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The European recording industry announced a wave of new lawsuits against alleged illegal music file traders this week, but the move was seen as more of a ripple in the vast ocean of peer-to-peer activity. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, the European equivalent of the Recor...
Moviegoers that happened to miss "Brokeback Mountain" when it ran in the theaters this winter get another chance on Tuesday to see the film. The movie will be among the first sold to consumers via the Internet -- on the same day it is released on DVD. Seven studios -- including Universal Studios, wh...
Webcasts are finding an audience with everyone from basketball fans to churchgoers to music lovers. Now, record companies are beginning to wake up to the possibilities of webcasting as a scouting tool. RCA/Sony BMG has signed a little-known British singer to a record deal after watching live perform...
Call it messaging, multiplied. As the number of modes of delivering messages increases to include e-mail, IM, VoIP, text messaging and voicemail, so do the volumes and different types of messages that companies must manage. "Messaging is not just for kids anymore," Brian Hicks, co-director of Indepe...
Japanese hipsters are about to gain access to TV to go with mobile handsets capable of displaying digital television broadcasts. One Seg, a service that launched in South Korea last year, will supply regular broadcast TV offerings. Backers of the service -- which include NTT DoCoMo, rival KDDI and J...
Moviegoers that happened to miss "Brokeback Mountain" when it ran in the theaters this winter get another chance on Tuesday to see the film. The movie will be among the first sold to consumers via the Internet -- on the same day it is released on DVD. Seven studios -- including Universal Studios, wh...
IBM and 3Com have announced an agreement to complement 3Com's VCX IP telephony with System i, IBM's all-in-one mid-market computing platform. The partnership allows businesses with 100 to 2,000 users to have an integrated VoIP and systems solution complete with hardware, software, storage and securi...
I spent a lot of time last week reading the Microsoft employee blogs and apparently there is some reasonably strong feeling among many folks who work there that the wrong "Steve" is running the company. This is, in my view, a "grass is greener on the other side of the fence" type of perception -- s...
The hype surrounding machine-to-machine communications -- known by the acronym M2M -- is surpassed only by the expense of network transport and the "exorbitant process" of integrating M2M modules into the machines they will monitor. Cellular networks are the most likely the M2M enabler, according to...
Germany-based chipmaker Infineon has announced that its memory chip spinoff, dubbed Qimonda, will officially launch May 1, ahead of the original schedule for the strategic move. Qimonda -- conceived in response to the challenges of running two very different kinds of semiconductor businesses -- will...
A new study that is sure to revive an old debate says that long-term cell phone use may increase a person's risk of developing brain cancer. The Swedish National Institute for Working Life said its examination of the health and cell phone habits of more than 900 people who had been diagnosed with a ...
Sprint Nextel on Thursday announced aggressive plans for the expansion of its 3G network, which now covers over half of the U.S. population with mobile broadband data services. By the end of 2006, the high-speed wireless network is expected to reach an estimated 190 million people nationwide and in...
This week, the Federal Election Commission voted to exempt much political communication on the Internet from the provisions of the McCain-Feingold finance law. This action is a partial win on free-speech rights, but bad news on government control of the Internet. A few years ago, the FEC issued reg...
Hardware and electronics makers are carrying on what has become a heated format fight as they ready new, high-definition DVD players for the market, choosing to build hardware for either the Sony-backed Blu-ray discs or rival Toshiba-supported HD DVD format. While there have been some demonstrations...
YouTube is drawing the eyeballs of millions of viewers and the ire of some major television broadcasters with its viral video service. Now the company is also drawing the eye of E! Networks, a producer of entertainment news and lifestyle-related programming. YouTube and E! are partnering to bring a...
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