Music download prices to rise | The Register The market for downloaded music is strong enough to take a price rise, according to the major music labels. <-- And I thought 1$/song was too much. Anyway, this is the prove that they don't care about P2P. Years and years crying about "ilegal downloads" and now they want paying users to go back to P2P. Music labels deserve the worst.

Ready or not, Windows XP update is coming | CNET News.com Microsoft is alerting customers that it will soon start delivering Windows XP Service Pack 2 to all customers using Automatic Update, whether they want it or not. <-- wow, that's funny!

Enhanced Versatile Disc declared national standard in China - CD Freaks.com EVD's physical specifications are like that of a DVD with a 12cm disc diameter, same UDF file system and disc capacity of around 8.5GB. In fact an EVD can even be read in a PC’s DVD-ROM drive. [...] By using these alternative codec’s, the overall royalty charges per EVD player are less than one-fifth of that than for each DVD player. Besides different codec’s, the EVD format supports HDTV due to ON2's much more efficient video compression compared with MPEG2 as used on DVD. The EAC audio format supports 1, 2 and 6 (5.1) channel configurations.

CD Freaks takes a look at Philips DVDR16LSK/00 LightScribe [2/3] print DVD-R discs!!!

Google's toolbar and content modification Google doing it the Microsoft way (or even worse) :(

Google's toolbar and content modification Google doing it the Microsoft way (or even worse) :(

Joel on Software - Camels and Rubber Duckies Some words about how to price programs you develop. Interesting reading.

Slashdot | Google Donating Bandwidth and Servers to Wikipedia OMG !!!!

Slashdot | Court Docs Reveal Kazaa Logging User Downloads kazaa logged users downloads!!!!!!!!!!!! argghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

Slashdot | Fallout From Japanese Patent On Help Iconthe use of a help icon to invoke a help function infinges on one of their patents. incredible, do we want software patents?

How to treat a Li-Ion battery

Six firms form the HVD Alliance around 1TB disc - Engadget, welcome HVD, I was waiting for you!!!!!!!!

Wired News: Hide Your IPod, Here Comes BillApple's music player apparently is wildly popular on Microsoft's campus. Thousands of Microsofties own the devices, to the great irritation of management. By Leander Kahney.

Norway rules MP3 linking is illegal - CD Freaks.com

textually.org: Internet and cell phone tax plan to finance US war on terror

In the wake of Suprnova and MPAA, BitTorrent getting biggerIn December, the MPAA puts together a major effort to dent BitTorrent by sending out cease and desist letters. As a result, big trackers like Suprnova shut down. What happens? Traffic on the network goes up