The UpStream

The tech industry is all aflame over the upcoming Facebook announcement at a private, invite-only event on Monday. The general consensus is that Facebook will be launching an email service to compete against Gmail and Hotmail.

Facebook has been battling with Google now for a few years for dominance of the Internet. Google has been the big player but Facebook has been gaining a lot of ground. With the Google Buzz and Google Wave failures, Facebook now feels they have the opportunity to hurt Google by their actions instead of Google's actions.

To learn how this could affect the Internet, hit the break.

Perez Hilton fans rejoice. Myspace has finally conceded to Facebook, waving their white flag and admitting that Facebook is now the social network mafioso in charge. Myspace, instead, is changing focus to music, movies, TV, games and celebrities that the ever so graceful and respectful younger generation loves. The News Corp-acquired website formerly known as a social networking giant announced this week that it is working on a beta site that will be media-centric.

Myspace CEO Mike Jones spoke on the change.

This marks the beginning of an exciting turning point for Myspace. Our new strategy expands on Myspace's existing strengths - a deep understanding of social, a wealth of entertainment content and the ability to surface emerging cultural trends in real time through our users.

There's more to this whole change though. It seems that money could be made from this venture. Hit the break to learn more and to see a picture of the site.

More content, more devices, same price. That's what Hulu announced this week regarding their Hulu Plus subscription service after rumors of a possible price cut last week.

As Hulu is becoming more and more popular, and as cable TV subscriptions are plummeting at a rate of 500,000 subscribers a quarter, Hulu is looking for new and exciting places to show off their goods. On top of announcing this week that their Hulu Plus service will be arriving to PS3 users and Sony BRAVIA 2010 TVs this week and that the Hulu Plus package is now open to all US residents, Hulu's also added several new fall shows to the premium package. The only down side to all of this is that Hulu firmly believes their $10/month price is working, and they're sticking with it.

For the full press release, hit the break.

On our off week, the Recording Industry Association of America (or RIAA) won a lawsuit filed long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away. The defendant was file-sharing service LimeWire and their parent company, annoyingly named Lime Wire.

In 2007, RIAA filed suit against Lime Wire for copyright infringement by way of facilitating access to copyrighted material through their network. Last week, a US court agreed and ordered the LimeWire service shut down.

For more on the lawsuit and what it means for users, hit the break.

It feels like just a few weeks ago I wrote about the inevitable and probably indefinite delay of Gran Turismo 5. However I have some great news! Kazunori Yamauchi, recently spoke to Autoweek about Gran Turismo 6.

Hit the break to find out more about a game that may very well never come out in our lifetime.

Remember just over a month ago when I told you T-Mobile doesn't care about 4G? Well, apparently they must've had some sort of mental breakdown because now they have announced that they have a 4G network and it has been rolled out for a few weeks already!

If this doesn't sound right to you, pat yourself on the back. T-Mobile does not have a fourth generation network, they don't even have a sustained third generation network! The company has decided that customers don't care about the technology behind the network powering their mobile devices and only care about download speeds.

This all started with a commercial I saw on TV about T-Mobile's new myTouch4G. It was mocking the iPhone 4's limited features and AT&T's 3G network. They then went on to say they have the largest 4G network! What? T-Mobile currently has (in very limited areas) a third-gen HSPA+ network, which, while fast, is nowhere near the speeds of WiMax or LTE - both 4G networks.

To see the commercial they put out that sparked me to raise my hand to question their logic, follow the break.