Here is a story of a blogger doing his best to help the band Travis reach its fans (at the band’s request), and the IFPI subsequently steaming in thinking it knows best and getting it wrong twice over. We look at what happened and speak to Travis themselves to get their opinion on file-sharing.
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There is a lot of dirt being dished back and forth between Intel and Nvidia these days and this is yet another chapter. Nvidia’s manufacturing company is ready to introduce 40 nm chips next year, while Intel will be stuck with 45 nm until the end of 2009. Looks like it is the first time GPUs get smaller than CPUs.
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If you needed a bigger hint that new iPods and MacBooks (whatever form they take) are around the corner, AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has “strongly suggested” to its retail channel partners to stock up on at least four weeks worth of their best-selling iPod models, and at least three weeks worth of MacBooks and MacBook Pros.
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The Chinese government has confirmed what journalists arriving at the lavishly outfitted media center here have suspected: contrary to previous assurances by Olympic and government officials, the Internet will be censored during the upcoming Games.
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The next version Debian has come a step closer to completion with the freezing of the current testing distribution version codename Lenny. This will form the basis of Debian 5.0, expected in September.
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While those who like to claim that the US broadband market is more competitive than it really is like to point to the rise of 3G wireless networks as proof, they almost always ignore the fact that those 3G networks come with insanely restrictive terms of service, that allow the providers to cut users off for almost any activity outside of email.
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New Copyright bill could severely Restrict teaching, Professor says.
An anti-circumvention clause in the bill would make it illegal to break digital locks on copyrighted material, nullifying the new allowances for most digital media.
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Nintendo is bringing suit against companies who make and sell DS carts designed to open the platform to hackers and homebrew applications… but are also used for piracy.
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The Pirate Bay has rolled out a new feature which allows users to add tags to the torrents they upload. The tags will make it easier to structure and discover new content, and it gives users the opportunity to form tag based groups.
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I know a few details of Apple’s software roadmap that I’ve been sitting on for a while, details that suggest to me that, contrary to recent reports, Apple will not bail on Intel chipsets for those of a competitor.
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Who says the PS3 doesn’t have great games? Like its predecessors, Sony’s next-gen console is destined to be the home of some truly awe-inspiring games, and already has several gems to its credit. Here are the 24 titles that every PlayStation 3 owner should have in their collection.
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Here is a list of Norton/Symantec Secrets they don’t want you to know.
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