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Prison terms on tap for 'pre-release' film pirates
News File-swappers who distribute a single copy of a prerelease movie on the Internet can be imprisoned for up to three years, under a US bill that's slated to become the most dramatic expansion of online piracy penalties in years.
25 April 2005, 13:34
Open-source MP3 software threatens iTunes
News Songbird is indeed built on some of the same open-source technologies as the Firefox Web browser, and hopes to tap into the community of independent developers that has helped add features to Firefox.
10 February 2006, 10:03
MTV has first crack at Windows' new music
News Microsoft's decision to tap MTV as its launch partner for the new Windows Media Player has irked some in the digital music industry, though others will likely have the ability to place their offerings alongside Urge in the player.
6 January 2006, 9:09
Photo: Pimp my geeky toilet
News The fully loaded Kohler commode comes with (deep breath) a Philips 20-inch LCD TV, a Philips DVD player, Star Wars on DVD, an Xbox 360, a Gateway EMachine laptop with a robot arm, an iPod with a docking station equipped with a toilet-paper...
6 February 2007, 9:44
iTunes signs up 11 more TV shows
News NBC Universal is the latest US network to tap into Apple's iTunes, offering up nearly a dozen of its TV shows for download onto iPods and PCs, the two companies announced Tuesday. The iTunes store will offer 11 shows from NBC, USA Network and the...
7 December 2005, 10:25
US broadcaster aims at game market with new service
News Turner Broadcasting System is entering the games business with its own broadband service, making it the latest entertainment company to tap the growing market. On Wednesday Turner introduced GameTap, a network that, starting in the autumn will...
3 May 2005, 8:42
Wireless USB set to cut the cable
News The computer industry is still working on the paperless office, but new short-range wireless technologies on tap for next year could at last bring about the cable-free desktop. The PC and consumer electronics industries have been talking up...
18 October 2006, 9:52
Is Linux Palm's saviour?
News The deliberately simple nature of the Palm operating system was so inspiring to Rick Broida that in 1997 he started a magazine, Tap, dedicated to devices using the handheld OS. The Linux-based OS would allow PalmSource to tap the potentially large...
26 May 2005, 9:12
IBM expands free access to software patents
News Organisations within these fields can tap IBM's patents for development and use within certain open-software standards for Web services, electronic forms and open document formats. IBM is giving the healthcare and education industries free access...
25 October 2005, 9:33
Commodore poised for a comeback
News A Dutch consumer media company is hoping it can tap the power of the VIC 20, the PET and the Commodore 64 to launch a new wave of products, including a home media centre device and a portable GPS unit and media player.
19 December 2005, 8:59
Airlines ditch 'no smoking' for 'no mobile'
News Air France will be the first airline to trial the satellite-based technology early next year, followed by the UK's BMI and Portugal's TAP. 'No mobile' signs are to replace the outdated 'no smoking' signs above airline seats with the introduction of...
8 August 2006, 9:02
Microsoft buys Swiss Net phone company
News The purchase of Media-streams.com, a 23-employee firm based in Zurich, Switzerland, gives Microsoft a set of business applications that tap voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology. Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has acquired a...
3 November 2005, 9:09
News.blog: 'Guitar Hero III' setlist unfolds
News In keeping with the inclusion of a Spinal Tap song in Guitar Hero II, the new game will include a song by Tenacious D. A partial tracklist for the long-awaited third instalment of Guitar Hero was released by Activision yesterday.
24 May 2007, 9:26
CES kicks off the year of video
News They'll sketch out a vision of the future in which consumers tap into huge libraries of videos -- first-run films, news footage from remote corners of the world, home movies, old episodes of Kojak -- and then play them on their computers...
4 January 2006, 10:16
Macworld and CES to clash in 2007
News The Apple hoopla of Macworld is scheduled to run from 8 to 12 January in San Francisco, while the gadget mania of CES is on tap for 8 to 11 January in Las Vegas. Macworld Expo and the Consumer Electronics Show will collide next year, with the dates...
16 January 2006, 9:14
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Format wars: The tech that should have won
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