The U.K. Association of Independent Music (AIM), a collection of independent record labels, has signed an online distribution agreement with Chinese Web portal SINA.com, the BBC Online reported. The deal — which will bring no profits to the labels — will make free streaming music and music video clips available to SINA.com visitors. AIM told […]

With the World Cup rapidly approaching, it might be as well to have a TV to hand when you’re out and about. Or something that can convert your laptop to a TV - like this AVerTV DVB-T Volar, a pocket-sized gadget that’ll give you digital terrestrial TV on the go. The DVB-T Volar weighs just 17.5g, […]

With the help of Tivo like video recorders ad skipping is very easy, now imagine this one day you will be forced to watch advertisements and prevent from changing channels. Philips has filed a patent for a technology which would let broadcasters freeze the channel during a commercial forcing viewers to view the commercial. The […]

Some upstarts in the video Web market are betting on a new content-delivery model. Instead of paying for professional hosting, they’re hoping people will open their digital subscriber lines and cable modems to transfer data between users instead of sending everything from a central server. This “peer to peer” setup has been successful for online […]

Evergreen Japan has launched 104 key USB keyboard ‘DN-BBKB01′ with a matching wired optical mouse _DN-BBMS01 made from Bamboo. The keyboard frame and mouse buttons are made of bamboo. To give a rich and elegant look the keyboard and mouse are polished. The keyboard weighs 810g while the mouse weighs 90g.

MTV was at the forefront of music TV in the 80s and they show no intention of losing ground as media moves to broadband with the launch of MTV Overdrive - a site featuring on-demand footage relating to some of MTV’s biggest shows. MTV Overdrive will feature the best of the channel’s hit shows including Pimp […]

The U.S. Internet radio audience has grown 50% over the past year, evinced by the fact that an estimated 12% of the population (about 30 million people) reported having listened in the past week — up from 8% in 2005 — according to a report from Arbitron and Edison Media Research. The study also found […]

We have heard of ultrasonic insect repellers which emit ultrasonic frequencies to repel the pests. From a Welsh inventor comes the Mosquito which uses the same technique to repel teens. The Mosquito emits an ultrasonic sound which can be heard by most kids and teenagers only while remaining unaudible to adults over 30 due to […]

Open source advocate Bruce Perens wants domain owners and resellers to redirect unused Web domains — which have been registered but not yet developed — to OpenSourceParking.com. Perens says this site will always run on Apache, the popular open source Web server software. Perens announced the move after Microsoft’s Internet Information Services software saw its share […]

The Beatles’ lucrative catalog will soon be sold in digital form online, according to the director of the band’s Apple Corps record label, Reuters reported. Neil Aspinall, the band’s road manager and now head of Apple Corps, testified that the catalog is being digitally remastered, during the label’s case against Apple Computer — over that […]

Back at work after Easter? Moaning that you don’t get enough holidays? Well, here’s something to ponder - UK industry is losing 40 days a year because of wrongly filed material on increasingly huge servers. That_s around 15% of a company’s total productivity lost. Fix that and the whole country could get an extra two […]

Europeans registered 300,000 new .eu Internet domain names on Friday, their first day of availability to individual citizens, Reuters reported. The domain has also registered over 300,000 applications from businesses, since they became available in December.

Oracle’s outspoken chief executive officer believes the company needs its own operating system to match the competition, and has admitted he considered buying Suse Linux owner, Novell. In an interview with the Financial Times, Larry Ellison said that Oracle needs to own an operating system in order to fully compete with rivals Microsoft and IBM. […]

Efforts to bring glitzy new graphics to Linux are fuelling an old conflict: Does proprietary software belong in open-source Linux? The issue involves software modules called drivers, which plug into the kernel at the heart of the open-source operating system. Drivers let software communicate with hardware such as network adapters, hard drives and video cards. […]

The drive hasn’t officially been annonced yet - but it is beginning to appear on the company’s marketing material.The drive runs at 7,200rpm and contains 16MB of cache memory. Seagate will offer the HDD with a choice of Ultra ATA 100, 1.5Gbps SATA or 3Gbps SATA interfaces.