Google Maps just added a Webcams layer, which updates locations with live views from webcams in the area. Somebody better tell those villagers to get their pitch forks out again, because here comes another privacy protest.
April, 2009
That Friday feeling might just have been punctured by the breaking news today: the Pirate Bay admins have been found guilty. All the details on that and more in the lunchtime lowdown.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the Nintendo DS and MadWorld for the Nintendo Wii were two of the most hyped “hardcore” games titles for their platforms in recent months, but neither have set the sales charts alight since their release, selling dismally since launch in the US.
Sony Ericsson just took a dip in the red, announcing massive job cuts off the back of big Q1 losses.
The filings for January to March this year show Sony Ericsson made a loss of £316m, with sales down 36% year on year. As a result, Sony Ericsson has said it’ll shed 2,000 jobs – that’s on top of the 2,000 redundancies it’s already made.
UPDATE: The Pirate Bay defendants may have been found guilty, but curiously, the verdict hasn’t included an order to shut down the website. Is this the win the entertainment industry has hailed?
The Pirate Bay trial verdict is in: the notorious P2P site admins have been found guilty of flouting copyright law and handed down a hefty punishment. But what does this mean for us?
Apple has filed a patent application for a new iPhone feature that also seems to show a much-requested addition to the phone.
The Nintendo Wii outsold its nearest competitor, the Microsoft Xbox 360, by nearly 2:1 in March in the US, NPD figures show. The Nintendo Wii sold over 600,000 units to US gamers. Microsoft sold 330,000 Xbox 360s. And Sony sold a mere 218,000 PS3s. Nintendo’s also trouncing Sony when it comes to handheld console sales too.
Rumours of YouTube inking a deal with Sony Pictures last week have turned out to be true. The first Sony Pictures channel featuring full feature length films and TV shows is live on YouTube now, albeit with one mighty big catch.