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The Pirate Bay Launches Contest To Support Indie Musicians

Noted BitTorrent filesharing service The Pirate Bay has launched an ongoing promotional contest in which independent musicians, filmmakers, comedians, and artists can submit their work in an effort to be.

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Gmail Outage Irks Users

Google scrambled Tuesday to fix an outage on the company’s popular email service Gmail that may have affected as many as 7 million users. Affected users saw an error informing.

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LibraryMixer: Files-Sharing That Treats Users Like Adults

A former corporate attorney has launched a social service for sharing music, films, and other media — directly between friends. The semi-public beta is comprised of two parts. The web.

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Filesharing Religion Is Perfectly Serious, Says Spokesperson

Spokespersons for a facetious-sounding religion that advocates sharing files, even when doing so is in violation of copyright, maintain that they are quite serious about the group’s tenets. It’s not.

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Calyx Institute To Launch Privacy-Centric, Disruptive ISP

A former ISP executive with a history of standing up to government surveillance plans to launch an ISP focused on preserving user privacy.

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Encrypt Facebook, Twitter, Gmail With Innovative Extension Priv.ly

Encrypt content on social networks with Priv.ly, a hyperlink-based privacy extension.

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FCC Rallies Mobile Providers To Fight Cell Phones Theft

The Federal Communications Commission has partnered with prominent wireless telecoms to establish a database of stolen cell phones, in order to combat what commission spokespersons frame as a widespread crime.

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NYC Phone Booth Smart Screens Were Announced Over A Year Ago (Sort Of)

New York City will pilot a network of 32-inch, internet-enabled touch screen computers in old phone booths, according to recent reports. Though a report by the New York Post has.

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Run Hardware Accelerated Android Apps On Your PC

[youtube id=”ffFxnnGqFLk” width=”600″ height=”350″] BlueStacks has released a beta version of App Player, a Windows-based program that can run about 450,000 Android apps on PCs. The software, according to the.

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The Wireless Gap: Most Tablet Owners Eschew Mobile Broadband

Just one in every 10 tablet computers sold ends up connected to a cellular data plan. And that lack of traction on the tablet market, according to a new report by tech strategy firm Chetan Sharma, will likely push telecoms to rethink their plan selections in an effort to woo consumers who are reluctant to sign onto yet another monthly service.

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