Back in July Google said it was buying airline travel software giant ITA. Now the Justice Department is probing the deal, concerned Google’s might will put the squeeze on the industry.
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Justice Department Has Beady Eye on Google’s ITA Acquisition
The Oxford English Dictionary, currently a 20 volume, 750-pound monstrosity, has been the authoritive word on the words of the English language for 126 years.
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Latest Victim of the Internet: The Oxford English Dictionary
Just when you thought Blockbuster, which added video games to its by-mail service this morning, gained a leg up against competitors, Netflix announced today a major digital partnership with premium TV channel Epix. The deal, last reported at $1 billion over five years, enables Netflix to show Epix’s premium movies on its online streaming service.
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Netflix Inks Deal With Epix for Streaming Movies
The very public war between Adobe and Apple is heating up, with another Flash supporter jumping in the ring. The European Union has joined forces with the FTC in an investigation of whether Apple’s policies hinder competition. The probe is specifically aimed at its much publicized ban of Adobe Flash, which was blocked from Apple’s iOS on the iPhone and iPad
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European Union Joins FTC in Apple vs. Adobe Probe
World renowned water expert Peter Gleick has a new book–released in May 2010–outlining the scientific evidence that bottled water use in the U.S. has become unsustainable. The book is called Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind our Obsession with Bottled Water
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Peter Gleick With More Reasons to Stop Drinking Bottled Water
In possibly the worst incidence of deja vu in recent memory, BP says that it still might drill in the massive reservoir where the Deepwater Horizon leak unleashed over 4 million gallons of oil.
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BP Wants to Keep Drilling Near Gulf Oil Disaster Site
When Apple announces a new flagship phone, it’s front-page news, worldwide. When the new best Android phone in the world is announced (every few weeks, it seems), it’s front-page news of every tech publication in the country, and the source of endless debates.
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Is BlackBerry Doomed to Be North America’s Nokia?
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — When WikiLeaks released a huge cache of classified reports on the war in Afghanistan, it did so in a strange alliance that had The New York Times, The Guardian and the German weekly Der Spiegel coordinate a timed release of their narratives on the material. Just how those cats were able to herd themselves — and not claw up the source of the material, which also happened to be a publisher of it — was captured in a heart-quickening narrative on the Columbia Journalism Review's website that was one of the best pieces of media writing this week.
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The Best Media Writing of the Week
Remember yesterday, when I said that you can all stop freaking out about those 100 million “hacked” Facebook profiles? Well, I wasn’t wrong, but the number of major corporations who have been shown to have downloaded that data is big and scary enough to be slightly worrisome. The data collected was public, of course–all of these corporations could have just found this data on Google.
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Major Companies Are Downloading the Data From Those 100 Million Public Facebook Profiles
WikiLeaks today released some 92,000 mostly-classified military documents relating to the nine-year-old Afghan War. The documents were given to three major publications, the New York Times , The Guardian UK , and Germany’s Der Spiegel , several weeks ago, with an agreement that the information would not be published until today. The Times included a note to readers explaining the choice to publish classified information, the type of research undertaken to assure veracity of the material, and, briefly, exactly how pissed the White House is that this is all coming out.
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WikiLeaks Publishes 90,000 Military Documents, Points to Pakistan as Ally of Afghan Insurgents