While this was a major accomplishment, it went almost entirely unnoticed. That could be, in part, because only two people in the world had a web browser to be able to access it. In fact, it wasn't until 1993 when Mosaic was released that the general populace had the ability to access any of the web.
For more on the history of the web, hit the break.
Sony had a powerful E3 presentation where Vita brought hope to all Sony fans and even myself that innovation had once again found itself ingrained within the Sony handheld's precious metals. While that seems to still be true, no one here in the US or Europe should expect to have their anxiety curbed this holiday season, according to Sony Executive Vice President Kazuo Hirai.
Despite the fact that Hirai announced at E3 the Vita would be available "starting from the holiday season this year," he made another announcement on August 4th that this would not be the case. The US and Europe but more importantly, the US, shouldn't expect Vita to grace store shelves until early next year. Missing out on the retail golden quarter might have certain ramifications for the Vita, more on that after the break.
WIRED:Report: Sony’s PlayStation Vita Will Miss Holiday Launch in U.S.
We have finally reached the end of the small battle between RIAA and LimeWire this week, as they have reached a payout agreement. You may recall that LimeWire has been on the hook for $105 million from several record labels and RIAA was so proud of themself from putting that together, that they felt they could pretty much do anything, so long as they got help from the crazy legislators in California.
This week we learned that LimeWire had to write a check for $12 million over to the Warner Music Group. That might not be as close to the $1 billion in damages Warner claimed to have had done to them at the hands of the former P2P software, but I suppose that's better than nothing. However, $12 million is only 1.7% of the amount of revenue Warner does in a quarter. So in the end, it's more like a drop in the Atlantic Ocean.
No matter how much money would be issued to these labels, though, it feels like they'd never be happy. Warner may have claimed $1 billion, but you know they would complain until they saw $3 billion in their account. Good news for them is that they were up 5% in revenue for the second quarter, attributed to digital sales that were up 13%. The number that is important is that they still were able post a net loss of $47 million. Seems like that $12 million might have helped them out more than they thought.