Easy-to-use publishing format guards copyrights, Aims to change the market for digital comics Helsinki, Finland – Epuuk, a supplier of digital comics for mobile devices and browsers, has launched its service in Finland and is set to expand to other geographies. The service guards copyrights and brings a new model of distribution for digital...
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Facebook is expected to announce that it has reached the 500 million user mark this week. That’s half a billion people in just six years. It seems like only yesterday Facebook was a students-only site birthed from a Harvard University dorm room. Now it’s the most visited site on the Internet and a multibillion-dollar...
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You already know the basics of internet security, right? You know to keep your antivirus program and patches up to date, to be careful where you go on the Internet, and to exercise online street-smarts to resist being tricked into visiting a phishing site or downloading a Trojan horse. But when you’ve got the...
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs says all iPhone users will receive a free case to help alleviate reception issues with their popular smartphones. For users still unsatisfied with the fix, Jobs says they have until September 30 to return the phone for a full refund. “We’re not perfect, and phones aren’t perfect either, but we...
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CUPERTINO, California — Apple CEO Steve Jobs kicked off a press conference Friday at his company’s headquarters with an unusual admission of fallibility. “We’re not perfect. We know that. You know that. And phones aren’t perfect either,” Jobs told the assembled crowd of about 90 journalists and bloggers, addressing widely-reported problems with the...
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Apple said that it planned to hold a news conference on Friday to discuss the iPhone 4 as concerns about problems with the device’s antenna continued to mount. Steve Dowling, a spokesman for Apple, would not give details of who would speak at the event, which is expected to be held at the company’s...
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Ebay has been slapped with a massive patent suit which could cost it at least $3.8 billion. XPRT Ventures of Connecticut said it shared the six patents – which cover online payment systems including PayPal – with eBay in confidence. The IPR holding company claims that eBay used this proprietary information to modify and incorporate...
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Cambridge, Mass. – Alternative rock favorites Deftones as well as Boys Like Girls and Crown of Thorns are in the Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Wii™. With more than 400 artists, including Jimi Hendrix, The Who,...
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If you were a great big movie studio getting ready to release a major motion picture about the early days of Facebook, where would you advertise? You might want to try MySpace–or Twitter. But Facebook? Of course not. According to Sony SVP Steve Elzer, Facebook’s guidelines prohibit the new David Fincher-helmed The Social Network...
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Los Angeles, California– George A. Romero, the undisputed master of horror cinema (“Night of the Living Dead”, “Dawn of the Dead”, “Creepshow”, “Monkey Shines”, “Diary of the Dead”), partnered with Peter Grunwald, Artfire Films’ Art Spigel, and Ara Katz, to develop APP of the DEAD, available now for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch for $1.99. “Given the...
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