The RIAA’s extensive campaign against filesharing has drawn in a lot of individuals, but college campuses have remained a major target of the content owners’ legal threats. It’s pretty clear that there’s significant expertise with filesharing on college campuses, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that this expertise has been put to use with other
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Adobe has announced that it is working with Google and Yahoo to finally ensure that Flash SWF files are indexable by search engines. Google has already gotten a jump start on this feature that designers have been asking for since the late 90s, too.
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Something big is in the works for the Xbox 360 Spring update. How big? Well besides the gi-normous list of rumored updates we’re now hearing from a number of sources that the Live dashboard is going to be getting a second interface option, one that will use the yet-to-be announced motion controller to navigate.
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There’s a wide open door on Mac OS X 10.5.4 Leopard - yes, the latest update. It goes way back to Tiger at least. And it’s child’s play to ‘root’ a Mac OS X box. No hacking required! This is deadly serious. It’s yet another gaping design flaw.
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They are worth being familiar with so that you can avoid a crisis situation when you cannot access a Google product for some reason.
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On June 25th 2005, the homepage of the EliteTorrents.org tracker displayed an ominous message. Thousands of members trying to log in to get a sneak peak at a leaked copy of Star Wars: Episode 3 were surprised and confused in equal numbers. Had the FBI really raided one of the largest BitTorrent communities and put up a badly made Word document, or
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There is an endless supply of nifty apps and utilities out there that you simply have never heard of.
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Last week New York legislature passed a controversial gaming statute. This is an in-depth legal breakdown of where this bill fails and why it is largely symbolic, perhaps designed to persuade voters that legislators are doing something to address that familiar cultural whipping boy, video game violence.
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Shacknews.com sums up the information released/discovered so far about Diablo 3. More nerdgasms ensue.
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Quantum computers could become a reality very soon, opening up some fantastic possibilities - including teleportation…These machines would have the ability to perform calculations that would take normal computers millions of years, while carrying out a vast number of tasks simultaneously. They promise to make as big an impact on information
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AMD’s Radeon 4850 and 4870 have been widely praised in the media and put the ATI team back on the map. But it appears that we have just seen a small portion of what the ATI guys have in space for users. The new boards are actually running at well below the clock speed they can support and these cards will be challenging Nvidia’s very best.
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Despite ongoing efforts with StarCraft II, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King and Diablo III, PC developer Blizzard has confirmed that it has another MMO in the works.
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