After remaining quiet on the hardware front for years, Amazon.com's China business has finally brought the company's Kindle tablet and Kindle e-reader to the country. On Friday, both the Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Paperwhite went on sale ...
Tags: E-Reader, Amazon, web service
Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue offered only short answers in testimony Thursday in federal court when questioned by federal prosecutors trying to solidify their case that Apple, along with five of the largest book publishers, worked ...
Tags: Apple, E-Book Antitrust Trial, Eddy Cue
A series of blunders by Microsoft have paved the way for Sony's PlayStation 4 console to capture the top spot in year-end holiday sales. "In terms of the initial sales of Xbox One and the PS4 I think the $100 price difference will make a ...
Apple appears to face an uphill battle as it goes to trial Monday in New York on e-book price fixing charges brought by the U.S. government. In a courtroom packed to capacity, the company squared off alone against the U.S. Department of ...
Tags: Apple, E-Book Trial
Seventh annual event sees attendance soar by 50 per cent. The UK Games Expo has experienced an attendance increased on previous years by 50 per cent with more smaller traders at the show than ever before. And this weekend ( Friday, May ...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reportedly launched an investigation into Google's display ad business amid complaints from rivals that the company is abusing its power in how it sells online-graphical and video ads. The ...
Tags: FTC, Google, Display Ads
Penguin has settled with U.S. states in an e-book price-fixing lawsuit, leaving only Apple now in the fray. Four other publishers accused of price-fixing with Apple settled earlier with the 33 states and territories and the U.S. ...
Total 2012 marketed natural gas volumes in the US are roughly flat with 2011 levels, according to a Platts analysis of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Form 552 data. As of Friday, gas marketers reported 125,723 trillion Btu of ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Chemicals
A federal court in New York has denied class certification to copyright owners in an infringement lawsuit against YouTube over unauthorized hosting of content, stating that copyright claims have only superficial similarities. Judge Louis ...
Tags: Copyright Owners, Youtube Suit
A German online copyright law that will give publishers the exclusive right to the commercial use of their publications on the Internet will come into effect on Aug. 1. The law was published in Germany's Federal Law Gazette ...
Tags: Copyright Law, legislation
The U.S. tech industry added nearly 64,000 software-related jobs last year, but as the workforce expanded, the average size of workers’ pay cheques declined by nearly 2 percent. There are multiple theories for the decline in pay, ...
Tags: Software Developer, Wages, Workforce
Concerned about Amazon.com's low pricing of e-books, publishers had taken measures as early as 2009 such as "windowing," a practice of delaying e-book releases to benefit sales of hardcover editions, Apple said in a filing in an e-book ...
Tags: e-Book Case, Apple, Computer Products
Research Solutions's wholly-owned subsidiary Reprints Desk has launched a compliance software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for medical marketers. Reprints Desk's Sunshine ePrints solution simplifies Sunshine Act compliance for the use of ...
The U.S. tech industry added 67,400 jobs in 2012, a 1.1% increase from a year earlier, according to a report from the TechAmerica Foundation. The tech industry's growth slightly outpaced the overall private sector in the U.S., which grew ...
Tags: Tech Employment, America, Computer Products
The U.S. Congress should consider a "safe harbor" from legal action for consumers using works protected by copyright as it launches a long-term effort to revamp copyright law, some advocates said Thursday. Consumers should be protected ...