The popular cross-platform BitTorrent client, Transmission, just released a new version. Along with other enhancements it now comes bundled with Clutch, enabling users to remotely control their torrents from any web browser.
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Following Psystar’s retention of California law firm Carr & Farrell, attorney Colby Springer has hinted that the case may end up making some antitrust claims against Apple.
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Besides the tweaks that simply don’t work, some of them will actually cause your computer to run even slower, or worse. Let’s examine some of the worst myths out there on PC performance tweaking, and debunk them once and for all.
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Google’s Vint Cerf today offered some positive thoughts about how to do traffic management. In his view, it’s all about the minimum guarantee, and users can do with that minimum bandwidth whatever they want.
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Amazing revelations have emerged concerning already existing government plans to overhaul the way the internet functions in order to apply much greater restrictions and control over the web.
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Metal Gear Solid 4 is starting to look like the last blockbuster third-party exclusive the PlayStation 3 has in its arsenal. And although it looks set to stay that way - we’ve pulled together the biggest reasons why Metal Gear Solid 4 will never/definitely appear on the 360 in the near future.
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Apple today received not one but six patents for a variety of items, including an iPhone/iPod Touch stand, an amplification system, a form of speech synthesis, and something it calls a “computing device” that looks a lot like a MacBook to us. Also, a new earbud/lanyard design, and a new backlighting scheme.
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Central Michigan University has filed an official complaint against MediaSentry, accusing the RIAA’s investigative arm of conducting illegal private investigations without the required license.
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The RIAA is looking for the identities of 11 Tufts University students so it can offer them generous copyright infringement settlement terms. One problem: two of the IP addresses in question were in use by as many as 40 students.
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After it was ruled that a hacker who obtained unauthorized emails from TorrentSpy on behalf of the MPAA did not technically intercept them under the WireTap Act, the EFF has filed a friend-of-the-court brief. EFF describes the recent decision as a “dangerous attempt to circumvent privacy laws,” and wants to see it overturned.
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BitTorrent Inc., founded by Bram Cohen, the inventor of the BitTorrent protocol, is firing 12 of its 55 employees. The company, which also develops the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent, had been struggling to make money from their download store, which is one of the causes of the layoffs.
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