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While Viacom is seeking a cool US$1 billion in its suit against Google's YouTube for allegedly using Viacom's copyrighted content without permission, the stakes may be far higher for Google and other Internet companies Google is expected to argue that the safe harbor provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) gives it protection again...

It's a time for excitement -- you're ready for the next generation of e-commerce. Online selling is driving an increasingly significant share of your business' revenue, and the time has come for you to take it to the next level Evaluate what it takes to be a serious online merchant....

For more than a year, the issue of network neutrality has taken up a tremendous amount of time and attention in both Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley. In fact, it may be the single most engrossing subject currently tying together policy interests in these two distinct parts of the country Unfortunately, one key constituency often seems left out...

As the video game market has matured over the past few years, so, apparently, has its fan base No longer are video games the exclusive domain of young kids and teens; the age of gamers is on the rise, according to a new study....

I've never been a big fan of Post-it notes. On occasion, though, they have proven to be a convenient vehicle for procrastination When someone with priorities diverging from mine pins one to my computer screen, I can toss it on the rug....

Right on the heels of Microsoft's announcement last week that its Xbox Live online gaming and entertainment service had 6 million users, Sony let loose with its own groundbreaking online gaming announcement: PS3 Home PS3 Home is an immersive, virtual 3D world for PS3 gamers where they can create their own avatars, meet other gamers, chat, watch vir...

The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) announced Tuesday that it is targeting online moms with a new, "one-stop" resource for parents Disney Family.com, which will debut this week in a beta version, is aimed at parents in general and mothers in particular, offering community and objective information on a variety of topics such as education, food, t...

A state-of-the-art IBM manufacturing plant located in East Fishkill, N.Y., has become the first facility to produce the 65 nanometer (nm) Cell Broadband Engine, the chip maker announced Monday. The Cell chip, developed through a US$400 million partnership between IBM, Toshiba and Sony, is the technology underpinning Sony's recently released next-generation video game console, PlayStation 3 (PS3)...

Enterprises continue to add to their data storage capacity, with external disk storage system sales up 5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2006 to US$6.9 billion, according to a report released Monday by research firm IDC IDC's Quarterly Tracker report on disk storage systems found the total disk storage capacity sold topped 1,030 petabytes, up more...

MTV's parent company Viacom is seeking more than US$1 billion in damages from YouTube and its owner Google for thousands of alleged copyright infringements A complaint filed by the media giant in U.S. District Court in New York contends that almost 160,000 clips of Viacom's programming have been made available on YouTube without authorization, and ...

The days of the spinning disk hard drive seem to be numbered as Intel Tuesday joined the growing field of companies offering solid state flash memory drives that claim to be faster, quieter and more power efficient The new Intel unit, named the "Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive," is based on NAND flash memory, a type of solid state memory -- commonly...

The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration is setting aside close to US$1 billion to help consumers who will be forced to migrate to digital television after Feb. 17, 2009 -- when analog broadcasting is scheduled to cease The Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 also provided for t...

Hewlett-Packard has redesigned three versions of its desktop PC line to meet new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency energy standards The EPA's Energy Star 4.0 regulations, which take effect on July 20, 2007, require PC manufacturers to convert 80 percent of incoming electricity into usable computer power in order to be declared "energy efficient....

If you want to avoid being a victim of information highwaymen on the Web, you may want to pay attention to the domain names of the sites you surf to According to a study released Monday by security software maker McAfee, the Web is no different from the physical world when it comes to safety: there are safe neighborhoods and safe Web domains, and t...

Colorblind people represent a significant but often neglected talent pool and consumer segment. Ten percent of Caucasian American men but less than one percent of women are estimated to have some form of colorblindness. Identifying opportunities to make products usable by as many people as possible, without degrading overall quality or performance, is a quality assurance function that is not always well understood or practiced...

When implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) or utilizing Web services, organizations can reuse business components -- asset reuse being one of the core drivers of the SOA or Web service return on investment (ROI) calculation Although leveraging the service concept provides an avenue for application consolidation and reuse, these same ef...

Without a doubt, adoption and use of radio frequency identification (RFID) accelerated dramatically when Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense (DoD) gave their respective suppliers marching orders to implement the technology However, suppliers for the most part were not happy with the additional costs and resources that had to be diverted into the...

Symantec's latest security suite, Norton 360, gives less-experienced consumers a fresh approach to hardening their computer security with a from-the-ground-up rebuild of its Norton Internet Security Suite into a product that offers anti-intrusion, PC optimization and backup modules Norton 360 is a step up for Symantec, as it competes with McAfee To...

Samsung Electronics is putting the finishing touches on an 8-gigabyte chip -- a high-density embedded flash memory device capable of storing up to 2,000 songs on a mobile phone The South Korea-based company expects to begin mass producing the line of flash memory and firmware chips, called "moviNAND," by the end of the year....

Wireless handset users looking for a little more style than the usual black and silver need look no further than AT&T, which announced Monday the immediate availability of the BlackBerry Pearl and Palm Treo in shades of red Research In Motion's BlackBerry Pearl is now available from all AT&T (formerly Cingular) stores in a dark ruby red, while Palm...