Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Copyright lawyers accuse 25,000 UK videogame filesharers

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Court throws P2P users to the Davenport Lyons

The copyright ambulance-chasers at Davenport Lyons have a High Court order demanding 25,000 UK ISP subscribers’ names and addresses, it emerged today.…

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Netbooks to steer mobile PC demand ahead of curve, claims Intel

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Good news for Atom. Bad news for Core?

IDF Worldwide shipments of mobile computers will match those of desktops this year - and it’s all thanks to the Asus Eee PC and its ilk.…

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Debian delivers FreeRunner open-phone package

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

20,000 applications, one open phone

Olympics aside, summer 2008 will be remembered for at least two other reasons. It will be seen as a time when the noise over Linux as a platform for mobile devices reached a crescendo. Second: it marked Debian’s fifteenth anniversary.…

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YouTube pros cash in on deaths with fake vids

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Taste.2.0

Last Sunday morning in Toronto there was a huge explosion at a propane storage depot which resulted in two deaths and 12,000 people being evacuated.…

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Google flicks pennies down geothermal well

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Deep hot wet cracks = green dreams

Google, the company which has conscripted everyone on the internet to be its Web 2.0 free-content providers, has decided to give something back. The firm will spend $10m - almost a thousandth of a year’s ad revenues - to kickstart geothermal power.…

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Palm launches £399 Treo Pro

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

HSDPA, GPS, Wi-Fi on board

It’s only a day later than anticipated, but Palm has now launched the Treo Pro.…

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eBay seeks to placate frustrated sellers

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

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Wireless browsers shut out of the Olympics

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

We don’t know where you are

Mobile broadband over 3G may be able to offer speeds to compete with ADSL, but it can’t offer access to the Olympics - at least not from the BBC, who are blocking mobile users from video streams of the event to comply with IOC rulings.…

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Is ‘Guitar Hero’ saving rock ‘n’ roll?

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Metallica’s Lars Ulrich loves Black Sabbath and Deep Purple — and so does his 10-year-old son.

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Numbers game

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Bill Thompson is not alarmed by net meltdown fears

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