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The people behind Beats are about to rake in several billion dollars in a deal with Apple, but before that the headphone-maker could pull in even more money in a lawsuit going after Chinese counterfeiters. According to AppleInsider the company has filed a suit claiming trademark infringement, and is
A new proposal introduced in the US Senate called the “E-Label Act” would allow electronics manufacturers the option of using “digital” stamps of regulatory approval on devices rather than the physical emblems now required to show that the device has passed required safety an
Amazon is countering a law in France banning free shipping, by charging customers a single euro cent for orders. The law, put in place by the French government in an attempt to protect smaller bookstores from being squeezed out of the marketplace by the online retailer, is being circumvented by the
The Federal Communications Commission has so far received about 647,000 comments regarding net neutrality as the first round of public comments comes to a close, tweeted FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Friday. “Gratified by all the feedback on #netneutrality,” Wheeler posted on Thursday when the number was
It’s always nice to see companies do something for their customers that would not necessarily be required of them. That’s exactly what the folks at VSCO has done as they have launched their Artist Initiative program which is basically a $1 million scholarship aimed at photographers and visual artist
SoundCloud, the Berlin-based audio streaming site, is getting worried about copyright violations on its site. SoundCloud is like YouTube for audio; it allows anybody to upload any kind of audio. This naturally opens the door to people uploading copyrighted audio. Just as YouTube has had to do, Sound
The heat of high summer is a great time to stay inside and marathon a million hours of TV. But for some Netflix customers who use Verizon as their ISP, the summer streaming season is a slow and choppy dud. Even though the two companies came to a paid peering arrangement earlier this year, service [&
There’s now a real-time record of Wikipedia edits made by US lawmakers. Congress-edits (@congressedits), a Twitter account started earlier this week, is positioning itself as a sort of digital watchdog. Ed Summers, a DC-area computer programmer, set up the project. It works by monitoring edits comin
The iWatch might be on its way, but at least one analyst believes it will arrive later than expected. Apple’s proprietary foray into the wearables sector may not come as quickly as we originally thought, but is still expected to arrive by the end of the year. Why the delay? Apple may be trying to [&
The US Federal Communications Commission has voted to spend $2 billion over the next two years on improving Wi-Fi networks at schools and libraries, despite questions from Republican commissioners about the source of those funds. The FCC, in a 3-2 party-line vote Friday, approved a plan to revamp th
Digg today announced Digg Deeper, a new feature that shows you what links your friends are sharing on social networks in real-time. You can get this list in three different places: on the Digg homepage, as real-time email alerts, and as mobile notifications from its iOS app. For now, Digg Deeper wil
Right now, companies are required to provide captions for full online videos that first aired on TV. But if those videos are cut up, caption readers are often out of luck, clips and montages don’t require captions, even if the full shows aired with them. The FCC just changed that. The agency a
