Apple has developed a technique that could allow for a smaller iPhone with all the controls but half the size, according to a recent but not yet fully public US Patent Office filing. Described as a “dual sided trackpad,” it would allow multi-touch on the inside and out: in other words, it would allow an iPhone flip.
Following a huge increase in complaints from the music, movie and software industries, the four major Japanese ISP organizations have agreed that they will work with copyright holders to track down copyright infringing file-sharers and disconnect them from the internet.
Truly awful looking website. After looking at it for 5 seconds, I wanted to throw up. Someone needs to hunt down the designer and giving him a good beating.
Sony’s PlayStation 3 has surpassed the Xbox 360 in sales for the second straight month. Microsoft has to be concerned about the PS3’s growing momentum as well as its own supply constraints.
“You buy the product, you get the content. We make more money because more people buy it, not because we try and nickel-and-dime the same customers.
” …… “The platform holder owns the final call.”
Demonoid, once one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers, has reappeared again, this time hosted in the Ukraine. The website is still down but the trackers are now fully operational again, perhaps a sign that Demonoid is crawling back up to speed?
Microsoft will block anyone who is using Linux from being able to use the full version of Windows Live Hotmail. Somebody should tell Microsoft that this is illegal, and they could be in for another 1.4 Billion dollar lawsuit if they continue blocking Linux users from getting the same features that everyone else gets.
A follow-up to Human Head’s first person shooter Prey has been officially confirmed to be in development via the website for a new middleman company Radar Group. This is the first update on the project in nearly two years.
BEIJING - Internet users in China were blocked from seeing YouTube.com on Sunday after dozens of videos about protests in Tibet appeared on the popular U.S. video Web site.
Thanks to those sea snails and a eureka moment, Angela Belcher, Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering, is developing smart nano-materials–hybrids of organic and inorganic components–beginning with a rechargeable, biologically based battery that looks like plastic food wrap.
Videogame designers take inspiration from a game-industry acquisition binge. Maybe EA could be, like… Pac Man or something?
Torrent.is went to court this week and the site now faces a permanent shutdown and the possibility that they will have to compensate copyright owners. Since nearly 10% of Iceland’s population were members, Torrent.is was by far the most popular BitTorrent tracker in the country.
