Posts Tagged with ‘Yahoo!-News’

Apple TV Boosting Projections

Phil Butler

Consumer spending on Internet downloads of movies and TV shows will top $4 billion in 2011 compared to the $111 million spent last year according to a study released by Adams Media Research. According to the study the new surge in growth is being fueled by the introduction of hardware devices like Apple TV, a [...]

Walmart Invades India - Who’s Next?

Phil Butler

Rollback prices! Maybe we rolled too far!
Mobile phone firm Bharti Enterprises is aiming to start a chain of retail stores in India with US based Wal-Mart, and is reported to be prepared to invest $2.5 Billion dollars by 2015. Bharti Enterprises owns India's largest private phone firm and intends to open stores in cities with [...]

Polish Poets Threaten Google Supremacy!

Phil Butler

Google has launched legal action once again, this time against a group of Polish Poets! How's that for coming down hard on the little guy? In the press release Google is evidently trying to get the money hungry, robber baron poets to give up their Internet domain name gmail.pl.
I don't see how Google stood for [...]

Breaking News - Web 2.0 in the Toilet!

Phil Butler

I bet you never suspected that this January 27th was Thomas Crapper Day! I mean here we have been so focused on the CES, DEMO 07 and other events that we nearly missed "Crapper" Day! According to a press release by Roto-Rooter via Yahoo! News, the average person spends 11,862 hours in the bathroom, or 1 [...]