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The legal saga of the first file-sharing lawsuit brought by the record labels to make it before a jury isn't over just yet Jammie Thomas, who a jury ordered to pay US$222,000 after it found her responsible for posting two dozen songs on the Kazaa file-sharing network, announced through her MySpace blog Monday that she would appeal the decision....

Using digitally descrambled images of a suspected pedophile, Interpol issued a global alert Monday, asking for the public's help in identifying the man The man in the images had posted online about 200 images of himself sexually abusing 12 young boys in Vietnam and Cambodia, but every photo of him had been digitally altered to hide his face with a ...

Rather than focusing on the relatively expensive and storage-shy all-flash hard drive movement, Seagate Technology is taking an intermediary step to mass produce a new line of hybrid hard drives -- the Momentus 5400 PSD (Power Savings Drive). The new drives combine both flash-based memory with traditional disc drives to offer a combination of benefits...

It was trouble enough when Sony released "Resistance: Fall of Man," a video game that includes shoot-outs between people and aliens that take place within Manchester Cathedral To give the game an award is salt in the wound, says the dean of the cathedral....

Vonage saw its stock soar some 75 percent Monday after the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) firm settled a patent infringement dispute with Sprint Nextel that gives it the right to use Sprint technology going forward. The settlement could help Vonage turn a punishing legal setback into a positive development Vonage and Sprint announced Monday th...

Gateway upped the ante for plus-sized computer monitors with the Thursday rollout of its latest flat screen, which offers users resolutions at more than four times the level of a standard 720p high definition. Billing it as "the world's first 'Quad-HD' display," Gateway said the XHD3000 is perfect for consumers desirous of "truly remarkable, cinema-quality" viewing...

Once a consumer has committed to a purchase of a particular brand and model of product, maximizing the momentum of his Web research and purchase experience is a great opportunity for a manufacturer However, it's also a tremendous challenge. Best practices have found that as consumers are searching online, if 100 people arrive at a manufacturer's We...

Improving RFID (radio frequency identification) systems for specific applications and industry sectors -- along with mandates from governments and large companies with extensive supply chains and logistics needs -- is spurring adoption by a wider range of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the public and private sectors SMBs needing to tra...

Microsoft has the best products money can buy -- at least, that's what they would have you believe However, remove money from the equation so MS buyers can't brag on the size of investment, and OpenOffice fans can't gloat about a freebie, who would win in an OpenOffice vs MS Office 2007 face-off?...

It is hard to get around the fact that smartphones are incredibly hot right now, and while the iPhone appears to be suffering from vendor-induced trauma, Research In Motion's financials were impressively good However, the whole enterprise phone market is about to go through the most massive change since the introduction of the private branch exchan...

These days, just about every business -- from the corner store to Wal-Mart -- has a Web presence. While the Internet's vast expanse provides companies with the ability to reach more potential customers, it also pits them against more competitors than ever before. As a result, it has become increasingly difficult for companies to convert site visitors into buying customers. To complicate matters, nine out of every 10 users log off without buying anything, according to some estimates...

Novell has set loose OpenSuse 10.3, the latest version of the company's free Linux distribution. More specifically, OpenSuse 10.3 was created by the OpenSuse project, the community Novell sponsored, which now has 54,000 registered members To improve the user experience, OpenSuse 10.3 includes a flexible Linux-Windows dual-boot configuration, Novell...

In one of the most sweeping domestic law enforcement actions against online child pornography in recent times, New Jersey officials announced on Thursday the arrests of 41 people for possession or distribution of graphic images of child molestation Dubbed "Operation Silent Shield," the roundup was the culmination of a two-month investigation, much ...

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) announced Friday that it will launch a new 40 GB model of the PlayStation 3 (PS3) in the UK, Europe, in the Middle East, Africa and Australasia. It will also drop the price of its 60 GB model of the video game console "The introduction of the new PS3 has been the result of extensive research into the entert...

A California state appeals court in San Jose has reinstated an age discrimination case against Google brought by former employee Brian Reid. A California Superior Court judge had dismissed the case in 2005 Reid sued Google in 2004 following almost two years of employment at the search giant, primarily as director of operations and engineering. He w...

Microsoft confirmed Friday that Bungie Studios, the developer behind the "Halo" franchise, will begin a transition to become an independent company, verifying rumors that had been circulating for a week. Microsoft will retain its rights to all things "Halo" and will continue to publish any games from Bungie "Our collaboration with Bungie has result...

A compromised Marin County, Calif., Web site apparently prompted the U.S. government to temporarily shut down all of the state government's Internet sites this week Last month, the Marin County transportation authority Web site was reportedly hacked to redirect traffic to a porn site. Following several unsuccessful attempts to remedy the situation ...

Business is booming at Research In Motion (RIM) as regular consumers join their business-oriented brethren in snapping up the company's ever-expanding line of BlackBerry mobile devices Second quarter revenue at RIM was up 27 percent from the first quarter and more than doubled last year's second quarter, an increase partly attributed to purchases o...

BT Group has teamed up with FON to blanket the UK with free WiFi, the companies announced Thursday Under the agreement, UK-based BT's roughly 3 million broadband customers can join the FON WiFi-sharing network, which has 500,000 users and 190,000 hotspots worldwide, for free. The result, the companies say, will be the world's largest WiFi network....

The music industry emerged victorious in the first file-sharing lawsuit to go to trial, with a federal court jury ruling a Minnesota woman was liable for swapping two dozen songs and ordered her to pay US$222,000 to Capitol Records The closely watched case ended Thursday after two days of testimony and closing arguments and about five hours of deli...