Nintendo doesn’t take kindly to people who put one of its major releases onto the Web before it hits store shelves.
According to a report Tuesday in Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald, a man has agreed to pay Nintendo 1.5 million Australian dollars (or $1.3 million) for loss of sales revenue after he allegedly illegally copied and [...]
eBay’s latest move, some of the auction site’s devotees say, is straight out of the Ministry of Truth’s playbook.
The company made an announcement on Tuesday announcement about lowering the listing fees for items–even though, in many cases, final value fees will be raised. The company’s discussion forums simmered with outrage over the executive decision, and [...]
The recording industry is demanding Jammie Thomas-Rasset pay $25,000 to settle out of court the nation’s first file sharing case against an individual to have gone to trial –- a settlement offer the Minnesota mother of four is rejecting, lawyers in the case said Wednesday.
The development came days after the federal judge in the case [...]
Apple is in talks to bring its rumored tablet device to the 3G networks of both Verizon and AT&T, according to reports. Since Verizon uses the wireless network standard called CDMA, and AT&T uses the GSM standard, Apple may have to produce two different versions of the device, according to a report at Fox News. [...]
Perhaps Google’s announcement that Chinese cyber attackers went after human rights activists’ Gmail accounts has made you skittish about just how private your own messages are on the Google e-mail service.
Well, if you want to take a significant step in keeping prying eyes away from your electronic correspondence, one good encryption technology that predates Google [...]
On Monday, the Mozilla Foundation made a release candidate for the next point version of the organization’s popular Firefox Web browser version 3.6, code-named Namoroka, publicly available.
While it’s far from being a huge overhaul from the currently released version 3.6, the release candidate adds several powerful new capabilities both for end-users and developers. These include [...]
If it seems like you’re getting hit with more email scams than ever, you’re right. Deb Shinder explains what you and your users should watch out for to avoid being duped.
Spam is one thing. It’s annoying to get email messages that are nothing but blatant attempts to sell you something. But other than using up [...]
A Maine legislator wants to make the state the first to require cell phones to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer, although there is no consensus among scientists that they do and industry leaders dispute the claim.
The now-ubiquitous devices carry such warnings in some countries, though no U.S. states require them, according to [...]
