The MPAA’s Ubuntu-based university network monitoring toolkit software is no longer available for download. An Ubuntu technical board member sent a takedown notice to the group’s ISP noting that the software was being distributed without source code, which is a violation of the GPL.
Success in this business isn’t always measured in sales and revenue, sometimes it’s measured in what it does for the average person. And while Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo left Sega in their wake, the Dreamcast provided an experience that acted as the forerunner to many of the consoles we enjoy today. Sega should release Dreamcast 2 on 9/9/09.
8GB of flash storage is currently the best you can hope for in a standard (though imported) Eee PC. However, if you’re industrious and determined enough, you can marry your 4GB Eee with a $150 (or so) 16GB Corsair Flash Voyager drive for a full 20GB of storage. That’s exactly what Johnx did over at eeeuser.com.
iPhone hacker hachu developed a download plug-in for MobileSafari. Once installed and customized, it allows you to download data off the Internet and store it on your iPhone or iPod touch local disk in the /var/root/Downloads folder.
Sure, your Wii is fully capable of handling all the GameCube awesomeness you can throw at it (or gently insert), but does your Wii look like this? Unless you had someone do a little airbrushing, the answer is probably no. Thanks to the wonder of eBay, however, you can have your very own airbrushed GameCube .
As german newschannel zdnet.de is reporting, France government is seriously about closing eBay in France. The reason: they break european law!
The latest issue of the Donald Duck magazine in The Netherlands features Donald and his nephews as music pirates and (who else) Uncle Scrooge as the big boss of a record label threatening with fines. Has the anti-piracy lobby infiltrated the Donald Duck magazine?
If you visit Google.com from an iPhone, you now get a menu of services to choose from - home (search box), Gmail, Calendar, Reader and More (docs, sms, goog-411, news, photos, blogger and notebook). It’s basically all of the core Google services, accessible from a single easy to use menu.
Just imagine if Sega remastered Sonic 2 or 3 with the same care that Capcom is taking with the HD Remix of Super Street Fighter 2…
Announced at the annual Nokia World conference today, “Comes With Music” will enable customers to buy a Nokia device with a year of unlimited access to “millions of tracks”, and, rather surprisingly, get to keep those tracks once the twelve month period ends.
While it admits it’s not possible to pin down an exact number, Microsoft has let out word today that it estimates the counterfeit rate of Vista to be about half that of XP, a figure that it seems to be more than pleased with. Of course, one could interpret those numbers in slightly less positive ways, but Microsoft claims the sharp dip in piracy is
According to Engadget, “To put that in some perspective, HP (currently at the top of the laptop heap) shipped some 6.2 million laptops total in the last quarter, while Apple sold approximately 1.4 million in the same time period.” In other words, this is a serious digital tipping point in favor of Free Open Source Software.
