 500,000 bots, or compromised computers, which are no longer able to receive ... (more)

The Court of Appeals yesterday blocked Franklin Circuit Court from proceeding with Gov. Steve Beshear's lawsuit against 141 gambling Web sites until appellate judges hear oral arguments ... (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge has awarded nearly $58,000 to a man who claims Prince failed to pay him for editing work and unreturned equipment. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gregory ... (more)

SWEET HOME, Ore. – Janella Spears doesn’t think she’s a sucker or an easy mark. Besides her work as a registered nurse, Spears – no relation to the well-known pop star – ... (more)

Ahh...digitally controllable TV, and the chance of fresh tasty pizza: That's what TiVo and Dominos Pizza are now offering. Broadband-connected TiVo users will be able to order pizza ... (more)

A recent bust in China netted several hundred pirated HD discs ripped from Blu-ray masters. The discs were only 720p, not 1080p, but their mere existence shows that Blu-ray's amped-up ... (more)

Yahoo said Monday evening that Jerry Yang, its chief executive, would step down from that role after the company finds a replacement. Mr. Yang, a co-founder of Yahoo, assumed control ... (more)

In research that may redefine ear buds, earphones, stereo loudspeakers, and other devices for producing sound, researchers in China are reporting development of flexible loudspeakers ... (more)

A conservative think tank lashed out at U.S. District Judge Michael Davis on Monday, calling his mistrial decision (.pdf) in the Jammie Thomas music sharing lawsuit "unreasoned," ... (more)

The Obama-Biden transition team on Friday named two long-time net neutrality advocates to head up its Federal Communications Commission Review team. Susan Crawford, a professor ... (more)

Federal regulators on Monday charged Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban with insider trading for allegedly using confidential information on a stock sale to avoid more than $750,000 ... (more)

It's a given that every time we write about digital piracy, or laugh at silly pirate jokes, somebody will write in and admonish us. "Shame on you," they say. "Shame on you for laughing ... (more)

Amassing over a million downloads in under seven days, ‘The Dark Knight’ is by far the most pirated movie of this week. Earlier this year, Cam and DVD-screener versions of the latest ... (more)

A hacker has successfully changed the nameservers of the popular BitTorrent meta-search engine Torrentz.com. For a few hours the site was replaced with an Adbrite ad, and a link to ... (more)

Canada has its first conviction under the controversial Bill C-59. A man has been found guilty of ‘camming’ the movie ‘Sweeney Todd’ in Calgary on its opening day. The 21 year-old ... (more)

Courts in recent years have been raising the evidentiary bar law enforcement agents must meet in order to obtain historical cell phone records that reveal information about a target's ... (more)

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