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Ruckus: Free Music for All College Students

Ruckus is throwing open its music service to all students with a valid .edu email address, offering free access to more than 2.1 million music tracks.

Orb Pumps Media to the PlayStation 3

Orb has added Sony's PlayStation 3 to the list of devices that can access video, music, and photos stored on home PCs.

Dell Struggles, HP Gains in Global PC Sales

New market research numbers for global PC sales show a resurgent HP neck-and-neck with market leader Dell.

Gears of War: More Than 3 Million Sold

Microsoft and Epic Games have announced that the Xbox 360 title Gears of War has gone triple platinum, selling more than 3 million copies in 10 weeks.

PlayStation 3 Sales Tanking in Japan?

New data from market research firm Media Create finds PlayStation 3 sales in Japan are slumping quickly - but then again, no next-gen consoles are doing well.

Yahoo Launches Personal Finance Site

Yahoo is banking that Internet users want online tools to manage their budgets, retirement, college plans, taxes, debts, investments and more personal finance matters.

Microsoft to Offer Vista by Download

Microsoft has announced it will enable North American customers (with a lot of bandwidth!) to purchase Windows Vista and Office 2007 by download.

Currency Valuation Through A nano Lens

Have you heard of The Economist's 20 year-old Big Mac index which tracks the price of a McDonald's sandwich in various world markets? An Australian bank is doing it with the nano.

Pretexting Now a Federal Offense

Bad news for private eyes (and scam artists): new legislation makes it a federal offense to obtain telephone records of another person under false pretenses.

Phisher Facing 100 Years of Prison Time

Jeffrey Brett Goodin has been sent a strong message: phishing does not pay.

Even More Oblivion on the Shivering Isles

Bethesda Softworks has announced The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles, an official Oblivion expansion for Windows and the Xbox 360.

Families Sue MySpace Over Online Predators

Four families have filed suit against MySpace after their daughters were sexually abused by adults they encountered via the social networking Web site.

Klegg Introduces GPS Units

Trendy electronic maker Klegg looks to burst into the mainstream with a pair of GPS navigation systems.

Capcom Xbox 360 Titles Cap 1 Mln Sales

All the buzz might be about Gears of War, but CapCom has also been doing business on the Xbox 360, selling more than 1MM copies of Dead Rising & Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions.

Sony Debuts New Cyber-Shot Cameras

Sony is rolling out four new Cyber-Shot cameras offering 7.2 megapixel resolutions and a useful amount of internal memory.

Yahoo Hosts Third Film Your Issue Contest

Yahoo has teamed with Film Your Issue to sponsor its third annual video contest aimed at getting young filmmakers to focus on contemporary issues.

Samsung Phone Offers Tactile Feedback

Samsung's new SCH-W559 offers to rattle your cage by offering tactile feedback to touchscreen-based commands using Immersion's VibeTonz technology.

Digital Music Sales Doubled in 2006?

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) reports it expects digital music sales to have doubled in 2006, to a total of almost $2 billion.

MySpace Plans to Add Parental Notification

In a bid to appease parents with children enamored of all things MySpace, the popular social networking site plans to offer free parental notification software.

Sony Takes Vaio PCs to Core 2 Quad

Electronics giant Sony is the first to embrace Intel's Core 2 Quad processor, packing the CPU into its high-end VAIO R Master desktop system.

EMI Launches Free Music Streaming in China

Trying to knock the legs out from under music pirates, EMI is teaming with search engine Baidu to offer free, ad-supported streaming of its Typhoon music catalog in China.

Graveside Memory Capsule Plugs into Past

A retired Arizona engineer is offering a way to let descendants plug into their family's heritage - via USB at the grave site.

Dell’s Latitude Notebook Gets Tough

Dell has launched its first ruggedized notebook in the form of its Latitude ATG D620, meeting military specs for vibration, humidity, and altitude.

Skype Founders Announce Joost Online TV

Just last month, Skype founder confirmed they were testing an online TV service dubbed The Venice Project. Today, they rolled out a beta and a new name: Joost.

Netflix Watch Now Offers Video Streaming

DVD-by-mail service Netflix is embracing the Internet with its new Watch Now service, offering subscribers streaming movies and TV shows.

Toshiba Brings HD DVD-R To Notebooks

This February, Toshiba plans to roll out the world's first notebook computer with an integrated HD DVD-R burner...but, so far, only in Japan.

User-generated Sites Face Marketing Dilemma

Sure, sites sporting user-generated content might be all the rage...but do companies really want their products promoted alongside insipid cell phone videos?

PayPal Battles Phishing with…Key Fobs

In a bid to make PayPal accounts more secure from phishing schemes, PayPal is offering customers password-generating key fobs as an additional layer of security.

Pirate Bay Looking to Buy Micronation

Famed Swedish file-sharing hub Pirate Bay is tired of getting hassled by The Man over copyright laws and piracy allegations - so they're thinking of buying their own country.

iLoad Vows Support for Apple iPhone

Apple's iPhone won't be available until June - FCC permitting - but iLoad already promises to enable users to load music CDs to the device directly.

Microsoft Taking Xbox 360 to China?

Microsoft is planning to launch its Xbox 360 gaming console in China within a few months...providing Chinese regulators give their blessing.

AOL Offers $900 Mln for TradeDoubler

AOL is making a $900 million cash offer to buy Sweden's TradeDoubler in order to boost its online marketing savvy in Europe.

T-Mobile Gets White BlackBerry Pearl

RIM has unveiled a new "pearl white" version of its svelte BlackBerry Pearl smartphone - and it's available exclusively in the U.S. from T-Mobile.

FCC Opens Set-Top Box Competition

The FCC has decided to stop cable companies from distributing set-top boxes tied to their services. Cable operators, of course, plan to appeal.

Game Makers Tout Holiday Sales Figures

All the major video game makers are claiming victory in the 2006 holiday season...but was there a clear winner this year?

Canon Takes Over SED TV Joint Venture

Electronics maker Canon has announced it will buy out Toshiba's share of a joint venture to make flat-panel SED televisions.

AOL Ditches Music Now for Napster

AOL is discarding its Music Now subscription service in favor of struggling former P2P bad boy Napster.

Buh-bye Cingular!

Starting Monday, the newly reconstituted AT&T will begin an advertising campaign, replacing the Cingular wireless phone brand with its own.