Although the majority of the music industry signed on to sell Digital Rights Management (DRM) free music through Amazon, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is still promoting DRM control over most music releases.  A new House Bill seems to add more credibility to this opinion.

Are you one of the millions of Xbox 360 owners around the world who has been cursed by the Red Ring of Death? Then the news of a much improved chipset now going in to production will give you some hope that the situation will never be repeated.

Bill Gates, among other ICT luminaries, will be making an appearance at the next World Congress of Information Technology (WCIT) running in Kuala Lumpur from the 18th to the 22nd of May. The kicker is that Gates won’t be there in person…he’ll be there in holographic form.

Under an agreement with U.S. officials, Facebook is adding more than 40 new security safeguards to the site. These precautionary measures are to protect young users from cyber-predators and bullies.

What do you do when you are 67 and wheel chair bound?  Why you invent a stealth paint that will hide objects painted with it, from radar.  Or at least that was the aim of one such German named Nickel.

We heard through the grape vine Virgin Mobile and Helio are talking about merging. Both carriers borrow from Sprint’s network, and they’ve both mastered aspects of the cell phone business that the other hasn’t. A merger could save both companies — rescue one from mediocrity and the other from extinction.

Keeping track of new episodes of favorite shows can be a challenge, especially for anyone with eclectic interests and a lazy mouse arm (who wants to click more than they have to!). Hulu absolutely kept its lazy users in mind when it introduced the subscriptions feature, which is similar to the Tivo’s season pass.

Data Portability has been in the news a lot over the last few months, with many wondering just what the heck it is and when a concrete application of it would be in evidence. now MySpace, eBay, Yahoo (and its properties), Twitter and PhotoBucket have all teamed up to give Data Portability functionality its first real world launch.

In terms of traffic, popularity, and general buzz, social networks such as MySpace, Facebook and Bebo are doing phenomenally well. However, making them a profitable venture still seems to be a hard task, as News Corporation, the owners of MySpace have now found to their cost.

An aggressive timeline and dramatic shift in technology are both driving the development costs of the Chevy Volt upward and Chevy has announced that will likely introduce the first version of the Volt for $35,000.

T-Mobile is launching a really interesting but rather stupid Mother’s Day special that’ll waive any activation fees for new lines, but you’ll need to be super lucky to participate.

If you thought Comcast couldn’t be any worse a cable provider after recent issues with throttling and its history of poor customer service and rampant outages, think again. The technology rumor mill is thick with the anger and indignation of Comcast users everywhere in response to news that the cable giant wants to punish users for actually using the bandwidth they already pay for.

Not the whole of congress, but one person in particular - Republican congressman Mark Kirk. This is the same man who is targeting social networks such as MySpace and Facebook, but not content with going after them, he has now tried to drum up support for his cause by bringing Second Life in to the argument.

Ethanol is seen as a “wonder drug” for the automobile companies.  They can continue to produce gas fueled automobiles and appear environmentally conscientious.  Of course it does require some modification of the engine to run with ethanol spiked gas.  Unfortunately, most ethanol is made from corn or other food stock like soybeans and is now causing food shortages.  GM has invested in two ethanol companies, Coskata and Mascoma.  Both use different methods to create ethanol without using food crops.

The ocean is being mined energy using a new type of technology.   Off shore wind turbines are certainly evidence of this but this new technology, from Wavebob Ltd in Ireland, uses the movement of the ocean to create energy.  From a boat,  the Wavebob buoy device looks like just another buoy set out in the ocean, but underneath the surface energy is being harnessed.