Archive for June, 2008

What are the Costs You Will Face With New Copyright Bill

$20 000 fine for Posting music using the Internet or peer-to-peer technology and Posting a copyright-protected work, such as a picture or video, onto a website such as Facebook or YouTube.
Also Selling, renting or giving away a device (e.g., iPod) that contains copies of music that were originally copied onto the device by you for private purpose.

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Me.com Email Addresses Now Working

If you are a .Mac subscriber, Apple appears to have activated the corresponding @me.com email addresses. If your email address was username@mac.com previously, you can now use username@me.com and emails should arrive in your .Mac mailbox. In the near future, Apple will be migrating all the email services to Me.com

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Windows Could Use a Rush of Fresh Air

Painfully visible are the inherent design deficiencies of a foundation that was never intended to support such weight. Windows seems to move an inch for every time that Mac OS X or Linux laps it.

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Anti-smoking Campaign Uses Halo-like FPS Game Theme

This video is a product of Tobacco Free Florida, This funny anti-smoking ad uses a first-person shooter game to reach the 11-17 year old demographic.

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Brussels to sign away your private details to US

American authorities will be able to obtain greater access to private information such as credit card transactions, internet browsing habits and travel histories of people in Britain under a deal being finalised by European Union officials.

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Managing the PlayStation 3 Wi-Fi network

Terra Soft shows you how to configure, encrypt, and maintain the built-in PS3 Wi-Fi network

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Quantum computing breakthrough arises from unknown molecule

“This development may not bring us a quantum computer 10 years faster, but our dreams about these machines are now more realistic.”

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9,000 Canadians petition Steve Jobs for iPhone rate relief

iPhone rate plans in Canada are EXPENSIVE.

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Google on How they Use Data to fight Web Spam

As the head of the webspam team at Google, I’m in charge of making sure your search results are as relevant and informative as possible. Webspam, in case you’ve never heard of it, is the junk you see in search results when websites successfully cheat their way into higher positions in search results or otherwise violate search engine quality ….

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Coming Soon: Pirate TV Show

Jesse Alexander, the executive producer of the popular TV-shows ‘Heroes’ and ‘Lost’ and Matt Mason, author of ‘The Pirate’s Dilemma’, are working on a new TV-show about piracy. The show will be based on Matt’s book, and will show how important pirates are for today’s society.

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Starcraft II info explosion!

From WWI session: See what team Blizzard had to say about the newfound power of the Zerg Queen, the upgraded Protoss Mothership and the reason behind de-emphasizing heroic classes.

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Sony granted patent for handheld with touchscreen

Sony Computer Entertainment America was granted a patent on Friday for a “hand-held [sic] device with touchscreen and digital tactile pixels.” It’d be a stretch to say any of this is explicitly indicative of a PSP 2.0 or PSP phone, but it is interesting to note that “game device” is listed as one of the potential applications,

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