Friday , March 29 2024

Science and Technology

Napster On Campus

Being a mega-busy media mogul perched in front of a computer at least 12 hours a day, not having the brainpower sufficient to concentrate on writing-editing-logistics-managing-marketing-and the like WHILE also listening to music, AND sitting on top of 25,000 or so CDs that just keep on trickling in day after …

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Good News-Bad News For TiVo

You have to feel for TiVo, who, after pioneering the concept and inventing the DVR and fighting a rear-guard action against video content providers, who claimed the very act of digitally recording TV and movie content for the purpose of time-shifted and advertisement-cleansed viewing was worse than a Mann Act …

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Hilton Hacking Techno Teen Sentenced

No, it wasn’t Nicole Richie who hacked Paris Hilton’s Sidekick — the snooty phone-organizer-camera device that stores videos, photos and other data on T-Mobile’s central computer servers — and posted her revealing photos and celebrity phone numbers on the Internet. The culprit wasn’t Hilton’s estranged best pal and co-star of …

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