A law that will enable copyright holders to request six-month Internet suspensions for those found infringing intellectual property rights will be voted on in New Zealand’s Parliament tonight. The vote has been called under urgency, meaning the Parliament may try to rush the bill through in an effort to bypass protests by New Zealand’s citizens. Last time similar legislation like this was introduced to the Parliament, a ‘blackout’ protest had users replace their avatars to black squares....

I hate browser toolbars. You hate browser toolbars. They are a running joke among the technologically capable. If you see a computer running Internet Explorer that has one, two, or heaven forbid, three toolbars, you know that the daily user of that machine is a Luddite. And so when Icaught word of Microsoft’s new toolbarfor IE 7, 8, and 9 called ‘Bing Bar 7,’ I set off to test it with a very skeptical mind....

Newly discovered Jupiter-like world could be the long-sought ‘Planet X’ To ancient Romans, Planet X is Planet Ten! Beyond the orbit of Neptune, a myriad of bodies, including the dwarf planet Pluto, circle around the Sun in the frigid Kuiper Belt near at the outskirts of the Solar System. Many of these bodies have unusual orbits which seem to betray something unseen in — or just beyond — their midst....

Mobile watchdog MyNokiaBlog recentlyuncovered a very interesting video: A clip that shows off a handful of Nokia handsets running the Windows Phone operating system, we assume 7.5, and also provides a first taste as to how the Finnish company may brand its future phones. We are giving the video a ‘likely legitimate’ rating. WinRumors, whobrought the video to our attention, thinks that it “appears to be an internal marketing video used to show the future of Nokia and Microsoft’s new Windows Phone partnership....

When you rise in the morning, that foggy period of time between the moment you drag yourself out of bed, to the point when you’ve consumed enough coffee to clear your head, it would be nice to have everything done for you — wouldn’t it be great if you could have your RSS feeds read to you. News Anchorfor Mac aims to lend you a helping hand when you’re too tired to tackle reading your RSS feed by reading the news to you....