Copying a CD could cost $1.5 million
Even though there has been a lot work done to protect the interests of the music industry apparently there more provisions to be introduced which promises to protect the music industry even further by laying out exactly how much the penalties are for intentionally copying music from CD’s.
They have come up with an ingenious plan [...]
Filmmakers ask to be pirated
While the major film companies spend more money on trying to prevent the pirating of their products than the most of the films total budgets at the Sundance festival have, they must be pulling their hair out when it turns out that no films from the 2007 festival have been pirated at all.
Its not that [...]
Over 12,000 wind farms needed
There is no doubt that wind power is an exceptional way of producing electricity, so much so that it would appear the European Commission in Brussels has decided that we need more, in fact around 12,500 more wind farms!
Now this is going to cause problems for the UK as at the moment only five per [...]
Woman deletes company data
When a woman from Florida saw what she thought was her own job being advertised, especially as the phone number was the same as her bosses, Marie Cooley assumed that she was going to be fired so in order to get a bit of revenge in first she decided to visit the office on a [...]
January 24, 2008Do Google and FaceBook have too much data?
It is a frustrating fact that whenever a person wants to sign up for an account with almost any social networking site or even an email account these days, that the information required by the service varies from the simple username and password to your entire life story. But should you decide to leave the [...]
January 22, 2008Text order to Pizza Hut
In the States it is possible to text a pizza, which is great, but maybe not always the most practical way of ordering something, especially as sometimes the text messages do not arrive that quickly, however what this does show is that there are businesses out there which are happy to embrace the new technology [...]
January 21, 2008Man gets paid for job he did not start
Imagine going for a job interview, being offered the position, but for some reason or other you decide not to go through the job, this is a normal thing because circumstances change etc.
But what if the company paid you for the job because of an administration error or something? This would be an error [...]
Microsoft develops the software spy
Developing a super spying piece of software that will be able to spy on workers is the super sized software company Microsoft; this will be able to monitor employees as they go about their daily working routine. They have even gone as far to apply for a patent which will protect it from being copied.
The [...]
Accidental but successful products
Imagine discovering something completely by accident and knowing that it would go on to be one of the biggest things in its industry and stay there for years to come? Wouldn’t that be great?
Here are just ten products that were found by accident:
Potato Chips - Discovered: Saratoga Springs, New York
Viagra - Discovered: Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
LSD [...]
Ford cars are copyrighted
If you are thinking of taking a few photos of your very nice ford machine then you may want to reconsider that for a while.
Take the guys over at the Black Mustang Club (BMC) which is a car forum for anything automotive, they wanted to produce a calendar as many people and organisations do these [...]
Mind-bending customer service staff
When you call a customer service centre regarding some sort of problem that you have had with their products or services, the initial response is to rant and rave, but clearly this is not going to get you anywhere at all.
So what do you do if you really want to get your way from the [...]
Digg to fix ads
It would seem that Digg have been receiving some complaints about their the current ads, some may be play sounds and other have moving images, whatever the type of ad the users don’t like them and have told the Digg management.
So luckily for the users, Digg have made the right decision and will be moving [...]
Microsoft goes for FAST
Microsoft is making a move on the search engine FAST (Fast search and Transfer) it is said that the figures being put around are something I the region of $1.2 billion in cash, the deal will make things in the enterprise search industry which has been dominated by FAST, but there are other players too, [...]
January 7, 2008Disney restaurant bans kids
Considering that Disney has been built up on the dreams of children, it would seem very strange for the company to ban kids from one of its restaurants, but as from this week anyone under the age of ten will not be allowed in the Victoria and Albert’s in the Grand Floridian Resort and spa, [...]
January 4, 2008Netflix producing set top box
The film rental company is said to be producing a set top box which will allow user to stream films and other programming directly into the TV.
There was some talk of this device a while ago but nothing really materialised but it seems a partnership with electronics giant LG the actual details of the device [...]
Floating continents of garbage
Businesses world wide are being blamed for huge islands or as they have been called continents of rubbish. These are freely floating around the Pacific Ocean, killing marine life and due to the content of these islands, they are also releasing poisons into the sea too.
One of these so called island is supposed to be [...]