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"The DMCA Says WHAT? It's Time to Fix That Nonsense."
Jul 26 by Navneet Alang | 1 commentWoah. This is big. You know how the DMCA says it’s illegal to, say, crack the DRM on a DVD – that you bought and paid for – so that you can watch it on your iPod? And you know how that seems, ya’ know, totally insane? Well it seems someone out there has more »
Does Flipboard Represent the Future of Media?
Jul 26 by Navneet Alang | 4 commentsTo say that the media world – particularly print media – is in a bit of a state right now would be a gross understatement. The arrival of the web and its impact on advertising, reading habits and people’s expectations happened so fast and so suddenly more »
Five Apps To Declutter Your Online Life
Jul 22 by Navneet Alang | 4 commentsQuick: how many tabs do you have open right now? FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE?! You have sixty articles you wanted to read and another nine million links you wanted to check from Twitter and Facebook? Oh my. You, my friend, have a problem. But more »
Netflix Goes North
Jul 19 by Navneet Alang | add commentEvery comment thread on the internet that mentions Netflix abides by one simple rule: it must have that one Canadian guy or girl stating “oh man, you Americans are so lucky” or “WHEN IS THIS COMING TO CANADA???!!!??!!111″. This is one of those more »
Three Ways The Web Is Changing Our Identities
Jul 19 by Navneet Alang | 4 commentsSo often in the contemporary era, we talk about how the web is changing the world around us: of how media industries are having to adapt, or how the practices and concepts of doing business are being affected. Less often discussed, however, is more »
Ministry Of Sound Oversteps Their Jurisdiction
Jul 18 by Toby Leftly | 2 commentsFor the less trendy (and the less British) among us, I’ll come right out and say it: The Ministry of Sound is not an official government body, it’s just a UK music label. As such, they don’t have the kind of sway that say, the ministry of defense has, more »
Sony Taps a Different Market: Music Snobs
Jul 15 by Ty Dunitz | 2 commentsConfession time: I am an elitist, judgmental, hoity-toity snobbish audiophile. I reject mainstream music. I buy 400 dollar headphones without a second thought. I have never once purchased music from the iTunes store, because as far as I’m more »
Is Your Cell Phone Fueling War in The Congo?
Jul 12 by Navneet Alang | 2 commentsIn your cell phone – which you may be reading this on right now – are four things that could be contributing to the deadliest war since World War II: gold, tungsten, tin and tanalum. All of those minerals are found in The Democratic Republic of Congo, more »
How Foursquare Will Become the Google of Local
Jul 9 by Navneet Alang | 2 commentsOn the web, small, seemingly insignificant things can have incredibly wide-reaching effects. A small ad placed next to a search result might be the start of a massive new enterprise. A service that lets you share your status, photos and links more »
Beer with Robots: The Best Thing Since Beer without Robots
Jul 9 by Ty Dunitz | add commentConcerned less with bettering mankind so much as revelry, the team at Willow Garage has spent what I can only assume must’ve been an enormous amount of effort creating a ‘beer-bot’: a robot that – surprise! – goes to the fridge and grabs you a beer. more »
The most expensive iPhone 4 in the world
Jul 6 by Jon Edwards | 7 commentsSure, there might be some kind of problem with the signal bar — perhaps it is software, as Apple claim, perhaps not — one day we’ll know. Meanwhile the adoring iPhone loving or loathing public might as well get their gossip going on this O.T.T. more »
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Posted May 21, 2012 in Chrome overtakes IE to become world’s most popular browser
Posted May 21, 2012 in Chrome overtakes IE to become world’s most popular browser
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