Archive for September 25, 2007

MPAA Takes Down IsoHunt’s BitTorrent Trackers in the US

Starting today, the Isohunt team will deny access to all US visitors on their TorrentBox and Podtropolis tracker. They are forced to take this action because of their involvement in a lawsuit initiated by the MPAA.

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EA announces Dead Space

Electronic Arts announced this morning that their Redwood Shores Studio is currently developing an original intellectual property that will introduce a new experience to the sci-fi horror genre. In the brilliant, bold and often-bloody Dead Space gamers will step into a third-person sci-fi survival horror experience that promises to deliver the ulti

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Critical Excel 2007 bug cripples users

What is 850 x 77.1 ? a calculator will tell you it’s 65535, but a critical flaw in Microsoft’s Excel 2007 causes it return 100000 as the answer to this, and any other calculation for which the result is 65535.

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New Konqueror web browser icon by Oxygen Team

Konqueror, KDE web browser get a new icon in Oxygen style. Check it out.

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Victorious RIAA defendant gets attorneys’ fees, turns to class-action plans

Calling the RIAA’s case unjustified “as a reasonable exploration of the boundaries of copyright law,” a federal magistrate judge late last week awarded former RIAA defendant Tanya Andersen attorneys’ fees for her nearly two-and-a-half-year fight against a copyright infringement lawsuit.

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Microsoft in Talks to Buy Facebook Stake Valuing The Company at $10 Billion

Microsoft’s approach to Facebook in recent weeks with proposals to invest in the fast-growing site is part of the software giant’s effort to catch up with the Internet rival Google. If successful, Microsoft’s talks with Facebook could give it an up-to-5% stake in the closely-held startup
—a stake potentially valued at roughly $300 to $500 million…

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Porn Industry Infighting As Pirate Bay Takes On Big Media

After declaring their own war on BitTorrent, players from the porn industry have been debating The Pirate Bay
’s calls for police action after major media companies tried to illegally sabotage their operations.

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RUMOR: Sony announcing 40GB PS3 this week

Sky News is reporting that a 40GB model will soon be announced by Sony. According to an “electronic manufacturing news source” of theirs, Taiwanese manufacturer FoxConn will handle production of the unit, the same company that produces the PS2.

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First U.S. GPL lawsuit to settle out of court

The first U.S. GPL-related lawsuit appears to be headed for a quick out-of-court settlement. Device-maker Monsoon Multimedia admitted today that it has violated the GPLv2 (GNU General Public License version 2), and said it will release its modified BusyBox code in full compliance with the license.

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