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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) this week continued its legal campaign against online file-traders who use peer-to-peer (P2P) song-swapping networks. In the latest move to stem the flow of pirated music, the RIAA has taken legal action against another 482 individuals across the country ...

Delivering what it called capabilities previously limited to high-end, specialty computers -- including high-definition video, surround sound and file protection -- Intel released new products based on its new Grantsdale and Alderwood chipset designs ...

In an effort to expand its horizons both geographically and in terms of digital content, business-to-business digital media solutions provider Loudeye has purchased European digital music leader On Demand Distribution (OD2) for US$20.7 million ...

A 62-year-old pilot flew a craft 62 miles from Earth to the edge of space, becoming the world's first privately backed, civilian astronaut and edging a team funded by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen closer to the X Prize, the cup of the modern space race ...

After failing to cut into the deluge of spam sent to Internet users with the Can-Spam Act, the U.S. government might now be aiming legislation at spyware -- silent software programs that identify and often track users and their online behaviors -- with bills in the House and Senate ...

This week, a Paris conference on Internet hate sites and the fight against online racism is drawing attention to what European officials call a "growing problem" in the form of hate speech and racist propaganda on the Web ...

Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry mobile e-mail device, has gained access to the world's largest handset maker with a licensing deal between Nokia and RIM-rival NTP, which is facing off with the BlackBerry maker in court over a patent dispute ...

Akamai Technologies confirmed Wednesday that its distributed network and servers -- which help serve major Web sites including those of Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and others -- came under attack Tuesday, calling the denial of service (DoS) "a sophisticated, large-scale attack." ...

Looking to quell fears of delay and signaling it is in the final stages of its newest upgrade to Windows XP, Microsoft released a new beta version of its Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, a long-awaited security and reliability effort that will probably be released within the next two to three months, according to analysts ...

Yahoo took its turn this week at raising its level of e-mail storage space, announcing that paying customers would get 2 GB of storage -- double what Google's beta Gmail service provides. Users of Yahoo's free e-mail service will also get a boost -- up to a whopping 100 MB of free storage ...

Great Britain's On Demand Distribution (OD2) might be the biggest online music downloader in the region right now, but the company is preparing for battle with the likes of Apple's iTunes and the reborn Napster, unveiling this week its own digital jukebox that will provide pay-as-you-go music for about a dollar per track ...

Among the first to realize the potential of a computer that could be used by individuals and learning students, Alan Kay has been awarded the 2004 Kyoto Prize for his life's work at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and elsewhere, which laid the groundwork for today's PC ...

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has become an increasingly hot market, with new players such as Vonage touting the ability to deliver voice communications for less cost. While there are technical, regulatory and other issues that remain ahead for VoIP, security was highlighted as a chief concern at the VON conference in the UK this week ...

VeriSign's quarterly domain name report indicates that with more than 63 million registered domain names, the Internet's .com and .net top level domain (TLD) names are at an all-time high ...

Microsoft probably does not mind that its monthly round of security patches for June are causing much less of a ruckus than previous months when the company was caught in the middle of a worm war that targeted its Windows systems and forced the company to play catch-up with vulnerabilities that were giving virus writers an edge ...

Computer chip challenger AMD unveiled a new family of value processors this week, named Sempron, aiming for the budget desktop and notebook markets that are growing worldwide, and also to allow its Athlon processors to serve higher-end markets ...

Networking giant Cisco and server-level antivirus specialist Trend Micro have announced an extension of their existing collaboration to provide worm and virus detection-and-prevention services for businesses ...

In an effort to change the fact that it is often easier to use an Internet search from Google to track down information than it is to find the same kind of content or data lying somewhere on a corporate network, IBM has unveiled a technology called DB2 Information Integrator ...

Could it be that all of that pornographic spam is working, or is it just that Internet users are quietly peeking at porn behind all of those other browser windows for research, news, shopping and searches? ...

With funding from Microsoft cofounder and billionaire Paul Allen, the first nongovernment manned rocket ship is set to propel 62 miles from the Earth's surface to reach space in a launch scheduled for June 21st ...