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Facebook threatens USocial with legal action over paid friends

Dave Parrack — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:15:07 +0000

USocial has been offering Facebook friends for sale for a couple of months now. But it hasn’t taken long for Facebook to threaten legal action, sending a cease and [...]

AP claims ‘fair use’ over the scanning of Sarah Palin’s book

Sean P. Aune — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:01:14 +0000

The Associated Press has essentially claimed there is no such thing as ‘fair use’ when it comes to quoting its articles or reprinting its headlines, but when the news organization scans an entire book, then fair use [...]

The death of the CD is nigh as Linn bows out

Dave Parrack — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:43:06 +0000

Physical media such as CD and DVD is very slowly but surely being replaced by digital formats. Whether it’s streaming or downloads, physical is the [...]

The whole of the U.K. could soon get free Wi-Fi

Dave Parrack — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:20:36 +0000

City-wide Wi-Fi networks which offer wireless Internet connectivity for free to all residents who want it have pretty much failed to succeed across the United States so [...]

Apple Tablet rumors now verge on the surreal

Sean P. Aune — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:44:21 +0000

The rumors of the Apple Tablet have now reached a level of surrealism that makes you think someone from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks is running the show. At any moment the Little Man from Another Place is going to [...]

Email could die within a decade thanks to Facebook, Twitter, Skype

Dave Parrack — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:39:48 +0000

Email is currently one of the key elements of the Internet. And sending and receiving email is usually one of the first things we learn [...]

Stephen Fry talks Twitter – “human shaped, not business shaped”

Dave Parrack — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:00:20 +0000

Twitter is a massively popular social networking and micro-blogging site that has gained an inordinate amount of headlines and copy over the past year or so. But [...]

News Corp plans for news subscriptions begins to take shape

Sean P. Aune — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:21:07 +0000

At least one of the newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has begun to outline how it expects readers to begin paying for the news.

According to the Guardian, the News International owned newspaper [...]

Don’t become a victim of Facebook bullying

Dave Parrack — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:34:48 +0000

Bullying has been around for generations and will likely remain a problem for generations to come. The problem is it evolves over time, with playground bullying first moving to mobile phones and email [...]

Survey finds Americans aren’t too keen to pay for online news

Sean P. Aune — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:22:00 +0000

While Rupert Murdoch is sure the future of online news is to put all content behind subscription walls, he may find not that many Americans are keen on the idea.

A poll was recently conducted by the Boston [...]