Photo: Courtesy of Supreme Court The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a $675,000 file-sharing damages award that a jury levied against a college student for making 30 music tracks available on a peer-to-peer network. Without comment, the high court, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Stephen Breyer not participating, declined an appeal brought by former Boston college student Joel Tenenbaum. His petition (.pdf) claimed that Congress did not intend “unrestrained discretionary jury dama...  show all text

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Verizon will enable four Android phones in its line to work overseas. Only a simple OTA update for the phones listed is necessary, along with a global data plan.

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There are more than 100 million Mac OS X users worldwide, making the platform a juicier target for hackers.

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Following a jam-packed beta test and a jaw-dropping $4.2 million seed round, Ark people search is open for sign ups...at least for the next three days. Ark lets you sift through profiles on Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other services to help you find out which of your high school classmates live in New York, see which friends are single, and connect with strangers who share your interests by layering up to 30 characteristic filters.The problem of too much social data and too little discoverab...

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The latest Ultrabook in my collection is the HP Folio. The HP Folio is a slim, business-focused 13” notebook with a rich, glossy display, and incredible battery life. Like other PCs built for business, the HP Folio comes with Windows 7 Professional, TPM, on-board Ethernet, and business-level service and support options. The HP Folio has some great user experience aspects for both work and play. For work, the keyboard and battery life are exceptional. For play, the Dolby Advanced Audio provides ...  show all text

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The digital media industry continues to evolve, in part because of the people who have devoted their time and expertise to advancing the technology and the content that it powers. When we asked industry experts who they felt were the 15 most influential people in digital media, we expected to receive a range of responses. And that's what we got.

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Cupertino residents may have received an unsolicited package from their most prominent neighbor this week. No, it's not a new iPad, or an early look at the iPhone 5 -- instead, people close to Apple (from a physical perspective) opened the glossy mailing to reveal a detailed look at Apple Campus 2, which will consist of 176 acres currently occupied by "aging buildings" and trees. As we already know, the campus will feature one main circular four-story building with 2.8 million square feet of of...  show all text

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The popular free eBook has been updated for PowerShell 2.0. You can read it online. You need to be a PowerShell.com member in order to have access to the content. You can register for free here.  

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Nokia sets out to prove the toughness of the Lumia 900's screen with a hammer, a two-by-four, and some nails. Read this blog post by Rich Trenholm on Crave.

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Never one to focus exclusively on the very latest hardware, a new mod has brought an 6502 microprocessor to a Minecraft world near you. The system is made from three separate cubes, representing the CPU, monitor and disk drive, respectively, all connected by ribbon cables. Part of pre-release 5 of the RedPower 2 mod, programmer Eloraam has also thrown in pumps and solar panels to keep crafters busy -- you're no longer limited to light switches. The emulated 8-bit processor can interact with oth...  show all text

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We can't be certain as to how many units of the HTC EVO 4G LTE have made it out of customs thus far, but it appears the number is high enough for Sprint to officially set a date for shipping the device out to those who pre-ordered it online. A Sprint representative reached out to us to share the company's statement from this afternoon that customers should expect to receive their valuable treasure "on or around" May 24th. We're not in love with the "around" terminology, but this could simply be...  show all text

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Aereo's mini-antenna arrays started streaming OTA television broadcasts in Gotham a couple months ago in spite of the lawsuit filed by a few of New York's local stations to stop them from doing so. Today, it was able to dismiss its opponents' state law unfair competition claim under the theory of federal preemption. Essentially, Aereo argued (and the judge agreed) that the anti-competition claim was actually an attempt to vindicate the broadcasters' rights to control the performance of their co...  show all text

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The startup's technology puts sub-millimeter accuracy at user fingertips, offers control gestures like pinch-to-zoom, and promises new applications that make the Kinect and its kin look like yesterday's news.

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Overview Microsoft does such a great job of having a full solution for enterprises. I’ve heard some people question the costs of the licenses in contrast to other vendors or open source solutions, but there is no open source solution or vendor that can cover everything that Microsoft products can. FREE Active Directory Management Software Active Directory Management Software will be part of Spiceworks’s 5.0 release in Sept 2010. Spiceworks’ Active Directory will let you manage user accounts and  show all text

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After 3 years of work, 3,924 code commits, and more than a dozen point releases, the Nmap Project is delighted to announce the immediate, free availability of the Nmap Security Scanner version 6. It includes a more powerful Nmap Scripting Engine, 289 new scripts, better web scanning, full IPv6 support, the Nping packet prober, faster scans, and much more!

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Supplies of the HTC EVO 4G LTE are reportedly through U.S. Customs and on the way to Sprint stores as well as customers. The Inside Sprint Now blog, run by a person in Sprint’s customer service division, noted that the Android phones are now in Sprint warehouses and will be delivered by May 24. As of 5pm CT, Sprint won’t be accepting pre-order cancellations according to the site, although Sprint hasn’t officially made such statements at time of writing. If true, this is good news for Sprint, HTC  show all text

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The browser, according to data compiled by StatCounter, topped Internet Explorer to become the world's most popular browser last week. Read this blog post by Don Reisinger on Internet & Media.

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YouTube has seen its video uploads grow 50 percent over the last year: Users are now uploading 72 hours of video every minute, compared to 48 hours just a year ago. The Google-owned video site announced the milestone Sunday night to celebrate its seventh birthday. The amount of video uploaded to YouTube has increased steadily over the last few years. In early 2007, users were uploading six hours of video every minute to the site. By January of 2009, that number had grown to 15 hours. By March of  show all text

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Now that TiVo has delivered updated software for its Premiere boxes its focus is turning to some new hardware accessories, including the TiVoToGo-style transcoder we saw at CES, now dubbed Stream (top), and the IP extender set-top box mentioned earlier this year (bottom). According to TiVo's press release, both boxes will be available at retail and via the various cable operators that are offering its DVRs to their customers, while avialability will be announced "in the coming months". The Stre...  show all text

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The online video site continues to expand its library of original content with three original shows and seven exclusive ones. Read this blog post by Roger Cheng on Internet & Media.

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Editor’s note: Dan Scholnick is a General Partner at Trinity Ventures where he invests in early stage cloud computing and consumerized IT companies such as New Relic, dotCloud, StackMob, Cloudscaling, and Loggly. You can read more about Dan at the Trinity Ventures website or follow him on Twitter @dschol. He is not an investor in Facebook, though he wishes he were. Judging by many of the headlines on Friday, you might think that Facebook’s IPO was a miserable failure.  The Wall Street Journal d...  show all text

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The Atavist, which helps produce multimedia storytelling for digital devices, has a content management system that has turned into a business opportunity.

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Robin Gibb one-third of the Bee Gees died Sunday after a long battle with cancer his spokesperson has confirmed via a statement Gibb was 62 years old "The family of Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees announce with great sadness that Robin passed away today following his long battle with cancer and...

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While entrepreneurs and venture capitalists waste their time on me-too projects, it's refreshing to find a standout start-up called DIY. It is developing a do-it-yourself community for children that is like Never Never Land. Children learn to make things, fun things.

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Share your Search. Rediscover search through your friends and community on the all new social search experiment from Microsoft Research FUSE Labs.

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