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WEB 2.0 - Viacom exec not satisfied with Google plan

The chief executive of media giant Viacom expressed reservations about Google's plan to enter YouTube content into a database and give owners the chance to take down the material.

Google testing YouTube antipiracy system

Google has unveiled a test version of a much-awaited antipiracy system for its wildly popular yet controversial YouTube video-sharing site.

IDF TAIWAN - Intel shows off UMPCs designed with Menlow

Intel showed off six new ultramobile PCs on Monday. The PCs are designed around its Menlow chips, which will debut around the middle of next year.

Greenpeace blasts Apple over toxic materials in iPhone

Greenpeace International, which has clashed with Apple over toxic chemicals in its products and post-sales electronics recycling, has slammed the company's iPhone, saying it includes hazardous materials that other mobile phone makers have eliminated.

Universal rousing an iTunes rebellion, report says

The head of Universal Music Group is enlisting the support of other major record labels to launch a new music subscription service that will try to loosen Apple's grip on the online music market, according to a news report late last week.

Blogger preaches Internet download freedoms

Efforts to fight copying on the Internet were criticized in a presentation by blogger and author Cory Doctorow, a frequent critic of copyright regulations.

YouTube lands on Google Earth

If you've ever wanted to travel to Paris, but just never got around to it, you can now use the Google Earth software tool and watch a sunset filmed from the top floor of the Eiffel Tower, or view video clips of other popular spots in the City of Ligh...

BitTorrent hopes to speed commercial content streaming

BitTorrent wants to shake up the way content is streamed online by taking its method for downloading large files and applying it to multimedia streaming.

Flash's challenges: Microsoft, mobile phones and markups

MLB.com, the official Web site of Major League Baseball, is one of the high-profile destinations that Microsoft likes to trot out as a user of its new high-definition media player, Silverlight.

iPods, better laptops stemmed from Nobel Prize discovery

The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to two researchers for their discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR), a sort of nanotechnology that enables more compact disks to be squeezed into laptops, iPods and other such devices.

Woman ordered to pay for file-sharing will appeal

A woman ordered to pay US$222,000 for downloading and sharing music files has decided to appeal the case.

CEATEC - Rohm shows tiny OLED for camera viewfinders

Rohm is showing off at this week's Ceatec exhibition a prototype full-color OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screen that's smaller than a fingernail, yet offers resolution of 320 pixels by 240 pixels.

CEATEC - Sony spinoff plans high-end FED monitors for 2009

A company spun off from Sony is developing a line of monitors based on FED (field emission display) technology, which offers faster response times, consumes less power, and produces warmer, more realistic images than is possible with other flat-panel...

Apple fixes year-old QuickTime flaw

Apple updated the Windows version of QuickTime today to quash a 13-month-old bug that critics say it overlooked when it patched the media player in March.

Microsoft, Toshiba team to advance HD DVD navigation

Toshiba and Microsoft this week announced plans to launch the Advanced Interactivity Consortium to extend interactive features in HD DVD, a high-definition format, in an effort to attract more users.