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Sony PSP released at midnight
Mar 23 2005 10:59PM (CT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - First "Star Wars" movies, then Harry Potter books. Now, Sony Corp.'s new PlayStation Portable is getting the midnight-release treatment reserved for the most hyped of pop culture products.
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New Sony president admits consumer misses
Mar 23 2005 10:58PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Sony Corp.'s engineering prowess helped the company develop an array of nifty products but those gadgets often failed to appeal to consumers, the electronics maker's new president said Thursday.
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Hacker sentenced to nearly four years
Mar 23 2005 10:30PM (CT)
CINCINNATI (AP) - A man who pleaded guilty to hacking into an Arkansas data company's computer system and stealing personal identification files was sentenced Wednesday to nearly four years in federal prison.
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Utah Internet porn law may face challenge
Mar 23 2005 8:46PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Internet service providers that operate in Utah must offer customers a way to block porn sites under a law signed this week. ISPs complained that the law adds nothing to the fight against pornography, and said a legal challenge is likely.
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Study: Majority of DVR owners like them
Mar 23 2005 8:41PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Six percent of Americans own a TiVo or other digital video recorder and another 6 percent plan to buy one in the next year, a study finds.
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Australia to get new high-tech pay phones
Mar 23 2005 8:36PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Coming to Australia: New pay phones with color touch screens and high-speed Internet connections for sending text, photo and video messages.
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Study: Fewer using peer-to-peer systems
Mar 23 2005 8:34PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Use of peer-to-peer systems like Kazaa for sharing music and other files online has dropped as more Americans who use the Internet turn to such alternative methods as downloading files from a friend's iPod, a new study finds.
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New Web site to showcase digital works
Mar 23 2005 8:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A new Web site backed by some of the Internet's leading thinkers promises to make it easier _ and cheaper _ for artists, scholars and other creative people to share their digital works. Ourmedia.org seeks to become a central repository for such items.
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Review: Programs that manage passwords
Mar 23 2005 8:23PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Admit it: you use the same password for all Web sites. There's no use denying it. You really know better: someone could get hold of your password from an insecure site and use your identity to sell a nonexistent collection of antique garden gnomes on eBay, leaving you to face the furious buyer.
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No 2004 bonuses for Google billionaires
Mar 23 2005 8:22PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. pampers its employees with free food and many other perks, but the online search engine leader is more stingy when it comes to rewarding the trio of billionaires who run the company.
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Apple settles with man who leaked software
Mar 23 2005 5:30PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Apple Computer Inc. reached a settlement Wednesday with a North Carolina man who leaked a copy of an unreleased operating system onto the Internet.
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European Union to get its own domain
Mar 23 2005 5:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - E-mail and Web addresses ending in ".eu" should appear on the Internet within the next year or so, giving Europeans a unified presence online.
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Closing arguments begin in Kazaa trial
Mar 23 2005 12:55PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - The owners of global file-sharing company Kazaa told a court Wednesday they should not be held liable for copyright infringements by network users because the company cannot control how the software is used after it is downloaded.
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News agency sues Google, testing fair use
Mar 23 2005 9:20AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In a case that could set limits on Internet search engines, the French news agency AFP is suing Google Inc. for pulling together photos and story excerpts from thousands of news Web sites.
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Level 3 pulls Internet phone fees request
Mar 23 2005 8:53AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A company that provides Internet phone service has withdrawn a request to federal regulators asking that it be exempt from paying higher fees to local phone companies for transmitting certain calls over the traditional phone network.
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Yahoo Inc. again expands e-mail storage
Mar 23 2005 7:56AM (CT)
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) - Yahoo Inc. is quadrupling the amount of storage provided with its free e-mail accounts and upgrading its desktop search software in its ongoing duel with rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
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Woman cleared in mass obscene e-mailings
Mar 23 2005 6:07AM (CT)
WESTMINSTER, Md. (AP) - A death penalty opponent who sent e-mails laced with obscenities and references to Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden to a pro-death-penalty Web site was not guilty of a crime, a judge ruled.
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Yahoo buying photo-sharing service Flickr
Mar 23 2005 6:06AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo Inc. is acquiring a Canadian photo-sharing company that lets people share digital images with select groups or the whole world, expanding its portfolio of self-publishing and "social networking" services.
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Symbian to license e-mail technology
Mar 23 2005 6:02AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Symbian Ltd., maker of the top operating system for "smart" cell phones, is licensing e-mail technology from Microsoft Corp., an unexpected deal with a rival that may bolster Microsoft's bid to extend its dominance in computer software to mobile devices.
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