Publishing something on Twitter is not the same as relinquishing ownership, the US District Court has ruled to the relief of millions of Twitter users worldwide. District Court Judge William Pauley has disallowed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit that photographer Daniel Morel has brought against Agence France-Presse for using his work …
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Skype Launches Free Video Chat App For iPhone, iPad
Trust Skype to come through where Apple fails: While the iPhone’s own FaceTime only works on WiFi, Skype today releases an updated app that will let iPhone users video chat on both WiFi and AT&T’s 3G network.
The app will also allow iPad and iPod Touch users to receive video calls, with those using the latest iPod Touch being able to …
O, Canada! Nation Most Internet Friendly In World
They may have socialized medicine and spend their days playing hockey while slurping down copious amounts of maple syrup, but that doesn’t mean that Canadians aren’t down with the latest technological trends. In fact, a recent study shows that Canada is actually the most web-friendly nation on the planet.
ComScore reports that around …
Techland’s Top Stories of the Year
It was a big year in tech: Apple unveiled the iPad (remember how much slack they got for the name? Now it’s a part of our everyday language). Google’s Nexus One launched (and failed), but the android operating system and app market blew up big. Facebook had lots of issues with privacy (but still managed to make an impact).
As 2010 …
Time Warner/Sinclair Conflict To Rob 8.5 Million Viewers Of Smallville
If it’s the end of the year, then it’s time for another cable carrier/content provider scuffle over retransmission fees. This time around, it’s Sinclair Broadcast Group complaining that Time Warner Cable is refusing to continue consent negotiations, and saying that, as a result, its 33 stations – the majority of which are the CW …
2010’s Most-Viewed Video on Demand Movies: Not What You’d Think
James Cameron’s Avatar may have ruled the box office, won countless awards and earned itself two separate DVD/Blu-Ray releases in the space of a year, but there’s one place where it doesn’t rule supreme: Video on Demand.
According to Comcast, who have released a list of 2010’s most viewed VoD movies, Cameron’s special-effects-heavy …
4Chan Taken Down By Hackers For 24 Hours
You may not have noticed, but the landscape of the internet underwent a surprising – and potentially dangerous – change yesterday with the news that 4Chan had been temporarily taken down by hackers.
The site was slow-to-impossible to load for around 24 hours, with the DDoS seemingly confirmed via 4Chan’s twitter yesterday
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The Three Songs You Need To Download This Week
There’s a lot of music online–more than most people have time to keep up with. That’s why you’ve got us. Every week, we’ll point you toward three excellent new songs from chart-topping stars, cult favorites and unknown geniuses, and show you where you can find them as free downloads or videos.
1. The terrific Swedish electronic pop …
What We’re Looking Forward to in 2011: Entertainment
You can stop whining about how there’s nothing good in theaters these days. 2011 has treats for the movie and TV nerd, and if you’re like us and love sci-fi, horror and anything overly complicated and technical, well then we’ll save a seat in the theater for you. From prequels years in the making like the Untitled Alien Prequel to …
Is Apple Planning A Holographic 3D TV?
If patents are to be believed, Apple is working on the creation of the world’s first glasses-free 3D display that would produce holographic images using a screen made up of “pixel-sized domes” that would be read differently by the human eye depending on where they’re viewing from.
The patent itself explains the technology like
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Sears and Kmart Launch Movie Download Site
Move over Netflix and iTunes, it’s time for the Big Box Stores to get in on this Video On Demand action. Sears and Kmart have teamed to launch their own movie download service, with their famously low prices and… wait, I mean surprisingly familiar pricing and format. I guess this might not be quite the gamechanger it could’ve been, in …
Exclusive Preview: King of the Flies: The Origin of the World
The first volume of European comics creators Mezzo and Pirus’ King of the Flies, subtitled Hallorave, was one of the creepiest graphic novels of 2010–an intersecting set of short pieces about a small group of people drawn together by sex, drugs and violence in various combinations, whose horror deepens with every new connection it draws …