March 29, 2012

2012 should go down in history as the year that Americans watched more movies online than on DVD. A new report predicts there will be about a billion more streaming views than DVD’s watched this year. But those shiny discs are still the cash cow for the industry, providing nearly 90% of revenue through DVD sales. Source Link

They say a way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, but do women go to their happy place with the taste of a juicy steak? A new study found that women who ate red meat three times a week had a much smaller risk of depression. But lowly hamburgers don’t count, because premium grass-fed beef high in Omega-3 fatty acids was used in the study. Source Link

Will it a take a wizard to unlock the world of encrypted e-books? The Harry Potter series is now on sale for the first time in e-book form and without encryption that prevents buyers from copying the files and reading on different devices. It’s a major step away from the current industry standard that limits an e-book to the brand of device it was purchased for.  Source Link