Apple sued over 1984 commercial When Apple’s award-winning ‘1984’ commercial was used to create an anti-Hillary Clinton video on YouTube, we waited for some warning from Apple about its abused copyright. It’s a surprise, then, to learn that Apple itself was censored for abuse of copyright when the TV ad first aired before the launch of the company’s Macintosh computer. The copyright holder of George Orwell’s classic novel ‘1984’ may sue over the video that used Apple’s Macintosh advertisement to jab at Senator Hillary Clinton, a lawyer for Rosenblum Productions has said....

Disney sells half a million movies on iTunes Walt Disney has sold nearly half a million movies through iTunes in just two months, the company revealed yesterday. Making movies available through Apple’s online media service has added approximately $4 million to the company’s bottom line, AppleInsider has confirmed. Walt Disney revealed the success of its partnership with Apple during its fourth quarter financial call, where it admitted profits of $782 million, exceeding analyst expectations....

Server failure makes Google unavailable The failure of a DNS (domain name system) server at Comcast caused problems for some web surfers in the north east section of the US yesterday, making several websites, including Google, inaccessible. The server failure caused connectivity problems for a ‘few hours’, said Jeanne Russo, a Comcast spokeswoman. By late yesterday, the broadband provider had rerouted traffic to other servers, she said. An undetermined number of Google users who subscribe to Comcast’s broadband service “experienced problems accessing Google and other services for a short period of time”, a Google spokesman said via email....

Google plans upgrade for search engine Google plans to extend the product search capabilities on its main Google.com search engine in the fourth quarter, in time for the holiday shopping season. A Google official shared the news with attendees of the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance (PESA) Summit in San Francisco this week, according to people at the conference. When people search for products on Google.com, the system will present them with another search box so that they can refine their query, according to Bear Stearns & Co analysts....

IT unlocks the origin of Darwin’s theory British naturalist Charles Darwin is credited with the theory of evolution, but a crucial part of his theory came from his mentor, John Stevens Henslow, a lesser-known Cambridge University professor. Henslow may have been forever relegated to obscurity were it not for database analytics. For more than two years, a team of researchers based at Cambridge worked to uncover a secret hidden in Henslow’s 160-year-old herbarium (his collection of plants)....