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The Associated Press has essentially claimed there is no such thing as ‘fair use’ when it comes to quoting its articles or reprinting its headlines, but when the news organization scans an entire book, then fair use [...]

Although it seems that few hackers are caught and brought to trial, the members of the Kryogeniks hacker “gang” have been charged with a Website hacking stunt that was costly to Comcast. The Comcast exploit was not all that complicated, but it [...]

The owner of electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors is making plans to take the company public, a historic move for the company which could take place very soon, perhaps within days. A milder climate for green business ventures has lured [...]

Physical media such as CD and DVD is very slowly but surely being replaced by digital formats. Whether it’s streaming or downloads, physical is the [...]

If you were hoping to purchase the nook ereader from Barnes & Noble for the holiday gift giving season, hopefully you did it before now. According to the New York Times , Barnes & Noble has sold out of the initial productions runs of the [...]

YouTube has announced it will offer automated video captioning for clips. It will serve as an accessibility tool for hard-of-hearing viewers, but could also make clips easier to find. The site already allows manual captioning, but most clip uploaders don’t take advantage simply because of [...]

Skype has finally been sold off from beleaguered auction house eBay, though they will retain a 30 percent stake in the company. Skype, a leader in the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) business, was purchased in Oct. 2005 by eBay in a [...]

Sony unveiled plans for a digital download store to sell music, videos and books just like Apple’s iTunes. What the company forgot to mention is that the digital download space is already too crowded. The [...]

City-wide Wi-Fi networks which offer wireless Internet connectivity for free to all residents who want it have pretty much failed to succeed across the United States so [...]

The launch of popular music streaming service Spotify has already been delayed once in the U.S.A., and now it may be delayed even more due to the record labels not liking the business model. Spotify is a music streaming service that has [...]

The rumors of the Apple Tablet have now reached a level of surrealism that makes you think someone from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks is running the show. At any moment the Little Man from Another Place is going to [...]

A problem with the Federal Aviation Authority’s computer system has caused widespread delays and cancellations. The agency stresses there is no security or safety risk stemming from the glitch. The problem affects the automated process by which flight plans are added to the [...]

In the last month, Facebook has overtaken sites like ESPN, ABC and CBS to become the number three video site on the Web. Just a short month ago, Facebook was in tenth place [...]

Email is currently one of the key elements of the Internet. And sending and receiving email is usually one of the first things we learn [...]

Microsoft announced today that it has officially begun work on Internet Explorer 9. In a completely unsurprising announcement, Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft’s Windows and Windows Live division, today announced at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC), that development ...

Google is scheduled to give the first public demonstration of its forthcoming Chrome operating system tomorrow. Here are some of the questions which could be answered by the event: What’s the selling point? Is it speed? Price (or lack of it)? The [...]

Twitter is a massively popular social networking and micro-blogging site that has gained an inordinate amount of headlines and copy over the past year or so. But [...]

A new update has gone out for Palm’s webOS, and for once it does not include iTunes syncing. Ever since Palm released the Palm Pre, the company has been touting the fact you could sync the phone with your iTunes library. [...]

At least one of the newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has begun to outline how it expects readers to begin paying for the news. According to the Guardian , the News International owned newspaper [...]