Rich Skrenta, who created the first computer virus (Elk Cloner), co-founded the Open Directory Project, and co-founded online news site Topix, may have bitten off the biggest challenge of his career - taking on Google. In search.
Looks like there might another major announcement at MacWorld. BGR it’s confirmed” that Apple is launching a record label with Jay-Z, who’s set to step down from Def Jam.
This is the year I kiss Windows good-bye. Well, maybe not entirely, but the writing is on the wall for Microsoft’s flagship operating system, and all other desktop bloatware: The future of PC software is open source.
Freemusiczilla is desktop based software that basically lets you download any song you can stream on the Internet.
Some of the new features in Firefox 3 are not immediately obvious — at least, not to the casual user. Among other things, Mozilla is incorporating new graphics- and text-rendering architectures in its browser layout engine (Gecko 1.9) to offer rendering improvements in CSS and SVG; adding a number of security features, including malware protection
La Societe Des Producteurs De Phonogrammes En France (SPPF), which represents recording labels in France, is suing three P2P software vendors, including Shareaza. The SPPF make many false claims against Shareaza in order to win in court. This is an open letter to them, setting the record straight.
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has been telling anyone who will listen that digital downloads for artists are a bad deal under most recording contracts.
Before everyone starts to spread his opinion about KDE 4.0 let beineri (kde developer) spread some reminders:
Nothing more than IP addresses sit at the foundation of most of the RIAA’s subpoenas and prelitigation letters, and the University of Washington says it has problems passing on legal threats based on them.
Mac maker Apple Inc., which later this month will unveil its first sub-notebook design in over a decade, is likely to offer an external optical drive as an optional accessory, according to a new report.
Interesting background on mobile PC’s and handhelds and their influence on Apple
The MPAA ratings system is far from an exact science. Ratings amount to censorship; that raters are probably subject to the whims of studio pressure; and, ultimately, that the ratings board is completely unaccountable for its actions. More than any year in recent memory, 2007 demonstrated that these assertions are true..
