Ryan Naraine

The Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) aggressive campaign to stamp out illegal file sharing intensified Wednesday with a warning that the trade group will file “thousands of lawsuits” against individual computer users. Fresh off a landmark legal victory against Verizon , which clears the way for ISPs to reveal the names of suspected music […]

Wi-Fi infrastructure start-up Vivato has banked another $45 million in venture capital funding from a group of investors including the Intel Communications Fund. Vivato, which markets a 2.4 GHz outdoor Wi-Fi switch that communicates directly with 802.11b compliant devices and can project wireless coverage throughout very large areas, said the latest VC infusion brings the […]

Digital media upstart Roxio on Friday announced the completion of a $22 million equity financing round to be used for capital expenses. The funding comes as Roxio readies a reborn-as-legitimate Napster music download service. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based Roxio, which surprised many with the $40 million acquisition of online music service Pressplay, did not say […]

Computer maker Hewlett-Packard has joined the fight against unsolicited e-mails, announcing plans to pre-load anti-spam software from Mass.-based interMute, Inc. on the newest lines of HP Pavilion and Compaq Presario desktops. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based Hewlett-Packard said interMute’s SpamSubtract software would be added to the new desktop PCs to offer consumers a tool to block […]

NEW YORK — Having invested heavily in Wi-Fi at hundreds of locations worldwide, hospitality giant Starwood Hotels & Resorts is crossing its fingers that the unrelenting promise of a wireless world will justify the million dollar investments. In a frank discussion at the iBreakfast Conference series here, Starwood’s VP of technology business and systems strategy […]

Just days after dodging a proxy contest from a group of dissident shareholders, New York-based domain name specialists Register.com is parting ways with chief executive officer Richard Forman. Forman, who started the company as Forman Interactive in the early days of Silicon Alley, will hold on to his board seat but his resignation from the […]

Major League Baseball’s MLB.com portal is testing a new premium multimedia service hawking full-length games for download and burn. The premium content experiment — dubbed Digital Classics — is targeting broadband baseball aficionados willing to pay $3.95 to download full-length digital copies of historic games. The first game that went on sale — the historic […]

Struggling to stay viable in the nascent online music sector, MusicNet on Thursday announced it would re-record more than 350,000 digital tracks in Microsoft’s Windows Media 9 format in order to open new doors for potential subscribers. MusicNet, which is backed by America Online , RealNetworks and record labels, said its entire music library would […]

Microsoft added some buzz to the anti-virus software space with Tuesday’s acquisition of GeCAD Software for use in its flagship Windows platform. Financial terms of the purchase, which included GeCAD’s intellectual property, were not released. The Bucharest, Romania-based GeCAD makes software for anti-virus detection and data security. With GeCAD’s technology built into the Windows platform […]

Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) darling Vonage has clinched a deal to hawk broadband phone service to Armstrong Cable television subscribers in five U.S. cities. The Edison, N.J.-based Vonage, which offers SIP-based local and long distance calling throughout the U.S. and Canada, said the Armstrong Cable deal was the first MSO to sign up for its […]

On the heels of a report detailing the insecure nature of always-on broadband connections, America Online on Monday announced a slew of new security and privacy features in its upcoming AOL 9.0 release. As rival high-speed ISP services offer discounted packages of bundled services, AOL kicked off a marketing campaign with details of its broadband […]

Swedish file-sharing technology firm Joltid on Friday released PeerEnabler, a P2P content distribution platform that promises to piggyback on users’ bandwidth to cut down on server expenses for content distributors. Joltid, a brainchild of the founders of the controversial Kazaa software, said the new platform was build on its P2P Networking engine which makes use […]