Today Netflix lost 1,749 movies from its streaming video archive. Netflix subscribers can no longer stream content from major studios like Warner Bros., MGM, and Universal. MGM and Universal will soon only be available through the Warner Archive Instant service, a $10 per month streaming se... Read more...
Cellphones are banned from many schools — at least from the classroom — because students play games, text friends and do other activities that distract them from learning. But mobile technology for students in a classroom setting isn’t always a hindrance to good grades and learning. Qualc... Read more...
If you've been waiting for iPhone 5s to become available, you may have to wait a while longer. In the latest reminder of the harsh working conditions, crappy pay, and brutal hours endured by those who make the gadgets the world loves, 3,000–4,000 workers at a Foxconn plant have gone on strike... Read more...
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a plurilateral agreement for the purpose of establishing international standards for intellectual property rights enforcement. The agreement aims to establish an international legal framework for targeting counterfeit goods, generic medicines and cop... Read more...
Twitter users will start seeing ads in their timeline over the next few weeks. The company officially announced on Thursday that a new Promoted Tweetsoption will roll out with a number of advertisers. This is a big move for Twitter and certainly its most invasive advertising play to-date. Up ... Read more...
The forerunner to Dan Deacon, Project Jenny, Project Jan and myriad other bands of that ilk has passed away. Max Mathews, widely known as the progenitor of digital music, died Thursday of pneumonia. Mathews wrote a program called “Music” in 1957 that allowed an IBM 704 mainframe computer to... Read more...
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14/04/2010,
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Editor's Note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about social media. He writes a weekly column about social networking and technology for CNN.com. Do you remember Bebo? AOL bought the hot social networking Web site for $850 million in 2008. This week, the company... Read more...