ciaran_o_riordan writes "FSF have put together their license recommendations, beyond just their own licenses, for software, documentation, and other works: 'People often ask us what license we recommend they use for their project. We've written about this publicly before, but ...

Barnes & Noble has decided to expand its Nook line by offering a new device that is... less capable than its previous offerings? The ...

Hulu Plus has finally made it onto a set-top box that people in the real world have heard of: the TiVo Premiere. For the ...

Apple is reportedly poised to finish signing licensing deals with all of the Big Four music labels in the near future, setting the stage ...

adeelarshad82 writes "Adobe has released Flash Player 10.3, which includes enhanced privacy controls for how your activity is tracked online. Users can now clear local storage — sometimes known as 'Flash cookies' — on versions of Chrome, Internet Explorer, and ...

purehavnet writes "For many months the volunteers at the Centre for Computing History have been working on capturing and preserving the data from the BBC Domesday System. A complete set of data from the community disc was supplied to the ...

Andy Smith writes "Twitter picture-posting service TwitPic has defended its plans to sell users' photos, but still won't cut users in on the deal. TwitPic founder Noah Everett claims that the move has been made to "protect" users of the ...

An anonymous reader writes "Free software to support the RARv3 archive format has been listed on the FSF's High Priority Projects list for some time now. We've always had ways to create and extract free archive formats, using tools like ...

YouTube's low-key movie rental service got a shot in the arm from major Hollywood studios on Monday. YouTube announced that ...

iPad users will soon be able to subscribe to a number of Condé Nast magazines via Apple's in-app subscription system, starting with The New ...

I clicked the play button, and here's the first thing I heard: "The station you are about to listen to contains explicit and offensive material ...

Music streaming service Spotify has a major announcement... and it's not the date of its US launch. The company announced ...

Time, Inc. has made an agreement with Apple that will give its subscribers access to magazine content on the iPad for "free" as part ...

Apple may beat Google to the finish line when it comes to rolling out a cloud-based service for music, according to two sources speaking ...

Online and digital video options continue to grow in popularity, but people still love their "old fashioned" physical discs. According to new data from ...

An anonymous reader writes "Today marks the 5th annual Record Store Day, a celebration of independent record stores. As a music lover, I think this day is of dire importance." I know Free Comic Book Day (for 2011, that's May ...

An anonymous reader writes "As New Zealand politicians are looking to rush through a new copyright law, 92A, which imposes a 'three strikes' regime on people accused of file sharing, some New Zealanders were a bit amused to see Parliament ...

Those of you who have checkered driving records are familiar with the concept of traffic school. Google has decided to take that ...

Spotify has slashed the benefits of its free music service just ahead of its highly anticipated US launch. The company announced Thursday that it ...

Stealing is wrong—or is it? The Internet adds nuances to that question that were once unthinkable. And, according to a newly published study in ...

srwellman writes "The practice of Web 'scraping' is growing as many firms offer to collect personal, and potentially incriminating, data about users from their social networking profiles and discussions. Many companies even collect online conversations and personal details from social ...

It appears that somebody at the United Kingdom's Daily Mail had a really bad night's sleep last night. And the first thing he ...

The Library of Congress has released its latest picks for the National Recording Registry. That's the LOC's collection of recent and historic recordings determined ...

University students faced with a sudden Internet and media blackout begin to feel withdrawal symptoms after 24 hours, according to a study conducted by ...

PsiCTO writes "American college students are hooked on cellphones, social media and the Internet and showing symptoms similar to drug and alcohol addictions, according to a new study. This probably falls under the no-big-surprise category. CBC Radio 1 played a couple ...

The movie studios have seen the online movie rental service Zediva and filed their thumbs-down review of the site in federal court Monday, asking ...

Time Warner Cable has been facing a backlash from the TV industry ever since it rolled out its live-video-streaming iPad app earlier this month. ...

"Cloud Player is an application that lets customers manage and play their own music. It's like any number of existing media management applications. We ...

Several rumors popped up this week suggesting that Apple might push the release of both the next iPhone hardware and the next major iOS ...

There are plenty of cloud storage services to choose from, but there are few that are particularly good. Amazon hopes to become part of ...

BlueBeat.com, the company that tried to sell "remastered" Beatles tracks online before they became officially available, has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to ...

Showtime is considering pulling some of its still-running shows from Netflix, including Dexter and Californication, just as Netflix has announced its own original series. ...

An anonymous reader writes "Like many slashdotters, I have several TB of digital media: music, books, movies, tv shows, games, comics, you name it. I've put it all in a few HDs, but handling it all has proven to be ...

Netflix has won the exclusive rights to stream 26 episodes of the original series House of Cards. The company announced that it got the ...

Smartphones aren't displacing traditional media sources for most news consumers—instead, they're creating their own niche, according to a recent study out of Ohio State ...