BBC News reports here: A law that could force Apple to share its digital download technology with rivals has been passed in France. Currently, songs bought from Apple’s iTunes music store can only be played on Apple-manufactured iPods. The bill would mean any digital song could be played on any player, regardless of its format or source.
The Washington Post reports here: Google Inc. yesterday unveiled its long-anticipated service for helping consumers make purchases online, setting up a potential rival to eBay Inc.’s popular PayPal system.
The Top Ten Books in this week’s Bestellers List at Amazon, see The Top Ten Books here for more info including some reader reviews in our online store (ranking as of writing of this article, might change over time)
And the top ten Bestellers this week are:
• Twelve Sharp (Stephanie Plum Novels)
• An Inconvenient Truth
• The Fat Smash Diet : The Last Diet You’ll Ever Need
• The One Percent Doctrine
• Godless: The Church of Liberalism
• The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded] : A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
• Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works
• The Kite Runner
• Heat : An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
• Danse Macabre (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter)
Recently, new media has reported a study showing the radiation from cell phones is so full of energy they can be used to cook eggs. For more info on cell phone health risks see this article here at foodconsumer.org