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Woman fined to tune of $1.9 million for illegal download
Written on 19 Jun, 2009 at 12:23 in Featured, General | viewed 311 views times and users have made 1 comment so far
A federal jury Thursday found a 32-year-old Minnesota woman guilty of illegally downloading music from the Internet and fined her $80,000 each — a total of $1.9 million — for 24 songs. Jammie Thomas-Rasset’s case was the first such copyright infringement case to go to trial in the United States, her attorney said. Attorney Joe Sibley said that his client was shocked at the fine, noting that the price tag on the songs she downloaded was 99 cents. Full Story : CNN.com….
Apple shrinks its iPod Shuffle
Written on 11 Mar, 2009 at 12:05 in Featured, Technology | viewed 348 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Apple today introduced the new iPod shuffle, the world’s smallest music player at nearly half of the size of the previous model. The device has a new feature called VocieOver which enables iPod shuffle to speak your song titles, artists and playlist names. iPod shuffle can speak 14 languages including English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. iPod shuffle is now shipping and comes in silver or black for a suggested price of $79 (US).
@ a glance : Used MP3 Player Comes With Secret Military Files
Written on 27 Jan, 2009 at 14:13 in @ a glance | viewed 163 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Apparently you can pick up outdated U.S. military files for less than $10. That’s what happened to New Zealand’s Chris Ogle when he bought a used MP3 player for $9 in Oklahoma. Full Story :PCworld….
Zunes Freeze Up
Written on 31 Dec, 2008 at 13:40 in Entertainment, Technology | viewed 241 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
I don’t know whether there is a W2K8 bug, but widespread freeze up of Zune players allover the world makes me think so. Microsoft’s 30GB Zune players stop, reboot themselves, and when the start-up status bar reaches 100 percent, they freeze. The Microsoft Zune support Web site reports the company is aware of the problem and working to fix it.
iPod a Fire Risk Warns Japan
Written on 21 Aug, 2008 at 9:04 in Technology | viewed 276 views times and users have made 1 comment so far
