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Tumblr has been sued by porn publisher Perfect 10 for violating its copyright. In a lawsuit Perfect 10 claims that Tumblr re-published their pictures.
Perfect 10 also alleges that Tumblr employees posted nude pictures “to help start the business” and that “Tumblr turns a blind eye” to copyright infringement on its servers.
In 2006 Perfect 10 sued Google for using thumbnail images while indexing its content for the Google search engine.
Sharper Image announced today that Megan Fox would be the face of the tech gadget chain’s newest campaign.
In the photo released by Sharper Image, the Transformers star poses in bed playing with a tablet computer.
A bombshell report set to be released by the government shows that massive privacy violations at Google weren’t isolated mistakes as the company claimed.
The New York Times reports that a Federal Communications Commission report into Google’s Street View program that resulted in fines for the search giant also reveals that “Google’s harvesting of e-mails, passwords and other sensitive personal information from unsuspecting households in the United States and around the world was neither a mistake nor the work of a rogue engineer.”
The Times also reports that Google engineers were told by managers that they could access the illicitly obtained data for use in Google sponsored projects.
The FCC found that Google did not break any laws, but did obstruct the investigation and had to pay the agency a fine.
A pair of Swedish magicians, Charlie Caper and Erik Rosales, use the iPad to promote Stockholm at the MIPIM in Cannes event. Watch:
Apple’s third-generation iPad is a hit. The company announced today that 3 million units were sold over the March 16-18, 2012 weekend.
Senior vice president Philip Schiller declared it “the strongest iPad launch yet.”
Reviews of the new device have touted the clarity of its improved “Retina” display as a key selling point. Sales of Android based tablets have lagged far behind iPad, while Microsoft is reportedly planning a Windows-based tablet system.
The website of porn giant Digital Playground was recently hacked, and thousands of user’s credit cards were stolen. The hacker collective called The Consortium claimed responsibility for the intrusion.
The Consortium claimed that 40,000 credit cards were taken from Digital Playground’s website, as well as personal information for 72,000 users.
Luxembourg-based Manwin owns Digital Playground.
Video game maker Valve is set to release a new game console, Steam Box, that will take on Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony’s Playstation according to reports. Valve, creators of the Half-Life, Portal, and Left 4 Dead series has never been involved in the console world before.
Steam Box would reportedly use Valve’s online gaming store, Steam, to power the console – which could be connected to a television or computer monitor.
VIA C|Net
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