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£16000 Fine For Mother Spells Trouble For UK P2P File-sharing

Desire Athow — Tue, 19 Aug 2008

A Polish mother of two has been told to pay more than £16,000 in a ruling that could possibly spell the end of the judicial system's apparent leniency towards online file sharers

Sony's Taking On Apple's Nano Range With New E Series

Desire Athow — Tue, 19 Aug 2008

A new range of Sony E series MP3 players targeted at the midrange market may be introduced in the coming month

Toshiba Goes Back To DVD As HD-DVD Pain Subsides

Desire Athow — Mon, 18 Aug 2008

Japanese Consumer Electronics Manufacturer and unfortunate HD-DVD backer Toshiba has announced a new DVD player on the market with what can be described as a "revenge is a dish best served cold" attitude

BBC Introduces Higher Quality iPlayer, ISPs should be worried

Desire Athow — Fri, 15 Aug 2008

A recent Adobe Flash upgrade has given the BBC, the perfect excuse to start encoding video content at a higher bitrate for its popular iPlayer video on demand service

Kangaroo Gets Postponed for 5 months : BBC, ITV and C4 miffed

Desire Athow — Tue, 12 Aug 2008

The apparent opacity surrounding the Kangaroo project, the commercial version of BBC's iPlayer, meant that the UK Competition Commission had no other choice than to push back the deadline to close its investigation

Gold'en Rant : IPTV, video streaming and the Olympics = disappointment

Steve Gold — Fri, 08 Aug 2008

Well, it's the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth year of the new century and it's time for the big opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics

Vodafone Unveils Brand New iTunes Competitor

Desire Athow — Fri, 08 Aug 2008

Vodafone has partnered with Realnetworks to deliver over the fly downloads to its mobile phone users in a bid to increase its average revenue per user (ARPU) through a new service called "Vodafone Music"

O2 Signs Up With SonyBMG In Music Download Initiative

Desire Athow — Fri, 08 Aug 2008

O2 joins Vodafone in announcing another iTunes-wannabee called My Play which it claims is "first operator-supported major label mobile music store" and powered by Momac's multimedia publishing platform GoMedia

Google Unveils Free Legal Music Service In China

Desire Athow — Wed, 06 Aug 2008

Chinese don't like to pay for content that they can seamlessly copy and that's a ruthless factoid that Google has sneakily adopted to launch its brand new music search engine, exclusively in China

7Digital Comes Up With Free Music For UK ISPs In Anti-Piracy Scheme

Desire Athow — Wed, 06 Aug 2008

iTunes competitor 7Digital has a rather cunning proposal for UK ISPs which could not only allow millions to listen to unlimited music without incurring litigation costs, but would also see it become a major online music outfit overnight