Viacom to NY court: Scrap YouTube copyright ruling
By LARRY NEUMEISTER NEW YORK (AP) – A lawyer for Viacom Inc. warned an appeals court panel Tuesday that there will be greater exploitation of copyright material on the Internet if the court lets YouTube get away with a business built on “rampant copyright infringement.” The lawyer, Paul Smith, told a three-judge panel of the … Read more
Samsung and Google unveil Galaxy Nexus smartphone
HONG KONG (AP) – Samsung Electronics unveiled its newest Galaxy Nexus smartphone Wednesday, the first to use the latest version of Google’s Android operating system. The new phone is seen as the Samsung-Google partnership’s answer to Apple’s iPhone 4S, which in less than a week on the market has already sold more than 4 million … Read more
University studies crowdsourcing for intelligence
By MATTHEW BARAKAT FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) – Maybe you’ve got a hunch Kim Jong Il’s regime in North Korea has seen its final days, or that the Ebola virus will re-emerge somewhere in the world in the next year. Your educated guess may be just as good as an expert’s opinion. Statistics have long shown … Read more
Univision denies it tried to coerce US senator
By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ MIAMI (AP) – The Univision television network denied allegations Tuesday that it told Republican Sen. Marco Rubio it might not broadcast a story about a relative’s decades-old drug conviction if he appeared on its news programs. The story about his brother-in-law’s late 1980s cocaine trafficking conviction ran in July and Rubio did … Read more
Before Latest Phone Debut, Apple Has Harsher Competition
The New York Times By NICK WINGFIELD and JENNA WORTHAM SAN FRANCISCO — As soon as Apple unveils its highly anticipated new version of the iPhone on Tuesday, millions of people are likely to start plotting how to be among the first to buy it. But millions more may be considering a competitor — an … Read more
Reading the Writing on the Envelope
The New York Times By RANDALL STROSS THE Pony Express was famous for moving mail at astounding speed. Missouri to California in only 10 days! A triumph. It was also short-lived. Established in 1860, it lasted only as long as the territory it covered lacked the telegraph. Humans and horses could not match the speed … Read more
