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Pew Report States That 27 Percent of Users Download Digital Music and Video

The Pew Internet & American Life Project reported this week that 36 million Americans, 27 percent of internet users, report having downloaded music or video files. Half of this group have skirted the traditional peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and commercial online distribution services (i.e. Napster, iTunes). This is a significant number of digital media users whose sharing of digital media is untraceable by the recording industry and copyright holders.

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce, Crime, Dave's Muse, Information, Operating Systems, Security, Services, Software, Technical

Internet Explorer Unsafe 98 Percent of the Time

ScanIT, an Internet security consultancy, reports Microsoft's Internet Explorer was unsafe 98 percent of the time, during 2004. The data were collected from 195,000 internet users who used ScanIT's online security checker. The reported 98 percent unsafe rating is based on security holes being found in fully-patched installations of Internet Explorer on every day of the year 2004, except the week between October 12 and 19.

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Todd Cochrane
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Commerce

Yahoo To Give Webmail Users 1 Gig of Space

Yahoo announced that they will start to increase all webmail accounts to 1 Gig of space starting on April 1st. It will take about two weeks to finish the upgrade, but start watching your account next week. This will match…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce

Eric Rice Scores Warner Brothers as Podcast Sponsor

Ok I thought the news would be released Wed mid day but someone opened their mouth early. Congrats to Eric Rice on his sponsorship with Warner Brothers. This is a a big deal to Podcasters and may make some of…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce

Ask Jeeves Being Purchased

Cnet is reporting that Ask Jeeves is being purchased by Interactive Corp. Ask Jeeves runs ask.com, excite.com, and iwon.com along with it’s own search engine website. Interactive Corp owns Expedia.com, ticketmaster.com, match.com, and citysearch. Interactive Corp is run by Barry…

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Todd Cochrane
Commerce

Yahoo Buys Flickr

Yahoo! has agreed to buy Ludicorp Research and Development, owners of photo sharing website Flickr, for an undisclosed sum. Flickr enables users to personalise photo collections on the web, where they can store, sort, search and share their photos. Flickr…

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Todd Cochrane