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While the Stop Online Piracy Act is in the backburner (for now), its Senate cousin – the PROTECT IP Act – is still going ahead despite growing opposition. The vote is still going ahead on January 24 (or January 25 our time), all thanks to Harry Reid (D-NV).
Kodak has announced that it and all of its subsidies have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, in a move to restructure the company “to focus on its most valuable business lines” after years of ignoring the rise of digital cameras.
Rdio is now official in Australia. After a quiet launch, the company has publicly revealed its pricing structure. The company also will continue to offer a seven-day trial to use the service, so users can experience it before committing to it.
Telstra’s first 4G smartphone from HTC has now got a name and a release date. Called the HTC Velocity 4G, the phone features a 1.5GHz dual core processor, a 4.5-inch touchscreen and an 8 megapixel camera.
Jerry Yang has announced he will resign from Yahoo’s Board of Directors and all other positions within the company and its subsidiaries, effective immediately. The news is highly surprising, and speculation is rising that Yahoo could be bought out.
Wikipedia and Reddit are not the only sites to black-out their website in protest of the PROTECT IP and Stop Online Piracy Acts that are running through the US Congress. Many other sites, including Destructoid, and Imgur will also participate.
Have you heard about the Stop Online Piracy Act, or the PROTECT IP Act? The tech industry is talking about it. And that could be because it hasn’t gotten any mainstream media attention until the White House publicly said it would not let it through if Congress passed it in its current form. But what is it? Why are Google and Facebook against it?
The game isn’t coming out until February 3, but Konami has released some new screenshots of its new demonic action game NeverDead – created by Shinta Nojiri, known for his work on the Metal Gear Solid series. Gallery is after the jump.
Silent Hill: Downpour – the eighth installment in the survival horror game series – isn’t coming until March, but Konami has released some new screenshots to keep you awaiting. You can flick through these screenshots after the jump.
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Rumours are heating up again just after CES, with a new iPad set to go on sale in March, touting specs that sport a HD screen and will run on LTE. These come, as usual, from “people familiar with the product”.
The age of news for free online is over – well, for the paper mastheads at least. While they struggle with dropping subscribers and higher costs, the print media are trying to find ways in monetising their content in new ways. But how are they doing it? And have they been successful in achieving this?
CoverItLive, the live blogging platform that many blogs – like us, for instance – use and owned by Demand Media, was hacked into on January 7. While the company has not determined that any personal information was accessed, they said that no financial account information was compromised.
And we’re back for another year. This week, we recap that CES event with the latest craze of ultrabooks, look at the Galaxy Nexus and talk about Rdio.
Terence Huynh, Stewart Wilson, Tom Solari and Chris Southcott come back for another series of TECHGEEK Weekly and we’ve also produced a video version – which we are editing at the moment.
The inaugural International Academy of Web Television Awards – essentially the Emmys for web content – announced its first ever winners at a gala event at CES; with Red vs Blue and TWiT’s Tech News Today scoring awards.
A new router was showed off by ASUS at this year’s CES. Promising dual-band support with 450Mbps on 2.4GHz and 5GHz, it also claims to be optimised for multiplayer game play, 3D HD video streaming and file sharing. Full gallery after the jump.