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Microsoft is now boasting that its Xbox 360 gaming console had its "best ever" Christmas sales in Europe, pushing overall sales in the region to just over 8 million consoles.

Unit sales were alm...

Dolby Laboratories, the company best known for its audio technologies, has proposed a new 3-D video technology for Blu-ray movies, following recent proposals from Panasonic and Philips.

The comp...

As many of you might have noticed, our site is one of those with various "flags" located in the top-right corner of the site, meaning that our site is published in several languages (currently in E...

With only one new product revelation, a rather unattractive $2,799 MacBook, this year's Macworld keynote was nothing like we have been used to. It could only have been described as a disappointment...

On January 1st the iconic cartoon character Popeye the Sailor Man became public domain in the EU, following the EU law that restricts copyrights of authors for only 70 years after their death.

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Yesterday we reported unconfirmed reports that the RIAA had fired their "investigative arm", MediaSentry.

Today the WSJ has confirmed that notion and says the trade group will replace MediaSentr...

AsianWeek, a newspaper for Asian-Americans, has become the largest US paper to drop its print editions to move to online only.

The 30-year old paper has a circulation of roughly 60,000 and will ...

According to Slyck, the newsgroup server Astraweb has increased its retention to 270 days, hopping over Giganews on its way to being the newsgroup provider with the longest retention.

"Astraweb ...

Following last week's decision that it would stop lawsuits, and instead pressure ISPs, the RIAA appears to be on the verge of cutting ties with MediaSentry, their unethical "investigative arm."

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According to Nielsen SoundScan year-end figures, CD sales fell 20 percent for the year 2008, while digital sales grew 27 percent.

Physical CDs still remain the most profitable media for recorde...