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With the reports confirmed, a group of Chinese authors including the popular blogger and social critic Han Han and the controversial author Li Chengpeng, announced January 6 that their 11.9 million yuan (approximately $1.9 million) lawsuit against the American giant Apple for copyright violations has accepted by the Beijing Court. A member of Chinese writers representing...

InfoSpace, an SEO service company has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire TaxACT, an online tax solutions provider, for $287.5 million in cash. The company also states that the acquisition is expected to close in the 2012 first quarter. The transaction is expected to be immediately accretive to InfoSpace earning per share and year one return on shareholder...

On-Demand Internet streaming media service Netflix officially announces its service in UK and Ireland today. Netflix, available in both the countries provided access to its member first on free one-month trial. After the trial, the service costs GBP 5.99 or Euro 6.99 (USD 8.87). Catalogue is full of complete TV programmes such as The Only Way is Essex, Prison Break, and Damages and great films such as 3:10 to Yuma, Blitz and The English Patient, with new content added continuously. Users will also be able to stream the content to a PC,...

I’m doing my MasterCard payments research, until I found something interesting and feel like to share with the world. An RFID-enabled watch that offers and allows contactless MasterCard payments. The idea itself looks very cheesy and interesting even while hearing for the first time. Contactless credits things have been around for many of the years as of now, what...

The 2012 Consumer Electronic Show, commonly known as “CES” is all set to start from Tuesday, January 10, 2012, we the I2Mag is all set to cover the most exciting gadget geek’s event of the year that will began in Las Vegas. This International Consumer Electronic Show is already making its mark with lot of product announcements and product leaks all making the...

Amazon’s LOVEFILM confirms the report yesterday that it soon to stream the BBC Worldwide content including the vast archive of shows, celebrated programmes and much more. Subscription deal including some of the greatest British programming, TV titles likes the nation’s much loved Doctor Who, Life On Mars, Torchwood Planet Earth and much more. With the deal, LOVEFiLM...

Hacker School, an initiative started by David Albert, Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock and Sonali Sridhar. The school is a three-month immersive school for becoming a better programmer. The school sets no formal instructors; it only works on one single motive to allow the entire participant to become a better hacker, a programmer. The school are having no grades, teachers...

Kurion, the nuclear waste cleanup startup based in California, US, working on the major nuclear waste cleanup site – Fukusima in Japan, the one of the largest nuclear disasters in history. The Kurion technology was earlier used to clean the U.S.’s Three Mile Island nuclear disaster site. “Ion specific media”, the material developed by Kurion for the cleanup,...

Google ended the year 2011 with making an investment of $94 million in a solar photovoltaic projects bringing their total portfolio for clean energy investments to more than $915 million. As per Google Official blog: “We’ve already committed to providing funding this year to help more than 10,000 homeowners install solar PV panels on their rooftops. But this...

Online travel company, Yatra.com has acquired an online event and entertainment portal BuzzInTown. The Buzzintown is the one-stop-shop for all information related to events and happenings – musicals, plays, book reads, concerts, sports, live bands, exhibitions and expos, and, very importantly, those that are personal/social in nature. The acquisition is confirmed...