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Pandora has been fighting tooth and nail against potential songwriting royalty increases, and it appears that this tenacity is largely paying off. A court has ruled that the streaming radio service should pay the same 1.85 percent royalty rate that it has paid for years, resisting both Pandora’
Fans who collectively donated $5.7 million on Kickstarter to make Veronica Mars were promised they’d be able to watch the movie online the same day it came out in theaters. But many were frustrated and disappointed when the only online option was Flixster, the Warner Brothers-owned distributio
For a brief moment, watching movies via BitTorrent was just as easy as watching something on your Netflix queue. The app Popcorn Time came out of nowhere a week ago with a slick interface that boiled down the messy torrenting experience into something simple. All you had to do was download the free
An online hub for Nintendo eShop Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS titles is now live with an emphasis on indie games. The hub features more than 1,000 “new, classic and indie” games for the Wii U and the 3DS. The hub’s design spotlights indie titles such as SteamWorld Dig, GunMan Clive,
Hackers apparently attacked several NATO websites Saturday, but they did not interrupt operations nor was the integrity of NATO’s systems affected, NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said on Twitter. The websites were down for several hours from what’s known as distributed denial-of-service
Late this week, Canadian Bitcoin holders filed a class-action suit against defunct online Bitcoin exchange MtGox. The suit named MtGox, its affiliates, and its two major shareholders, Mark Karpeles and Jed McCaleb, as well as Japan’s second largest bank, Mizuho Bank, where MtGox kept an accoun
Specifics about the next-generation Nissan GT-R are circulating in Japan, predicting a familiar formula with all the dials turned up to eleven, plus hybrid power. Nissan executive vice president Andy Palmer has already told us to expect a hybrid-electric powertrain for the next Godzilla, stating las
Since Hugo Barra left Google for Xiaomi last year, everyone has had their eye on Xiaomi to see what they are up to. And they know it. It’s been rumored for a while that the OEM would be producing a 5.5-inch phablet known as the Redmi Note. Now just because it has the word “Note” […]
Produced and directed by Rob Thomas, “Veronica Mars” happens to be the first movie made by the fans themselves. The movie, which is based on the critically acclaimed ‘Veronica Mars’ TV series, hit the theaters on March 14, 2014. Interestingly, the movie has been released just 366 days after Rob Thom
It is almost axiomatic in Washington, that the bureaucracy buries news of which it is not proud with a release late in the day on a Friday afternoon. Though it is a bit harsh to say so, one suspects that the Department of Commerce felt that way about its announcement yesterday that the United States
Sony Canada raised the PS4 console price from $399.99 to $449.99, with similar increases applied to peripherals and first-party games. Market watchers should have seen it coming. At current exchange rates, $399 Canadian is only $359 USD, so technically Canadians who managed to get their hands on the
PayPal took quite a bit of criticism over the past year for its handling of crowd-funded projects. The situation would often go something like this: A person or team would set up a crowd-funded project or campaign on one of the various sites that offers such a service and it would use PayPal as the
