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With a spate of headlines that demonstrate the importance of the Internet as a lever for political and social issues, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Austrian birthplace of Graz is making a name for itself in a new way: political critic. It started when Schwarzenegger asked that his name be removed from a s...
Another year is about to bite the dust and this is my opportunity to look back and ahead broadly and cover the things I haven't already touched on in this column during the last few weeks. I'd like to focus on things of special importance: relationships, job satisfaction, and building products you c...
A new research report by the Boston-based consultancy Strategy Analytics indicates that consumer demand for access to broadband services is powering growth in the market for VSATs -- very small aperture terminals. A copy of the findings was provided to TechNewsWorld. The VSAT industry has undergone ...
A Christian evangelical group is suing Google for allegedly infringing on its trademark. Jews for Jesus, which publishes several evangelistic Web sites in its mission to reach Jews, is claiming that a Web log hosted through the search giant's Blogspot service is harming its reputation. Google's Blo...
France's parliamentary lower house has approved a law that would make the downloading of unlicensed music and movies from peer-to-peer (P2P) services legal with a monthly royalty fee of about US$8 per user. While the law is far from final, it evoked sharp criticism from the French music and film ind...
The U.S. Congress is plotting out the transition from today's over-the-air analog broadcast television to digital television -- setting a 2009 date and the basic structure for assisting consumers who do not have satellite or cable TV service. While these are necessary first steps, there are still a ...
A federal appeals court has invalidated patents for bar codes and machine vision in a case that could have significant implications for the technology industry, experts told TechNewsWorld. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit -- the appeals court for patent cases, based in Washington, D...
Guess what? Your digital music library is not actually a library. It's considered "hoarding." The entertainment cartels have already pirated the word "pirate" to replace "counterfeit" and/or "duplicate" and/or "share." It's so much more PR-friendly -- more emotive and evocative. And it works so well...
The most pronounced vendor battle we saw this past year was the battle between Microsoft and the open-source community. This one was particularly strange to watch because it seemed that both sides were doing more to help, rather than hurt, the other. Almost every time a large number of open-source ...
Sony BMG is seeing a revolution of sorts, but perhaps not the kind it was hoping for this holiday season. U.S. band My Morning Jacket is up in arms over its record label's controversial copy-protection software. The uproar started when the band's fans discovered they could not transfer the album "Z"...
Digital cinema projection and distribution moved one step closer to the mainstream this week as three major theater companies announced their collaboration on a digital cinema business plan. National CineMedia founding members AMC Entertainment, Cinemark USA and Regal Entertainment said they would w...
Those who claim that racism, sexism and homophobia run rampant in the San Francisco Police Department got some high-powered ammunition last week. Videos posted on the Web showed police officers participating in outrageous acts -- an embarrassment for the city and a strong demonstration of how techn...
Some of the world's largest electronics and media companies yesterday joined together to work on high-definition television and audio standards for home entertainment networks. Charter Communications, JVC, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, NBC Universal, Samsung and Sun Microsystems formed HAN...
Intel will sponsor automobile maker BMW's Sauber F1 racing team and also will partner with the car maker to get more Intel technology into BMW automobiles, the chip giant said this week. The Sauber sponsorship is a marketing win for Intel, which will replace rival chip maker AMD as part of BMW's For...
What do you get when you mix information science with Hollywood's film industry? Computer-based predictions of the next blockbuster hit. Professor Ramesh Sharda, an information systems specialist at Oklahoma State University, has developed a computer program to help Hollywood predict the potential s...
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