Archive for the 'Web' Category


Viacom Takes on Google

March 13 – Viacom announced today that it has filed suit against YouTube, and its parent company Google, for massive intentional copyright infringement. Viacom is seeking one billion dollars in compensation for supposed lost revenue and an injunction against any further infringements on the part of YouTube and Google.
Viacom, with a [...]

Photoshop Online

Adobe recently announced its plans to offer a free, online version of its popular image manipulation program, Photoshop. The service should be available by the fourth quarter of this year, and will be part of an every growing effort of numerous companies to get as many applications as possible off of [...]

BitTorrent Video Store Set to Fail

BitTorrent recently joined the ranks of companies trying to rent and sell legal movies and shows online. On Monday, the 26th of January, the service became available to the public, but, unfortunately, it doesn’t look too promising.
The plan is to offer movie rentals, which after purchase suffer from a 30 day download window before [...]

Who Said Pirated HD Movies Wouldn’t be Downloaded?

Back when the first HD disc formats appeared, there were quite a few in the tech industry who declared that no one in their right mind would want to download a high definition movie off of BitTorrent. Well, they were wrong. As the popularity of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray increases in traditional [...]

Create the Perfect Feed with Yahoo! Pipes

If you have ever wanted to just browse to a single page and see all of the news from all of the sources you like best, then Yahoo! Pipes is for you. Pipes is brilliant in its simplicity in that anyone can log on and create their own feed network that will [...]