New York - U.S. Justice Department questions Google if they are violating antitrust in regards of digitalizing world’s books into a database that is online.
This settlement between Google, Association of American Publishers, and the Authors Guild was made back in October. A fund of over one-hundred million would pay out the authors. Back in 2005, [...]
Research has found that playing action video games is actually good for your eyes.
No evidence was linked to poor eyesight and playing video games.
The study further provided the information that vision was improved by about 20% after playing action video games for a few hours every day for one month.
It was also discovered through this [...]
For the third time since 2007, China has banned YouTube. The ban started Monday and has continued. Notorious for blocking access to online sources of information that it deems threatening, sensitive, or unacceptable, China has in the past also banned users from popular websites such as Flickr, the New York Times, Wikipedia, BlogSpot, along with [...]
Digital hand held devices have revolutionized the way consumers interact with and take in virtually every media—first music, then film and now even books are going digital. Amazon released its Kindle reader in 2007 and is making waves with this year’s Kindle 2. Capable of holding hundreds of books available for download at a fraction [...]
On Thursday, Tom Dart- Sheriff of Cook County in Chicago sued the internet classified site Craigslist. He accuses them of being one of the largest prostitution sources in the United States. Dart believes that the website makes prostitution easy and he wants to close the ‘Erotic Services’ section of the classifieds. He also believes that [...]
Ottawa - In an alliance that would reshape how music and music videos are distributed, Google Inc. and Universal Music Group are close to creating a new partnership. The Wall Street Journal has reported that Universal would like to use YouTube’s technology, now owned by Google, to power a hub that would distribute its content [...]
Ottawa - In an alliance that would reshape how music and music videos are distributed, Google Inc. and Universal Music Group are close to creating a new partnership. The Wall Street Journal has reported that Universal would like to use YouTube’s technology, now owned by Google, to power a hub that would distribute its content [...]
Ottawa - Late Tuesday, Amazon announced the release of a new Kindle application available for iPhone and iPod Touch users. This comes shortly after the release of the new Kindle 2, a book reading device sold by Amazon allowing its users to download and read books as well as newspaper and magazine subscriptions.
While the Kindle [...]
New York - As economic conditions continue to worsen many are wondering if Palm will be able to stop the earnings free fall that the company has slipped into. The latest evidence of this came when the company reported quarterly numbers that fell far short of Wall Street expectations, citing declining demand for older cell [...]
Ottawa - The Global Intelligence Alliance Group has issued a report that Apple’s iTunes-based App Store for the iPhone and iPods is at the forefront in the marketplace of application store rivals like Ovi by Nokia and the Android market from Google Android and the Open Handset Alliance.
Apple’s App Store was rated tops in several [...]