Crime does pay: Derrick Lee Swantz was sentenced to 52 months in federal prison for using fraudulent eBay listings. In addition, he also has to pay $252,000 in restitution.
The early era of Internet passed a long time ago and its about time its services passed into legend as well. Yahoo announced plans to close down its own GeoCities hosting service.
Amazon’s Video On Demand got a significant boost recently, adding over 500 HD TV shows and movies from major studios and networks such as Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Showtime Networks.
Despite its ever-growing popularity, YouTube’s situation is as fragile as ever: the website brought Google a lot of bills and less revenue. Will Google eventually cut its losses by closing YouTube?
Users trying to access their Hotmail, Windows Live or MSN accounts were in for a nice panic attack when reading the automated answer coming from Redmond.