As I reported earlier today, Spiral Frog is a new style of online music download service aimed at reforming those illegally downloading music by offering free music in return for watching adverts.

It’s sometimes hard to illustrate a jump in technology, but TDK has made it that bit easier, unveiling a disc for Blu-ray drives with a whopping 200GB capacity. TDK’s new 200GB Blue-Laser disc doubles the capacity of their existing 100GB Blu-ray prototype and could store approximately 18 hours of high definition video (encoded at 24Mbps). […]

The New York Times recently reported on a virtuoso guitar performance video of a rock version of Pachelbel’s famous “Canon in D Major,” posted to the video-sharing site YouTube by a previously unknown young Asian man who called himself “funtwo”. After several fakers came forward to proclaim they were the creators of the video — […]

Google announced on Monday that it has signed a multi-year agreement with online auction giant eBay, to provide text-based advertising for eBay outside the U.S. The companies also plan to launch “click-to-call” advertising functionality on eBay, which will allow a user to click on a link or icon within a product or service ad to […]

Maybe Microsoft are keeping away from situations that could turn into more anti-trust problems, but they do seem to have been offering the hand of friendship to rival software manufacturers of late. They’ll be working with Google next… (well, OK). This time, they’ve offered Mozilla spaces at Microsoft’s Windows Vista Readiness ISV Lab, a four […]

In May 2006, nearly 12,000 malicious phishing Web sites were identified by the Anti-Phishing Working Group, a Los Altos, Calif.-based industry association focused on eliminating the scams. That’s up from 3,300 sites a year earlier. Phishing scams trick users into sending their passwords to an unintended Web site — often unlocking access to bank accounts […]

Salesforce.com has acquired a tiny company that created an add-on to its hosted services for purchasing and managing Google-driven Web advertising campaigns. The acquisition brings the operations of Kieden, a four-person operation with 45 customers, to Salesforce.com. Financial terms were not disclosed. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Kieden co-founder Kraig Swensrud detailed the purchase at […]

Instead of the usual description of Kevin Mitnick, his consulting services and books, the famed hacker’s Web site on Sunday displayed a vulgar message. Online vandals, apparently operating from Pakistan, broke into the computer hosting Mitnick’s Web site on Sunday and replaced his front page with one of their own. As a result, four Web […]

Google lost one per cent of its share of the US search market last month. Its the first time Google has slipped in almost a year, after 11 consecutive months of gains. According to market research firm comScore, 43.7 per cent of Americans’ 6.7bn searches went through Google this July, up from 36.5 percent a […]

Somebody or other has been spending some time with Microsoft’s Zune, and have spilled the deets to iLounge. It sounds like the general target in most aspects was iPod design and functionality, but there are plenty of departures, some hotter than others. The basic menu navigation is the standard heirarchal method popularized by the iPod, […]

Nearly 60 percent of CIOs anticipate increasing their software spending through the rest of 2006, while only 33 percent expect spending to remain flat and 2 percent expect a decrease in spending. Those are the results of a new survey by Merrill Lynch analysts, who released their results on Aug. 16 in a report called […]

THE APPLE press office has been having a hell of a job during the media silly season fighting off a persistent rumour that Steve Jobs is either dead or sick. The source of the rumours seems to be Mac fans who have noticed that whenever their glorious messiah takes to the podium be has seemed […]

SellaBand on Wednesday announced the launch of its community music site that offers a new distribution model for developing artists. The site lets bands upload their self-recorded songs, and “Believers” in the online community can purchase “Parts” of the band in $10 increments. Once 5,000 Parts have been sold, the band gets to put the […]

Louis Minnear from Florida claimed his house caught on fire after the Dell laptop was sitting on some papers. Minnear said he smelled electrical fire and noticed his couch where the Dell laptop was sitting engulfed in flames. He proceeded to escort his pregnant wife and 9-month old son out of the house. The Fire […]

According to Cnet Aus, Sony BWU-100A won’t playback commercial Blu-ray movies, but only home made discs. According to Mr. Vincent Bautista, Sony’s product manager for data storage, there are two major points why Sony’s Blu-ray won’t support commercial movies: a) Copy protection issues b) Lagging software development , but only user-recorded high-definition content from a […]