A US student could face $4.5m (£2.8m) in fines following a federal court ruling that he violated copyright law for sharing music files online. The jury must now decide on the amount of damages it will award to the four recording labels that are suing him. Joel Tenenbaum admitted on the witness stand on [...]
The popularity of Apple’s iPhone is continuing to buck the fall in global mobile phone sales, a study has found. Shipments of the iPhone totalled 5.2 million units between April and June, a six-fold increase on a year earlier, according to Strategy Analytics. This compares with an industry-wide decline of 8% to 273 million [...]
The voicemail-to-text service Spinvox has applied for two patents which describe the service as being operated by humans, the BBC has learned. Spinvox has previously claimed that state-of-the-art speech recognition technology is the basis of its service. However, its patent applications claim the approach is accurate precisely because it employs human operators. Spinvox’s head [...]
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Traditional versions of the iconic device are a thing of the past, but future iterations will have a long and vibrant future.I was recently cleaning out a closet and came across an interesting artifact: my first iPod. It was nearly eight years ago that I was among the very first people in New York City [...]
Broadband users are not getting the speeds they are paying for, according to the largest survey of its kind ever undertaken by telecoms regulator Ofcom. Nearly one fifth of UK broadband customers on an eight Megabit per second (Mbps) connection actually receive less than 2Mbps, it found. The research showed that less than 9% of [...]
A replacement for the black and white stripes of the traditional barcode has been outlined by US researchers. Bokodes, as they are known, can hold thousands of times more information than their striped cousins and can be read by a standard mobile phone camera. The 3mm-diameter (0.1 inches), powered tags could be used to encode [...]
Voice-to-text firm Spinvox has reacted to BBC allegations over its technology, finances and privacy standards. In a blog post on its company website, it described the allegations as "both incorrect and inaccurate". The BBC has been told that most voice mail calls handled by Spinvox are transcribed by call centre staff, rather than converted [...]
Web users suspected of file-sharing are being cut off without warning by internet service provider (ISP) Karoo, based in Hull. Karoo, the only ISP in the area, makes customers sign a document promising not to repeat the offence in order to get their service restored. Some customers have had their accounts suspended for more [...]
The latest update of Apple’s iTunes has included a fix to block devices such as the Palm Pre that use the program for synchronising music and content. The Palm Pre smartphone is seen by many as a direct rival to Apple’s iPhone because of its innovative interface and web based software. Marketing for the new [...]
The microblogging service Twitter is taking legal advice after hundreds of documents were hacked into and published by a number of blogs. TechCrunch has made public some of the 310 bits of material it was sent. It posted information about Twitter’s financial projections and products. "We are in touch with our legal counsel about [...]
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