Tagged: Hollywood & News
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SOPA’s evil twin PIPA faces defeat in US Senate News
19.01.2012 Just days after the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was shelved in the US Congress, an equally controversial piece of legislation, Protect IP Act (PIPA), that also...Categories: Communications, Consumer Tech, Digital Business, Digital Media, eCommerce, Intellectual Property, Internet, Legal, Legal Eagle, Multimedia -
Controversial SOPA bill killed in US Congress News
16.01.2012 The controversial Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) has effectively been stopped in its tracks. Virginia Republican Representative Eric Cantor killed the bill. -
Interview with Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos (video) News
11.01.2012 Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos believes that despite SOPA, Silicon Valley and Hollywood will eventually come together to find a solution to the global piracy problem. -
Reddit to black out on 18 January to protest SOPA News
11.01.2012 Popular news-sharing site Reddit has said it will be blacking itself out on 18 January for 12 hours in protest of the controversial Stop Online Piracy (SOPA) and Protect IP Acts... -
Anonymous threatens retaliation if SOPA gets passed News
21.12.2011 Hacker group Anonymous has come out with a statement on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) which reconvenes in the US Senate today. While the world has been given... -
Sham of SOPA hearings riles up key internet figures News
16.11.2011 Leading figures in technology have hit out at what they regard as a sham set of hearings around the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act which many fear would give the US... -
Silicon Valley’s top execs on hunt for Irish digital media interns News
04.11.2011 The Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG), which is bringing top Hollywood digital media execs to Belfast tomorrow, has today announced a new internship programme for budding... -
Hollywood and Silicon Valley bosses en route to Belfast News
01.11.2011 Top Hollywood and Silicon Valley executives are en route to Northern Ireland, where the successful TV show Game of Thrones is being filmed, to help cement the region’s...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Media, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Design -
BT ordered to block Newzbin2 News
26.10.2011 The UK’s largest telco and ISP BT has been ordered by the High Court in London to block access to a site called Newzbin2 which the Hollywood movie industry claimed was allowing...Categories: Networking & Telecoms, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Consumer Tech, Communications -
YouTube is releasing movies for rent in UK News
07.10.2011 Just months after YouTube released movies for rent in the US and Canada, the online video giant is to release more than 1,000 full-length features films from major Hollywood and... -
Silicon Valley’s Irish conquer the heart of Hollywood News
14.09.2011 Powerhouses from the entertainment and technology industries gathered in Hollywood this week to celebrate the impact of technology on entertainment and recognise the major...Categories: Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Investments, Games/Entertainment, Funding, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Irish tech journalist wins 'Best Foreign Film' in US movie competition News
05.09.2011 An Irish technology journalist has put years of testing video hardware to good use by writing and directing his first short film which has just won the “Best Foreign Film Award”... -
Irish in Silicon Valley to play host to Hollywood powerbrokers News
19.08.2011 Senior executives from HBO, Warner Bros and Bloomberg will attend an Innovation in Entertainment event organised by the Southern California chapter of the Irish Technology... -
Charlie Sheen breezes past 1m followers on Twitter News
03.03.2011 The race between actor Ashton Kutcher and talk-show host Oprah Winfrey to reach 1m followers on Twitter took weeks. Actor and Hollywood bad boy Charlie Sheen managed it in just... -
Charlie Sheen’s first tweet attracts 621,000 followers on Twitter News
02.03.2011 His turbulent personal life has long been a public spectacle, but it seems more than 621,000 Twitter users are hooked. In less than 12 hours, Hollywood bad boy Charlie Sheen has... -
Is YouTube planning movie-streaming service for Europe? News
25.02.2011 YouTube is understood to be planning an unlimited subscription service for movies that it will launch in Europe – beginning with the UK – before taking on the US and services... -
More power to the PC News
13.01.2011 As 1m PCs continue to be sold daily, Intel says its chips, including its 2nd Generation Core Processor, will drive $125bn into the PC industry’s coffers. -
Intel reveals silver bullet to save Hollywood News
06.01.2011 LAS VEGAS - Intel says its new Sandy Bridge next-generation processor has delivered the security Hollywood has craved and could mean cinema content could be delivered to the... -
Tweets fuel Tim Burton's storytelling project News
24.11.2010 Hollywood director and writer Tim Burton has recently launched his storytelling project called Cadavre Exquis that encourages people to contribute via the social networking... -
Robot stars in play News
12.11.2010 In terms of robotic acting, a few big-name Hollywood stars, not to mention the Star Wars prequels, spring to mind, while stage acting is normally the reserve of well-crafted,...