The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, i.e. the group out to protect the rights of those in the music and recording industry, has set its sights on Europe in its latest attempt at defeating internet piracy. The IFPI recently presented the EU with recommendations intended to block both p2p traffic and access to sites that cater to p2p sharing.
Best Buy staff have been accused of continuing to deceive their customers with in-store web kiosks that display different prices than those that appear on the company’s Internet site.
In an alliance that will be deemed unholy (by their competitors) yet practical (say the analysts), Sharp and Toshiba unite to save the world…I mean, make beautiful LCD TVs together.
O come all ye shoppers…to Amazon and buy pretty 120GB white Macbooks. Because enough of your brethren have done so this Christmas Eve, making the model the top-selling PC on Amazon.com.
It seems that numerous problems are appearing for Blu-ray disc lovers this week, but never fear, there is help out there.
Every year, Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II addresses the public at 3:00 PM on Christmas Day. It was expected that she would address the public in the usual manner, live and on BBC radio and television. The Queen has other ideas of how to reach the masses, however; thanks to her granddaughters.
There’s been an astounding, neigh unbelievable, twist in the saga surrounding Apple’s attempt to shut down Fake Steve Jobs (FSJ). It’s been revealed by a VERY reliable source (ie I read it on a blog) that FSJ is actually Bill Gates’ love child.
It looks like the end could be nigh for rear projection televisions, with the recent announcement that yet another class A manufacturer has abandoned the product. Sony has joined Philips, Toshiba and Hitachi in stopping all manufacturing of the TVs in favour of both LCD and Plasma.
In a world where you can die and kill an infinite amount of times, video games constantly get blamed for random acts of violence, but that’s in America. Over in China, you’re guilty for your own actions, so when a Chinese student decided to light another on fire, blaming World of Warcraft wasn’t good enough.
Mozilla has announced a new project to formally explore the integration of its Firefox web browser with the computer desktop.
Hilary Clinton was the spearhead behind the ill-fated Family Entertainment Protection Act in 2005. In spite of the failure of that unnecessary and frivolous bill, Clinton is still staunchly in the corner of censorship, this time targeting gamers and fans of anime and other animation and cartoon formats.
In a step to help bring freedom of press to the world wide Internet, Sen. Patrick Leahy has co-authored and helped push through the OPEN Government Act. A reform to the Freedom of Information Act that will help online journalists access information easier and for less money.
Love it or hate it, the Internet is changing not only the way people talk online, but it is also starting to change the English language as a whole.
Many consumers have just stayed away from the Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD war, partly because of high prices and partly because some do not have a high-def TV to take advantage of it. Those with high-def TVs are still abstaining from siding with one over the other pending an uncontested champion.
Earlier this week, Russian anti-virus vendor, Kaspersky Lab released a faulty signature update to its software which then proceeded to falsely identify Windows Explorer as containing the Huhk-C virus. This led to problems for some users as a majority of Windows features were now disabled.
With Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick now cleared by the FTC, the search king’s interactive marketing arm may gain a lot of muscle that puts its competitors even further behind.
While Google tries its best to anticipate what its users want, when searching the Internet, it doesn’t always return desirable links. In fact, sometimes it’s just plain “quirky,” and requires a little extra work on our part to return those sought-after links.
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