Entertainment Software Association or commonly known as ESA, has lifted out its support of the anti-piracy bill SOPA. The bill which was after the strong protest from different big and smaller websites across the globe (blackout day) and strong opposition in the white house leads the bill to wrenched from the ground. “From the beginning, ESA has been committed...

Where do good ideas come from? – A question that strikes our mind almost daily. With Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson pairs the insight of his bestselling Everything Bad Is Good for You and the dazzling erudition of The Ghost Map and The Invention of Air to address an urgent and universal question: What sparks the flash of brilliance? How does groundbreaking...

Google’s video sharing website, YouTube, added another mark in its kitty with the streaming of 4 billion online videos every day – an increase of 25 percent in the past eight months. The figure includes both PC and smartphones streaming, and according to the company, 60 hours of videos gets added every minute – compared to 48 hours a minute last may. Google...

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch added more flurries through his twitter account, this time by aligning the phone hacking scandal that has swamped the UK arm of his media empire with the recent copyright debate led by the SOPA. Murdoch who joined micro-blogging website Twitter less than a month ago, already caused a huge controversy by calling Google as a ‘piracy leader’ The proposed SOPA bill has now been withdrawn by Republican Lamar Smith after the series of opposition both by internet (black-out day) and by Whitehouse. ...

When Windows 8 Beta made available for the public, it is expected to get an access to Windows store also, the application portal that Microsoft has been working on for the OS. Details of the Windows 8 have been already making round in the public with lastly introducing two of its features – Refresh and Reset Your PC. The company’s CEO Steve Ballmer even mentioned...

Tumblr, a microblogging platform and social networking website, reached 120 million every month, founder and CEO David Karp mentioned during Digital Life Design conference in Munich. Seeing the Quantcast figures, the website gets 15 billion page views per month. Interviewed by entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky, Karp talked about the company’s initial growth, decision...

Intelligent Apps, the company behind myTaxi, the most popular taxi ordering smartphone application with 8,00,000 app-downloads and 7,000 registered taxi drivers has raised 10 million euros from car2go, a subsidiary of Daimler and KfW Bankengruppe. myTaxi has revolutionized the taxi market in less than ten months. For the first time, the customer can order a taxi...

The Walt Disney Shareholders will not see any of the late Steve Jobs’ family members or representative during the upcoming annual meeting scheduled for March to re-elect directors. The family is having the total of 7.7 percent stake or 137.3 million shares, which is the largest media company’s shareholder. Jobs had stayed on Disney’s board until he resigned...

With giving a brief update on Facebook, Asus North America promised that the original Eee Pad Transformer would get its Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) update by somewhere around mid-February. The upgrade should bring the updated interface and will improve speed. Asus earlier this month stated that the update for TF101 Ice Cream Sandwich will come somewhere in February 2012. Adding to this, it also states that the update will be first available in North America and Taiwan. ...

According to a report, Nokia Siemens Network (NSN) is successful in raising more than 1.2 billion euros from a group of 14 U.S. and European banks. Actually amount the group was seeking is 1.5 billion euros, but market turmoil results in settling them to a smaller amount. The joint group needed the amount to restructure its business and pay costs of a big redundancy. As per Reuters, Nokia Siemens Network has faced aggressive pricing from rivals and an economic downturn that has even forced telecom companies to cut spending. JPMorgan,...