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...Stephen acknowledges that his problem wouldn't have been as bad a generation ago, when viral buzz didn't play as big a role in the market. But it didn't take Fobis long to realize that the viral Wiimote craze playing out on the Internet threatened to obliterate the Weemote's visibility - and that it would be hard to finger culprits in this kind of uncharted legal territory. "This is not a classic trademark-infringement situation," says Fobis' attorney, Ken Hartmann. "But the stakes still involve the time and effort and money it took to develop a product...
...Marine 1st reconnaissance Battalion waits in Kuwait for the order to invade Iraq, there's a troubling rumor. It's not about the mission or WMD or the equipment they have not received. It's about Jennifer Lopez. J. Lo's dead, the buzz says, and the government is hiding the truth to prop up morale...
From John Edwards' haircut to Hillary Clinton's tear, Web videos have played a well-publicized role in generating buzz about this year's presidential candidates. As influential as those viral clips may be, though, a broader role is arising for so-called voter-generated content. Civic-minded techies are increasingly bringing Web 2.0 to political activism, developing new watchdog tools that open up congressional machinery for ordinary citizens to scrutinize and critique...
...average $50 a month to exchange dirty messages with actresses. But now, thanks in large part to the iPhone's video dexterity, short clips are becoming a staple of the mobile porn business. The speed promised by the iPhone 2.0 is much anticipated. Google Trends, which measures Web buzz, shows a sharp increase over the past year in the popularity of the term "iPhone porn." (See the top iPhone applications...
...weeks leading up to the championships - the official name for the tournament popularly known as Wimbledon, to be held this year from June 23 to July 6 - guards patrol the grounds of the All-England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club with German shepherds; their radios buzz periodically with static and their fingers twitch on flashlights. Electrified fences surround the courts in London's leafy southwest. Interlopers of all kinds are unwelcome. Foxes, especially...