Due to the recent Apple and Fox deal, the iPod will pose a threat to Netflix’s latest casualty, Blockbuster, and will keep Netflix alive due to Apple’s limited selection and inability to keep price’s low. However, it won’t kill Blockbuster since, well, Netflix already did that.

The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has been fighting a losing battle for years, bringing thousands of lawsuits against ordinary people over illegal file sharing. Now it’s trying to take that fight one stage further, by criminalising anyone and everyone who has ever backed up, or transferred a legally bought CD to their computer.

Ads on your cell phone – if you are anything like me the thought makes you cringe. You can be sure the ads are on their way, though. The market has gone too long untapped for salivating sales pros to let it remain ad free for long.

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 continues to struggle in Japan, actually seeing a sales decrease during the hectic holiday week from the week prior, and once again being obliterated by both the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii.

Sony had been offering this only to the good citizens of Australia but now it seems the company has seen, at least, half a light and is offering the same thing to residents of the States.  Of course, there are a few more restrictions on the offer.

Firefox is one of the very best browsers on the market, far better than IE (and faster), it has more configuration options than Opera and a host of add-ons make it a breeze to configure to your personal preferences.  You have to start somewhere so why not start with these 5 add-ons?  Add-ons are not listed in any particular order.

Students across the nation have become the hapless targets of the RIAA’s campaign against piracy; many of those students are completely ill-prepared to defend the allegations being brought against them, financially and otherwise. For two students at the University of Maine, the student advocates in the school’s law program have taken up the case to fight the RIAA’s lawsuit.

Sony is trying a tactic similar to the one they are using in Australia to get more Playstation 3 units into the hands of consumers.

I recently picked up a Sony Vaio over a Dell Inspiron 1420 which I had for a short time and a review of that laptop will be forthcoming.  I like the laptop a lot and after the growing pains of getting it set up, it is a nice, light and powerful laptop for its size.  However, unless you are happy with the default configuration, this is not a laptop to buy if you plan to upgrade it.

del.icio.us, Mozy, and other social and personal data storehouses should take note: Mozilla is entering the competitive landscape with some visionary ideas. The organization aims to keep the online user experience customized wherever, and however the web is accessed with its new Weave platform.

According to Japanese sales tracker Media Create, the Nintendo DS has surpassed the PlayStation 2 in total sales in the land of the rising sun.

Ian Rolfe discusses ways we are able to see and photograph the reflected colour and liquid motion of nature’s water features…

For those of you sitting on the sidelines in the HD DVD vs Blu-ray format war, your decision may get even tougher in 2008 with dropping prices.

Seeing its core ISP service flailing and losing market share, AOL has cut the cord on further Netscape development.

When AOL bought the smaller company in 1999, Netscape had already begun work on an open source version of its software called Mozilla, according to Netscape.

The US Transportation and Security Administration  has been slowly adding to the list of things passengers can’t take on planes; next on their list will surely be toenails and fingernails, as they could be carriers of bio-toxic hazardous material, but for now the department is settling for banning disposable lithium-ion batteries. Why? Because they’re a dangerous fire hazard, silly!