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Reuters boosts YouTube presence with new channel
News agency Reuters launched a new YouTube channel on Tuesday, boosting its presence on the Google-owned video streaming website.
ReutersTV forms part of YouTube’s plans, announced last October, to boost its current channel line-up with lots of new, …
Netflix smacked with class-action lawsuit by disgruntled investors
Initially filed by the Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd law firm on behalf of investors at the City of Royal Oak Retirement System in Michigan, Netflix is now dealing with a class-action suit alleging that company officials “issued materially false and …
Hands-on with Mass Effect 3’s Kinect voice commands
In a quiet room, far removed from the hustle and glitz of Las Vegas, EA and BioWare were at CES to show off Mass Effect 3’s new Kinect voice integration. It was a technology that was first unveiled at E3, but seeing it in a quiet room with a chance to …
December 2011 statistics show Brazil has chosen Facebook over Orkut
Though Facebook growth may be slowing here in the US, the social networking service has been doing very well overseas; especially in Brazil. In fact, at the end of 2011, the service pulled into the top position for Brazilian social networking sites and …
Websites go dark at start of SOPA/PIPA protest
Wikipedia’s English-language website has gone dark at the start of a 24-hour protest against proposed anti-piracy legislation in the US. Around 7,000 other websites, including Boing Boing and Reddit, are also joining the protest.
The websites are …
LG unveils Optimus Pad LTE tablet: Will have 8.9-inch screen and ditch anaglyphic 3D
At the Consumer Electronics Show last week, we began to wonder if LG had abandoned the tablet market. After all, it's been more than six months since its first and last tablet, which was marketed through T-Mobile as the G-Slate last year, which is a …
New study by Facebook proves Facebook is awesome
Facebook has conducted a study to defend itself from old arguments. In 2010, the social network conducted research to see who people associate most with most on Facebook. Strangely, more than a year later, Facebook has chosen to publish results of the …
Is it a PC? Is it a console? Nope, it’s the new Alienware X51
Following their recent attempts to terrify us into buying a gaming PC with the Aurora R4, Alienware has now come over all friendly and announced the X51, a gaming PC that's hidden in a console-style box. With the ability to stand vertically or lay …
Motorola’s Defy+ gets even tougher with the help of JCB
Is your job or lifestyle so fraught with danger that you need your phone to cope with almost any situation? Are your weekends filled with the kind of activities that even Bear Grylls would suck air through his teeth at before moving on to something more …
Verizon drops Motorola Droid Razr to $200, cuts 16GB microSD
Motorola's Droid Razr, one of Verizon's high-end 4G smartphones, now costs $100 less than it used to — but those savings come at a price. At the $300 price point, the Droid Razr came with 32GB of internal storage. Now, it's down to just 16GB, thanks …
Is mysterious new video a Resident Evil 6 teaser?
Back in December, a note on a voice actress' resume kicked off a rumor that Resident Evil 6 could be set in China. Now a new, mysterious video that popped up online is adding fuel to that fire — though there's still some question as to whether it has …
Apple iPhone 4S sales cut into Android market share: Nielsen
The Apple iPhone 4S is a hit, if the new numbers from market research firm Nielsen are any indication. During the final three months of 2011, 44.5 percent of respondents purchased an iPhone 4S. That's up from just 25.1 percent who went with an iPhone in…
Pirate Bay offers its home page to promote indie artists
On a day when so much of the Internet is participating in a debate about the proposed U.S. SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy legislation, Sweden's torrent tracking site The Pirate Bay—one of the Internet's most infamous tools for setting hands on pirated …
Sen. Marco Rubio drops support of PIPA, a bill he co-sponsored [Update: 2nd Sen. backs down]
Good news for the anti-SOPA/PIPA crowd: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) announced on his official Facebook page that he no longer supports the “PROTECT IP Act” (PIPA), a bill he co-sponsored. In his statement, Sen. Rubio also urged Senate Majority Leader Harry …
How to transfer your contacts between iPhone and Android
One of the most annoying aspects of changing phones is making sure all of your contacts are transferred to the new device. In the olden days, this meant manually typing in countless names and phone numbers, but our smartphones can now do most of the …