The Register: Digital Rights/Digital Wrongs
BT preps nationwide TV network
BT is upgrading its national network to reliably deliver TV on-demand, partly in preparation for the launch of Project Canvas alongside the BBC and other broadcasters.…
Beeb creates new global iPlayer post
The Worldwide wing of the BBC has hired Mark Smith as its global iPlayer launch director, in its latest attempt to get its video-on-demand service off the ground outside the UK.…
MEPs try again to force ACTA transparency
The European Parliament has repeated its call for greater transparency in negotiations over an international intellectual property agreement. A majority of MEPs has signed a declaration demanding the publication of negotiation documents.…
eBay wins partial victory over Craigslist
eBay has won a partial victory in its long-running court case against Craigslist - a Delaware court ruled in its favour over the dilution of its shares in the free ads firm but said it did not have a right to a seat on the board.…
Google Earth gets its very own website
Google Earth boasts, as of right now, its very own website, featuring "lots of great content including images, videos, tours, maps and tutorials".…
<del>Multi-touch</del> iPod nano stripped bare
Photos Apple new sixth-generation iPod touch "is more like a Shuffle with a screen than a Nano with true multi-touch" says Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, the parts-and-repairs website that glories in dissecting electronic devices to discover what makes them tick.…
Firefox 4 preview knocks back Jäger shot
Mozilla has released preview builds of Firefox 4 that include JägerMonkey, the new JavaScript engine extension designed to outpace rival engines from the likes of Google and Opera.…
Ex-Sun CEO sees rosy future in health
Former Sun Microsystems chief executive Jonathan Schwartz has opted for the hard life of Silicon Valley startup rather than running another Fortune 500 mega corp into the ground.…
iPlayer, iTunes succumb to Web2.0rhea
Hot on the heels of Apple's poorly-received iTunes update, the BBC has released a new version of iPlayer, and it's met a chorus of criticism. In each case the culprit appears to be the same.…
'Internet censorship is trade barrier', says Google exec
Google's top legal man wants to see pressure applied to governments - such as China's and Turkey's - that have strict internet censorship rules in place.…
Google Instant blacklists the Slutskys
Google's "Instant" search engine includes a blacklist for words and phrases involving what the company considers "violence, hate, or pornography."…
Google Instant – more searches, less thought
Analysis Google is on a mission to make web search as fast as the human brain will allow. On Wednesday morning in San Francisco, as she unveiled Google Instant, a radical overhaul of the company's search engine that updates search results as you type, uber-Googler Marissa Mayer called it "search at the speed of thought." We can safely classify that as an exaggeration for effect, but Mayer's bon mot at least gets to the heart of Google's intentions.…
Amazon buys (some of) digital music site Amie Street
Digital music site Amie Street has been bought by Amazon, but the founders of the user-fueled music service aren't abandoning their efforts to bring social networking to music lovers.…
Apple releases iOS 4.1 into the wild
Apple has released iOS 4.1, which Steve Jobs outlined in his presentation one week ago, during which he also introduced Cupertino's new iPods, revamped Apple TV, and iTunes-based music sales social networking effort, Ping.…
Google pulls trigger on 'Instant' search engine
Updated Update: This story has been continually updated with additional info from Google's press event.…
O2 rolls out early-bird ticket app
O2 has been tempting existing and potential customers with the carrot of early access to event bookings for some time. Now it's made getting hold of tickets easier.…
Apple flooded by Japanese iPod battery swaps
In the three weeks following its offer to replace the batteries in overheating first-generation iPod nanos, Apple Japan swapped out a total of 4,994 suspect cells.…
Firefox 4 beta gets hard on Windows
Mozilla has released a fifth Firefox 4 beta, offering graphics hardware acceleration on Windows and a new API that lets site developers code pages that visually display audio data inside the browser.…
'Copyright troll' seeks $150,000 from republican candidate
A copyright enforcement service has filed a lawsuit seeking $150,000 from Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle for posting two newspaper articles without authorization.…
Leaked Google docs out top search ad spenders
Following its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP went from spending about $57,000 a month on Google search ads to an enormous $3.6m outlay for the month of June alone, according to a report citing internal Google documents.…