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Adult movie makers in Japan have apparently found a way to have their wares mass-produced on Blu-ray Discs, something that has been hampered, to date, by Sony's antipornography policies ...

Google and YouTube are planning to unveil copyright protection technology that goes above and beyond what some observers think is even possible ...

Linden Lab, the creator of the massive Second Life online virtual world, is facing heat from its customers after this week's decision to ban gambling from the pseudo-reality realm ...

A federal judge on Wednesday gave the founders of Facebook challenger ConnectU two weeks to shore up their case against the popular social networking site, indicating he thinks the lawsuit is based on a shaky foundation ...

Social networking Web site MySpace has found and purged more than 29,000 sexual predators using the site, a number described by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal as an "exploding epidemic." ...

A federal judge in Boston is set to hear arguments this week in a case that accuses Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of stealing the code on which he built his massively popular Web site. The lawsuit could at least damage the young Web 2.0 entrepreneur's reputation, and at worst result in a Facebook shutdown ...

The price war between movie rental companies Blockbuster and Netflix continued Sunday when Netflix slashed by US$1 the price of two DVD rental subscription plans ...

You can't label it a Web operating system. Don't refer to it as a simple platform or a bunch of applications. Yes, you can accurately call Parakey "acquired." ...

A new company called "Ooma" is introducing a peer-to-peer (P2P) Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network that will result in free domestic calling for its customers, a concept it says will revolutionize home telephony ...

The newest -- and thinnest -- BlackBerry smartphone from Research In Motion (RIM) includes GPS (Global Positioning System), new media player enhancements, an expandable memory slot and the ability to connect to the Internet via WiFi ...

Get ready for easy-to-use home servers. With Monday's release to manufacturers of the long-awaited Windows Home Server (WHS) software, vendors will be putting the devices on the market this fall ...

Ever pushing the computing speed limit, Intel says its new Core 2 Extreme mobile dual-core processor is the world's highest-performing notebook chip ...

Boldly claiming "the future of PC navigation starts now," peripheral vendor Logitech has unveiled a laser mouse that uses motion-control and wireless technology so users can click, scroll and perform other control functions while holding the unit in the air from across a room ...

Lagging behind Nintendo in the handheld gaming device market, Sony has shaved some size and weight from the PlayStation Portable (PSP), added more memory and fitted it with a video port ...

A Hollywood talent agency and an Internet advertising company are joining forces in a new venture designed to help create, find advertisers for and distribute over the Web professionally produced short-form video content ...

Reacting to changes in Internet browsing fostered by Web 2.0 applications, Internet market research company Nielsen//NetRatings is adding to its toolbox two new ways of measuring Web site use ...

After initially denying it had plans to cut the price of its PlayStation 3 gaming console, Sony on Sunday announced a hefty price reduction and announced a new PS3 model ...

Conceding many Xbox 360 gaming consoles were built with a flaw that resulted in system crashes, Microsoft is tripling the system's warranty, upgrading its design and reimbursing those who paid for repairs ...

With nary a press release or even an announcement on its Web site, eBay has started offering its Kijiji free online classified ad service to people in the United States ...

In what could be a victory for Microsoft and a blow to the open source community, the state of Massachusetts has added Microsoft's Office Open XML standard to its list of potential standards it will allow for government use ...