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Amazon.com has rolled out a new promotion, making their two-day shipping and reduced overnight shipping choices free… for college students. Amazon Prime is popular with the tech community for making online stores rival brick-and-mortar stores more closely. Prime allows up to five Amazon.com accounts in a family, for $80 per year, to enjoy free two-day [...]

Bloomberg is reporting that Sony is close to signing a deal with News Corp and NBC Universal owned Hulu to integrate the service as a premium option on the Playstation Network, which is also being offered to Microsoft for potential integration into Xbox LIVE. The service is expected to consist of access to major network [...]

YouTube has won a summary judgment against Viacom regarding a lawsuit filed by the media conglomerate against the video sharing site in 2007 alleging that YouTube willingly and knowingly committed copyright infringement.  The English Premier League via its commercial rights division was also a plaintiff in the case along with Viacom At issue were the [...]

Ten months is a long time for the two largest social networking applications to share mutual bugs. But, it is nothing but the truth unfortunately. The bug lies in Twitter’s Facebook app. For those late to linking their two social universes, the app has refused to allow new users to sign up, churning out an [...]

If you’re in the online media, you may start noticing your affiliate revenues tighten up. We’ve received notice this week that multiple vendors/advertisers are shutting us off from their affiliate programs. Essentially, what advertisers seem to be doing, is targeting online media, like Newsroom Network, and arguing internally that we would be covering their products [...]

Google has redirected their China search home page to Google.com.hk, their Hong Kong search page. This change ends Google’s offering of censored web search, and Google has set up status pages for Chinese citizens to see which Google services they can currently access. As of this report, Chinese citizens can access the Hong Kong search, [...]

Veoh Networks, one of the many video streaming portal clones to spring up in the wake of YouTube’s success has laid off all of its staff and is in the process of filing for Chapter 7 liquidation proceeedings after its venture capital partners (which included Shelter Capital Partners, Spark Capital, Goldman Sachs, Adobe Systems Intel [...]

Following our previous coverage, 4chan has issued a statement on the heels of Verizon Wireless lifting their block (or, as Verizon argues, “protection”) against 4chan. Verizon Wireless early today argued that the denial of access stemmed from a Distributed Denial of Service attack on the internet site 4chan.org. That’s about the end of where 4chan [...]

Google has just announced its new microblogging service designed to compete with established services such as Twitter with Google Buzz. Google Buzz will be integrated within GMail and will allow for automatic contact and friend lists by email correspondence, public/private sharing and inline inbox integration with real-time updates and multiple source browsing in a single [...]

As has been the case all weekend, Verizon Wireless is actively blocking the boards.4chan.org subdomain on port 80, which is where each individual image and discussion board is stored on the popular site, while allowing all other traffic free reign.  In related news, Comcast itself filtered access to the main page and boards domain for [...]