Windows source leak: Mainsoft responds
My cousin "freestyle" pointed me to this rather short statement being published from Mainsoft web site regarding the leaked Windows source.Statement to the Media Regarding Microsoft Source Code Leak Mainsoft has been a Microsoft partner since 1994, when we first entered a source code licensing agreement with Microsoft. Mainsoft takes... Read on »
Apple News :- iTunes for Windows and iPod accessories
At the Moscone Center West in San Francisco, Apple are making the following announcements revolving around their iPod and iTunes Music Store... :D iTunes for Windows launched.... Exactly the same interface and functionality. "iTunes for Windows is the best windows app ever written." Runs on Windows XP and Windows 2000.... Read on »
Kazaa may end the free music download
Kazaa has thrown its weight behind a plan to start billing song swappers for their music downloads. The proposal, which could finally end the days of the free lunch for millions of music fans (with approx 5 million simultaneous users are logged into its network at any time), has been... Read on »
Parents to keep closer watch on teen music downloads
When the RIAA filed 261 lawsuits against illegal Internet music downloaders earlier this week, it was a wake-up call to parents of... Read on »
12 year old sued by the RIAA for downloading music!
The music industry has turned its big legal guns on Internet music-swappers - including a 12-year-old Upper West Side girl who thought... Read on »
eBay user attempts to sell AAC music files
Thanks to NeoMayhem for pointing me ot this interesting article... Thought this would "spark" some interesting discussion regarding the arena of DRM vs the right of first sale... "georgeh734", a seller on eBay is attempting to sell a song he purchased on Apple's iTunes Music store (current bidding has driven... Read on »
'Ethical hackers' test for weakness
In a 17th-floor corner office in north Toronto, a group of computer nerds is feverishly attacking Corporate Canada -- and getting paid for its efforts. "If you have a system on-line, you will be a target. You are either a target of choice or a target of opportunity," said Simon... Read on »
Teen abduction foiled by cell phone cam
A quick-thinking 15-year-old boy used his Sprint cell phone camera to take pictures of a man who allegedly tried to lure him into his car, leading to the man's arrest, police said. The boy, who escaped from his alleged captor after a struggle, gave pictures of the man and his... Read on »
AOL announces Visa Buxx Cash Card
AOL announced today that it will team up with Visa to offer cash cards targeting teens and young adults as part of the unveiling of its refurbished online service this summer. The AOL Visa Buxx Cash Card, as it's called, looks like a credit or debit card and can be... Read on »
Teen used phony AOL site in US internet con
US regulators said on Monday they had charged a 17-year-old boy with using "spam" e-mails and a fake AOL Web page to trick people out of their credit card information and steal thousands of dollars. Officials at the Federal Trade Commission said they had agreed to settle their case against... Read on »
France Bans the Term 'E-Mail'
I thought this "news" was rather amusing.... ;) Goodbye "e-mail", the French government says, and hello "courriel" — the term that linguistically sensitive France is now using to refer to electronic mail in official documents. The Culture Ministry has announced a ban on the use of "e-mail" in all government... Read on »
Big brother under the bumper
On Sunday, July 6, three Boulder residents discovered sophisticated Global Positioning System (GPS) devices attached to the bottom of their cars, apparently used by someone to track the whereabouts of their vehicles. Mike Nicosia and Rod Coronado (known in animal rights activist circles) found what can only be described as... Read on »
TiVo Offers Remote TV Programming to AOL Users
TiVo on Monday said it agreed to allow subscribers to America Online's Internet system to program their home TiVo television recording service remotely, via a Web site. Users of America Online, a unit of AOL Time Warner Inc. AOL.N and the nation's largest Internet provider, and can go to a... Read on »
Global Audio Control v1.8.1.8
Control your volume settings and basic Winamp functions from any program using keyboard shortcuts. Be able to multitask without the annoyance of opening multiple windows. This software is especially useful for those who work in a full-screen environment. Global Audio Control allows you to bind hotkey to the Master Volume,... Read on »
June 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer
This is a cumulative patch that includes the functionality of all previously released patches for Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0. In addition, it eliminates two newly discovered vulnerabilities: A buffer overrun vulnerability that occurs because Internet Explorer does not properly determine an object type returned from a web server.... Read on »
Piracy rate in Ireland not improved in two years!
Honest guv... some bloke gave me this shiney disk thingy in da pub the other night and said it was all registered and all, give it a "whirl"... Despite experiencing the highest drop in software piracy in Europe from 1994 to 2000, Ireland's piracy rate has not improved in the... Read on »
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