Yes, part of the business model for using free music to your advantage is recognizing how that free music acts as a promotional good for you, but the band BuckCherry seems to have taken that a bit too far. It definitely seemed quite …
Privacy International’s fated struggle to stop the Google spy car stalking this country’s streets has reminded me of my own brush with London’s photography police recently. I was being photographed in Covent Garden and the photographer was having a hard time trying to make …
So Gary McKinnon, the hacker who cracked the computer systems of the Pentagon and Nasa from his bedroom in north London more than seven years ago, is to be extradited to stand trial in the US. That was the ruling this week of the law …
Britain’s broadband boom is stuttering as consumers grapple with rising price and the crumbling housing market. Four of the UK’s big six providers yesterday announced that the past three months saw demand for high-speed internet access down on the previous quarter and down on last …
Giving away a sneak preview of your new album online has become a familiar ploy, with dozens of acts (most famously, Coldplay) taking advantage of both the exposure and mailing list sign-ups an MP3 giveaway can generate. But San Francisco rock …
It seems like an unlikely pairing: one is a legendary French jeweller best known for high-priced luxury watches, while the other is a young American internet company renowned for garish web pages and legion of teenage fans. Despite their apparent differences, however, Cartier - the …
For as far back as I can remember, there have always been folks who insist that micropayments are the solution to the “free” content question. That is, they believe that the solution to “free” content is to set up a system where content can …
Nasa scientists last night confirmed that there is water on Mars. The space agency’s Phoenix lander has identified ice in a soil sample analysed by its on-board laboratory. Previous orbiting missions had beamed data such as the view of the planet’s …
For a little over a year, there have been stories about how the entertainment industry has been pressuring Congress to make universities responsible for stopping copyright infringement on their network. This got a lot of attention late last year when Congress tried to …
Back in June, we noted how sad it was that we were all so happy that Garfield creator Jim Davis didn’t freak out about the derivative comic strip “Garfield Minus Garfield.” In this day and age, we’re so used to creators sending out …
For a while now, we’ve been covering the lawsuits surrounding “AutoAdmit.” If you haven’t been paying attention, AutoAdmit is a message board system used by law school students, many of whom apparently used it to be what, at best, might be called juvenile …
With Scrabulous (North America) pulled from Facebook this week, the creators have returned with Wordscraper, which bears a passing resemblance to the original tile-based word formation game. According to creators Jayant and …
It is with great sadness that I announce that we have not one but two writers leaving the TD fold today. Dave Walker and Al Warmington are moving to pastures anew……
Various safe harbors for service providers that protect them from the actions of their users make a lot of common sense. It’s simply wrong to blame a service provider for the actions of its users. We don’t blame the telephone company when …
FireWire versus USB isn’t exactly the most exciting of format wars — we are talking about data cables, after all. Most people use one or the other for connecting all manner of digital paraphernalia …
Blogs are the new black, according to Hitwise, who recently reported that 1.19% of all internet traffic in June this year was to blog sites. Whether it’s the potential for a more diverse range …
Just when you thought you’d got the best high definition set-up going, along comes the likes of Meridian and spoils it, with the 810 Reference projector boasting 4,096 x 2,400 resolution. Granted, that’s not quite your …
Why are MPs so concerned? A spate of recent incidents has highlighted the ease with which young people can view unsuitable material in chat rooms, on video sharing and on social networking websites. For example, police investigating suicides in Bridgend brought to public attention fears …
It’s no secret that most people hate rebate programs. They’re a pain to deal with, so many people don’t even send in the rebate forms — and then, the various companies that receive them often go out of their way to find reasons …
If you had £467million, what would you do with it? Travel? See the world? Buy yourself a small country? Maybe even give some of it to poor people? Panasonic, as it happens, does …