Gadgetopia

The Napster Card: DId you know you can buy Napster gift cards at Best Buy? It's a gift certificate for the online service that the recipient can use to pay for music. Brilliant.

I watched "The Italian Job" on DVD tonight. The movie was marginal ("stupid good fun," I call it), and is essentially an excuse to drive hot-rodded Mini Coopers through the nooks and crannies of L.A., but there is one funny bit... Seth Green plays a computer geek who claims he ...

Paramount/MTV Taking a Napster: What's stranger, that there's a Napster film in the works, or that it's going to be written by Alex Winter -- who you may remember as Bill (or "not Keanu"), From Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Paramount and MTV Films have given the greenlight to ...

Napster to let users face the music...for free: This is the new trend. Rhapsody has done something like this, and Pandora has been offering free music for a while. Online music is rapidly becoming like radio, except you can pick what songs are played, whenever you like. Napster, the online ...

Cornell University isn't playing nice with its Apple-toting students, and they are up in arms. Sort of. Cornell is currently conducting a beta trial of Napster's music rental service, which only supports Windows 2000 and XP, leaving anyone with a Mac in their dorm room out in the cold. To ...

I must admit I wasn't expecting anything earth-shattering from Steve Jobs yesterday and for the most part I wasn't disappointed. While unveiling some pretty cool toys, both hardware and software, he failed to deliver anything that on it's surface will immediately sway a consumer to purchase a Mac over a ...

For file-sharers, it's legal future or no future: Less and less file sharing networks are claiming legality after the Supreme Court ruled on Grokster last year. That's not to say file sharing will stop, it just means that networks can no longer hide behind a veneer of legal protection -- ...

The Internet has changed my desire to own things. I ve been through a distinct progression in this regard in the 10+ years I ve been online. I remember first getting online at the computer lab at Augustana College and looking up stuff about James Bond. It was all very interesting, but ...

Downloads chart may signal single's comeback: "This week, Billboard introduces Nielsen SoundScan's new download tracks chart, which tabulates Internet purchases of music files from sanctioned services by Apple, Liquid Audio, Pressplay and others. Napster, the renegade outfit that's expected to return as a legal provider of digital music, also will ...

I've finally become interested in subscribing to a music service. However, I'm interested in one that will let me download music in DRM-free MP3 format, and does not require me to stay subscribed to the service to keep my music. Essentially, I want Napster, but I'll pay a monthly fee ...

Microsoft to Give Music a Whirl: This market is getting awfully crowded. Microsoft plans to introduce a song-downloading service next year that will compete with similar offerings from Apple Computer, Roxio's Napster and others. News of the service was first reported Monday by The Wall Street Journal. A company spokeswoman ...

Hunt for 'Napster of good causes': mySociety.org is a project that is looking for internet-based ideas that use the technology to make a real-world impact. "Tom Steinberg, MySociety founder, said he wanted to try to find Napsters of civil life that, like the music-sharing system, prove enormously useful to people ...

CNET to buy, retune MP3.com: It must be something in the water this week. I think I'm next in line to open up a music business. CNET Networks representatives said the company aims to augment its position as a provider of interactive content through the acquisition, with plans to enter ...

26,000-Hit Wonder Keeps It Hopping: That's what you get when you have a jukebox full of MP3s. "Mr. Stuto's basic idea was to digitize his music collection and make it available in a jukebox that held far more than the standard 100 albums. EL DJ, or Extra Large Digital Jukebox, ...

A new approach to file-swapping: The article indicates that Big Media is finally coming around to conform to Deane s Two Undeniable Laws of File Sharing. I came up with these laws in 1999, when Napster was huge. They are: Undeniable Law #1: Legally speaking, trading of copyrighted files is illegal. ...

SunnComm has announced their intention to file suit against the Princeton student who figured out how to disable their iron-clad software using the shift key. "Concludes Jacobs, 'This cat-and-mouse game that hackers and others like to play with owners of digital property is over. No matter what their credentials or ...