The movie adaptation of the renowned novel ‘The Hunger Games’ will be hitting the theatres on Friday. Microsoft is partnering with Lionsgate to promote the movie and in a bid to do so, has build a HTML5 version of The Hunger Games. This site, or minisite as it is being called, features a number of latest HTML5 techniques such as stream, lens flare and video projections to give a very real, and special, effect.
Facebook and Twitter are essentially social networking sites, one where you could express and share more of your personal stuff with friends, fans and followers rather than being news sources. But as many of the major news networks, publishers and experts are on these social networking sites, and people are fans of their pages and follow their tweets, then it could be said that they also serve a purpose of being a news resource.
MOG, with its share of 500,000 subscribers, has emerged as a major player in the realm of digital music. Although the company hasn’t revealed how many of these are paid subscribers, it sure is a success. Now, rumors are abound that HTC’s unit, Beats is on the verge of sealing a deal with MOG and buying the company. This is expected to happen, and be announced, within the next fortnight.
Content producers from around the globe, mostly only the major ones, are getting increasingly fierce in their attempts to shut down websites containing pirated content. Whereas SOPA and PIPA haven’t worked, FBI and governments in Europe are actively cracking down on piracy websites. The Pirate Bay, one of the largest torrents hub online, is at the nexus of this storm. So now, TPB is planning to launch flying servers atop drones over international waters so that governments couldn’t shut down its servers.
A number of Chinese writers have been accusing Apple for quite some time for condoning, or at least not effectively dealing with, ebook piracy. Three lawsuits were filed against Apple over these allegations and now, a number of more Chinese authors have joined the group. The total amount of the damages demanded by all the lawsuits combined is about $3.5 million.
Rdio is the emerging online music radio which is one of the raging fevers of the current online music scene. Naturally, the relationship between Rdio and Apple’s iTunes, which is almost a rival, may not be very amicable. Or at least this was reflected in the words of the head of design at Rdio, Wilson Miner, who termed iTunes as ‘just a fancy CD changer.’
Google is undoubtedly the leading search engine on the web and is well ahead of its contemporaries. However, search mechanism and search needs of people have evolved over time. So now, Google is planning to launch a major overhaul of its system in the coming months. This overhaul is aimed to changing the model where search provide web links to a model where the search returns ‘answers’ to user queries.
Anonymous has made a lot of headlines of late. While it was actively involved in a number of online campaigns against different organizations as well as governments, it has recently faced a major setback when one of the well-known Anonymous hackers, Sabu, turned out to be an FBI snitch. As if refusing to admit that they will back down, a number of Anonymous members have now spoken out publicly at the SXSW conference.
The traffic on internet has increased literally exponentially over the recent few years. Millions of users have flocked to this online realm which has come about to change the very way we live and behave. However, it would be surprising to note that despite so many millions of users, more than half of internet’s traffic comes from non-human sources.
According to the reports floating on the web, an ‘Anonymous OS Live’ has been released. The OS is Ubuntu-based and has been released on Sourceforge. The description says that it uses Ubuntu 11.10 and has MATE desktop. A number of well-known Anonymous sources have categorically stated that they have no affiliation with the released OS and have rather warned that it may be some nefarious software.
Mozilla, ever since its inception, has stuck to its philosophy of a free and open web. However, it would seem that the pressure from different quarter may force the Mozilla team to make some compromises. This is evident in the recent decision by Mozilla executives to side with the H.264 codec rather than the free codecs from Google’s WebM project. However, Google is to be blamed more for this change of hearts of Mozilla folks.
Anonymous is out on its hacking spree again becoming a menace and a clear and present danger for anyone in the world now, especially for the governments, their institutes and agencies. They are forcing the governments to prepare a team of their own in a fight against them and the lead will most likely be taken by the U.S. government in this case joined by others too. But when the U.S. government takes such measures it is always with some policy of either politics or economic aspects involved in it.
Imagine you took a really stunning shot and wished that you had it in real 3D so as to get a more true feel. Guess what? Your wish just got fulfilled with BumpyPhoto. BumpyPhoto takes your 2D images and turns them into stunningly real 3D sculptures which feel as if they will spring to life any moment. All you have to do is submit a picture that is more than 2-megapixels and then the software and human designers at BumpyPhoto will work their magic on it.
Posterous is simple blogging platform and very user friendly which was formed in 2008 and is based in San Francisco. It allows users to post their blogs just through emails. Recently, Twitter acquired Posterous to expand on its business even further. According to VentureBeat, Posterous is supported by Y Combinator, Redpoint Ventures, and Trinity Ventures and through this has also been able to raise $15 million as of September 2011.
Social media is a place for spreading news fast and easy, but so do rumours also take their hold. One such recent circulating rumour is about CNN acquiring Mashable according to CNET. This is not anything to just get pass by. Those who are well into social media news know really well that Mashable is one of the leading blogs about social media itself which started in July 2005. The site is huge indeed with 20 million unique visitors a month.
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