A few days ago, the founder of Megaupload Kim Dotcom and several executives within the company were arrested and accused of being a part of a worldwide conspiracy designed to pirate copyrighted materials. The expensive assets accumulated by Dotcom and others suggest the individuals made quite a bit of money from running one of the more »

Domain registrar GoDaddy stepped up and spoke out against the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The company, which previously appeared to support the bill and it’s companion, the Protect IP Act, now says it has changed its mind because the bill is too polarizing. “GoDaddy opposes SOPA because the legislation has not fulfilled its more »

The Swiss government conducted a study to gauge the effects of illegal downloads. The study showed that downloaders tend to use their saved money to purchase more legitimate entertainment products. Go figure… It seems to me as though piracy advocates tend to rely on evidence and don’t cling to outrageous revenue claims or bogus reasoning. more »

If you’ve been using Google Chrome outside of the United States, then you likely did not have access to its Web Store, since it is only available for American users. However, today, Google announced that the Web Store will be available for use in 24 different countries. The countries, as outlined by Google, include “Argentina, more »

Near the launch of Google+ Google started an initiative called the Data Liberation Front. The idea of the DFL is to make sure all of your data is easily taken out of Google’s services should you choose to do so. Today another Google property was added to the front’s Google Takeout. Starting today you can more »

As college students prepare for another enriching year of studying, Amazon wants to make purchasing textbooks for the upcoming academic year a little easier and cost effective. If you own a Kindle or a device with the free Kindle app, then you are already set to take advantage of Amazon’s unique Kindle Textbook Rental service. more »

Remember RockMelt? The social browser that was supposed to change how we used the web? Well, it didn’t exactly live up to the promise, but that doesn’t mean it’s gone away. Today there’s a new version of the browser that brings news Facebook integration. RockMelt has been referred to as the unofficial Facebook browser. Well, more »

Internet Explorer 9 still has that new browser smell, but Microsoft is already looking ahead to its replacement. Microsoft revealed Internet Explorer 10 at the MIX11 conference today. Don’t leap out of your seat in outrage because it’ll take some time before IE 10 is released as a full product. However, you can download the Internet Explorer 10 Preview at this very moment.

Using add-ons in Firefox, or any other browser, adds a bit to start-up time. That much should be obvious. Mozilla is tracking which add-ons are the biggest offenders, and will be helping both developers and users fix the speed issues. Mozilla admits that any add-ons will increase time for start-up, adding about 10 percent more more »

Just on week after the successful launch of Firefox 4 for desktops, Mozilla has released the final version of Firefox 4 for Android. The browser brings the customizability of the desktop version to mobile and some interesting syncing features. Syncing is potentially the biggest feature of Firefox 4 for Android. The browser will sync your more »