Google Fast Flip Adds Publications

Google has added more than 50 newspapers, magazines, websites and TV stations to Fast Flip, the service that allows users to preview or 'flip' through news stories. Google Fast Flip was introduced in September and can currently be found in the Google Labs beta site. Articles from UK newspapers The Telegraph, The Independent and The Express have been added, along with the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. The Miami Herald and the Kansas City Star, the Huffington Post, Popular Science, Reuters, Public Radio International, POLITICO, and US News & World Report are also added. PC Advisor's sister titles PCWorld.com and Macworld.com are already on Fast Flip. Fast Flip now indexes around 90 publications and aims, according to Google, to "make reading articles online as fast and simple as flipping through a magazine or newspaper". Announcing the additions via a Google blog post, software engineer Jack Hebert said: "If you make it easier to read news online, people will read more of it. Users have told us they like being able to browse content so quickly, and we've been pleased with the amount of time they have spent reading articles in Fast Flip."

Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/185139/google_fast_flip_adds_publications.html

FBI makes arrest in 'Wolverine' uploading case

The FBI has accused a man of copyright infringement for allegedly uploading to the Web the feature film "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" last spring. Gilberto Sanchez, 47, was arrested in the Bronx, N.Y., early Wednesday morning by FBI agents without incident, law enforcement sources told CNET. A spokeswoman from the FBI's Los Angeles field office, which led the investigation, confirmed the arrest. If convicted, Sanchez faces up to three years in prison and a $250,000 fine, or twice the gross gain or gross loss attributable to the offense, whichever is greater. When the feature film from 20th Century Fox was leaked to the Internet in April, it caused panic in Hollywood because the movie, which reportedly cost $100 million to make, was not scheduled for theatrical release until May. The fear was that Internet distribution of an unauthorized copy would hurt ticket sales. By the time the movie screened in theaters, the unauthorized copy had been watched 4.1 million times, according to market researcher BigChampagne.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10416372-261.html?tag=newsLatestHeadlinesArea.0