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YouTube gets tough on copyright violators

News People posting copyright material on YouTube shouldn't be surprised if the company makes no effort to protect them in a copyright battle. The company has consistently said that it will obey the law and that it doesn't want copyright material on its...

23 October 2006, 11:06

iPhone able to access YouTube content

News Apple's widely anticipated music- and video-playing iPhone will allow subscribers to wirelessly stream material from Google's massively popular video-sharing site YouTube, Apple said on Wednesday. More than 10,000 videos will be available on the...

21 June 2007, 10:30

Google slammed for Chinese censorship

News Google said on Tuesday it would launch versions of its search and news Web sites in China that censor material deemed objectionable to authorities there, reasoning that users receiving limited access to content was better than none.

25 January 2006, 9:02

EU warns against 'criminalising' filesharers

News People should not be criminalised for the file-sharing of copyrighted material if they are not profiting from doing so, the People downloading from sites -- often they don't know that it's not legal, so they shouldn't [be criminalised] if they're...

Tags: industry, order, material, property

14 April 2008, 10:05

News.blog: Web 2.0 magazine of the future

News US-based JPG Magazine is doing the ultimate pulp mashup, tapping its community to provide material and vote on what gets published in print. Yet JPG proves that such a publication can exist if the interest and quality of the material is sufficient.

21 September 2006, 9:42

Sony Music gives bloggers free videos

News The music conglomerate is promoting a new site, called Musicbox Video, that showcases videos, artist interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and other material from a broad portfolio of its artists. But Sony will also actively encourage fan sites and...

19 June 2006, 10:15

Google tests personalised news feed service

News It lets users subscribe to material from the sites and create a reading list that they can sort and organise. The offering features a search box that finds material based on the news source or the topic.

10 October 2005, 10:55

Anti-plagiarism tech catches cheaters

News Ucas ran a trial of the CopyCatch software from CFL Software on 50,000 university applications last year because of rising numbers of students bootlegging material for the personal statement section of the form.

2 October 2007, 9:29

MIT concocts fogless glass

News At the American Chemical Society meeting in Washington this week, scientists from MIT explained how they have developed a new material -- which consists of thin, alternating layers of tiny glass particles and polymers -- that will resist fogging...

31 August 2005, 10:08

News.blog: Pulitzer prize progresses

News The catch, however, is all but two categories require that the material must have also appeared in print. This category, which has allowed online entries since 1999, permits the entrant to include other accompanying material with the submission.

8 December 2005, 9:32

News.blog: Physical sciences will change society

News Nordan on Monday provided an overview of nanotechnology at the firm's annual conference here, arguing that material sciences will fuel technological development and economic growth in the coming years in much the way that information sciences did...

Tags: engineering, technologies, scale, material

16 October 2007, 9:41

IBM sees the light in carbon nanotubes

News The implications of the discovery could mean better understanding of the interactions between electrons and holes (active carriers with a positive charge) on the conductor material -- in this case nanotubes -- or within tiny environments...

21 November 2005, 9:10

Google library search raises privacy issues

News Google announced plans late last year to digitise and index as many as 7 million volumes of material from the University of Michigan to make them searchable on the Internet as part of its Google Print service, a searchable index of books.

20 June 2005, 10:34

IBM looking to fast-forward TV sport footage

News The digital material can then be repackaged and viewed simultaneously by a variety of producers and hosts on US television programmes such as ESPN's NFL Insider, NFL Total Access and Playbook. IBM hopes its work with the NFL will draw in other...

19 October 2005, 11:10

Solar energy firms get big-money boost

News We believe this could be used as a material for zero-energy homes," said Billy Stanbery, CEO of HelioVolt. Embedding the material into building supplies effectively hides the energy-harvesting technology.

21 June 2005, 10:21