Science and Technology

The Business Software Alliance has a new site, Play It Cyber Safe, and a new mascot, a grinning ferret, in its campaign to teach kids as young as 8 years old “safe and responsible” computing practices, like avoiding the rampant software piracy that member companies like Microsoft and Adobe blame …

Via, Glenn Reynolds, Sonic Foundry, maker of our beloved Acid music creation and Vegas video editing software, has been swallowed up by Sony: Sony Pictures Digital and Sonic Foundry®, Inc. announced today Sony Pictures Digital has struck an agreement to purchase all of Sonic Foundry’s desktop software products and related …

Fast-Talk Communications has created software to locate subject matter in an actual audio file by phonetically spelling and entering any term. Technology Review reports: Say, for example, that you want to locate the word “Sudetenland” in an audio account of events leading up to World War II. According to Mark …

Indian software sector slows down: Gone are the days when Bangalore’s army of software engineers scrambled to meet demand from U.S.-based clients and could confidently charge a premium for their services. The game has shifted to volumes, discounts and more spending to boost sales as software services risk becoming just …

Press release from Apple: Apple today announced that its revolutionary iTunes® Music Store sold over one million songs during its first week. Over half of the songs were purchased as albums, dispelling concerns that selling music on a per-track basis will destroy album sales. In addition, over half of the …

Music, sports, news and entertainment audio and video to mobile phones and handheld computers from Real starting today: Seattle, Washington-based RealNetworks, which makes software used to send and receive audio-visual content over the Web, said that devices such as Nokia’s 3650 camera-phone and Palm Inc.’s Tungsten T and Zire 71 …

“Toontown” multiplayer online video game launches in June: The game which has been in trial for months and lets young players collaborate on line in a battle fought with gags rather than bullets is the first unit of what designers plan as a virtual theme park. “We have a very …

You think you heard what the president and Rummy said in recent speeches. The Specious Report, which brought you the phenomenally successful What She Really Said Dixie Chicks parody, sets the record straight on Bush from the USS Abraham Lincoln, and on Rumsfeld re the looting of the Iraqi Museum.

A number of reviewers really like the new Apple Music Service. I wouldn’t know myself, not being an Apple-head, but the huzzahs are not universal: The dismal little online music shop that Steve Jobs opened on Monday has already received its share of lukewarm reviews. One reader, describing the paucity …

Seeking to utterly alienate millions of customers, and enter into a real tech war with enraged geeks, the RIAA is sponsoring research into methods to debilitate file sharer’s computers: The record companies are exploring options on new countermeasures, which some experts say have varying degrees of legality, to deter online …