Give thanks for some of the best developments of 2007, including: the impending death of DRM, gaming’s big mainstream break-out, volunteerism in the open source world, a big disrupter in the mobile phone world, and more.
That’s right folks, wrap your minds around this — a phone that features Playstation buttons, has a Microsoft Windows operating system, and plays Nintendo games. Confused yet? How about the fact that the phone was made in “Koera” — No, that’s not a typo, that’s what is printed on the phone.
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban has called for Comcast and other ISPs to block P2P traffic on their networks. But Cuban overlooks some of the most important uses of P2P, and why things like BitTorrent are so widely embraced.
The Dutch ISP LeaseWeb can’t take the pressure from BREIN anymore. As a preliminary measure they have now ordered dozens of BitTorrent sites - including some big-shots - to pack their stuff before December 1st, leave LeaseWeb and find a new home.
This holiday season is probably more important for Sony than for any of its arch rivals, because this is practically the first time that PS3 goes head to head with the 360 and Wii since the drastic price cuts. Sales are starting to pick up and Sony’s going all out to steal Christmas.
The infamous anti-piracy organization IFPI sent an email to warn its members NOT to any send email to colleagues that use an xxx@ifpi.com email address because that domain is now owned by their rivals from the “International Federation of Pirate Interests”. Unfortunately the members did not listen, and even the email about the leak leaked
According to 1UP’s recent hands-on report on the latest preview build of the PS3 version of The Orange Box, the game suffers from various technical issues that at worst make the game “downright unplayable.”
Create a smokey night effect on text to give it an eerie supernatural sort of feel!
Earlier this month I wrote a blog post showing that a search for presidential candidate “Ron Paul” in Facebook Groups yields zero results. Facebook blamed the problem on a bug, which was corrected.
But a new issue may be harder to explain. On Tuesday, scores of mainstream press organizations (see WSJ, NYT, LATimes, CNET, AP, etc.).
If they want to ping your cellphone to find out where you are, it’s easy.
Husband’s lottery syndicate wins $19m, but he keeps it from his wife.. until she Googles him…
This dictionary is lighting fast
