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- Verizons Droid Phone Gets a Date, and a Price
Verizons upcoming Droid phone, its first smartphone based on Googles Android platform, has received a date, a price, and some exciting news, as well. The date is Nov. 6th, the price is $199 (after $100 mail-in rebate), and the exciting news is that it will be the first device to have Google Maps Navigation, providing turn-by-turn voice guidance.
Published : 2009-10-28 Source : www.topix.net - Warner Says Harry Potter Dinner Infringes Copyright
A woman who operates the so-called Underground Restaurant from her London home has had a surprise threat from a movie company. The host of the party, known as Ms Marmite Lover, had arranged a Halloween party with a Harry Potter theme, but Warner Bros. took exception and sent their lawyers to turn her evening into a newt.
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : torrentfreak.com - Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘Paranormal Activity tops the chart this week followed by Pixars Up’. The Tournament completes the top three.
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : torrentfreak.com - TaffyBox Shut Down by BTjunkie for Leeching Resources
The new torrent search engine TaffyBox took the web by storm during the last couple of days, offering a newbie-proof download service. The site was featured by TechCrunch and several other sites, but just a few hours later it is no longer operational. BTjunkie cut it off since it was stealing resources without permission.
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : torrentfreak.com - Sony CEO Pleads Poverty But The Movie Industry is Loaded
In a piece today in The Times, Sony boss Michael Lynton yet again champions 3 strikes for alleged pirates and states that combating piracy could add millions to the economy. He also says that due to piracy, in 2008 Hollywood made the lowest number of movies in the last decade. So where did its record earnings go?
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : torrentfreak.com - Anti Piracy Laws and Lawsuits Fail to Change Social Norms
New laws designed to thwart illicit file-sharing have been drafted by governments all over the world recently. At the same time the entertainment industries have claimed victories against individual file-sharers and operators of BitTorrent sites. Interestingly, these developments havent changed social norms towards piracy which makes it hard to maintain compliance.
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : torrentfreak.com - UK Cops, Spies Blast “3-Strikes”
Says criminals will turn to encryption to avoid detection and “make prosecution harder because it increases the workload significantly.” Law enforcement is the latest UK group to criticize Business Secretary Lord Mandelson’s “evolved” plan to to disconnect repeat file-sharers from the Internet. Both police and the country’s spy services, MI5 and MI6, are concerned that the [...]
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : www.zeropaid.com - Dutch Court Rules Against the Pirate Bay
Must prevent Dutch users from being able to access copyrighted material, and was given 3 months to remove a list of torrents from the Swedish BitTorrent tracker site. A Dutch court has ruled against Swedish BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay, ordering that it immediately begin preventing Dutch users from accessing copyrighted material on the site, [...]
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : www.zeropaid.com - VID SPOOF: Hosting a Win 7 BitTorrent Party
Mocks the recent official release of Windows 7 by showing people gathered around food, laptops out, and ready to use their favorite BitTorrent client and tracker site to download a copy for free. As most of us here already know, Windows 7 was officially launched last Thursday the 22nd. I, and many others, have been [...]
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : www.zeropaid.com - Hulu to Start Charging Viewers Next Year
Execs starting to think of new ways to “capture the value” of their online content. Video-streaming site Hulu was founded by NBC Universal, News Corp., The Walt Disney Company, and others back in 2007 as legal alternative to illegal streaming sites like TVLinks or QuickSilverScreen. “Hulu’s mission is to help people find and enjoy the world’s premium [...]
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : www.zeropaid.com - UK Dig Britain MP: Internet is an “Essential Service”
Stephen Timms highlights its important social, commercial, and economic benefits, but doesn’t say why it’s still okay to disconnect entire households under a three-strikes regime where the most egregious file-sharers – for whom the law would intended – can easily elude copyright holders anyways. The UK’s Digital Britain MP Stephen Timms made some interesting comments in [...]
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : www.zeropaid.com - EU Parliament Gives OK to Disconnect File-Sharers
Drops “Amendment 138″ from Telcoms Package that would’ve prevented member countries from disconnecting file-sharers from the Internet, replacing it with much weaker provision that opens the door to “three-strikes.” In a huge blow to the freedoms of European Union citizens and as an apparent gift to the lobbying efforts of multinational entertainment corporations, the EU Parliament [...]
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : www.zeropaid.com - Great Year for UK Single Sales
Not so much for physical.
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : www.slyck.com - NASA ready to test Ares 1-X rocket
Oct. 26 - NASA is preparing to launch its Ares1-X rocket, but concerns about bad weather could delay lift-off. SOUNDBITES: Ed Mango, Ares 1-X Mission Manager Mission Manager, Bob Ess Kathy Winters, NASAs weather officer Gemma Haines, Reuters.
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : www.topix.net - Apple tablet rumours hot up
Rumours that Apple could be on the verge of launching a touch-screen tablet computer have hotted up after a senior executive at the New York Times told staff they would be working on digital material for an impending Apple slate
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : www.topix.net - Computer games to aid fitness?
How good is it for you really? Long scorned and blamed for turning a generation into couch potatoes, computer games get a tough rap from Health Authorities.
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : www.topix.net - NASA test rocket ready for launch
NASAs Ares I rocket sits on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida awaiting its first experimental flight, scheduled for Tuesday.
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : www.topix.net - Sports Illustrated model makes solar sexy
Solar power is about to get sexy. More at home on the catwalks of Milan and Paris, a young lady has been charged with task making the solar power industry more attractive to the mainstream.
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : www.topix.net - Google Voice Adds "Voicemail Portability"
Its been long suspected that eventually Google will begin offering number portability with its Google Voice service. Today the company announced "baby steps" in that direction, with "voicemail portability."
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : www.topix.net - Seriously, Kids Need Less TV: Disney Offers "Baby Einstein" Refunds
I was watching TV the other day (admittedly, lowering my IQ while doing so), and saw one of those "Your Child Can Read" commercials, which immediately suckered me in. Not so my wife, however, and thats where Baby Einstein refunds for their DVDs come in.
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : www.topix.net - Roadrunner - Superfast Supercomputer Makes Worlds Largest HIV Evolutionary Tree
On Memorial Day, May 26, 2008, the "Roadrunner" supercomputer exceeded a sustained speed of 1 petaflop/s, or 1 million billion calculations per second.
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : www.topix.net - Los Angeles Signs $7.2 Million Deal for Google Apps
On Tuesday, Los Angeles agreed to enter the cloud, as it signed a $7.2 million deal to use Google Apps for its 30,000 employees. The competition for the contract was nearly a year in length, with Google facing down rival Microsoft, among others.
Published : 2009-10-27 Source : www.topix.net - First Test for Next Flight to the Moon
NASA to test next generation of rocket and capsule combination for upcoming flights to the moon and beyond.
Published : 2009-10-26 Source : www.topix.net - Virtual bears, futuristic pods and spaghetti rain in Tokyo
It might earn them university credits but a robot developed by students in Japan wont help dispel the image of the lazy student.
Published : 2009-10-26 Source : www.topix.net - US airlines: When pilots lose contact...
You would have thought that since 9/11, whenever an American airline lost contact, it would be all hands on deck.
Published : 2009-10-26 Source : www.topix.net - Facebook Makeover: The Good, the Bad, and the Backlash
Facebook gave its homepage a makeover ...again. Last Friday the social networking site quietly rolled out some fairly significant changes to the way information is displayed on your homepage.
Published : 2009-10-26 Source : www.topix.net - Missile shield scheme modified
Will the new scheme make a difference? After the fervour surrounding President Obamass decision to abandon the missile defence system , the Czech Republic was among the countries worried about the political and financial fallout.
Published : 2009-10-26 Source : www.topix.net - Intel Releases TRIM-Enabling Firmware for Its Second-Gen SSDs
As promised, Intel has released firmware for its second-generation 34nm solid-state drives (SSDs). TRIM is a feature of Windows 7 (and of course, that OS just launched) that will (hopefully) prevent SSDs from seeing performance degradation over time.
Published : 2009-10-26 Source : www.topix.net - Futuristic offshore construction projects
"You can print money, manufacture diamonds, and people are a dime a dozen, but youll always need land.
Published : 2009-10-26 Source : www.topix.net - Nasa releases iPhone application
Astronomy geeks can also keep up to date with the Nasa Twitter feeds , watch Nasa videos and do their own countdowns to the big launches.
Published : 2009-10-26 Source : www.topix.net
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