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Sony is giving PlayStation customers a trip to the movies. This week the company announced its Memory Stick Entertainment Packs, "designed for people who want to experience the full range of multi-functional features" on their PlayStation Portable systems. One- or 2-gigabyte versions will cost US$6...
Online social networking site MySpace.com has surpassed Internet giant Yahoo as the most popular Web site in the United States, according to Hitwise research. MySpace accounted for 4.46 percent of all Internet visits in the U.S. for the week ending July 8, 2006. In fact, MySpace drew more online vis...
Consumers who love to chat will have more people to talk to now that Yahoo and Microsoft have bridged their instant messaging services. On Thursday, the companies began limited public beta testing of interoperability between Yahoo Messenger with Voice and Windows Live Messenger, an updated version o...
Online video distributor Guba.com has sealed a deal that will let it distribute downloadable versions of films from Sony Pictures on its Web site. More than 100 feature-length movies, including "Memoirs of a Geisha," "Hitch" and "Underworld: Evolution," will be available on Guba, the companies said....
Ratcheting up in its ongoing campaign against illegal file sharing, the British Phonographic Industry on Monday sent a letter to Internet service providers Tiscali and Cable & Wireless requesting that they suspend 59 Internet accounts used for the purpose. Until now, the BPI has concentrated its...
The number of U.S. households with a connected entertainment network will reach 30 million by 2010, according to a new report from Parks Associates. A connected entertainment network is a network composed of either a PC connected to at least one consumer electronics (CE) device or multiple interconn...
This week, the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee approved the Communications, Consumer Choice and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006, sponsored by Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii). If passed by the full Congress, this massive telecom bill will bring consumers significant benefits, espe...
Voice over Internet Protocol vendor Vonage announced Thursday that it will begin selling a portable VoIP phone that plugs into any PC for voice communications. The new V-Phone, US$39.99 with a $9 activation fee and $15 to $35 service plan for varying numbers of minutes, works wherever users have USB...
Five major Internet service companies on Tuesday announced that they are joining with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to launch a US$1 million campaign against child exploitation on the Internet. AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, EarthLink and United Online will fund a new Technology C...
NBC and online video company YouTube have announced a strategic partnership -- yet another sign that traditional television broadcasters are intent on staking their claims on the Web. The alliance will promote NBC's fall television lineup and other NBC shows over the next year. The agreement also in...
It has worked for geeks, but can the popular Digg technology news site -- an enormous online water cooler that attracts masses of readers who determine the top and most-viewed article rankings -- surface with success in mainstream news? Fans of Digg, which has grown to rival other Internet news gian...
As Congress draws closer to passing significant telecommunications reforms, it's clear that a larger issue serves as a backdrop to the hot topics of net neutrality, cable franchise reform, and municipal WiFi. That is, will the Internet be treated like telecommunications, or the other way around? Ne...
Opera Software on Tuesday released Opera 9, its newest Web browser. The browser is freely available in more than 25 languages for Windows, Mac, Linux and other platforms. Opera 9 attempts to improve the way its users access, share and use online content by including widgets -- small and useful Web ...
While technology news buzzes around Vonage's recent IPO and Skype making major moves into the enterprise, there is a nagging issue all Voice over Internet Protocol players face: 911 response. Few can deny the cost saving benefits of Internet telephone services, but the chief concern is emergency sit...
A former MTV executive is hoping that music will become the killer application for social networking, launching a site that lets users interact with others based on their musical tastes. MOG.com, which ex-MTV marketing executive David Hyman created last year with $1.4 million in venture funding, lau...
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