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Shawn Fanning's latest peer-to-peer (P2P) venture, Snocap, may have a long way to go to prove its success in the current online music landscape. The practice of file sharing, which has grown on free services such as Kazaa and Morpheus inspired by Fanning's earlier Napster venture, has also gone legitimate with a variety of licensed online music services from Apple, Sony and many others...

Two weeks before its regularly scheduled round of security updates for Windows, Microsoft released an out-of-cycle patch for its Internet Explorer browser in response to a month-old critical hole ...

The group Reporters Without Borders is blasting search engine leader Google for its supposed complicity in government censorship, requesting that the popular Web tool provider pull its news service that excludes content not approved by the Chinese government ...

The battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD to define the next generation DVD format shows no signs of cooling off. While electronics and computer companies such as Sony, Dell and HP back the Blu-ray specification, proponents of the rival high-definition HD DVD format, including NEC and Toshiba, can now claim movie support from four of the five major Hollywood film studios...

Although it is poised to bring some competition to the mobile gaming world with the PlayStation Portable (PSP), Sony seems more intensely focused on its PlayStation console and the silicon for the next-generation PlayStation3 ...

Security experts are warning that automated software and compromised computers used to pass on malicious e-mail or host rogue, information-stealing Web sites are feeding fraud on the Internet ...

Moving beyond media downloads, leading peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing company Kazaa, is now offering free, Internet-based telephone service via the Skype voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) application ...

As Nintendo seeks to keep its command of the mobile gaming market with the dual-screen DS handheld unveiled this week, Sony will try to make the market a dual-player game with its forthcoming PlayStation portable device, the PSP ...

The case of a California man who allegedly raked in more than US$30,000 selling specialty sports cards on eBay that were never delivered is highlighting the issue of online fraud and the role of e-commerce companies ...

Computer manufacturers hope a combination of collaboration, evolving technology and better deals will drive holiday sales of media center PCs, which were the focus of announcements from both Dell and Gateway this week ...

Microsoft inked a deal with a prominent French software company in an effort to broaden the market for product lifecycle management (PLM) software used in 3-D design and graphics ...

The major movie studios will copy the tactics of the recording industry in their attack on online film piracy ...

Microsoft is aggressively pursuing Novell NetWare customers with discounts, new migration tools and services for Windows Server 2003 ...

Yahoo announced enhancements to its e-mail service, adding search, morestorage and its DomainKeys sender authentication technology -- which is alsobeing deployed by Internet service provider EarthLink in a test roll-out ...

In an unaccustomed role as challenger, Microsoft unveiled its search enginethis week to some glitches and complaints -- nothing new for the softwaregiant -- and the new presence prompted Google to respond immediately ...

Wireless operators across Europe and the Asia-Pacific region announced thisweek a series of roaming agreements in which crossing borders does not translate into loss of service or fear of fees ...

AMD Sets Chip-Making Course With CharteredJay LymanGearing up to supply a growing demand, AMD hassecured a microprocessor sourcing and manufacturing deal with Chartered Semiconductor,which will add capacity for production of AMD's Altlon64 and Opteron chips AMD said it will ha...

In the latest supercomputer news arriving before the release of theTop500 list this week, IBM has announced collaboration with theSpanish government on a super system made with blade servers ...

U.S. supercomputing efforts are making up for the country's earlier loss of the speed title tothe Japanese Earth Simulator, with two new systems poised togarner top spots on the Top500 Supercomputer list due out next week ...

Security experts say that a recent phishing attack -- typically e-mailed as enticements to bogus sites that endanger users' systemsand expose their personal information -- is limited in scope, but they are concerned that it may be a sign that attackers are toying witha new way of phishing, one that does not require a lure ...