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The CRIA, Canada's version of the RIAA, recently suffered an ignominious and embarrassing defeat when it failed to convince a Canadian federal court that online file-sharing is illegal and is "devastating" the multibillion-dollar music industry. Having fallen flat on its face, the Canadian Recording...
Sony announced today details from the presentation given this morning by Kaz Hirai, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, at the 2004 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. Hirai's presentation highlighted the company's announcements and focused in particular on new d...
A series of arrests in Germany for alleged computer virus creation is likely to deter casual virus writers, but worms and variants continue and the most hardened computer criminals will probably be more careful, not quelled by the arrests, according to security experts. The biggest arrest came last ...
As video-game makers from around the world gather at the 10th annual Electronic Entertainment Expo -- known in the industry as E3 -- in Los Angeles this week, handheld hardware is expected to garner much of the buzz emanating from the show. "There'll be a lot of looking at the handheld market this y...
While it will be some time before Linux is really much of a threat to Microsoft's installed base or Microsoft to Linux's, the battle for the consumer and corporate desktop was actually joined some time ago. Both sides are working furiously to derail the other. With both the WinHEC and TechEd confere...
Computer virus attacks are up dramatically from 2,400 in 1995 to more than 80,000 in 2002. It seems that almost every week, there's a new, threatening virus. Now the Sasser worm -- which could in fact be a clone, at least in its effects, of last year's MSBlaster and Slammer worms -- is said to have ...
There's yet another pay-per-tune music store on the Net, this time launched by media behemoth Sony Corporation through its Sony Connect subsidiary in Santa Monica, California. The store has a library of more than half a million tracks from all major labels and some independents, as well as exclusive...
A report from a group of Internet experts indicates a U.S. anticensorship Internet access program is employing keyword filtering for the foreign Web surfers it serves, resulting in overblocking, which many argue is a form of censorship in itself. What may be worse is that the U.S. International Broa...
The entertainment industry -- Hollywood, for short -- has done an amazing job of using mainstream print and electronic media to snow the public at large into believing anyone who shares digital music files online is a hard-core villain, out to steal bread from the mouths of starving artists. Using t...
TV programs like The Swan and Extreme Makeover demonstrate that when medicine meets the marketplace, the results can be stunning. But while new technologies and investments drive the latest health services, entrenched political interests threaten progress. Take, for instance, the recent controversy ...
Microsoft and IronPort Systems today announced what the companies are calling "initial success" with the new Bonded Sender Program, IronPort's legitimate e-mail sender program designed to reduce the deluge of unwanted e-mail sent to Microsoft customers. For the past five months, Microsoft has worked...
Spam and its evil offshoot, phishing, have become growing problems on the Internet. Not only has spam become a nuisance with its frequently offensive subject matter, but it is consuming increasing amounts of bandwidth. For an explanation of the issues surrounding e-mail authentication, TechNewsWorld...
It may be just in North America, just on the retail desktop and just a week, but challenger AMD is being credited with selling more of its processors in retail desktop machines than rival Intel for the week ended April 24th. In the findings from La Jolla, California-based Current Analysis, AMD accou...
A new worm that first materialized last Tuesday appeared in its third minor variant early this morning. The Sasser worm threatens any unprotected Windows computer tethered to the Internet via a broadband connection. The rogue code was officially recognized and named early Saturday morning and is kno...
We may be watching the demise of Apple as a PC company and its rebirth as a cross-platform multimedia company. This has been going on for some time, but it just became obvious to me when I had a chance to review Apple's latest financials. The PC market grew at a good rate -- at least compared with p...
