Internet Highlights Category - Page 6

Recently, we’ve been telling you all about the opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act. Many companies and studios have been speaking out against the bill, and over the weekend, those who stand against it were joined by a pretty powerful political force: the President of the United States.

Grooveshark’s music streaming app had been pulled out of the Android Market last year for terms-of-service violation, as well as banned from the iTunes App Store in 2010. But now that Grooveshark no longer has a home with these mobile platforms, the service has launched an HTML5 app, which can [...]

Another day, another studio to add to the growing list of SOPA opposers. The latest studio is Bungie, creator of Halo, which as you may already know is one of the biggest franchises in gaming history. As we draw closer to the day that congress reconvenes and begins talking about [...]

There’s a lot of really bad things about the pending Stop Online Piracy Act, but today, one of the worst has been removed. Representative Lamar Smith, the main sponsor and author of SOPA (or, as we like to call him around these parts, internet enemy number one) has removed the [...]

The Pirate Bay is usually the place to go to for .torrent downloads. But amid emerging peer-exchange technologies and the need to reduce server costs, the popular download site will lo longer serve .torrent files within a month’s time.

Interesting news on the closing day of CES 2012 for those of you out there with Blockbuster Online memberships; seems that Dish Network, who recently bought out Blockbuster and integrated it into its stable of offerings, is planning to close more brick and mortar Blockbuster locations than originally anticipated.

The iPad can now run Windows. But, no, you won’t have to install BootCamp like with Intel-based Macs. Windows will run remotely via the cloud with an iOS front-end, thanks to OnLive Desktop.

Amazon is letting PC users transfer documents and data to their Kindle tablets and e-readers more easily. With the new “Send to Kindle” app on Windows, personal and business users can read compatible files on their Kindle with just a few clicks.

Social networking is no longer just about sharing photos, videos or status updates. With the prevalence of cloud-based multimedia services, the social network now lets users listen to songs simultaneously with the new “Listen with friends” feature.

Gmail is arguably one of the more popular webmail services around. With offline functionality in Google Chrome, users can read emails, draft messages and search recent items even without an Internet connection. Google’s latest update adds some improvements to the offline Gmail app.