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Brandon man develops concept in father's garage to produce 360-degree camera shot

An emerging field called collective intelligence could create an Orwellian future on a level Big Brother could only dream of.

International News: Deal brings in $3.8 million for Grace -- Japan Digital Contents Trust, a media investor which has backed a string of Japanese movie distributors, is to be taken over by a Japanese-Singapore fund.          In a deal that brings it $3.8 million of fresh capital, JDC Trust will issue new shares to Gorgeous Grace Investment, a fund that has previously invested in anime projects. Gorgeous Grace is managed by JCM Singapore, the Singapore venture capital offshoot of Tokyo-based JCM Asset Management Co.A pioneering content fund manager that listed on the Mothers section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2000, JDC Trust has lost money for several years as the Japanese investment climate has darkened. JDC Trust's funds have supplied coin for movie acquisitions to Japanese distribs including Movie-Eye Entertainment, Klockworx and Xanadeux. Another of its funds raised production coin for producer and distrib Cine Qua Non. Other Nippon content companies recently seeking corpora

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Digital music sales account for 18 percent of the U.S. music market and that figure will grow to 41 percent in five years, Forrester Research said in a report released on Monday.

Business News: Executives Barash, Free promoted -- Turner Broadcasting has upped two execs in its animation, young adults and kids media division, which oversees Adult Swim, the Cartoon Network and their associated digital brands.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- A photographer with tbt, a St. Petersburg alternative publication, is suing R&B singers Chris Brown and Rihanna, saying their bodyguards beat him and broke his camera....

DIGITAL entertainment giant Dolby Laboratories has paid millions of dollars to acquire Australian-made technology for online games.

The terrorists that attacked various locations in south Mumbai last week used digital maps from Google Earth to learn their way around, according to officials investigating the attacks.Investigations by the Mumbai police, including the interrogation of one nabbed terrorist, suggest that the terrorists were highly trained and used technologies such as satellite phones, and global positioning systems (GPS), according to police.[ Keep up on the latest tech news headlines at InfoWorld News, or subscribe to the Today's Headlines newsletter. ]Google Earth has previously come in for criticism in India, including from the country's former President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.Kalam warned in a 2005 lecture that the easy availability online of detailed maps of countries from services such as Google Earth could be misused by terrorists.A Google spokeswoman said in an e-mail Monday that Google Earth's imagery is already available through commercial and public sources. Google Earth h

A camera at an oil drilling site filmed the creature in the Gulf of Mexico.

Confused about what's going to happen when the switch gets flipped in two months? So are millions of other Americans. Maggie Reardon tells you what you need to know