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NEW YORK (AP) -- Phone company Verizon Communications Inc. will challenge Netflix and start a video streaming service this year with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks....

A new Internet streaming venture built around Redbox's DVD-rental kiosks adds to a crowded field of online video-viewing services dominated by Netflix....

At the beginning of the year we introduced you to the new 52 weeks project our communities team are running on Flickr to document the year in pictures – here's an update on the and showcase of some of the best photos from week fiveSince we started the 52 weeks project to document the year in pictures – a collaborative effort with Flickr users – we've seen the group taking part grow to more than 700 members and so far more than 1,000 photos have been submitted.From fireworks and storms in week one, to back-to-work blues and foggy sunsets in weeks two and three, we have now reached week five and the first week of February has been dominated by the snowy scenes. The aim of the group is to not only chronologically track 2012 in pictures – but to explore the ways we are taking and sharing photos in 2012. The news Kodak was filing for bankruptcy sparked this thread with users showcasing their favourite snaps taken on a Kodak and reminiscing on their favourite Kodak products. The group has also been sharing links to other places where these photography themes are being explored – including Timeout London's instagram albums, and soundcloud's storywheel.Finally 52 weeks users are sharing their favourite iPhoneography apps they use to add to the feel of the moment on their android snaps – this thread has a great list of apps for android including RetroCamera and Paper Camera and this thread looks at the top apps for the iPhone including Camera+ and Tiltshiftgenerator. As the group continues members are exploring and experimenting with taking photos on all sorts of devices - but especially new photograph apps and how phones are styling the day-to-day images of our lives. If you're interested, join the 52 weeks project here - we're now in week six but it's not to late to get involved!See all the Photos of 2012: 52 weeks project images so far in this slideshow:Thanks to all the readers who have got involved so far. You can also see a gallery of our readers' snow pictures here.PhotographyOpen journalismiPhoneFlickrGuardian readersHannah Waldramguardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A developing Senate plan that would bolster the government's ability to regulate the computer security of companies that run critical industries is drawing strong opposition from businesses that say it goes too far and security experts who believe it should have even more teeth....

Now that anyone can be a publisher, the attorney general has a duty to educate the public about contempt - before an ill-informed tweeter goes to jailIf Joey Barton is not prosecuted for contempt of court over his tweets about John Terry's trial, it will be more by luck than by design.Barton, never at a loss for words, made his views on the Terry case very plain in a series of robust tweets on Friday evening. It was clear he thought Terry's would be a jury trial. The fact that it will be held at a magistrates court, whose justices and district judges are regarded as harder to sway than a jury, might save Barton an appearance in the dock himself. Whether he is prosecuted would appear to hang on whether the attorney general, Dominic Grieve, takes the view that his tweets may have caused a serious impediment to John Terry's case by influencing a witness.This latest example of the use of social media leading to potential contempt of court should sound alarm bells at the Ministry of Justice, because the attorney general faces a potentially serious challenge to the ability of the courts to give people a fair trial. It is only a matter of time before someone with as many followers as Barton - almost 1.2m, at the last count - and as loose a grasp of the law causes the collapse of a crown court trial.The law on contempt, as enacted in 1981, places the burden on the publisher not to cause a substantial risk of serious prejudice to active proceedings – 'active' being as soon as someone is arrested, or a warrant is issued for their arrest. Back then publishers were invariably established media – newspapers and broadcasters. They know how to avoid contempt, and they pay the often very heavy price when they stray across the line. The Sun, Mirror, and Daily Mail have all faced actions over the past year after having published prejudicial material, in print or online. But as Barton's tweets (now deleted) showed, he had no knowledge of contempt law. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, and the fact contempt is a strict liability offence also removes Barton's intent from the equation in any potential prosecution too.Being pragmatic, though, does Dominic Grieve really want to allow a situation to continue where the tweets of a celebrity or sports star with a million-plus followers bring a high-profile trial to a halt, at great cost to the taxpayer? Prejudicial conversations about ongoing trials which were once confined to the dinner table, pub or dressing room are now conducted with an online audience of millions.In portraying himself as a martyr for free speech, Barton unfortunately fails to recognise the competing right to a fair trial and the presumption of innocence that is central to that right. The Law Commission is looking at how to deal with contempt by publication on the internet, but work does not start on that until 2014, with a report due in winter 2016. By that time Twitter may be dead and buried and new forms of social media throwing down newer challenges to the judicial system.What is needed now is a more proactive approach than simply bringing prosecutions, as Grieve has shown himself willing to do. That concentrates the minds of newspaper editors, but it will not prevent the sort of contempt that Barton flirted with on Friday evening. The Ministry of Justice cannot police Twitter and other social media, but what it can do is make the public more aware of the right to a fair trial and how that can be put in jeopardy. A campaign of public information, waged on the very social media that can prejudice a trial, might go some way to preventing public figures with large followings damaging a defendant's right to a fair trial.Contempt of courtMedia lawTrial by juryUK criminal justiceDominic GrieveJoey BartonTwitterDavid Banksguardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

Map: What difference do anti-windfarm MPs make? Where are those MPs based - and where are the windfarms?Simon Rogers

To mark the forthcoming launch of Asura's Wrath, Capcom is holding a manga art event in London on Wednesday – and we have 10 tickets to give awayFeaturing boss characters the size of planets and a hero with enough insane combo attacks to take down a moderately sized army, Asura's Wrath is the latest slice of incendiary hack-n-slash action from Capcom. Due out at the end of February, the game follows eponymous assassin Asura who wakes from a 12,000-year coma to take vengeance on the galactic warlords who murdered his wife and kidnapped his daughter.From here, it looks to be a hyper-kinetic third-person brawler, with epic narrative sequences and an episodic structure echoing an anime TV series. If you've played the recent Xbox Live demo you'll know what to expect, including a battle with a stone giant the size of a skyscraper, and the aforementioned face-off with a planet-sized demi-god who tries to squash Asura with one gigantic finger. A big part of the game is its extravagant anime/manga styling, and Capcom is holding a manga drawing master class at Orbital Comics on Great Newport Street between 9.30am and 11am on Wednesday.The session will be taken by established UK manga artist Hayden Scott-Barrett from Sweatdrop Studios, and the game will also be playable on the day. It's mostly for the games media, but Capcom has been kind enough to make 10 tickets available to Guardian readers. If you want to come along, all you have to do is send an email to Capcom. The first 10 to arrive in Capcom's intray will get an invite.GamesEventsGame culturePS3XboxKeith Stuartguardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

The great New Wave film-maker François Truffaut would have been 80 today. As he's honoured with a Google doodle, Xan Brooks salutes one of cinema's most sorely missedApologies to Bob Marley, Ronald Reagan, Eva Braun, and all the other dead luminaries who celebrated their birthdays on February 6. Today, it transpires, is not their time. Instead, the world's biggest internet search engine has opted to honour the 80th anniversary of the late François Truffaut via the medium of the Google doodle. When Sibelius made his crack about no one ever erecting a statue to a critic, he clearly reckoned without the rise of the Google doodle.Arguably the foremost of the New Wave film-makers, Truffaut was also the first to go: killed by a brain tumour at the age of 52 after a life spent in perpetual motion. In his teens he had been the juvenile tearaway and in his 20s a crusading film critic, railing against the impoverished state of post-war French cinema and refining the auteur theory to allow the inclusion of Hollywood titans like Hitchcock and Ford.Yet Truffaut went on to prove himself one of the most fresh and vibrant directors of his generation. His reputation, understandably, is primarily built on his astonishing early work: the fierce, freewheeling 400 Blows …and the gloriously poignant and playful Jules et Jim. But completists would also be advised to check out the handsome films from his mature, middle period, not least the troublesome L'Enfant Sauvage or the Oscar-winning Day For Night. Plus let's not forget his deft acting role as Claude Lacombe, the sympathetic government scientist in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.The tragedy of Truffaut was that was to be no late period. Having once vowed to make 30 films and then retire, the director bowed out after 25, leaving a rash of unfinished productions in his wake. Who knows how he would have fared as he pushed towards old age? Who can tell how his work would have matched up against the films of his former New Wave rivals? What seems obvious, however, is that French cinema has missed him. Softer than Godard, warmer than Chabrol, and more meaty than Rohmer, Truffaut was the man who brought the nouvelle-vague to the mainstream; who took cerebral film theory and made it sing. Happy birthday, François Truffaut. And wherever you may be, we hope there is cake and candles and that Eva Braun hasn't drunk all the Blue Nun.Francois TruffautGoogleGoogle doodleWorld cinemaJean-Luc GodardXan Brooksguardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

No, it's not a fantasy ... Fifa 12 has been dethroned (and relegated to 4th place) by none other than Final Fantasy XIII-2UKIE Games Charts© compiled by GfK Chart-TrackGamesXboxPS3PlayStationWii3DSDSHandheldPCguardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

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NEW YORK, Feb 5 (Reuters) - CommVault Systems Inc has managed to skirt rampant consolidation in the fast-growing storage software market, and CEO Bob Hammer is planning to keep it that way.

The Web site is trying for pollination: providing the kind of content that will have visitors passing along links from one person to the next, that will in turn bring them around to BuzzFeed.

TOKYO/LONDON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Official investigations into a massive fraud at Japan's Olympus Corp are highly likely to lead to further revelations on the scandal soon, according to the firm's former chief executive, Michael Woodford, who blew the whistle on the affair.

The president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Craig B. Thompson, is in a billion-dollar dispute with his former workplace over accusations that he walked away with research.

Feb 5 (Reuters) - TiVo Inc is trading at a compelling discount and could be a possible acquisition target by Microsoft or Google, Barron's financial newspaper reported on Sunday.

Without the free content created by its 850 million users, Facebook would surely not be on the verge of a multibillion-dollar initial public offering.

European activists are hoping to stop the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which they say will erode Internet freedom and stifle innovation.

Today’s Internet is a place for getting things done, pushing aside the cyberflâneur — the heir to the flâneur culture of 19th-century France.

Max Schrems's crusade against the information collected by the social network has become a cause célèbre in parts of Europe, looming over the company as it prepares to go public.