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Article | 15/02/2008 Lunch is new prime time for watching network TV online

The most popular hours for watching network TV video online falls between noon and 2pm, and women are nearly twice as likely as men to be watching the...

Article | 13/02/2008 Mozilla offering limited live chat support for Firefox

Mozilla has been quietly offering live Web support for the Firefox Web browser since the beginning of the year. It is one of the open-source group's e...

Article | 11/02/2008 Yahoo Live streaming video site goes live, dies, comes back

Yahoo's launch of its Yahoo Live site had a rocky start last week as an initial onslaught of traffic caused the experimental site, which allows users ...

Article | 7/02/2008 Apple fixes critical QuickTime bug

Apple has released a security fix for its QuickTime media player software, fixing a critical bug that had been worrying security experts for nearly a ...

Article | 7/02/2008 Sony preps handheld Bravia digital TV

Sony is packing its Bravia technology into a new handheld TV it plans to put on sale in Japan in April.

Article | 6/02/2008 Microsoft's Ballmer: More investments coming

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday future growth for the company hinges on continued investment that matches the company's multi-billion dollar r...

Article | 6/02/2008 Attackers zero in on Yahoo Jukebox ActiveX flaw

Just one day after hackers showed how to exploit a number of flaws in the ActiveX software used by Internet Explorer, Symantec has spotted online crim...

Article | 5/02/2008 Consumer group slams RealPlayer as 'badware'

A consumer advocacy group is blasting RealNetworks for installing adware and other software without properly notifying its users.

Article | 5/02/2008 Researcher roots out critical bugs in Yahoo's music player

The researcher who last week revealed vulnerabilities in the photo uploader used by Facebook and MySpace Monday said that multiple flaws in Yahoo's mu...

Article | 1/02/2008 Rock on Gramps: iPods won't hurt your heart

A Food and Drug Administration-led study refutes claims that the magnetic fields produced by <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/apple...

Article | 1/02/2008 Amazon buys Audible for US$300 million

Amazon.com has begun a new chapter in its battle for customers' ears: it has agreed to pay US$300 million for Audible, a seller of audio books that ha...

Article | 1/02/2008 Swedes file charges against Pirate Bay four

Swedish prosecutor Hakan Roswall on Thursday filed charges against four people for involvement in running The Pirate Bay, one of the most widely used ...

Article | 28/01/2008 Amazon to add MP3 store to international sites

Amazon.com will start selling MP3 music files through its international Web sites this year, the company said Sunday. But details of the company's pla...

Article | 29/01/2008 BitGravity debuts live video delivery network at DEMO

BitGravity may not be the most well-known content delivery network vendor, but CEO Perry Wu is hoping that its new live video delivery network will ma...

Article | 24/01/2008 Piracy bust bigger than Ben Hur

Victorian Police along with Australian Federal Police and investigators from the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) raided several ...

Article | 23/01/2008 Rock Band, Guitar Hero boost digital music sales

The Rock Hero Effect: People buy either Rock Band or Guitar Hero. They get hooked on the addictive and lasting gameplay. They start buying expansion s...

Article | 18/01/2008 RIAA Web site graffitied with piracy tags

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) became one of the largest proponents of peer-to-peer file sharing and anti-copyright when hackers...

Article | 22/01/2008 WORLDBEAT - Digital music sells, without iTunes

Asian consumers aren't yet buying digital music to pack their iPods with sprawling collections of music, but they are splashing out on digital music i...

Article | 23/01/2008 UPDATE - Apple music monopoly lawsuit seeks class-action status

A class-action suit filed against Apple alleges the company unfairly uses technological restrictions with its iPod line and iTunes Music Store to beat...

Article | 18/01/2008 Digg.com videos coming to Internet television network

Internet television network Revision3 is launching The Digg Reel, a new weekly show that will highlight the most popular videos submitted to Digg.com.