Google Inc. announced that the Google Mini now offers sophisticated search features for finding and sharing information within small businesses and departmental groups, including document and user-level security, as well as access to any business content through Google Onebox for Enterprises.

A hacker claims to have written code to break Windows Vista encryption within hours of the operating system’s consumer launch. Canadian programmer and security researcher, Alex Ionescu claims on his blog that he’s managed to unlock Vista’s Protected Media Path (PMP) encryption feature to enable high-def DVDs to be copied. Microsoft’s system is designed to […]

Sony BMG Music Entertainment has agreed to pay consumers up to $150 each toward the cost of repairs of their computer systems damaged by using the company’s music CDs that came embedded with a copyright protection software. These CDs, when played by consumers, installed the DRM software on their computers without their knowledge, restricting the […]

A staggering four out of five Brits fear criticism of their mobile phone ring tone, according to new research from Dial-a-Phone. Staggering because it’s something every mobile phone user has complete control over. 97% of Brits judge someone’s personality based upon their mobile ring tone, and on average, we change our ring tone 3.4 times each […]

Point. Click. Drink! MugMouse is a new mouse that holds coffee or tea so you have to move it more carefully than a normal mouse. This means you have to move the mouse really slow, especially if its filled with hot coffee. Talk about slowing down productivity! The mouse works like a mouse - you […]

Google has filed for a patent on digital billboard technology that would turn “kiosk-type billboards” in malls, airports and elsewhere into “a network of electronic display devices,” or “advertisements in a network of electronic display devices”. Such a service could integrate Google’s successful keyword-based ad system, which is also the foundation of recent forays by […]

The hefty $499/$599 price tags for Apple’s forthcoming iPhone are primed to come down, as the cost for Apple to manufacture the devices has been estimated at $245.83 and $280.83, respectively, according to market research firm iSuppli. Apple has said that it aims to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008. The iPhone is slated for […]

In 2004, the European Commission found that Microsoft pushed out RealNetworks and other makers of audio and video streaming software and made Windows deliberately incompatible with rivals’ server software. Now, IBM, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, Corel, Oracle, RealNetworks, Red Hat, Linspire and Opera are filing a complaint with the European Commission regarding Vista. The group […]

About two weeks ago Sony backing out of an agreement with adult film studio Digital Playground to publish their movies in Blu-Ray. Digital Playground has decided to publish their works exclusively in HD-DVD format. There Joone, Digital Playground’s founder, and adult movie director, claimed that the US facilities that publish Blu-Ray discs told him that […]

Music Alley say an unnamed “influential and wealthy” Russian businessman is planning to buy AllofMP3 and intends to give it a legal makeover by taking control of the company. Now that would be a sight to see.

Global digital music sales nearly doubled in 2006, to $2 billion, and now account for 10% of the music market — but have not yet become the “holy grail” that will compensate the industry for slumping CD sales, according to a report from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a record label trade […]

Ruckus Network, a provider of legal campus media download services, announced on Thursday an agreement with Merit Network, which provides broadband access in Michigan colleges, to offer the Ruckus service for free to Michigan college students. Virginia-based Ruckus provides its multimedia download service, which features a library of more than 2.1 million songs and videos, […]

U.S. scientists say they’ve encoded an entire image’s worth of data into a single photon, stored it and then retrieved the image intact. University of Rochester researchers say the ability to squeeze that much information into so small a space and retrieve it intact opens the door to optical buffering — the ability to store […]

A group of hackers has compromised the anti-piracy technology on Toshiba’s new HD DVD format, and high-definition copies of several feature films have been uploaded to the BitTorrent file-sharing network, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. Less than a month ago, a programmer called “Muslix64″ released free software that lets users make copies of […]

The founders of Skype, who pioneered free voice over Internet phone calls using computers, are hoping to repeat the phenomenon with a broadband TV service. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis - who also established the music-sharing site Kazaa - came out of stealth mode Tuesday (Jan. 16) with what was formerly known as the ‘Venice […]