Sam Costello

Articles by Sam Costello

FBI warns no user is safe from online fraud

The widespread adoption of new technologies has created new opportunities for fraud that any Internet user is susceptible to, a situation made worse by ignorance about the issue, according to a new study released this week.

Napster sued

Napster Inc., the MP3-trading company already under heavy fire from the Recording Industry Association of America Inc. and its member record labels, is being sued yet again, this time by two new parties: EMusic Inc. and the producers of the Grammy Awards.

Court: Napster infringes copyright, but plays on

The Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled recently that Napster Inc. infringes on record...

Napster infringes copyright: U.S. Appeals Court

The Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Monday that Napster Inc. infringes on record company copyrights through the operation of its music file-trading service.

Residential gateways market will grow

When you send workers home to work, you probably supply a notebook PC, a DSL connection and a phone line or PBX extension. But once they've settled in, do you give much thought to the home network gear they might also buy?

New Bluetooth headset among first to market

A Nashua, N.H., company has beaten mobile phone heavyweights Nokia Corp. and L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co. to...

U.S. Judge rules links illegal and code not free speech

In what some observers see as a significant ruling for the future of the Internet, a U.S....

Compaq ends an era, retires VAX

The message boards at open-source software news site Slashdot .org read like a ...

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