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A Chicago man faces the possibility of three years in prison for leaking four episodes of the Fox show "24" onto the Internet before they had aired on prime-time TV Jorge Romero, 24, is accused of uploading the first two episodes of this season's "24" onto LiveDigital.com on Jan. 6, and doing the same thing with the next two episodes the next day.
The high-def DVD format wars took a turn Monday when Sony, backer of Blu-ray DVD technology, announced it has cut the price of a Blu-ray disc (BD) player by US$100. The company's latest model, the second-generation BDP-S300 available next week, will now sell for $499 "The BD format gained great momentum in the past several months, and we're going t...
Google has struck a deal with Hearst-Argyle Television to have local news content from the company's local TV affiliates made available on YouTube, with the TV stations sharing in the revenue generated when video clips are viewed online The deal covers five Hearst-Argyle stations in Baltimore; Boston; Manchester, N.H.; Pittsburgh; and Sacramento, C...
The latest search engine safety report by McAfee SiteAdvisor states that Web search results are slowly getting safer, but it also asserts that search providers can do more to weed out sponsored links from scammers, malware spewers and other "bad actors." Search engine companies have the ability to clamp down on unscrupulous search-based advertisers...
Palm, the handheld device maker that has been searching for a way to rejuvenate its business in the face of competition from the BlackBerry and other smartphones, will sell an ownership stake to a private equity firm, raising US$325 million that it will turn over to shareholders Elevation Partners -- a private equity firm whose five main backers in...
The arrest of a Seattle man said to be one of the most prolific spammers in Internet history is sending shockwaves across the e-mail world, but the arrest likely will do little to stem the flood of unwanted messages deluging in-boxes around the globe Strong law enforcement action across multiple jurisdictions has long been viewed as a key part of a...
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has released the "last call" draft of version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3). The near-final draft simultaneously paves for the way for the controversial Microsoft-Novell Suse Linux distribution pact while at the same time inhibits similar deals from occurring again in the future Under GPLv3, distribu...
Last week, history was made.Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were physically on stage together -- for just the second time ever -- in what many have described as something of a love fest, with Bill repeatedly praising the Mac. Kind of makes you wonder what the two of them could have done as close partners As if to prove that point, Microsoft launched wh...
In theory, Internet pharmacies have the potential to offer consumers considerable benefits over their brick-and-mortar counterparts. Convenience and lower prices, in particular, are two of the big ones proponents frequently cite Unfortunately, the current reality reveals a very different potential. "Rogue Internet pharmacies," as they're called, ha...
ChoicePoint is still doing damage control two years after identity thieves set up fake businesses and bought personal information on 163,000 U.S. residents from the data broker A settlement reached this week between ChoicePoint and attorneys general from 43 states and the District of Columbia may well be the tipping point for the company as it wor...
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin stirred up a maelstrom Thursday when he said he's not convinced global warming is a problem humans should try to solve On the very same day that President Bush announced his widely disparaged proposal for tackling global warming -- a plan many have called a delay tactic to avoid undertaking any real action before ...
Nokia unveiled three new mobile phones this week and aimed for the moon with the most expensive of the trio: a dark, smoked-glass and soft-touch stainless steel creation called the "8600 Luna" that features a pulsing "heartbeat" of a keyboard Taking a backseat to the high-end Luna, but still fairly svelte, are the 6500 Classic and the 6500 Slide. B...
Online search giant Google andEMI Music have agreed to let users of Google's YouTube video-sharing site access music and clips produced by EMI artists The London-based publisher contracts popular recording artists including Coldplay, Norah Jones and David Bowie. EMI will now work with Google to develop business models through which YouTube users ca...
In the most dramatic move yet in what has become an extreme makeover, Dell said Thursday it would cut some 8,800 workers from its payroll over the next year Dell announced the cuts -- which represent 10 percent of its worldwide workforce -- as it released its first quarter results that beat Wall Street forecasts for profit but still showed that the...
The use of a home network largely as a broadband-sharing mechanism is just the first of several stages in the evolution of home networking. Both consumers and carriers will use connectivity for applications beyond shared Internet For consumers, the desire to share multimedia content (music, photos, video) among different devices will drive adoption...
Video rental purveyor Netflix and TV shopping channel QVC led a customer satisfaction index of the top 100 online retailers released Friday by ForeSee Results, of Ann Arbor, Mich The index, calculated twice a year by the firm, ranked the Web sites of Netflix and QVC, with scores of 85, as the kings of customer satisfaction among Internet retail's t...
Businesses and large institutions dreaming of enforcing consistent security policies are finding solace in network access control, or NAC -- programs that establish authentic users, identify network devices, perform integrity checks, take remedial actions and authorize access to information system resources based on organization-wide security policies...
In the never-ending war against spam, the good guys say they have chalked up one significant win: the arrest of 27-year-old Robert Alan Soloway, alleged to be the world's most prolific spammer Soloway has reportedly been using an army of zombie computers to send out huge volumes of unwanted e-mails. He has been indicted by a federal grand jury in S...
Google has created new Web software that runs both online and offline, allowing users to work just about anywhere -- even in places with spotty or no Internet connections The new open source technology for creating offline Web applications, Google Gears, is a browser plug-in that will let people run Web applications at home or work, or in planes, t...
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has announced the winners of is second largest contract to provide next-generation telecom services to federal agencies: AT&T, Level 3 Communications, Qwest Communications, Sprint Nextel and Verizon The five companies all have the right to compete for Networx Enterprise contracts from 135 federal agenc...
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