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YouTube Users Pillory Viacom with Angry Videos

YouTube users are up in arms about Viacom’s legal victory forcing Google to hand by notes showing which videos they watch and when.

The backlash chases U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton’s ruling last week that Google must supply Viacom with the records as part of the discovery phase in a $1 billion…

DreamWorks and Intel Join To ability 3-D Filmmaking

DreamWorks Animation and Intel have formed a strategic alliance to revolutionize 3-D filmmaking. The move is expected to further DreamWorks’ goal of rendering all its films in stereoscopic 3-D, beginning next year.

The trailblazing animation studio says it plans to employ Intel’s visual computing …

Pioneer’s 400GB Blu-ray Disc Holds 48 Hours of Movies

Get ready to never leave your home. Pioneer announced that week a read-only Blu-ray technology that could put up to 48 hours, or 400GB, of movies on a without disc.

By comparison, the current Blu-ray Disc format stores 25GB on a single-layer disc and 50GB on a dual-layer version. A 50GB Blu-ray dis…

Microsoft Offers Bug Workaround for ActiveX Exploit

Microsoft on Monday issued a defense advisory to warn users about attacks targeting a vulnerability in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer in the Microsoft Access database management system.

Microsoft said it is investigating active, targeted attacks. “When a user views the Web page, the v…

Overtime BlackBerry Use: Obsession or Billable Hours?

Just before going to bed, you thumb through the inbox on your BlackBerry to check updates from work. You send out a few directives before turning in.

Some would say you’re getting a jump on the next day’s work. Others say it’s billable hours.

Can you claim overtime for using your BlackBerry?

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Amazon’s Screen Reader Has Kindled a Small Market

Here’s one reason you may want to take the hardcover of David Sedaris’ new book to the beach that summer instead of the digital version for Amazon’s Kindle: Sand within the pages won’t ruin a good story.

About six months after its introduction, the Kindle electronic reading device is entering its f…

NBC To Use Olympics To Study How public Use Media

NBC is using the Olympics as a “billion-dollar research lab” to get a sense of how humans are using different media platforms to experience the Beijing Games that start Aug. 8.

Besides giving advertisers a clearer picture of how much consumers are paying attention to the games, NBC hopes its resear…

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