Add MP3 + P2P + VOIP + FM and you get a Skype phone with a media player for under $100 (1, 2). Connect to a PC and you're ready to make calls free to other Skype users and free......

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I recommend an excellent article, How to Donate Your Old Computer from Ariane Benefit. Computers are becoming disposable. That old beast from 5 years ago with Windows 98 may be Ancient history, but...

Yesterday we reported on Zattoo's P2P World Cup Soccer broadcasts in Switzerland. They're not alone. MySee is doing the same for SMG in China. The worldwide spectable of the World Cup is...

Zattoo will provide P2P IPTV for World Cup Soccer as part of a Swiss cable offering. Zattoo was developed by researchers and programmers from the University of Michigan. The proprietary technology was...

Add cloak and dagger flicks to the P2P legal battle. TorrentSpy, earlier sued by the MPAA, has now charged that the MPAA paid $15,000 to a hacker to steal email and trade secrets. The hacker was hired...

For your weekend viewing entertainment we present AllAdultChannel. AllAdultChannel is offered by CinemaNow, which sells or rent movies in digital format. AllAdultChannel similarly sells or rents...

Cashier Myricks, Jr., owner of mp3downloadcity.com and other sites selling P2P services, settled a lawsuit brought by the U.S. federal trade commission (FTC) for the whopping sum of $15,240. The FTC...

Word of mouth (WOM) and viral marketing is a critical success factor for new businesses with no advertising money. A Lucid Marketing study looked at how consumers use WOM to determine how businesses...

Pando got a boost with its second round of funding $7 million from Intel Capital. Pando's CEO is Robert Levitan, who co-founded iVillage. Pando's first round of founding was from BRM Capital...

Skype calls to the US and Canada will be free through the end of the year. The eBay unit move is a step toward increasing its North American user base and better competing against IM/voice services...

The BBC Film Network is using Konitiki to distribute its films via P2P. The Film Network screens three new short videos each week. The films are in protected Windows DRM format. Members automatically...

In a bizarre story that will amuse only RIAA, Sharman Networks, developer of Kazaa P2P software, has sued P2P online news site P2Pnet. P2Pnet and its owner and editor Jon Newton have long been a...

The Internet has reached a huge milestone. According to Worldwide Online Access: 2004-2010 one billion people are now online, 845 million being regular users. That's a lot of digital mail, music,...

Altnet announced that Loudeye and Overpeer settled a patent infringement lawsuit. Terms were not made public. Altnet distributes secured and open files primarily through the Fast Track network and...

The BPI, the British equivalent of RIAA, has recommended that consumers be allowed to make digital copies of music they own for personal use. Ripping is illegal in Britain, unlike the U.S., although...

Artist Scott G ask what's next in Millions for New York, but Where's Your Share?. G writes that the "long list of payoffs, trade-offs, gift-giving, fake sponsorships, and falsification of...

isps are starting to cache P2P traffic in response to the increasing bandwidth used by P2P networks. The largest ISP in Thailand, True Internet, is one such ISP. Caching developer PeerApp claims the...

That's Lucky, as in a DVD-sniffing pooch. As part of its anti-piracy initiative, the MPAA has sponsored a program along with federal express to train dogs to detect DVDs. No, this is not an April...

Laplink ShareDirect Basic is now free. ShareDirect provides direct file sharing of an entire folder over the Internet with authorized users. ShareDirect Plus sells for $70 and offers "Premium...

We reported earlier on the LaLa CD trading service. The service has under 100,000 users who trade 3-4 CDs a month. A public beta service is coming this summer. Some in Hollywood are not amused. Says...