SueTube redux: Italian broadcaster targets YouTube
Italian broadcaster Mediaset SpA has announced that it’s suing Google for hosting thousands of its video clips without rights. The company wants at least €500 million in damages, if not more when lost ad revenue is added in.
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Twenty Percent Of All Primetime TV Is Viewed Online
Pundits argue that the computer is quickly on its way to becoming the primary source of delivering audio-visual entertainment. Others will argue that it’s already happened. With over 12 billion videos watched online in the U.S. during the month of May, its hard to argue against the ubiquity of the PC as the king of media.
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NFL gives Internet a butt-pat, offers live streaming games
The National Football League has been historically very protective of its broadcasts, slapping anyone who even tries to put a clip on the Internet. Now, though, the league has reversed course and will offer live streaming video of its Sunday night games, starting this fall.
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The Holy Grail of Cancer Detection
The holy grail of cancer detection is a simple blood test that would spot signals of cancer early enough to cure it. Now genetics researchers report a surprising discovery that could lead to such tests.
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Could Corporations Be The Real Push Behind Social Media?
Was it the people who dragged the corporations into a more social world or was it the corporations who brought the people into a more social world?
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The 50 Most Bookmarked Sites On The Web
1. Google
2. Mozilla - home of the mozilla, firefox, and camino web browsers
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Msaleem’s Look at Digg’s Recommendation Engine
It’s hard to believe but Digg’s latest feature, the recommendation engine is one that has been in the works for over 2 years. They were looking at the site as a platform that monitors how you interact with it, and improves your experience based on what it learns about you.
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Researchers Help Define Next-Gen Social Networking
The next generation of social networking will give people more tools for defining smaller online communities in a way that mimics the real world, academic researchers said today.
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NVIDIA’s New GeForce 9500 GT, Solid Graphics For Under $100
NVIDIA’s new GeForce 9500 GT is the company’s latest weapon in its arsenal of sub-$100 graphics cards. But don’t let the relatively low price fool you–of course the card won’t offer the same level of 3D performance as current high-end, more expensive products but its feature set is comparable to just about anything else on the market.
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Bringing Microscope Down to Size in Quest for Compact Labs
In the drive to miniaturize laboratory tools, to create a so-called lab on a chip, the conventional light microscope has been a stumbling block. Microscopes require lenses and, above all, space to focus and magnify images. Changhuei Yang and colleagues at the California Institute of Technology have developed a different approach, one that eliminate
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