Archive for July 5, 2008

Firefox Users Most Secure on Internet, Study Reveals

Mozilla Firefox fans might rest a little easier these days after a study released Tuesday revealed that its users are most secure on the Internet.

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The 25 Best Videogames of the Last 25 Years

These are the “new classics” - GTA 4 makes the list!

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Bandwidth caps could lead to ISPs benefiting from piracy

As Time Warner begins experimenting with bandwidth caps, which are commonplace in other countries, the possibility now exists that ISPs will benefit financially from their customers burning through their monthly limits to keep grabbing P2P content.

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PlayStation 4: Sooner than we think?

PlayStation 4? It’s not as crazy as it sounds. But consumers shouldn’t expect the console until 2010 at the soonest, said vice president of technology for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Paul Holman.

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BitTorrent Tracker Hosting Illegal Says Dutch Court

Leaseweb, the former ISP of BitTorrent trackers such as Demonoid, What.cd and Waffles.fm lost the appeal against the Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN. The Amsterdam court concluded that Leaseweb has to permanently shut down the BitTorrent tracker everlasting.nu, and hand over the admin’s personal information.

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Hello: Macs Are About to Get Interesting Again

On the future of macs, starting with all new technologies in 10.6, new GPUs that help with general purpose processing, iPhone/iPod halo effect etc. Looking forward to what the future will bring.

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Apple orders 50 million 8 GB NAND flash chips

In a move that is believed to help Apple to secure low NAND flash memory prices as well as create artificial shortages for competitors, Apple has ordered 50 million flash memory chips for its iPhones and iPods from Samsung Electronics. Apple huge order is in place to support an increase in iPhone production.

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Don’t buy Nvidia’s GTX 200 cards now! Price cut on the way!

It’s getting better and better. Loosk like ATI’s Radeon 4800 is much better than Nvidia expected.

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We’ll Halo there: ‘Cold Storage’ map free on July 7

ungie’s Luke Smith has announced via Bungie.net that “Cold Storage,” a chilly new multiplayer map for everybody’s favorite cyborg shoot-em-up, will be downloadable — for free — from the Xbox Live Marketplace beginning Monday Bungie Day, July 7.

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Court order on YouTube user data fans privacy fears

A U.S. judge’s order to Google Inc to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom Inc sparked an outcry on Thursday from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal showdown over video piracy.

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New Apple touch patents, body part sensing, fingernail input

“…In what’s considered the definitive overview of Apple’s attempts to patent its multi-touch interface…” MacHappens


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Indiana Gregg to The Pirate Bay: The Internet Police Are Com

A little while ago we wrote about the exchange of emails between artist Indiana Gregg and The Pirate Bay. Indiana wanted The Pirate Bay to remove torrents linking to her work, which they refused to do. Now Indiana has a response for The Pirate Bay and file-sharers in general. It doesn’t pull many punches.

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