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Some stories just don’t end. In the early days of the Mark Hurd saga, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison was one of his early defenders, saying that the HP board was wrong in their decision to sack Hurd. So, it wasn’t unforeseen when Hurd found a nice job at Oracle. But now, HP [...]

Piracy is a problem to just about every industry that deals with virtual content. Back when Napster first made the rounds was when this was really made evident as it made it almost too simple for those looking to illegally download music (or movies, software, games, etc) to do so.

Tomorrow Apple is having a press event. Judging by the speculation and the guitar image that Apple sent out – we’ll allegedly see new iPods and a new rumored iTV with a few new features. Apple is a polarizing company. You either love them or hate them. However, iPods and [...]

Former HP CEO Mark Hurd’s departure from the company was not really pretty, despite the hefty severance package he was given (with some outlets reporting he was given as much as $40 million in stock options). Now, Hurd has informed the SEC that he plans to dump some 700k-odd shares of [...]

For those of you who don’t have your pulse on the beat of the music industry – the radio broadcasters and music labels have been having a disagreement over the music royalties. The music labels insist that radio is getting a ‘free ride’ by broadcasting music without paying a per-play royalty. Now, [...]

According to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Facebook has banned two accounts from North Korea, allegedly because they were not who they claimed to be. What makes this interesting? One of the accounts was allegedly the ‘official’ account of North Korea. What’s going on here?

The United States sports industry  is an extremely large one which high paid athletes, high stakes matches and extremely dedicated fans. Football, in particular, is one of the most heavily publicized sports here in the States with the Super Bowl amassing a viewer base that could theoretically dwarf a small country. Due [...]

If you haven’t tried to buy Star Wars on Blu-Ray, you may be surprised to discover that they’re not available. Sort of strange – yes. Until now that is. George Lucas just caused a nergasm at the Star Wars Celebration V expo when he took to the stage and personally [...]

According to the New York Times, Lab 126, the division of Amazon responsible for the design of the Kindle hardware, is making much more than Kindle eReaders. While Lab 126 has been pumping out various forms of Kindles since 2007 – and many believe a color E Ink screen or [...]

Web browsers are undeniably one of the most important applications a device can run. Without the, we wouldn’t be able to, well, browse the web. While there are a plethora of different web browsers to choose from on the desktop side of things, the most prominent and widely used is [...]