Archive for February 7, 2007

Bram Cohen replies to Marc Cuban’s claim Bittorrent is Doomed

“he does has some claim to punditry in the bandwidth space because his $5 billion sale of broadcast.com for yahoo stock set the precedent for valuing bandwidth supply companies based on how quickly they flush money down the toilet.”

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Alan Wake to be PC and Xbox 360 exclusive

Cooperation with Microsoft gives lift to game developer Remedy - Microsoft’s new Windows Vista operating system is aiding the Finnish game developer Remedy Entertainment, of Max Payne fame, in obtaining further publicity and lift.

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Huxley MMOFPS Not Dead! NEW PC Screenshots.

Huxley is back bitches. I was wondering when we were going to hear something more about Huxley. It is one title that has had a lot of people talking in the past and these new screenshots are absolutely BEAUTIFUL.

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Russian BitTorrent Trackers Shut Down

Several BitTorrent trackers in the Tomsk region in Russia have been shut down. The reason for the takedowns is still unclear. Some suggest that the cybercrime division of the Russian police, also known as

Social Music Overview - Pandora, Last.Fm, Finetune,etc.

“Music was probably the first type of rich media to really go

New Startup: Useless Account

The trick to any good humor or hoax site is an attention to detail and a seriousness about your work. Useless Account is the best recent example I

New 802.11n Airport benchmarked, then disassembled with pictures

The new base station is amazing. Hi-res internal photos show the cool new design. We achieved a 10x performance boost, and a 3x usable range increase! We reached over 9 MB/s in short range lab testing with a MacBook Pro. Long range testing was equally impressive. At 300 feet (with a building in the way), we hit transfer rates of 500 KB/s.

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New DVD Drive in Xbox360. Quiet BenQ VAD6038

GaryOPA mailed in to let us know Microsoft has finally started using the new BenQ VAD6038 drive for the Xmas’06 production run (MFR date November 06 and up) to replace the Toshiba-Samsung and Hitachi-LG drives Microsoft dropped.

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Breaking! Wal-Mart First to Offer Digital Movies From All “Big Six” Studios

Scoring a major coup over Apple, Wal-Mart has become the first (and thus far, only) digital distributor to go into business with all six major studios: Walt Disney, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox and Universal will all be selling digital movies at its online store.

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Your face is your password

Gone may be the days of remembering passwords or scanning your fingerprint to log on to your PC. If NecSoft’s new authentication software catches on, all you’ll need is your face.

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Torvalds + Others Rank What’s Hot

Check out a video of renown FOSS developers (incl. Linus Torvalds, Rusty Russell and Jono Bacon) giving their 2 cents on technology, companies, and girl bands.

Answers all the eternal questions: “What does Linus think of The Cure? Why is the iPhone evil? And does anybody still like Novell?”

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System 76 unveils Ubuntu-powered Darter ultraportable series

It looks like the barrage of Vista-equipped laptops has subsided just a bit, which means it’s the perfect time for System 76 to bust out a new Ubuntu Linux laptop to appease the open-source crowd. The Darter series boasts a trendy white paint job, a 13.3-inch widescreen WXGA display, and weighs a very manageable 4.3-pounds.

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