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Dave Kravets over at Wired.com reports that Kevin Cogill, 27, confessed to uploading nine songs last summer to his site, Antiquiet and now faces a misdemeanor charge of copyright infringement.

Los Angeles federal prosecutor Craig Missakian told Kravets that Cogill’s guilty plea was part of a plea deal that will be entered on December. 8. Last August, Cogill became the first Californian charged under a 3-year-old federal antipiracy law that makes it a felony to distrib

The brief look came on a machine running a later build than the one Microsoft handed out to developers last week. More similar to the version that was shown onstage Tuesday, the machine I used had the new desktop featuring the Aero Peek and other features.

Along with the gestures themselves, Microsoft has tweaked the desktop to support touch, doing things like spreading out menu lists to make the operating system easier to navigate with just a finger.

“Becoming subject to political factors no one can predict is not for them a very safe or advisable position,” Freeh said.

Louis Freeh, who served as FBI director from 1993 to 2001, told audiences at the FOSE 2009 conference here that when the director of the Homeland Security Department’s National Cyber Security Center resigned last week, he tapped into a strong historical resistance in the United States to centralized power, particularly in intelligence and military units. In hi

LOS ANGELES–Microsoft has to do more than just convince businesses that it has the right vision with Windows Azure, its burgeoning take on cloud computing, according to Ray Ozzie, the company’s chief software architect. Fundamentally, it has to get them to place a huge amount of trust in the software provider.

Most applications will not run that way out of the box, he said. Those that have used Amazon’s Web services will probably be further along than those simply use

Granted, the ability to upload a Great American Novel or a poem written in a moment of despair isn’t necessarily the most attractive feature to most social-network fanatics, but having the option to upload that material highlights Bebo’s willingness to provide its users with more than just a community to share interests. In fact, Bebo’s author’s nook provides an outlet for individual members of the community to express themselves, which is a key feature in any social network. That’s not

Please don’t ask me what kind of plant Pothos is. I can barely tell an oak tree from a park bench. However, he (can a plant be a “he”?) has more than 2,600 followers and–suggesting Pothos might be a little on the self-centered side–Pothos is following no one.

Which is why I am grateful to CNET’s Caroline McCarthy for pointing me in the direction of the Twitter page belonging to Mr. Ikea Plant.

People always used to laugh when Prince Charles talked to his plants. No

“We have been forced by legal action to at least temporarily halt the sale of RealDVD by Hollywood’s largest movie studios,” RealNetworks said in a post on it’s site. “You shouldn’t be caught in the middle, and we apologize that you are. As a thank you for your patience we will upgrade your trial to a fully licensed copy, free of charge, if we are legally allowed to resume distribution of RealDVD.”

RealNetworks and the film industry continues to blast each other in p

I know you requested some “breathing room” from us nattering nabobs while you chart a new course. But it’s just not in our nature to totally clam up. So forthwith, here’s some advice on what you can do with an Internet company that’s powerful if not meeting its potential.

Luckily for you, the last administration did a lot of the heavy lifting to prepare for YOS, so Yahoo’s infrastructure for the new strategy is already in place, but it’s been painfully slow in arriving. So promot

So, obviously, that’s a limited number of options and certainly doesn’t reflect the full range of possibilities for online ads. But it was thorough: Project Inform ran consumer survey tests across about 50 million video streams on the Web properties for media brands like MTV, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon.

This is sort of interesting. MTV Networks, which certainly has a lot of video content out there on the Web, on Wednesday released the results of an internal study

HTML video does offer a significant departure from Flash’s embedded rectangular boxes, and it’s arriving on advanced mobile devices such as Apple’s
iPhone and Google Android phones that presently lack Flash support.

Mozilla is exhorting users to “upgrade the Web” with Firefox 3.5 and variations on that better-browsing theme can be found with Google’s Chrome, Apple’s
Safari, and Opera.

In theory at least. In practice, HTML 5 video is rough around the edges.