Ustream Sued for Pirated Stream of Roy Jones Jr. Fight
by Robin Caldwell
Square Ring, Inc, the boxing promotional company owned by professional boxer Roy Jones, Jr is suing Ustream for “massive and blatant” copyright infringement. The suit claims that Ustream, a live video streaming service, allowed 2,377 users to view a broadcast of the fight Roy Jones Jr. vs Omar Sheika free of charge on March 21, 2009. Techcrunch reports that Square Ring also alleges that Ustream has refused to comply with repeated requests to “gather” information in regard to the infringement suit.
Read MoreTech Week in Review 7/17/09
by rahsheen
The primary motivation for many Firefox users to stick with Firefox is the add-ons. Ubiquity, Feedly, and Firebug just to name a few. Seems that Mozilla realizes how important those developers are. Especially since they’ve been pretty much working for free. So, they have instituted a method for add-on developers to get paid for their work.
Read MoreMichael Jackson “Collapses” Web as Twitter Trends His Death and Google Sleeps?!
by Robin Caldwell
Michael Jackson’s name surfaced in the number 3 and 6 positions on Google’s list of the top 100 trending topics about fifty-four or more minutes after the first tweet on Twitter trended the same topic.
Read MoreThe Ebony Experiment Launches
by Fredric Mitchell
Maggie and John Anderson, a highly educated and middle-class couple, are launching the Ebony Experiment on January 1, 2009, aimed at reaching multiple social and economic conclusions by shopping with exclusively Black-owned businesses for the entire year.
Teamed with experts such as Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Steven Rogers, Dr. Michael Bennett, and Walidah Bennett, the goal [...]
Cuil is not Cool
by Fredric Mitchell
So, to much fanfare, $30 million dollars in venture capital funds, multiple TechCrunch stalkerage, and even CNN frontpage coverage, a former Google exec’s secret product was officially unveiled today.
Pronounced like the world ‘cool’, cuil.com is touting itself as a better search engine, proclaiming to have indexed more than 4x’s the number of sites than Google.
Being [...]
