Thanks to the Computer Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) from May 2007, companies like Comcast have more latitude to spy on users for both the government and themselves. They are using this latitude now to hire someone whose sole purpose will be to spy on Comcast users.

It isn’t news that Sony’s Blu-Ray has bested Toshiba’s HD-DVD video format a while ago, and it certainly isn’t news that Toshiba is reeling from the defeat. But I don’t think anyone could have predicted that Toshiba would pull its beaten and bloodied self together and make another affront to Blu-Ray; Toshiba plans to release a “super” DVD player, an upscaling format that promises to deliver Blu-Ray definition out of normal DVDs for quite a few bucks less.

Saving the trees and money, 240 IATA carriers are ditching the paper airline ticket by the end of Sunday.

Bell Canada is being sued by a group of angered Quebec residents, accusing it of false advertising and privacy violations.

Industry analysts have been predicting the event of the disposable cell phone for some time now. They have existed in Europe and Asia for years, but you don’t have to wait any longer if you want to pick up one of these bad boys as they have arrived in the US.

Capturing the energy inherent in tides and waves has been the goal of many different countries and companies over the last few years.  Most of the devices require some ability to float or even fly above the surface of the ocean but BioPower has created the bioStream and bioWave that work anchored to the sea bed.

Imagine a gasoline from renewable resources rather than finite oil fields.  That is exactly what a San-Diego, California start up has done.  Not only is algae good for adding to power drinks, it is now a source of power for cars.

At first, it seems as if the popular web site Twitter is blaming the user for its downtime woes, especially heavy users like Robert Scoble, who have in excess of 20,000 friends and followers. In fact, the downtime scalability issues come from several directions at once.

Though just about everyone these days can get their hands on a digital video recorder (DVR) of some sort nowadays, there are a few that still want to claim a piece of everyone’s pie, or so it seems. TiVo was arguably the first company to distribute DVR, and it sued Dish for copying its idea…but Dish doesn’t like that and is now suing TiVo back.

GM just announced that 19,000 of its hourly workers in the United States chose to accept buyout offers with various options. The company will replace those leaving with fewer, lower paid workers. Struggling against a dropping demand for larger vehicles, will the thirst for green vehicles like the Chevy Volt fill the void?

Don’t you just hate those annoying speeding tickets? Well rest assured, Trapster is here to save you. Trapster is the latest in cell phone/networking service where you can contribute as well as take advantage of, to ensure that you don’t get another speeding ticket again.

Fresh from winning American Idol and yet to cut a full album, David Cook’s already scored 942,000 digital downloads according to Nielsen SoundScan. This is fairly remarkable as the numbers are from the week ending Sunday, meaning Cook averaged six figure downloads a day. Not bad at all.

Recently Google unveiled its near finished software that will eventually run various cell phones throughout many different manufacturers’ mobile technology. With touch screen friendly interface capability ‘Android’ could give the iPhone a run for what its worth.

Microsoft has established quite a reputation by domineering the operating system industry and pressuring other players out. It seems that one way the company is maintaining that foothold is by throttling access to its MSDN network, making it difficult for Linux users to download files inside the system.

Though the battle between media protection groups like the RIAA and filesharers on peer-to-peer networks isn’t anything new, it seems that media groups have sank so low that they are now hiring seedy companies like MediaDefender to attack torrent indexing sites’ servers, even if those sites aren’t indexing illegal content. Evidence now seems to show that MediaDefender attacked popular site Revision3, and the FBI is going to get involved.

We’ve been waiting for it and here it is, Dell’s 8.9-inch mini laptop dubbed the “mini-Inspiron” which sadly shares a similar design.  I’m not a fan of the Inspiron design, they’re bulky, fat and ugly, I liked the previous designs better like that of the Inspiron M1710 and earlier E-series models.  Though, the mini-Inspiron looks… okay.

I have been using the FireFox Release Candidate 1 test program for a while now, and I like it – well, most of it. It is missing a few key features and plugins for me that I had grown used to, but it looks more like the beautiful Safari, while still offering the function of FireFox, so I’ve been happy. Mozilla is banking on the happiness of its loyal users to get it to the top of the Guinness World Record books this summer.