A leaked set of proposals for the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA) suggests the international deal will require harsh online anti-piracy measures. The draft will reportedly force Internet providers in all member states to actively police copyright on their networks. To qualify for safe harbor and reduce their liability, the ISPs would also have to implement "gradual response" rules like France's three-strike law that initially warn and eventually punish those said pirating content, likely forcing them offline.... Full story...
Google at its event today gave its users a new real-time status update system. Google Buzz aggregates live updates from a user's Google contacts and shows not just direct messages but updates from Twitter, Google Reader updates, and media posts from Flickr, Picasa and YouTube.
LG will soon replace the Neon handset with the GT350, which has both a full QWERTY hardware keyboard behind its horizontal slider and adds a full touchscreen; the existing Neon (or KS360) had limited touchscreen capabilities, limited only to a numeric keypad when the phone was in its closed position.
Apple is facing the rare incident of an advance sellout this week as a number of Norwegian resellers have had to stop their pre-order programs for the iPad.
Texas Instruments this morning brought out the WiLink 7, a design it says is the first to include four types of wireless on a single chip.
Warner Music Group during its fiscal results call today acknowledged that its digital music sales have slowed since it helped push for variable pricing on iTunes last year.
Seagate said on Tuesday it is now shipping its Savvio 10K.4 enterprise-grade hard drives. The series is the first to feature a model with 600GB of capacity and a 10,000RPM speed in a 2.
Google has quietly put up its first phone support option for the Nexus One. It's currently limited to dealing with sales and shipping but is the first direct, live option for the Android phone.
At a press conference in Japan on Tuesday, Panasonic revealed it will soon begin shipping the first 1080p 3D plasma HDTV in the industry.
NVIDIA today formally unwrapped Optimus, a hybrid graphics technology that it promises will solve many of the problems of performance and battery life on notebooks.
Samsung has released a teaser page saying it will unveil a brand new handset at the Mobile World Congress show on February 14th.