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I am always amazed at how the political and economic system works in the United States. While I am not suggesting Canada is leaps and bounds better, it is interesting how the United States government would even consider the SOPA and PIPA bills. On the technology side, blackouts were the main method of protesting, and in the end, it proved to be highly influential. Not only did it draw tons of support, but most importantly, it made... |
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From CNET News.com: Samsung Electronics suffered another legal blow after a German court today rejected its lawsuit against Apple, the second such dismissal in a week. The claim, similar to another lawsuit, alleged Apple infringed on Samsung's patents related to 3G wireless... |
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From DailyTech: Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd.'s (KS:005930) created a lot of excitement, when it hinted at a blowout quarter, in pre-earnings talk. But that excitement has since been overshadowed by Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) own record-setting 3 months. Now Samsung has popped back... |
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From X-bit Labs: Hewlett Packard said this week that it had begun executing its plan to deliver an open webOS by committing to a schedule for making the platform’s source code available under an open source license. The company aims to complete this milestone in its entirety by... |
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From X-bit Labs: Perhaps, the launch of the Radeon HD 7970 graphics card powered by Advanced Micro Devices’ latest Southern Islands/GCN (graphics core next) was not the most impressive one as it was a rush announcement two days ahead of Christmas. But AMD does have a next-gen GPU on... |
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From InfoWorld: Google has whipped up a privacy brouhaha with a blog post announcing that the company is rewriting its privacy policy, consolidating user information across its services. What has the blogosphere and some users in an uproar is that Google isn't offering users an opt... |
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From CNET News.com: Amazon may be looking to cut into Netflix's action by launching a new video streaming service. Citing information from industry sources, The New York Post said that the new service would expand beyond Amazon's current Instant Video by launching as a standalone... |
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From CNET News.com: Intel is buying video patents and software from RealNetworks for $120 million, giving the chipmaker new muscle in a market that's increasingly important but filled with intellectual-property obstacles. RealNetworks is selling about 190 patents, 170 patent... |
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From DailyTech: Despite the turbulent year much of 2011 turned out to be for Netflix, the video streaming giant reported impressive fourth-quarter earnings with a nearly 50 percent revenue increase since Q4 2010. In the three months ended December 2011, Netflix posted a revenue of... |
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From X-bit Labs: Nintendo plans to release its next-generation Wii U game console across the world by the end of this calendar year. The company intends to make Wii U available for the year-end shopping season, but it is likely that the console will still be launched in Japan earlier... |
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