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In what could be the latest example of smartphone one-upsmanship, a new report says Amazon is developing a no-glasses, 3D smartphone. The retailing giant has been rumored for some time to be working on a line of branded phones, but this is the first time 3D capability has been mentioned. The...

Appears that way. Probably has something to do with it now being Silu Beta.

Beijing police have arrested 11 suspects allegedly involved in a major online provider of high-definition film downloads, whose scale of piracy was described by anti-illegal publications authorities as "unprecedented." Illegally run under a Beijing-based technology company allegedly set up by...

Remember Netflix claiming that wherever it launched, piracy and BitTorrent traffic fell? Well BitTorrent for one is not convinced by the Netflix line. In a post titled "Reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated", Matt Mason, BitTorrent's VP of marketing, announced that Netflix had got...

A U.S. senator has introduced legislation that limits the ability of broadband providers to impose data caps on customers. The Data Measurement Integrity Act, introduced Thursday by Senator Ron Wyden, would require ISPs to first accurately measure customers’ data use before imposing data caps...

ICANN's application window for top-level domains closed today, and Google wrote a blog post announcing it had applied for a couple choice TLDs. While the list of requested suffixes has not been published in full yet, Google gave hints about which dot-whatevers it hopes to purchase. Google said...

At a House Commerce Committee hearing today on “The Future of Audio,†Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Chairman and CEO Cary Sherman has told lawmakers how the music industry has “transformed how it does business,†touting the fact that digital formats now account for more...

A group of P2P pirates want to get official recognition for filesharing as an official religion. They have dubbed their "belief" the Missionary Kopimistsamfundet, or Missionary Church of Kopimism, and the central philosophy is that CTRL+C and CTRL+V are sacred symbols. While the Muslims, Jews...

We were a tad perturbed when Obama welcomed five former RIAA attorneys into his administration. When it happened, we examined the organizations and peeps involved, and their records, at length. Conflicts of interest be damned, it signaled a distinct inclination to defend the bloated, lumbering...

Avast, ye scurvey knaves! (If youre Canadian, that is.) Youd better get au courant with that and similar phrases, such Shiver me timbers and Ye black-hearted bilge rat. Because according to industry minister Tony Clement, If Canada is not au courant with copyright then we run the risk of being...

Happy birthday .mac. You old enough to view pr0n legally now? :P

Actually you are the second oldest, I'm 55. :D

Microsoft released an update to the Xbox 360 today in an attempt to appease users of boot-to-disc functionality, while also improving their anti-piracy efforts against modders. The update, which has been dubbed anti-piracy update 2.5 by many frustrated modders, re-enables the boot-to-disc option...

Senator Ron Wyden, the Oregon Democrat, says the Combating Online Infringement & Counterfeits Act is the “wrong medicine†for battling online copyright infringement, and argues that if not done properly the “collateral damage would be American innovation, American jobs, and a secure...

After weeks of negotiations and 12 hours of last-minute haggling over amendments, the so-called anti-download law was shot down by the Spanish parliament late Tuesday night. The governing Socialist Party failed to find support from any other political party for the measure that would give...

In recent months the topic of domain name seizures has been reported heavily in the news and discussed widely. US authorities took down dozens of ‘copyright infringing’ domains and the ‘Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act’ (COICA) was drafted to make such takedowns even...

The mood is sombre at the North Pole where Santa Clause and his teams should be putting the last touches to Christmas gifts destined for children around the world. Instead, the conveyor belts are still and the workshops silent. In Operation Anti-Santa, some 6,750 US Immigration and Customs...

A bill currently making its way through Congress could reshape the way that the United States polices the Internet – a move that opponents call censorship and supporters claim is a reasonable means of enforcing copyright and trademark laws. The Combating Online Infringement and...

A regional court in Hamburg, Germany has ordered file hosting and digital locker service RapidShare to pay a nearly $200,000 fine, for breaching an earlier injunction demanding it remove 150 e-books from its service, TorrentFreak reported. RapidShare was sued in February by a group of...

According to a new study published in Fertility and Sterility, using a notebook on your lap for extended periods of time can lead to reduced sperm quality, and there is really nothing we can do about it. Yelim Sheynkin, a urologist that lead the study from the State University of New York at...