Technology
Swedish Internet Traffic Recovers After Initial IPRED Scare
torrentfreak.com — When Sweden’s IPRED legislation came into force on April 1st this year, the country saw a massive 30% drop in Internet traffic. Many attributed this to Internet user fears associated with increased powers of anti-piracy groups. Now, 8 months later, traffic is completely back to normal and on track to exceed pre-IPRED levels. (Submitted by NuPagady) More…
Warner Bros. Thinks P2P Gets Unfairly Vilified
torrentfreak.com — At a recent roundtable discussion, Warner Bros. technology director Ethan Applen commented on BitTorrent and P2P’s bad reputation in the entertainment industry. Applen said that P2P is not the bad guy some Hollywood insiders claim it to be, but actually a great way to transfer TV-episodes and entire seasons. (Submitted by MrBabyMan) More…
Office 2010 Beta Hits BitTorrent One Week Before Debut
lifehacker.com — Like the Office 2010 Technical Preview, the Office 2010 Beta build, dubbed a "Beta 2" in some circles, has been spotted in the BitTorrent wilds, among other places, one week ahead of its presumed official debut at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference. (Submitted by tonychenyj) More…
Hackers Post Private E-mails of Historian & Holocaust Denier
wired.com — A group identifying themselves as “anti-fascist hackers” broke into the web site and AOL e-mail account of controversial British historian and accused Holocaust-denier David Irving and obtained his private communications as well as attendee lists for his current U.S. speaking tour. The hackers posted his e-mail, personal information, and passwords. (Submitted by angel.wardriver) More…
Top 10 issues overloading IT managers
v3.co.uk — Some of these problems have been around since the dawn of the computer age. Others are new, brought about by new technologies and different ways of working and servicing IT infrastructure. Nevertheless they all cut into the IT manager's time. (Submitted by adrian67) More…
Stink Different with an Apple toilet
tuaw.com — We've long heard jokes of the iCar, the iToilet, and other iCrap, but until now we'd never seen a real, working example of one of these things. Well, here's your iToilet, gang. It doesn't connect to the internet in less than three steps, but it does connect to a series of tubes. (Submitted by BaddBrainz) More…
Hands On: FLO TV Personal Television
pcmag.com — Have you ever wanted to see the CNBC ticker fly by while waiting to pick up your dry cleaning, or to watch the game on TV as you sit in the stadium? The FLO TV Personal Television, from the company that powers AT&T Mobile TV and V CAST Mobile TV on Verizon, will allow you to do just that. (Submitted by mdm07) More…
Linux : The best Linux collection managers compared.
tuxradar.com — Collecting things is human nature. The things we collect change over time, but the process never stops. It was cuts and bruises when you were seven, cards when you were a teen and, although no one will admit it, those sweet wrappers with the free tattoos made an appearance somewhere too. (Submitted by greenx) More…
Win7 tool includes GPL code; software will go open source
networkworld.com — Microsoft Friday acknowledged that its Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool does indeed include open source code. To correct the error, the company next week will make the source code and binaries for the tool available under terms of the GPL v2 license. (Submitted by motang) More…
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