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Tells about all the cool different apps that each device can have.

In our discusssion of print vs Internet, this article from April 21, 2011 Wall Street Journal brings up the fact that not just news is affected by this. Large publishing houses are being by-passed in favor of self-published titles. The article states that 15 of the top 50 digital best-sellers at Amazon are those priced at $5 or less.

This article is very interesting because it talks about how people are starting to get rid of their landlines and just using their cellphones only for communication.

Thought it was interesting how playing an online game could turn into something bigger and illegal.

Talks about what cable companies are going to do if online video starts to take over.

Here is an article on the "Future of the Internet."

A US study has indicated that younger internet users are losing interest in blogging and switching to shorter and more mobile forms of communication.

"It's not known exactly how much in uncollected taxes is due to states from online sales, but a 2009 study from the University of Tennessee estimated that it could total $10.14 billion this year, assuming total e-commerce sales of $3.49 trillion. Only a fraction of this owed tax would result from consumer purchases, however, because most e-commerce sales are from one business to another."

Here is an article on the projected amount of monies states are losing in revenues by not collecting online sale taxes.

One way that some have tried to deal with piracy is by suing large groups of people that are sharing a file, rather than sue individual people. The problem is that there is a debate on whether it is alright to clump these people into a single case. This article shows that some attorneys have ruled that you may not lump multiple file sharers into a single case, while others have ruled this practice to be fine.

Looks at a piece of legislation being debated right now that is intended to address piracy. "The bill would give the government legal tools to blacklist a "rogue" website from the Internet's Domain Name System, ban credit card companies from processing US payments to the site, and forbid US-based online ad networks from working with the site. It even directs the government to keep a list of suspect sites, even though no evidence has been presented against them in court."

Looks like Netflix is expanding by offering original content through their service. This will make them even more competitive with cable TV.

Because were talking about Online Streaming right now, I thought this was an interesting article to just tell you how online streaming has really come popular especially for events like this one.

Interesting article IT network and security news, posted on eweek.com. This breach at Sony made headlines and the article suggests 10 things that we as computer users should be aware of and suggestions of steps we should take.