First convictions in U.S. P2P piracy fight
Two men have pleaded guilty to copyright-infringement for distributing music, software and movies over the Internet in the first U.S. convictions for piracy over peer-to-peer...
WD Enters Miniature HDD Market For Consumer Electronics Applications
High-capacity 6 GB 1-inch Hard Drives to Ship in Second Calendar Quarter of 2005 Serving a rapidly expanding base of customers for mass storage, Western...
Legal music downloads 'take off'
Sales of legally downloaded songs have shot up more than tenfold in 2004, with 200 million tracks bought online in the US and Europe in...
California senator goes after P2P
A bill introduced in the California Legislature last Friday seeks to do what U.S. federal courts have so far refused to do: criminalize selling, advertising,...
Intel updates Centrino notebook computer chips
Intel updated its line of Centrino notebook computer chips on Wednesday with higher speeds and improved multimedia features, a move the company hopes will further...
Philips introduces ultra-small 8-Bit microcontroller family
Philips Electronics introduced two new members of the LPC900 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) family. Tiny, yet offering functionality and performance, the new devices are available in...
Speak easy plan for media players
Music and film fans will be able to control their digital media players just by speaking to them, under plans in development by two US...
Google releases photo software
Google released free software for organising and finding the hundreds or thousands of digital photos often stored on users' hard drives. Using technology developed by...
Video game industry sales reach record pace in 2004
The video game industry enjoyed record sales in 2004, despite a shortage of game consoles over the holiday season, according to figures released yesterday. The...