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India ‘to complain to U.S. over Jay Leno temple gag’
India is to formally object to a joke by US TV host Jay Leno in which he said that the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for Sikhs, was a summer home for wealthy presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Minister Vayalar Ravi termed the gag by “The Tonight Show” host as “quite unfortunate and quite objectionable” and said…
Megaupload loses its top lawyer over conflict of interest
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Content-sharing Internet service Megaupload.com has lost the help of one of the best-known U.S. defense lawyers as it begins to fight charges of copyright infringement, a person familiar with the matter said. Robert Bennett was required to withdraw from the case because of a conflict involving at…
Vinyl records are back. Again.
In the brave new world of MP3 players, compact discs are dying, cassettes are Stone Age, and old-fashioned vinyl records… they’re back! It might seem that nothing short of a wind-up gramophone could be more out of place today than the nostalgia-laden, crackly-sounding 33 and 45 RPM disc. Yet in…
Online ad revenue overtakes newsprint in China
China’s revenue from online advertising was higher than the equivalent in newsprint for the first time in 2011, a study by the market research firm iResearch said, quoted in the Global Times Saturday. Web advertising in the world’s second largest economy generated 51.19 billion yuan ($8.11 billion), while newsprint advertising brought in 45.36 billion…
Filmmakers capture ‘human view’ of Palestinian village
Palestinian filmmaker Emad Burnat spent five years filming his village’s resistance to Israeli settlers — and brought his intimate but powerful documentary to the Sundance film festival. Co-directed with Israeli Guy Davidi, “5 Broken Cameras” was shown in competition on the first weekend of the world-renowned independent film festival, which…
Blues legend Etta James dead at 73
LOS ANGELES — Legendary US blues and soul singer Etta James, best known for her 1960 hit “At Last,” died Friday of complications from leukemia, her manager said. She was 73. James, who flitted effortlessly from jazz, pop and love ballads to feisty R&B and who plunged into drug addiction…
British authorities revoke Iran’s Press TV license
British authorities on Friday revoked the licence of Press TV, the Iranian state broadcaster’s English-language outlet, saying the channel had breached a string of regulations. Ofcom, the independent broadcasting watchdog, said in a statement that Press TV failed to obey a rule that its licence should be held by its Tehran…
US shutdown of sharing site draws hacker retaliation
US authorities have shut down one of the largest file-sharing websites and charged seven people with copyright crimes, sparking a retaliatory cyber attack on the FBI and Justice Department websites. The two government sites were up and running again early Friday after being shut down for several hours in an…
Colbert plans South Carolina rally with Herman Cain
By Grace Wyler He may not have been a great presidential candidate, but there is no doubt that Herman Cain is a marketing genius. In the lead-up to his hyped-up “unconventional endorsement” in South Carolina today, the one-time GOP frontrunner has teamed up with none other than Stephen Colbert to make sure that his political comeback doesn’t go…
Jude Law: News International hacked me on U.S. soil
Actor Jude Law has confirmed what many have suspected: Rupert Murdoch’s news empire extended its phone hacking to U.S. soil. In a statement to a British court Thursday, Law said that reporters working for News International’s former paper News of the World had hacked his phone repeatedly between 2003 and…
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