The admins of isoHunt are fighting a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the MPAA, arguing that it and other BitTorrent tracker sites should be treated no differently than a search engine. After all, isoHunt only provides links to content'just like Google.

No matter which way the ruling goes, this could prove to be an important milestone for the MPAA's fight against BitTorrent sites. The MPAA has a few notches in its bedpost, but those have come from settlements which resulted in shuttered…

New in Qt 4.4: Qt WebKit Integration, Multimedia API (Phonon Multimedia Framework), XQuery and XPath Support, Widgets in Graphics View, Concurrent Programming, Improved Help System, Printing System Improvements.

“The Last.fm software gives music fans an easy way to track their listening habits and receive music recommendations. Qt was a natural choice for us because we had to support any potential listening environment,? said Toby Padilla, vice…

This seriously cool cross platform tool catalogues your pictures and lets you search any text in the picture using OCR. Private beta for now, can't wait for this to go public!

Search through all your notes, even the images, whether online or off

You're looking at the second of many periodic releases, many of which include pointers to the Yahoo! User Interface Library code.

By the way, if you're considering building your own pattern repository or are interested in how we curate our pattern collection here (and how we document patterns internally in the parent library to this one), then you might enjoy an…

A lot of us carry a little bit of Steve Jobs around in our pocket, in the form of iPods and iPhones. Now, Apple is after the remaining bit of life-share that it doesnt already own, the home front.

The movie industry has always wanted to maintain custody of the user experience — in the theater, on home video and on television, which is why you once had to wait for Easter every year to watch “Ben Hur” on the…

The legality of BitTorrent sites has always been highly debated. As of today, no court has ever ruled that a website offering .torrent links is legal or not. This might change soon, as isoHunt and the MPAA once again clash in court.

In most places its legal to buy a bong. The head shop doesnt get taken to court of some dude gets arrested using it to smoke pot does it? Just because ’some’ people use bittorrent for illegal file sharing does not mean that…

Apple is expected to announce today an across-the-board deal to sell new release films at its iTunes Store. The deal is said to allow Apple to offer a “broad slate of top-shelf films” day-and-date with home video releases — a long time sticking point with brick-and-mortar interests who want to keep their early edge on digital downloads.

$14.99 for the SD version of No Country off iTunes (it will be more, but iTunes does not display the purchase price of the HD version)$229.00 for an Apple TV (required to buy the HD version)$1099.00 for the cheapest Mac - with…

The cool part of all of this, is the fact that the old restrictions on the SWF and FLV specifications are now in the past. The restrictions used to say that if you read the SWF spec, you couldnt build something that would run SWF files. So, could build an editor, a tool, but not a runtime in anyway. Just the beginning of an open source flash?

Adobe Flash Player is the worlds most pervasive client runtime, delivering unparalleled creative options, highly engaging user experiences, stunning audio/video playback, and universal reach. Content for Adobe Flash Player reaches over 98…

This is the first recession where the Internet is the primary driving force for almost every business, big and small as well as millions of free agent individuals.

This is where it gets interesting and a bit more complex. Digital products are simple. The whole process of creating craving and fulfilling craving takes place online. Physical products have to travel in the real world, using trucks and planes and…

Internet service providers are beginning to roll out the second wave of U.S. broadband services, which are 25 times faster than current broadband offerings.

While the technologies they use differ, Comcast and Verizon have both started offering ultra-high-bandwidth services to select customers that are as much as 25 times faster than today's average broadband speed of 4.8 Mbps, according to…

The Microsoft example, however, is just one of many. Here are five cases where companies have sold their customers down the DRM-filled river.

Last September, Virgin announced that it would be shutting down its Virgin Digital music store and subscription service in one month’s time. The service allowed customers to download tracks up to four times to replace lost or damaged…

“Cognitive surplus” — the idea that automation gave us an enormous amount of free time to think and cogitate, and that sitcoms and other light entertainment from the past century were a way of absorbing that surplus, something we're just shaking off now.

I quit watching television in 1975 and since then have consumed less than 1% as much as the typical American. Probably much less. I think this has made my life different. I've read much more. I've watched a ton of movies. I have…

I theorize that Google lessens the validity of content from your own site. In your profile you have the ability to set up links to other networks your are on, your own sites and maybe affiliate programs.? Tell me Google does not discount any Digg items that are from these URLs.

Now I was on page 2 of How to get More Diggs in Google. I did not submit my own content. However I asked all my friends to Digg the item when it was sumbitted by someone else. The blog post quickly rose to #4 on Goolge Websearch in an hour. The…

Questions about Web 2.0 vs Web 3.0

I am going to the conference and will be soaking everything in to ultimately come to some sort of conclusion about where the Web 2.0 marketplace is today. Is it an actual industry or will it become commoditized into a feature? Is Web 2.0 in a…