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The music industry cheered as a Swedish court on Friday found the four proprietors of The Pirate Bay guilty of copyright law violation The Pirate Bay is a torrent tracker site in Sweden that helps users find and download files used to swap movies, music, TV shows, games, books and software via BitTorrent file-sharing applications. It was accessed b...

YouTube's path from a loose, rowdy, anything-goes video destination to a more well-organized and advertiser-friendly Web site took a giant step Thursday with the addition of TV shows and movies, courtesy of new deals with Hollywood studios That step could actually be considered a light-years leap for YouTube, which just two years ago was fending of...

Here's the scoop: Newspaper reporters are about to rake in the dough all across America. We're talking millions, easy. It's a shame this will only be happening in your neighborhood cineplex, because actors will be playing the reporters and the money will be heading straight for movie studios Dreamworks and Universal Pictures.

You search, you find, you click "buy." Your e-commerce quest is nearly complete. You get to that checkout screen, and you think it's all good. Then the shipping charges get tacked onto your total, and you're left thinking that US$9.95 deal didn't end up being such a bargain after all. Then there are those times when you need to make sure your pack...

Part 1 of this three-part series focused on planning out a successful move to a cloud environment. Part 2 investigates obstacles and strategies relating to customization in the cloud. Part 3 takes a look at training One of the selling points for moving software into the cloud is thatit is supposedly hassle-free: no hardware, no software and presuma...

Earth Day is fast approaching, yet despite the awareness this day brings, most people are powering their computers with electricity from coal-burning power plants, delivered by "dumb" networks. Change is long overdue, and it's not a difficult matter. The electricity grid's basic structure hasn't changed much since Thomas Edison came up with the i...

eBay is making a play for one of the most wired nations in Asia with aUS$1.2 billion acquisition offer for South Korea's Gmarket, thecountry's largest online market. Under the terms of the proposal,eBay will make a cash tender offer of $24 per share for alloutstanding Gmarket common shares and American Depositary Shares. If the deal is secured, eB...

We know spammers are often the crooks behind online fraud, ID theft, data breaches and other acts of cybercrime. Now, however, we've learn that they're guilty of jacking up the planet's CO2 emission count as well The average spam message generates 0.3 grams of CO2, according to a study conducted by consultant firm ICF International for security ven...

If video killed the radio star, than Internet video may signal the demise of flat-rate broadband pricing. At least that's the suspicion of public advocacy groups who are complaining about attempts by Time Warner Cable (TWC) and other providers to experiment with metered high-speed Internet usage For those groups, methods like capping broadband usag...

It's been another busy week in the gaming world. Topping the news was the announcement that game designer Will Wright is leaving Electronic Arts to head up his entertainment think tank, Stupid Fun Club, full-time Elsewhere, Take-Two may have another hit on its hands -- this time in downloadable form. Microsoft will extend Xbox 360 warranties, and...

This is the tenth in an ongoing series on building a Web site for your small business. Part 1 looks at essential elements of a business Web site. Part 2 offers basic site design guidelines. Part 3 tackles some advanced design issues.Part 4 examines social media tools for building traffic.Part 5 compares outsourcing against doing maintenance work in-house.Part 6 offers tips on marketing your site. Part 7 covers analytics for measuring effectiveness.Part 8 delves into content management issues.Part 9 investigates security and transaction processing...

Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a publicbeta version of Microsoft Exchange 2010 This next version of Microsoft's email server will ship later thisyear, Microsoft said.

eBay is planning to spin off Skype in a public offering next year. While Skype has been successful in terms of growing its user base since being acquired by eBay over three years ago, the VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) service has proven to be a less-than-perfect match with the Internet auction powerhouse "What can I tell you? It was a badacqu...

Broadband penetration has increased -- over the past three years, the UK, Italy, Spain, Germany and France have added roughly 50 million new broadband households -- and brought social media usage up along with it. Currently, almost 40 percent of broadband households in those countries use a social networking site at least monthly Our Global Digital...

I am fond of Paul Greenberg because he's smart and knows a heck of a lot about CRM -- most importantly, he's a good judge of whether a company is for real or just playing around. I am also grateful to him for pointing out that I was the fortunate one to identify on-demand technology as a disruptive innovation. Paul is busy writing the fourth edi...

Is software truly open source if you pay for additional features? Youranswer may depend on whether you side with the purists or the, ah,not-so-pure A recent trend entering the debate involves the marketing of so-calledopen core software. This morphed business model is not what manyopen source supporters consider "pure" open source. However, open co...

Whether server, storage or virtual, migrations have never been easy. The difficulty has always been the downtime required to move physical or virtual workloads from one platform to another. Virtualization technology from VMware VMotion to Microsoft Hyper-V live migration has significantly helped because they can move live workloads between virtual...

Ohio State University doctoral candidate Aryn Karpinski has conducted the kind of statistical study that guarantees headlines, 20-second mentions on network and local newscasts (usually shoehorned between weather and sports), and lots of comments on tech news Web sites and blogs. She knew she was writing about a media-friendly topic, but she still confesses to receiving a crash course in sudden news exposure...

Application creators can get an early look at the software developer kit (SDK) for Android 1.5, the next version of the mobile operating system, according to Google Based on the "Cupcake" branch from the Android Open Source Project, the SDK has application programming interfaces (APIs) for new features, including soft keyboards. Android phones with...

What is worse: to be accused of prejudice, or accused of incompetence? In thee-commerce world, where how well one safeguards one's customer data isparamount to any reputation, taking a hit on the latter is a bitterpill to swallow. That is better, though, than to be viewed as a companythat would deliberately and stealthily delist gay-themed books andmovies, among other materials, from its sales ranks, as Amazon was thought to have done this past weekend...