Friday YouTube and their new parent company Google were hit with another copyright infringement lawsuit, this time from England’s top soccer league and a US music publisher.

The Premier League and Bourne Co. issued the lawsuit citing that not only does YouTube have their copyrighted content on the video sharing website, but that they are encouraging people to view the footage on the website and subsequently are “knowingly” misappropriating the two companies intellectual property. By this, according to the lawsuit, the operators of YouTube are exploiting the valuable intellectual video property for their own gain without any payment to the owners of these videos.

This lawsuit comes less than two months after Viacom sued YouTube and Google for copyright infringement of their television programming, and 6 months after the search engine giant Google purchased the YouTube …

Life in a dorm can be cramped, and if you’ve got your iPod to watch the latest episode of “Lost” or “Heroes”, you know that it can be a pain trying to catch the action on that tiny screen. Altec Lansing is out to convince you that your school daze can be better if you pick up their inMotion iMV712 iPod entertainment system, a three speakers and screen combo which connects with your video iPod and plays the content on it.

The LCD screen is 8.5-inches wide and there is a four-inch subwoofer and two three-inch speakers on the sides. Your iPod docks in the base which also recharges it, and there’s also a remote that controls the functions of the inMotion or the iPod.

An RCA input connection and an auxiliary input jack for other brand MP3 players is also along for …

Creative Labs rolls out the Zen Stone, their fancy way of saying “Look at our new MP3 player.” Weighing less than a pound and with a storage capacity of 1 GB (that’s about 250 songs at 4 minutes each), it comes in 6 different colors and looks a little like a compact digital camera.

Dimensions are 2.1” by 1.4” by 0.5” so it’s small enough to slip into your shirt or jeans pockets or even attached to your car keys (there is a keychain accessory that you can also buy.) The Zen Stone plays MP3, WMA, WAV and audible formats and the rechargeable Li-ion battery gives you 10 hours of playtime as you shuffle through your selection or playback your favorite tune for hours at a time.

Creative has software on its website that you can download to better manage your ZS …

The BlackBerry Curve (aka the 8300) is the latest model that’s been added to the BlackBerry lineup of handheld devices from Research In Motion (RIM). The claim to fame for this new model lies in the combinations. The BlackBerry Curve sports a smaller size combined with a full QWERTY keyboard, and also packs in blend of features to serve both work and play.

The BlackBerry Curve is the smallest and lightest BlackBerry yet that has a full QWERTY keyboard. At only .6 inches thick, 2.4 inches wide and 4.2 inches tall, the device is almost the same size as the BlackBerry Pearl aside from being just a little bit wider to accommodate the QWERTY keyboard. The Curve also outweighs the Pearl by .7 ounces with a total weight of 3.9 ounces. The BlackBerry Pearl is the smallest BlackBerry device that …

In an open letter posted on the Apple.com website, company CEO Steve Jobs defended his company’s environmental initiatives to reduce waste and remove toxic contaminants used in the manufacture of Apple’s computer and electronic products.

Apple has recently come under fire by several environmental organizations that claim the company isn’t doing its part in practicing green initiatives and lowering its carbon footprint. Jobs countered the claims with an overview of Apple’s efforts in eliminating the manufacture of CRTs (thus removing lead from the landfill); discontinuing the use of arsenic and mercury from its LCD screens; and pointing out that it had been sans polyvinyl chloride and brominated flame retardants in its packaging for several years.

Apple also has plans to raise by 30% the amount of e-waste it recycles in four …

Dogs and barking go together like cats and meowing, milk and cookies and Britney Spears and a wig. If you’re the owner of a pooch that can’t seem to learn to stop barking at every slightest thing you should think about investing in Good Life’s Ultimate Dog Silencer.

No, it’s not a trip to the pound; instead it’s a doohickey that fastens onto a collar. Every time your dog barks the UDS emits high-pitched sonic and ultrasonic frequencies, the latter being only in the range that your canine companion can hear. The makers of the device claim that eventually your dog will come to understand that every time they bark an unpleasant sound is heard, and just like Pavlov learned in his famous experiments, they will pick up the hint and stop barking so much.

If you think this sounds a …

Digg This was the last post on the Digg Blog yesterday by founder Kevin Rose posting the one-key-to-rule-them-all encryption key that can be used to break the protection on secure HD DVD and Blu-Ray discs.

The issue of breaking the AACS encryption code of HD DVD’s came about very shortly after the DVD’s using the encryption was released – 8 days after it was released to be exact. An individual called Muslix64 posted information to compromise the HD DVD protection back in December, and the following month was able to use the same method to compromise the protection of Blu-Ray discs as well.

Since then another individual found that there was one “master” key that could be used to break the encryption of all the discs instead of having to find the individual key for …

Well that didn’t take long. Just last week Sony announced their PlayStation Eye for the PS3 and now they’ve told European PSP owners to expect their own ocular add-on in just over two weeks.

The Go!Cam will street on May 16 and cost about 35 pounds (US $70). It can take up to two-and-a-half hours worth of video/audio (it’s got a built-in mic) or about 40,000 photos with a 4 Gig Memory Stick PRO Duo. Best of all, thanks to the PSP’s wireless abilities you can transmit those files without the need for cords and clutter. The tiny chrome camera has a 180 degree vertical range but no horizontal movement. The Go!Cam will come bundled with Go!Edit software which allows you to edit and store your video and audio files.

So far Sony has only issued price info and a release date for its European customer …

Looking like something out of “The Fifth Element” comes the Portable Motion Speakers from e-Revolution. When you want to adjust the sound level you don’t reach for the volume knob since there isn’t one there; instead you raise your hand up or down and the volume level is raised or lowered accordingly.

Whazzat?

It turns out that there’s an integrated motion sensor embedded inside the units that detects your hand movement, but don’t tell your friends that when they see you do it: instead tell them that you’re using your Jedi powers. You can also change the tuner frequency (they pick up FM radio) the same way.

As for that light, it alternates between blue, green and red to give you some mood atmosphere. You can plug and power the 0.7 watt speakers directly to your computer via USB cable or they take 4 …

Motorola today released a new purple MOTORAZR V3i which is incidentally available only through the MOTOSTORE.

Aside from the flashy exterior color released just in time to order for Mother’s Day, the new purple version of the RAZR has the same popular form and function of the regular MOTORAZR by supporting Quad-Band and Bluetooth connectivity and housing a 1.23 megapixel camera. The phone ships without a service plan, is unlocked and is compatible with any GSM phone service.

This purple MOTORAZR is available for purchase now for about $240, where you can get a regular ol’ blue RAZR less the $10 purple premium.

For all of you heavy duty survivor types out there that need dependable technology for your spelunking, deep-sea diving or any other fun pastimes, Corsair claims to have created the world’s toughest flash drive.

The Flash Survivor sounds like it could survive a boat sinking or building detonation: it’s water resistant to a depth of 200 meters (or 20 atmospheres), encased in durable industrial grade aluminum, protected by a ring of rubber molding and surrounded by a metal tube with two end caps. In short, if you’re taking this USB drive anywhere where you really start to question whether it will come back in working condition you’ve probably got a death wish.

The Flash Survivor comes in 4 GB ($59.99) and 8 GB ($129.99) models, has a 10 year warranty and also has a 256 bit AES security encryption application pre-loaded to further protect …

Ooooh, look at this! Fans of the Japanese anime “Neon Genesis Evangelion” are going to drool over the official collector’s headset that has a trippy design by Chara-Ani, a Japanese retailer of all things manga/anime, in partnership with Audio-Technica.

“Evangelion” is a big part of Japanese manga culture taking place in a future where mankind is fighting alien angels using a pack of surly teens inside of giant armored suits. Hey, it doesn’t have to make more sense than that for people to dig it (fans will know that the “01” on the headset’s side stands for the top of the line Evangelion armor.)

Chara-Ani is taking orders (up to a limit of five) now with an expected retail date of September 29 (price: 24,800 yen or about $207 Yankee bucks.) What, you didn’t think this kind of collector’s item would be cheap, …