Google Inc received U.S. antitrust approval to buy Motorola Mobility, a deal aimed at building up an arsenal of patents, and an Apple-led consortium also received the go-ahead to purchase a trove of patents from bankrupt Canadian company Nortel Networks, the Justice Department said. The depar... Read more...
If you're considering suicide, Facebook now stands ready to get you some help. The gigantic social-networking site said Tuesday that if any of its 800 million users type a post saying they are contemplating suicide, the site will offer to connect them to a crisis counselor through the site's chat... Read more...
Kodak’s patents could come in handy in the ongoing patent wars. All smartphones have digital photography technology. Eastman Kodak is prepping for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing that could put an interesting twist in the patent wars. According to the Wall Street Journal, Kodak is looking for $... Read more...
Pharmaceutical companies are intimately involved in the modern research and development (R&D) world. They conduct clinical trials to satisfy the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) regulatory requirements to file new drug applications (NDAs), prove the efficacy of new “uses” for exist... Read more...
When the entire Internet gets angry, Congress takes notice. Both the House and the Senate on Friday backed away from a pair of controversial anti-piracy bills, tossing them into limbo and throwing doubt on their future viability. The Senate had been scheduled to hold a proceedural vote next week ... Read more...
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18/01/2012,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in News,
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What are SOPA and PIPA? (No, we're not talking about Kate Middleton's sister.) Thousands of websites, including some of the most popular, are going dark today to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill which is designed to thwart copyright infringement but that Web experts warn could threat... Read more...
Maybe blacking out their Web sites would be over-kill, but the Internet giants could use other joint tactics to kill Stop Online Piracy Act off. With the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Congress, at the request of big media, is still considering trying to censor the global Internet in the name o... Read more...
Today, more than 100,000 domains ending in XXX went live. In preparation, lots of people, companies and universities snatched up domains to prevent the porn industry from tainting their brands. DNJournal keeps a tally of the highest sold domain names. On October 12, Gay.xxx was purchased in a ... Read more...
In case big email providers like Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo hadn't already been scared stiff by recent online communication trends, this news should wake them up. A huge French company has just banned the use of email within the company. Instead, having concluded that the vast majority of email i... Read more...