Several months ago, web giant Google unveiled the latest feature of their popular mapping website, Google Maps. Street View allows users to get a panoramic view of selected locations around major cities in the United States. Now it’s being suggested that Canada is next on the list for this feature, and there is controversy brewing. […]
Warner Music Group’s recent announcement about wider losses in the third quarter, due to an increasing trend of consumers switching to digital downloads, highlights the changing nature of the music industry. Even as Warner posted higher overall losses due largely to the decline in CD sales, its digital revenues were up 29% from the […]
With respect to software sales, IBM has consistently played second fiddle (perhaps, eightieth!) to Microsoft. IBM has not only had to compete with big players like Microsoft, but also against the "open source community". This is a community which is often seen as the product of cooperation and purity in technology. Its proponents point to […]