Irreverent director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma) is podcasting. The Smodcast is described as “the meandering palaver of a pair of dudes whose voices are so dull, they don’t deserve to be on the radio (and, hence, aren’). Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier are SModcast.” SModcast features harsh language and even harsher notions of propriety. […]

The guys at Ask A Ninja have posted an interesting take on the way MySpace is limiting what users can do at the site: Over the last few months there has been a lot of debate over Net Neutrality, which basically boils down to one company blocking access to to another companies servers in order […]

Apple and The Beatles‚Äô company Apple Corps announced today that the parties have entered into a new agreement concerning the use of the name ‚ÄúApple‚Äù and apple logos which replaces their 1991 Agreement. Under the new agreement, Apple Inc. will own all of the trademarks related to ‚ÄúApple‚Äù and will license certain of those trademarks […]

YouTube has begun removing more than 100,000 unauthorized clips belonging to Viacom. The clips include everything from snippets of Jon Stewarts “The Daily Show” to Nickelodeons “SpongeBob SquarePants.” The purge comes after Viacom demanded that YouTube take down the material, accusing the site of violating its copyrights. Viacom says its the largest order to delete […]

The recent “pigsteria” over breastfeeding blogger Jennifer Laycock’s controversial pro-breastfeeding “the other white milk” t-shirts appears to have come to a happy resolution. Earlier in the week, we reported on how Laycock was being threated by The National Pork Board over the shirt, because they felt it infringed on their trademark and campaign “The other […]

True science: Researchers have discovered that the music on your iPod can reveal whether you’re intelligent, creative or outgoing. Psychologists Jason Rentfrow of the University of Cambridge in England and Sam Gosling at the University of Texas at Austin, have found tha strangers can accurately assess another person’s level of creativity, open-mindedness and extroversion after […]

There seems to be no end to the ingenuity of people that come up with iPod-related gadgets. Here are four of the stranger new ipod-accessories that we’ve seen: The iPod Hymn Book is a leather case designed for 30G and 80G Video iPods. According to the manufacturer, the case will help you protect and worship […]

Upgrading to Vista may result in the inability to play songs purchased from the online iTunes store and may corrupt your iPod. Apple Computer is warning customers who use the Windows version of its iTunes software to hold off upgrading to Windows Vista until it can release a patch to fix a number of serious […]

Viacom has demanded that YouTube pull down all of its video clips after they failed to reach an agreement, the company said. Or as some have put it – Viacom is terrorizing YouTube with bullshit DMCA notices. About 100,000 video clips from Viacom-owned properties, including MTV Networks and BET, have been asked to be removed. […]

A vulnerability in Microsoft’s recently released operating system appears to let an audio¬†podcast hack Windows Vista. Vista’s speech recognition feature can let attackers run malicious programs using recorded audio commands. Microsoft has confirmed the vulnerability: Microsoft‚Äôs initial investigation reveals that this vulnerability could allow an attacker to use the speech recognition feature in Windows Vista […]