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This page lists all news articles written by James Delahunty
during April, 2009. News
articles are sorted so that the latest article appears at the very top of the page
and the oldest article appears at the bottom of the page.
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April, 2009
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Twenty individuals have been sentenced to jail time averaging at about eight months each following a trial in Udine for copyright infringement. The case emerged after a raid was carried out ...
29 Apr 2009 10:38 PM | 19 comments
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It has been reported that Apple Inc. is hiring new blood from the semiconductor industry in a bid to boost its chip design capabilities. The new employees will build Apple's capabilities to ...
29 Apr 2009 10:37 PM | 4 comments
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According to BusinessWeek, Apple and Verizon Wireless are in talks to offer iPhone-like devices to the market. The report cites two people familiar with the matter, claiming that Apple has produced ...
29 Apr 2009 10:37 PM | 5 comments
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According to an upcoming report from In-Stat, the next generation of Wi-Fi standard, 802.11n, will dominate the HD market. Wireless Home Digital Interface (WHDI), WirelessHD, and Ultrawideband ...
29 Apr 2009 10:36 PM | 19 comments
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According to Microsoft's Senior Vice President for the Windows Business, Bill Veghte, the new Windows 7 operating system might arrive on store shelves in late 2009. Speaking to Bloomberg, he ...
29 Apr 2009 10:35 PM | 25 comments
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A creator of one of the first botnets that uses P2P technology to distribute instructions to drones has escaped a jail sentence. Jason Michael Milmont, 20, of Cheyenne, Wyoming was sentenced ...
29 Apr 2009 10:34 PM | 4 comments
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Matrox Video Products Group announced last week the new Matrox CompressHD H.264 accelerator card for the Mac. It is the first implementation of Matrox MAX technology. Matrox MAX technology uses ...
29 Apr 2009 10:34 PM | 1 comment
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Beta testers have revealed that Apple Inc.'s QuickTime media playback and editing software is getting several video-sharing options, including the ability to upload videos directly to YouTube. ...
29 Apr 2009 8:25 PM | 1 comment
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After being rejected by the French National Assembly earlier this month, the controversial "three strikes" Internet piracy bill backed by President Nicolas Sarkozy has returned to Parliament ...
29 Apr 2009 8:24 PM | 2 comments
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Police in Hungary have raided and shut down several BitTorrent and Warez sites in actions against growing Internet piracy in the country. Hungary was kept on the piracy "watch list" for many ...
29 Apr 2009 8:24 PM
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NBC Universal and News Corp.'s Hulu online video service took the No. 3 spot last year for Internet video. It was launched about 13 months ago, and has grown considerably in that time. During ...
29 Apr 2009 8:23 PM | 3 comments
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RealNetworks Chief Executive Officer, Rob Glaser, told a court on Tuesday that Real's recently released DVD copying software is for legitimate users and not intended to be used for piracy. "We ...
29 Apr 2009 8:22 PM | 4 comments
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Hong Kong set a precedent in 2005 when a man was jailed for three months for downloading and sharing films using BitTorrent software, the first conviction of its kind in the world.
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29 Apr 2009 8:21 PM
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Patricia Santangelo, a mother of five, has been involved in a legal battle with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) since 2005. Originally, Patricia herself was accused of downloading ...
29 Apr 2009 8:21 PM | 6 comments
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We reported that the EU's telecom's reform efforts were under threat when questions of how to handle Internet piracy caused a spat between Parliament and states, despite the fact that the issue ...
28 Apr 2009 9:24 PM
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A recently reported study that suggested large numbers of young gamers exhibit signs of addition to videogames has come under scrutiny from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). The ...
28 Apr 2009 9:23 PM | 10 comments
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) had teamed with OdioWorks lawyers to file a lawsuit against Apple Inc. in a federal court, claiming the company has stifling free speech by bullying ...
28 Apr 2009 9:04 PM | 3 comments
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According to the manual for JVC's first Blu-ray player to hit the United States, the XV-PB1 supports the Matroska (MKV) multimedia container. It's manual states it supports MPEG-4/AVC content ...
28 Apr 2009 9:03 PM | 5 comments
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Swedish telecommunications firm Tele2 announced yesterday that it will not keep records of IP address usage to protect its customers. "We will erase the IP addresses after they have been used ...
28 Apr 2009 8:42 PM | 4 comments
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Mozilla has released both a new stable Firefox update addressing a couple of security and stability issues, and also a new Beta version of the popular web browser. The new version changes and ...
28 Apr 2009 8:41 PM | 2 comments
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The four men sentenced to a year in prison and fined $3.6 million after being found guilty of assisting copyright infringement should be given a new trial because the Judge was biased, a court ...
27 Apr 2009 2:23 PM | 4 comments
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ASUS today released the new ASUS Express TV Stick which features high quality digital (DVBT) and analog TV signal reception, plus a host of versatile utilities. By just inserting the ASUS Express ...
27 Apr 2009 1:45 PM | 6 comments
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The Office of Communications (Ofcom), the independent regulator and competition authority for the communication industries in the United Kingdom, could eventually derail the BBC's proposed new ...
27 Apr 2009 1:44 PM | 4 comments
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James Gunn, a director of Horror movies, has criticized Microsoft for its poor handling of original content on the Xbox Live service. According to Gunn, he was promised absolute freedom to create ...
27 Apr 2009 1:43 PM | 2 comments
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Microsoft has half-learned a very important lesson from users of the Windows Vista operating systems; enough with the damn User Account Control prompts already! While Windows 7 still has some ...
27 Apr 2009 1:10 PM | 17 comments
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Microsoft's virtual festival, Xtival '09 runs from May 1 to 4 (this weekend) and during that time frame, Xbox Live Gold Membership will be free to all Xbox Live users (at least in the UK).
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27 Apr 2009 1:05 PM | 6 comments
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Qualcomm and Broadcom have come to an agreement that will end years of litigation that spanned across three continents. Over a four year period, Qualcomm will pay a whopping $891 million to ...
27 Apr 2009 1:04 PM | 2 comments
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Netflix has added a lot of subscribers in the past couple of years, posting surprising results and fending off competition from much larger corporations such as Blockbuster. However, the company ...
26 Apr 2009 1:05 PM | 16 comments
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In an effort to convince businesses to migrate to Windows 7, Microsoft will offer an add-on for the upcoming operating system that will allow users to run applications designed for Windows XP ...
26 Apr 2009 1:03 PM | 47 comments
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Tiga, a trade group representing the video games industry in the UK, has criticized Alistair Darling's budget for not including a requested tax break for game developers. Tiga's Chief Executive ...
26 Apr 2009 1:02 PM
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Sony executives have acknowledge BD-Live's numerous roll-out problems but claim that the demand for, and interest in BD-Live is growing among consumers. The execs vowed to continue pushing improvements ...
26 Apr 2009 1:01 PM
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A caller named Alberto told an incredible story to HLN money expert Clark Howard on CNN which emphasizes once again, the need to read fine print. Recently vacationing in Mexico, Alberto used ...
26 Apr 2009 1:01 PM | 18 comments
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Gamefly, a Netflix-like rent-by-mail service specifically for video games, has filed a complaint with the Postal Regulatory Commission which accuses the United States Postal Service (USPS) of ...
26 Apr 2009 1:00 PM | 4 comments
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Following a decision last year by a Danish court which forced the ISP Tele2/Telenor to block access to the Pirate Bay BitTorrent tracker (at the request of the International Federation of the ...
26 Apr 2009 12:59 PM
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Wii Fit has managed to stay top of video games charts in the UK for a third consecutive week, adding up to 12 total weeks that it has hit the #1 spot. It's continued recent success could be ...
25 Apr 2009 9:28 PM | 4 comments
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DTS Inc. has announced new audio product tools aimed at the professional and prosumer markets. The new products include DTS-HD Master Audio Suite v2.0 and SurCode's DTS-HD solutions for Apple ...
25 Apr 2009 9:26 PM
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A new Internet censorship bill that has broad Government backing in Germany is intended to block access to websites hosting child pornography. Recently, the music industry decided that if child ...
25 Apr 2009 9:26 PM | 3 comments
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Nintendo will target the Mother's Day holiday in North America (May 10, don't forget!) this year with the release of a new DS bundle on May 3. While the company has not officially announced ...
25 Apr 2009 9:25 PM
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The recent release of the movie Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete and the release of a playable Final Fantasy XIII demo, boosted sales of the PlayStation 3 (PS3) by 45,826 units within ...
25 Apr 2009 9:24 PM | 5 comments
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South Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung Electronics has reported a sharp drop in net profit, but still beat analysts expectations. Net profit fell by 72 percent year-on-year to 620 billion ...
25 Apr 2009 9:23 PM
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Google Inc.'s YouTube video-sharing service has come up with another new feature for its users. The new "YouTube RealTime" feature makes it possible for a user to check which videos their friends ...
24 Apr 2009 11:38 PM | 9 comments
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The Finnish government has allocated extra frequencies to telecom firms TeliaSonera, Elisa and DNA for the new fourth generation (4G) mobile communications technology. The allocated frequencies ...
24 Apr 2009 11:38 PM | 2 comments
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In September of last year, RealNetworks began selling a new product called RealDVD for $30. The product could copy retail DVD content onto one hard drive and up to five devices. However, only ...
24 Apr 2009 11:37 PM | 3 comments
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Subscribers of TiVo who have access to a broadband Internet connection have gotten good news today from the DVR pioneer. The company has partnered with Amazon to deliver its new HD downloads ...
23 Apr 2009 8:32 PM | 1 comment
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Joost, the creation of Skype and Kazaa founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, is reportedly searching for a buyer among cable and satellite providers. Time Warner Cable has apparently expressed ...
23 Apr 2009 8:31 PM
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China has combined its war on pornography and it's war on piracy to single out some street pirates for heavier punishments. Recently, it has detained or sentenced dozens of individuals who sold ...
23 Apr 2009 8:30 PM | 3 comments
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Netflix has beaten its own earnings forecast after announcing a 68 percent rise in profits in the first quarter. The results are due to the company attracting many more customers than it had ...
23 Apr 2009 8:30 PM | 4 comments
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Microsoft Corp. has revealed a 32 percent drop in quarterly profit, but saw its share price rise on news of Windows 7 being on track for a fiscal 2010 release, and its ongoing cost cutting measures ...
23 Apr 2009 8:29 PM | 7 comments
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After Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata let it slip earlier this month that a video-on-demand (VOD) service would be available soon for the Wii console in Japan, he also pointed out that it would come ...
23 Apr 2009 8:28 PM | 4 comments
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Broadcom Corporation has announced that its Bluetooth combo chip technology and associated BTE software have been qualified as compliant with the ratified Bluetooth v3.0 + HS (high speed) specification. ...
23 Apr 2009 8:28 PM | 1 comment
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DivX, Inc. and LG Electronics, Inc. jointly announced today that LG's new line of digital TVs is the world's first device series capable of playing back full DivX HD 1080p videos. The digital ...
22 Apr 2009 9:18 PM | 5 comments
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Rep. Edolphus Towns, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Darrell Issa, ranking member of the committee, and Rep. Peter Welch, a Vermont Democrat, sent a ...
22 Apr 2009 9:18 PM | 3 comments
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Dell has shipped its first Desktops that contain Qflix DVD drives. Sonic Solutions and Pioneer Corporation develop and license Qflix, which is a technology that allows for the burning of CSS ...
22 Apr 2009 9:17 PM | 4 comments
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Nokia's Comes With Music mobile music download service has gotten a very slow and disappointing start in the UK. While Nokia did not reveal official statistics itself, Music Ally claimed yesterday ...
22 Apr 2009 9:16 PM
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Market research firm iSuppli has done one of its popular teardown analysis' on Amazon's Kindle 2 eBook reader, and come to the conclusion that it costs twice as much to buy as it does to manufacture. ...
22 Apr 2009 9:16 PM
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AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) has announced that it plans to produce a server chip with 16 cores, quite a step up from the quad-core server chips currently being marketed. The project is codenamed ...
22 Apr 2009 9:15 PM | 2 comments
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Apple COO Tim Cook revealed during a second quarter earnings call on Tuesday that sales of the company's iPhone and iPod Touch devices have passed 37 million units. He said that sales of the ...
22 Apr 2009 9:15 PM
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Microsoft has announced that the Xbox 360 console has finally passed the 1 million sales mark in Japan. The announcement was made at a media conference held in Japan today. To celebrate the ...
21 Apr 2009 4:02 PM | 5 comments
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BT Broadband users who try to access the notorious Pirate Bay tracker are met with a "Content Blocked" message, claiming it has been blocked in "compliance with a new UK voluntary code". "This ...
21 Apr 2009 1:29 PM | 7 comments
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Despite the fact that it had nothing to do with EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding's telecoms reforms, arguments over how to tackle illegal downloading has stalled the entire process. There ...
21 Apr 2009 1:12 PM
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A GPS system for the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld console has been around for some time, but now GPS is new to the Nintendo DS handheld thanks to a product called Ranger, from Fab ...
21 Apr 2009 12:55 PM | 6 comments
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Use of mobile phones is continuing to grow substantially in China, and with it, usage of premium music download services and multimedia messaging is setting new records. There are about 648 ...
21 Apr 2009 12:45 PM | 2 comments
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Since speculation started mounting about a 'DS Phone', attention turned toward the possibility of being able to use Skype with the more online-friendly DSi handheld console. Skype is already ...
21 Apr 2009 12:34 PM | 1 comment
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Microsoft will be shipping a limited edition Xbox 360 bundle that will include an Xbox 360 Elite console, and two popular titles, Halo 3 and Fable II, starting in May. It's $400 price tag is ...
21 Apr 2009 12:22 PM | 3 comments
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Nintendo has come out to defend the sales figures for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, released recently for the Nintendo DS portable platform. The sales figures for March were met with disappointment ...
20 Apr 2009 7:57 PM | 5 comments
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Owners of new Apple iMacs, equipped with an ATI Radeon HD 4850 video card, are reporting problems with freeze ups during normal usage, forcing them to reboot the machine. The problem doesn't ...
20 Apr 2009 7:48 PM | 8 comments
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The four founders of The Pirate Bay torrent tracker, Peter Sunde, Carl Lundström, Frederik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, have filed an official appeal against a ruling that found them guilty ...
20 Apr 2009 7:28 PM | 3 comments
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Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, has announced the sale of its enterprise mobile TV unit to Wipro, an India-based corporation that operates in the areas of information technology, ...
20 Apr 2009 7:16 PM | 1 comment
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Oracle is jumping straight into the computer hardware market with an announced purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. for $7.06 billion. The announcement spurred surprise and shock in the industry, ...
20 Apr 2009 7:09 PM | 3 comments
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A study by the Iowa State University (ISU) and the National Institute on Media and the Family has revealed that one in ten players of video games exhibits some symptoms of addiction. Researchers ...
20 Apr 2009 6:56 PM | 9 comments
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The official website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) was knocked offline at times, and made to perform sluggishly on Monday as a result of distributed denial ...
20 Apr 2009 6:42 PM
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According to sources at Taiwan handset component suppliers, Nokia is moving to replace the resistive touch panel used in the popular 5800 handset with a capacitive touch panel. The change is ...
19 Apr 2009 7:21 PM | 3 comments
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Microsoft's partner program site temporarily revealed an expected date for the first Windows 7 release candidate to be made available. "Partners: If you have a subscription to MSDN or TechNet, ...
19 Apr 2009 7:10 PM | 24 comments
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Subscribers of Netflix' online DVD/Blu-ray rental service have been complaining about receiving damaged or cracked discs from the company. "Over the last two months, we've had probably four ...
19 Apr 2009 6:58 PM | 16 comments
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According to a report by Blu-ray.com, cheaper Blu-ray players will hit store shelves in the United States a lot sooner than one would think. At the moment the average selling price of Blu-ray ...
19 Apr 2009 10:26 AM | 13 comments
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MySpace Music is only about half a year old, and at the moment it is simply just another location among many where users can listen to music for free. Recent announcements, such as the new Vevo ...
19 Apr 2009 10:15 AM
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Samsung Mobile Display, a joint venture between Samsung Electronics and Samsung SDI, has revealed on Sunday that it expects the global smartphone market to balloon from 170 million in 2009 to ...
19 Apr 2009 9:35 AM | 2 comments
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The BBC has explained the limitations that will be enforced by digital rights management (DRM) with regard to recording from its High-definition broadcasts. The information follows the launch ...
18 Apr 2009 8:15 PM | 12 comments
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According to research, about 10% of all electric power used within the average home is used by televisions and their accessories. California is looking at this as a possible target for efforts ...
18 Apr 2009 8:07 PM | 6 comments
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The BBC has announced that the iPlayer service will soon be loaded with High-definition content that can be accessed by web browser. There are plans to also roll out HD on iPlayer through the ...
18 Apr 2009 7:57 PM
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Despite gaining a good reputation for an anti-DRM stance and a "just ignore it" attitude to piracy, Stardock CEO Brad Wardell has experienced first hand what piracy can mean for your games. ...
18 Apr 2009 7:47 PM | 10 comments
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Following Friday's guilty verdict announced by a Stockholm court for the four founders of The Pirate Bay, the country's Pirate Party (Piratpartiet) gained 3,000 new members in just 7 hours. ...
18 Apr 2009 7:14 PM | 8 comments
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AMG TV is a modestly sized network that feeds syndicated programs to some 200 terrestrial station affiliates. It is being bought out by Signet Intl. Holdings, a publicly traded company led by ...
18 Apr 2009 7:03 PM | 3 comments
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Sweden's Pirate Party was setup to attempt to reform laws in the country around copyright and patents in the digital era. Rickard Falkvinge, leader of The Pirate Party had some strong words ...
17 Apr 2009 8:58 PM | 17 comments
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Solid-State Drives (SSD) continue to advance to new heights of performance, and every self-respecting tech enthusiast is following the progress to see data storage develop in line with other ...
17 Apr 2009 8:49 PM | 2 comments
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The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has been involved in two anti-piracy operations in the UK. The trade group cooperated with the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency to raid the ...
17 Apr 2009 8:35 PM | 1 comment
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According to a report issued by Forrester on Friday, Apple's customer satisfaction is remarkably high in several categories, while Dell's is notably low. A market research report was compiled ...
17 Apr 2009 8:29 PM | 20 comments
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Silicon Alley Insider cites a "plugged-in industry executive" in reporting that the popular web video site Hulu is developing an application for Apple's iPhone. It wouldn't be the first of it's ...
17 Apr 2009 8:15 PM | 1 comment
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As you would imagine, music industry bodies have been lining up in Sweden and Internationally to give their take on the guilty verdict for the founders of the Pirate Bay website. Here is a pick ...
17 Apr 2009 7:51 PM | 10 comments
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A Stockholm court has found the four founders of The Pirate Bay BitTorrent site guilty of making 33 specific files accessible for illegal sharing through the site. The four were found guilty ...
17 Apr 2009 8:21 AM | 41 comments
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Google Inc.'s YouTube video-sharing service announced on Thursday that it will stream full length movies and TV show content to its users for free. The movies and TV series will be provided ...
16 Apr 2009 6:44 PM | 4 comments
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Sony Pictures has signed up to support a theater-chain upgrade that will digitally convert over 20,000 cinemas in the United States and Canada. This makes Sony the sixth major studio to back ...
16 Apr 2009 5:47 PM | 3 comments
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According to reports, SlingPlayer has become the latest service to have its iPhone application banned from the Apple App Store at the request of AT&T. SlingPlayer for iPhone was first introduced ...
16 Apr 2009 5:36 PM | 8 comments
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Netflix has squashed a recent rumor that it will become available on the PlayStation 3 and Wii consoles. Netflix is already available on the Xbox 360 console and has been very successful, with ...
16 Apr 2009 5:18 PM | 4 comments
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GameStop CEO Dan DeMatteo has called for price cuts for the Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) console and the Nintendo Wii console, and also dismissed Sony's PS2 price cut as basically too little, too ...
16 Apr 2009 5:08 PM | 29 comments
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Two small pieces of news today for the world of Nintendo Wii. Firstly, ahead of NPD's sales figures for gaming consoles, Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian has reported that sales ...
16 Apr 2009 4:47 PM | 7 comments
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Consumer Focus has said that the copyright laws of the United Kingdom needlessly criminalize music fans and badly need to be updated. The comments come as the UK was ranked last in a survey ...
16 Apr 2009 4:31 PM | 5 comments
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Just days ago, we reported that the French National Assembly had rejected the proposed "three strikes" legislation in a defeat for the ruling UMP party. Following the vote, French President ...
15 Apr 2009 5:58 PM
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The MySpace Music project is only 6 months old, and it's 75 million or so users are streaming literally billions of songs per month. Under any normal regular deal with the record labels, a price ...
15 Apr 2009 11:14 AM | 7 comments
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New details of Microsoft's upcoming "Zune HD" portable media player (PMP) have emerged. WMpoweruser.com received some new pictures and tech details in its e-mail Inbox. The Zune HD will sport ...
15 Apr 2009 11:00 AM | 9 comments
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Plex media center software for the Mac OS X platform now can add support for Netflix movie streaming service. The add-on was developed in response to continuous requests from users, and as shown ...
15 Apr 2009 9:08 AM
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Pioneer and Sharp have announced that they will create a new venture that will operate in the optical disc business area. The new venture will make effective use of the management resources ...
15 Apr 2009 8:53 AM | 2 comments
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The founders of the infamous Pirate Bay BitTorrent tracker remain confident that they will be victorious in the court battle over alleged copyright theft, which has gotten significant media ...
15 Apr 2009 8:26 AM | 11 comments
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Gerardo Arellano and his wife, Maribel Fernandez, both 32, were arrested after being caught by police officers recording the Hannah Montana film at a cinema in South Barrington. A subsequent ...
15 Apr 2009 8:08 AM | 15 comments
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The 90-strong international orchestra built through the YouTube video-sharing site will make its debut at New York's Carnegie Hall tomorrow evening. The video will be available on YouTube on ...
14 Apr 2009 6:25 PM
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The Xbox Live-exclusive downloadable content (DLC) title "The Lost and Damned" has reportedly been downloaded over one million times from the online service. At around $20 a pop, it's very decent ...
14 Apr 2009 6:12 PM | 6 comments
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The Business Software Alliance has decided to hijack the "real" cases of piracy that have been highlighted in the mainstream media in the past week for use with its own anti-piracy campaigns. ...
14 Apr 2009 6:02 PM | 7 comments
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Nintendo has announced the release of the new Wii MotionPlus accessory is scheduled for June 8 in the United States. The accessory will push the motion-sensing controls of the popular Wii system ...
14 Apr 2009 5:40 PM | 7 comments
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eBay commented on the future of the Skype VoIP service on Tuesday, indicating that it intends to spin-off the subsidiary through an initial public offering. The emergence of this news casts ...
14 Apr 2009 5:31 PM
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Calls made using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology generally cost the caller less than traditional phone calls. For this reason, many of the major carriers within the European Union ...
14 Apr 2009 5:21 PM | 1 comment
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A free firmware update to HP's MediaSmart Server has brought some nice improvements, providing remote video streaming and video conversion of unprotected content. The update enables the server ...
13 Apr 2009 6:17 PM
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According to an analyst, Dell is currently in discussions with China Mobile over the possibility of the company offering a smartphone based on China Mobile's operating system. The move would ...
13 Apr 2009 6:07 PM
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The operator of FootyTweets, a website that uses Twitter to provide updates for football teams in the UK, has gotten a cease and desist threat from a firm representing the Premier League and ...
13 Apr 2009 5:55 PM | 2 comments
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As Apple's Inc.'s App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch approaches one billion downloads, heads are turning within the games industry. On any given day, six to eight of the top ten apps downloaded ...
13 Apr 2009 5:39 PM
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According to data provided by Nielsen Online, viewers of Internet videos in the United States now watch an average of three hours of the material each month. Online video viewing hasn't ceased ...
13 Apr 2009 5:17 PM | 2 comments
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Google Inc.'s YouTube service has technically complied with the new Cyber Defamation Law in South Korea, by taking actions which seem to purposely be ineffective. The Cyber Defamation Law requires ...
13 Apr 2009 5:05 PM | 3 comments
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Following the introduction of new measures under the IPRED anti-file sharing law in Sweden last week, legal downloads of music enjoyed a 100 percent increase in the country. The information ...
12 Apr 2009 4:48 PM | 5 comments
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According to a publication by Pearl Research, China's online video game market swelled to $2.8 billion in 2008, up 63 percent over 2007. "Trends to track in 2009 include the growth of social ...
12 Apr 2009 4:35 PM
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Apple Inc. has been sued by Elan Microelectronics for allegedly infringing two of the Taiwanese company's patents which related to touch-screen technology. "We couldn't find a common viewpoint ...
12 Apr 2009 2:19 PM | 2 comments
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SlySoft has issued another regular update of AnyDVD HD which improves the BD+ support, widening the number of titles it can handle. There is still a list of titles that AnyDVD HD can't handle, ...
12 Apr 2009 12:40 PM | 2 comments
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An administrator of a website that offered links to copyrighted material has been fined, and given a 6 month jail sentence in Spain. The 22 year old operated infopsp.com, which the Spanish Association ...
12 Apr 2009 12:27 PM | 3 comments
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While many analysts have predicted that the sale of Blu-ray set-tops will increase by double over the 2008 tally, VideoBusiness reported that concern is spreading among retail stores. New Blu-ray ...
12 Apr 2009 12:13 PM | 10 comments
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MacProVideo, a company that is dedicated to producing and distributing training videos for Mac, is to release an application via the iPhone App Store. The application will allow users to watch ...
11 Apr 2009 6:57 PM
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The original creators of the Skype VoIP Internet communication network are reportedly seeking to buy the company back from eBay. Niklas Zennstrom, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark, ...
11 Apr 2009 6:48 PM | 2 comments
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Details have emerged about the secretive global negotiations to fight copyright infringement and the movement of pirated material across the world. The proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ...
11 Apr 2009 6:39 PM | 7 comments
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The Associated Press made a downright weird demand recently, ordering an affiliate to remove a video embedded in a news article from YouTube. Since the video was from the Associated Press' official ...
11 Apr 2009 6:25 PM
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Engadget has published leaked artwork for Microsoft's next generation Zune media player. Speculation that Microsoft was going to add a new portable media player (PMP) to its line-up began arose ...
11 Apr 2009 6:13 PM | 6 comments
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Users of the older 2G and 3G models of Apple's iPhone have been reporting Wi-Fi problems since installing firmware v.2.2.1. Some users found that their Wi-Fi features no longer worked, and rolling ...
11 Apr 2009 5:58 PM | 2 comments
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Apple Inc. is currently "counting up" to a major milestone of one billion applications downloaded by iPhone and iPod Touch users from the App Store. It's hard to phantom that iPod and iPhone ...
10 Apr 2009 1:04 PM | 2 comments
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Microsoft Corp. has been dealt a harsh strike by being ordered to a pay a sum of $388 million in a patent dispute. The dispute is with anti-piracy software maker Uniloc Inc, and specifically ...
10 Apr 2009 10:31 AM | 16 comments
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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has said it will unveil the full details of the new Bluetooth 3.0 specification on April 21. The new version of the popular standard will allow users to ...
10 Apr 2009 9:57 AM | 2 comments
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Nintendo President Satoru Iwata admitted that the Wii console is struggling a bit in Japan, but said the company has no plans to drop the price in response. "The Wii is in the most unhealthy ...
10 Apr 2009 9:42 AM | 1 comment
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Researchers have warned that regular users of BitTorrent and maybe Skype are risking their privacy due to what they describe as a 'guilt by association' vulnerability. Fabián Bustamante, professor ...
10 Apr 2009 9:29 AM | 4 comments
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The (bad) April Fool's scare caused by the widely spread Conficker variety of malware has been followed by a spring to life by the Conficker worm, according to security firm Trend Micro. The ...
10 Apr 2009 6:31 AM | 3 comments
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Amazon's Kindle 2 made headlines throughout the world when it was introduced. Of particular attention was the device's decent text-to-speech feature. At first, the plan was for the feature to ...
9 Apr 2009 5:58 PM | 7 comments
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MCE Technologies has begun shipping its new 8X Blu-ray Recordable Drive for Mac Pro and Power Mac, starting at $399. It is natively compatible with Mac OS X 10.5.2 or later, although Mac OS ...
9 Apr 2009 5:33 PM | 1 comment
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Nintendo's new DSi handheld has proven to be quite popular in the West as well as its home territory of Japan. After selling over 500,000 units in its first month of availability in Japan, the ...
9 Apr 2009 5:14 PM | 1 comment
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Vivendi's Universal Music Group and Google Inc.'s YouTube have reached a deal to create a new premium music video service. The service, which is expected to launch in the coming months, is a ...
9 Apr 2009 4:55 PM
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Just about a week after the notorious Pirate Bay tracker unveiled a new feature that let's Facebook users share torrents on their profiles, Facebook has responded by blocking users from doing ...
9 Apr 2009 4:38 PM | 5 comments
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Despite being backed by President Nikolas Sarkozy and approved by the Senate, the French National Assembly has rejected a bill which proposed that Internet pirates have their connections suspended. ...
9 Apr 2009 4:17 PM | 2 comments
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Apple warns of iPhone 3GS overheating issues
Geohot releases iPhone 3GS jailbreaking software
British ISP offering employees year off in exchange for pay cut
A UMD-less PSP had been planned since the start
Microsoft, Yahoo, Real sued by MCS Music
Xbox Live lawsuit near conclusion?
New GTA IV DLC episodes coming in 2010
Jammie Rasset-Thomas to appeal damage award
UK sees strong decline in DVD sales
PS3 Slim ready to ship in July?
HTML 5 standard won't have an official video codec
Tivax STB-T8
Asus M2N-MX SE
Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite
Palm Pre
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
Postbox for Mac OS X v1.0 Beta 13
Postbox for Windows v1.0 Beta 13
Thomson mp3HD software Toolkit for Windows v1.4.2
Thomson mp3HD software Toolkit for Linux v1.4.2