Lawsuits resume against illegal file sharers
Suing people for illegal file sharing appears to have made a comeback, CNET reports—although now it’s smaller studios that are the plaintiffs.
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Time Warner, Universal push back at iPad
Time Warner and NBC Universal have told Apple they won't spend the time and money to rework their Flash-friendly video libraries to make them compatible with the iPad,…
Privacy groups say Facebook changes don’t go far enough
Facebook's new privacy changes haven't been enough to satisfy its most vocal critics, CNET reports
Google Wave: Now open to the public
Google Wave, a web-based tool to let people chat and collaborate in real time, is now open to the public, CNET reports.
Congress might roll dice, legalize online gambling
A push to rewrite federal law to legalize internet gambling, banned since 2006, is gaining traction as politicians eye billions in additional tax revenue, CNET reports.
Can green tech operate under Moore’s Law?
Doubling the performance of clean-energy technologies every 18 months, as the semiconductor industry has seen with Moore's Law, is a tough goal to hit.
HP buying Palm for $1.2 billion
Palm, the company that invented the PDA but has struggled to stay relevant in recent years, will be acquired by computing giant Hewlett-Packard for $1.2 billion, CNET reports.
Andreessen-founded Ning cuts staff, free service
Uh-oh. Just a month after Gina Bianchini, co-founder of build-a-social-network service Ning, departed the company, it's cutting 40 percent of its staff and axing its free, ad-supported service,…
Opinion: Let’s not create a cyber bullying panic
Recent stories in the press about teenage cyber bullying and real-world bullying, such as the incidents that led 15-year-old Phoebe Prince and 17-year-old Alexis Pilkington to commit suicide,…
Microsoft creates Office plug-in for Moodle
Microsoft is releasing a free add-on that could make life easier for teachers, professors, and others who use the online educational system Moodle, CNET reports.
Crowdsourcing start-up aims to change the world
Set to launch in beta form on April 6, Armchair Revolutionary is a web-based social activism platform designed to harness large-scale crowdsourcing and the boom in social gaming…
Science in the public view: A good gamble
Researchers at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, did something gutsy but smart on March 30, writes CNET blogger Stephen Shankland: they revved the Large…
Pa. university to give all students iPads
It hasn't even launched yet, and already Apple's iPad is catching the eye of colleges, CNET reports.
Virtual PC hole could lead to attacks, security firm says
An unpatched weakness in Microsoft's Virtual PC could leave organizations using the virtualization software vulnerable to attack, CNET reports.
Internet safety video could win young filmmakers $10,000
Computer security company Trend Micro has an offer for any teen or adult who cares about internet safety and security and wants to become an award-winning filmmaker, CNET…
Why no one cares about privacy anymore
Google co-founder Sergey Brin adores the company's social network called Google Buzz, CNet reports.
Google launches tool for searching public data
Google is building on its partnership with the World Bank, U.S. Census Bureau, and other gatherers of statistics to present an array of data in visual form within…
Google mulls a blend of education, search
Google is thinking about ways to inject search into the educational process as more than just a quick and dirty cheat sheet for students, CNET reports.
New Windows software turns one PC into many
Microsoft announced Feb. 24 that it is ready with Windows MultiPoint Server 2010, a product that lets schools run a classroom full of systems using just a single…
Is Google preparing to challenge iTunes in the cloud?
CNET reports that as the four biggest record companies wait to hear more about a proposed iTunes cloud music service, word comes now that Google has kicked the…
U.S. House passes cyber-security scholarship bill
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a cyber-security bill that calls for beefing up training, education, research, and coordination so the government can better prepare to deal…
Wrongful ISP piracy suspension raises questions
If internet service providers are going to become copyright police, then a recent case involving a Colorado woman suggests there's a need for better safeguards to prevent people…