America Online’s AOL Black Voices site, which claimed 2.8 million unique visitors in January 2006, announced that it has obtained the rights to show the Hurricane Katrina documentary “New Orleans: My Home, My Life, My Love” from independent film production company Ruby Red. The site said it has made the first clip of seven installments […]

TiVo on Tuesday an enhancement to KidZone, a feature launching later this year that will automatically record children’s programming and let parents choose which programs may be viewed by children. The feature lets parents set TiVo to automatically record the three hours of educational and informational programming that Congress mandated broadcasters must air each week. […]

Two fans of alt-country singer Ryan Adams have been indicted on federal copyright infringement charges, for breaking a new law that makes it a felony to post copyrighted music or movies on the Internet before their commercial release. U.S. Attorney Jim Vines and My Harrison of the FBI’s Memphis Division allege that Robert Thomas, of […]

More than a third of data loss from digital storage media is caused by human error, undermining the potential business benefits of cheaper, higher capacity storage, according to Ontrack. Poor handling of disk drives and other media or user-triggered malware accounts for 35 percent of data recovery requests to specialist firm Ontrack, according to business […]

The next version of Microsoft Office will be ‘dramatically better’ as a platform for creating applications, according to Bill Gates, Microsoft’s chairman and chief software architect. Office 2007, due for release towards the end of the year, will feature a much greater level of programmability, including server-side processing of Office documents and other business information. […]

The New York Times reported that online retail giant Amazon.com is in talks with three Hollywood studios on launching a service that would let users download movies and TV shows and then burn them to DVD.

Microsoft asked to join the INCITS/V1 Technical Committee on March 15. This committee is responsible for reconciling the votes that are cast by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) over the acceptance of the OpenDocument format. Pamela Jones, who runs legal Web site Groklaw, speculated that Microsoft may have joined the group to sabotage the […]

More than a third of data loss from digital storage media is caused by human error, undermining the potential business benefits of cheaper, higher capacity storage, according to Ontrack. Poor handling of disk drives and other media or user-triggered malware accounts for 35 percent of data recovery requests to specialist firm Ontrack, according to business […]

IMAX Corporation, the operator of large-format movie theaters, announced on Thursday that it has retained Allen & Company and UBS Investment Back as advisors to help the company explore strategic options, including a possible merger or sale of the company. Read More: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060309/to288.html?.v=23 http://tinyurl.com/m4u79 http://www.imax.com

The New York Times reported on Thursday on the decision of some record labels to hold off on releasing new singles to digital services like iTunes, for fear they will cannibalize sales of more-profitable full-albums. Island Def Jam claims this strategy helped its artist Ne-Yo, whose single “So Sick” was released early to radio but […]

A group of Senators including Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) and Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) has initiated efforts to conduct a Center for Disease Control and Prevention study that would examine “the effects of viewing and using electronic media, including television, computers, video games and the Internet on children’s […]

Microsoft unveiled the product of its “Project Origami,” a one-inch-thick, tablet-style PC with a 7-inch touch-screen that it calls the “Ultra-Mobile PC” (UMPC). The two-pound device runs a full version of Microsoft Windows XP, supports wireless Internet browsing, and features a 60GB hard drive. The first UMPCs are scheduled to ship for between $600 and […]

Microsoft has begun testing display ads across Windows Live Mail, Office Live and MSN Spaces. The company said that is conducting tests under multiple ad formats as part of its strategy announced in November to offer Internet-based services supported by ads and subscriptions. The online versions of its software and services target small businesses and […]

Another day, another iPod accessory. But this time, it’s something a little different - Belkin’s TuneStage for iPod, which simultaneously streams music wirelessly from an iPod to a larger stereo system and converts your iPod into the remote control. The TuneStage device comprises a Bluetooth receiver that connects to your stereo and a Bluetooth transmitter […]

The major search companies have expressed varying ideas on how Web searching will evolve over the next few years, with MSN claiming that there will be significant changes in the user interface of search engines and Google contending that changes in the underlying technology will be more important. Representatives from Google, Yahoo and MSN Search […]