Stepping up its efforts to deter piracy, the Napster Inc. online song-swapping service released new software that collects “acoustic fingerprints” of songs on its users’ computers. The new software, ...

Around the corner from a Wendy's, in a charmless brick building just off Duke Street in Alexandria, a 20-year-old computer whiz has spent a year toiling marathon hours on a laptop. Surrounded by Coke ...

Digital song-tracking company Audible Magic is striking a deal with Universal Music Group for song information, getting another leg up in its quest to be able to identify--and potentially block--music ...