Friday, December 26, 2008

Comcast sued for forcing users to rent their crappy boxes

A California woman filed a class action complaint against Comcast, charging that the company is using its monopoly power to keep her paying monthly rental fees for decryption hardware. After only a few months, alleges the complaint, end users have already paid Comcast more than the box is worth.

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10 embarrassing moments in tech techradar.com — Technology is sometimes a complex concept, such that it can lead to some embarrassing moments

10 embarrassing moments in tech

techradar.com — Technology is sometimes a complex concept, such that it can lead to some embarrassing moments. Whether it's an infamous presentation that went awry, a product that shipped long before it should, or just a goofy marketing gaffe, these low points in tech serve as a good reminder: make sure your stuff works.

Monday, December 22, 2008

Linux Commercials and Internet 100 Oldest Dot.Coms TLDs

I'm Linux: Linux Commercials Coming Soon To Television

gizmodo.com — A video contest is being held to showcase "just what Linux means to those who use it, and hopefully inspires many to try it." It's up to you to assemble an ad that will rival those of the high-honed ad agencies contracted by Apple and Microsoft. More…

The Internet's 100 Oldest Dot-Com Domains

pcworld.com — The Internet's been around in some form for decades. It wasn't until the mid-80s, though, that the Web as we know it started coming together -- and those precious dot-com domains started getting snatched up.More…

Mac vs. PC...the Transformers version

Who needs Justin Long when you've got these badasses?

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Sunday, December 21, 2008

The Pirate Bay Launches Free Mobile Video Converter

The Pirate Bay Launches Free Mobile Video Converter

torrentfreak.com — The Pirate Bay has established itself as the largest BitTorrent tracker, and helps to distribute millions of files a day. Today, the Pirate Bay team adds yet another service to its arsenal, a free video converter that allows users to put their favorite movies and TV shows on almost every mobile device

How Company Logos Look In A Recession (PIC)

How Company Logos Look In A Recession (PIC)

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Friday, December 19, 2008

RIAA Stops Lawsuits, But Not the Threats

RIAA Stops Lawsuits, But Not the Threats

torrentfreak.com — For years the RIAA has been filing lawsuits against thousands of individuals who allegedly shared copyrighted music. Following recent court setbacks, the lobby group has announced it will stop mass lawsuits. Instead, it will focus on cutting deals with ISPs to disconnect ‘IP-addresses’ that repeatedly share copyrighted music

High-Definition Television Promises Sharper Crap

In the most dramatic leap in television technology since the advent of color in the 1950s, on Monday the FCC approved a 10-year plan to shift to digital, high-definition TV, technology which will make barely watchable crap far sharper and more detailed than ever before.

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There was in fact sort live HD VHS tape format. The other improved standard, called Digital-VHS (D-VHS), records digital high definition video onto a VHS form factor tape. D-VHS can record up to 4 hours of ATSC Digital Television in 720p or 1080i formats using the fastest record mode (equivalent to VHS-SP), and up to 40 hours of standard definition video at slower speeds.

Friday, December 12, 2008

Bush Condemns Free National Wi-Fi

Bush Condemns Free National Wi-Fi

fastcompany.com — In another nod to his alleged "free-market" principles, President Bush has expressed disapproval of the free nationwide Wi-Fi proposal being considered by the FCC and Congress.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Google Expands Street View: You Really Can't Hide Anymore

Google Expands Street View: You Really Can't Hide Anymore

mashable.com — Google pushed out a massive update today, doubling the amount of terrain covered in the US. In addition to incorporating street level photos from Memphis, Birmingham, and Charleston, Google added photos from several whole states that previously hadn ’t been touched: Maine, West Virginia, and North and South Dakota.

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

101 Most Essential iPhone Apps of 2008

101 Most Essential iPhone Apps of 2008

maclife.com — It seems like only yesterday a young Steve Jobs sheepishly took the stage and announced that the iPhone and iPod touch would have native third-party applications. Now it's December, and the App Store boasts over 10,000 apps and Apple reports over 300 million downloads. Here is a list of the 101 most essential iPhone Apps.

Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Released

Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Released

en-us.www.mozilla.com — This is the fourth development milestone and second beta release of Firefox 3.1, the upcoming version of the Firefox web browser

Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Released

This is the fourth development milestone and second beta release of Firefox 3.1, the upcoming version of the Firefox web browser.

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Even Google's AI knows who the worst band in the world is

Its Creed. Not kajagoogoo Alaskashow Favorite Band of All Time.

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No, THIS is why we love digg

Sorry, I just had to..

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Gmail Finally Adds a To-Do list

It is called “Tasks” and is now available in Gmail Labs (click on the beaker icon next to “Settings” on the upper right hand corner of Gmail). When you enable Tasks, it appears as a link in the left-hand column under Contacts. Click on the link and a box pops up.

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Monday, December 01, 2008

Yikes New ·got some news? story category UDP BitTorrent client Will Destroy The Interwebs!

From Dsl Reports

Over the weekend, we noted that uTorrent has released an alpha client that uses UDP for P2P traffic delivery. UDP makes up roughly 2% of all Internet traffic today, and generally isn't used for data delivery because it doesn't guarantee either the delivery or the quality of the data being delivered. While the migration to UDP could potentially make filtering of P2P more difficult, at least one Slashdot poster argues the decision is a business one aimed at actually making BitTorrent more friendly:

The Simpsons mocks (m)Apple

The Simpsons mocks (m)Apple

engadget.com — Few have been spared the satire of Matt Groening's long running animated sitcom. Last night, The Simpsons took on Apple, or uh, Mapple for a full 6 minutes of lampoonery -- a pretty harsh ride at a two-joke per minute pace. It all starts when the Springfield mall gets its very own Mapple store

Monday, November 03, 2008

AT&T To Start Metered Broadband Billing

AT&T To Start Metered Broadband Billing

dslreports.com — AT&T is testing metered billing in Reno, applying caps ranging from 20GB to 150GB per month on existing tiers of service. Users who go over these totals will pay an additional $1 per gigabyte, per month.

Friday, October 31, 2008

Microsoft parks "I'm a PC" booth outside Apple Store

AppleInsider reader Tom submits the following photo, which shows a large Microsoft-branded kiosk parked outside a shopping-center-based Apple retail store.

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From $603,000 to $1 In 60 Seconds

Never mind the probabilities or the greed, this is the all-time biggest bonehead move in Deal Or No Deal history.

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Saturday, October 04, 2008

Google Chrome Apparently Rejects Google ... Screenshot

You would think that Chrome wouldn’t return errors on Google properties… right? I get the following error when trying to access my Google AdSense account (which I find laughable)!

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Thursday, October 02, 2008

Nintendo Solves Wii Storage Problem

Wii announced today it will begin selling an executable SD card for its console.

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Nintendo Announces DSi

DS Lite--making it 12 percent thinner than its forbear. In turn, the screens have become larger at 3.25 inches--17 percent bigger than the original 3-inch LCDs. As for the new additions to the console, Nintendo has packed a 3-megapixel camera

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Monday, September 29, 2008

Bailout Doesn't Pass

Stocks plunged after the House of Representatives failed to pass a bailout proposal aimed at shoring up America's financial services industry.

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Deletionpedia: where entries too trivial for Wikipedia live

On the Internet, nothing is forgotten, including 60,000+ Wikipedia articles deleted from the site this year. The "Deletionpedia" is a great place to see that list of minor Star Wars bounty hunters, but do we really need to remember everything?

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Official Google 10th Birthday Site

Features a cool interactive timeline that lists major milestones in Google history, as well as all the various birthday logos!

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Palin's Email Account Hacked (PHOTOS)

The group known as Anonymous, which earlier took on Scientology, has published screenshots of e-mail messages and images that it says came from a private e-mail account belonging to Governor Sarah Palin at gov.palin@yahoo.com. The data has been published by WikiLeaks.

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I got this in the mail today from AIG ... seriously [PIC]

If you don’t think this is funny perhaps you need a blood test to check for an irony deficiency.

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Best Buy to acquire Napster for $121 million

In May, Napster openly challenged Apple's iTunes Store when it launched an a la carte download service filled with DRM-free tracks that are compatible with both the iPod and iPhone. The service offered 6 million songs and was billed as "more than 50 percent larger than any other MP3 store" and not only the "largest major label MP3 catalog in the in

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Websites We Visit: How They Looked 10 Years Ago

Here are some of the top tiers brand in the technology industry with their website on the Internet for more than a decade. Let’s take a look how their website looks like 10 years ago, comparing with that they have now. Full list after jump.

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History of the Rick Roll

Rickrolling is an Internet meme involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a Web link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The URL can be masked or obfuscated in some manner.

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Monday, September 08, 2008

Mozilla Updates Firefox 3.1 With Lot More Goodies

Mozilla Corp. on Friday launched the second alpha of Firefox 3.1,adding new video support and boosting the speed of some JavaScript computations.Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2, code named "Shiretoko," will be the last in a short series of alpha editions; Mozilla has set a late-September code freeze for Beta 1, & will be available for the general public in Oct

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Sunday, September 07, 2008

Saturday, September 06, 2008

On iTunes 8 and hunches; also iPhone 2.1 for Tuesday

We have received word that iTunes 8 is finally confirmed for Tuesday's special event, and that it's also expected that iPhone 2.1 will land as well with some hidden features we don't know about.

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Friday, September 05, 2008

iPhone Might Be Able To Replace All Your Remotes

The iPhone makes for a great universal touchscreen remote for everything from your AC to your living room blinds to your music collection.

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First Bill Gates + Jerry Seinfeld Microsof Ad Makes No Sense

Besides the slick and probably expensive editing designed to make Jerry Seinfeld look like the more awkward of the pair, there's not a whole lot of special effects in this clip. In fact, there's not really a whole lot of anything, including laughs, info or pimping of Vista. It's kinda like Seinfeld's really long, really rambling Amex Superman ad

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Wednesday, September 03, 2008

FlashlightDVR (Not Real DVR) portable flashlight

The Swann FlashlightDVR™ is a heavy duty, real working flashlight that also allows you to record video and take photos during the day or at night. Featuring strong aluminum construction the has 128MB of built-in memory and supports mini-SD cards up to 2GB Monitoring & recording concealed in a portable flashlight

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Monday, September 01, 2008

Google Chrome, a browser by Google

This had been rumored for some time but now it's official -- Google is working on their own (open source) browser."Comic book" surfaces on the Web that introduces a browser called Google Chrome and names several Google developers.http://tinyurl.com/56uctc

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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Got A Pirated Copy of XP? Expect to be Nagged

Microsoft is introducing a new "feature" to Windows XP Professional. If you try to update with a bootleg copy, you'll see a few changes... Such as, the desktop background will be reset every 60 minutes & changed to a plain black background. Not to mention the addition of what Microsoft calls the "persistent desktop notification."

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It's official: Comcast starts 250GB bandwidth caps October 1

Comcast has finally announced that it will introduce 250GB per month bandwidth caps for all residential customers this fall. It insists that this is the same policy it always had, but with clearer limits.

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Monday, August 25, 2008

Web Apps Faster With Firefox 3.1

Firefox 3.1 will run many Web-based applications such as Gmail faster through incorporation of a feature called TraceMonkey that dramatically speeds up programs written in JavaScript, Mozilla said Friday. JavaScript has been very broadly used to add pizzazz or flexibility to Web pages over the years, but in recent years, it's also become the

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Saturday, August 09, 2008

Get “I Am Rich!” for $999.99 off the cover price

No Jailbreak required! That’s right, now you too can pretend you were $999.99 richer a few minutes ago! Sure, it may not have I Am Rich’s secret piece of advice that may or may not have made you even richer, but I am 99% sure that advice was “Do not waste your money on expensive crap like this”.

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101 Classic Computer Ads [PICS]

Boing Boing Gadgets has compiled a nice set of 101 classic computer ads.

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Thursday, July 31, 2008

TWIT cartoons by Beltane

This is an homage to our favorite tech guy and all the other Twits.www.toondoo.com Leo has seen the first few of these and liked them and said I should share them.http://www.toondoo.com/ViewBook.toon?bookid=64215

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Thursday, July 03, 2008

Youtube to hand over all user histories and IP addresses!

Due to a recent judge ruling, google will be forced to turn over every record of ever video watched by youtube users, including user's names, and IP addresses to viacom.

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Thursday, June 05, 2008

Trash those records, now we have tape!

Back in the day, audiophiles listened to music on tape, but they were hard to change. Here's an orphaned tape format RCA was eager to sell you: 4 tracks of bliss in one easy-to -load, huge cartridge

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Sunday, May 18, 2008

MetroFi Plans Market Exit: Sale or Shutter

In what is proving to be yet another high-profile Metro Wi-Fi failure, MetroFi, a San Jose-based startup that raised over $15 million from Sevin Rosen and August Capital, is close to shutting down, according to WiFi NetNews and MuniWireless, two blogs that follow the MuniFi industry closely.

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Friday, May 16, 2008

Comcast Lied to FCC, Blocks BitTorrent Traffic 24/7

New data on Comcast’s interference with BitTorrent traffic shows that the company misinformed the FCC this February. Comcast has always argued that BitTorrent upstream traffic was only blocked during periods of heavy network traffic, this turns out to be a lie.

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Friday, April 11, 2008

The Fight to Own Yahoo: Five Possible Scenarios

Rumors are flying that Yahoo is teaming up with AOL, the long-suffering Internet division of Time Warner, as a way to stave off an unwanted merger.While many industry watchers still believe that Microsoft will gobble up Yahoo eventually, chances are it will have to pay a lot more for its meal. Here are five possible scenarios to consider.

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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Mozilla: Final Version of Firefox 3 Will Ship in June

Mozilla officially announces when Firefox 3 will be out.The final release of Firefox 3 is due in June, the company said Wednesday during a roundtable discussion with a small group of tech bloggers.During the event, the key members of the Mozilla team, including CEO John Lilly, gave a quick overview of the product release schedule for the next version of the open source web browser.According to VP of engineering Mike Schroepfer, the first Release Candidate will ship in early May. The RC1 stage is the point at which most of the larger extension developers re-work their code to be fully compatible with Firefox 3. So if your favorite extension isn't yet working, you'll only have to wait another month or so.Right now, the latest Firefox 3 release is beta version 4. The Firefox 3 betas have about 700,000 users right now -- a small but dedicated chunk of Firefox's entire user base of 160 million people. The public release of Beta 5 will be out the first week of April (the nightly builds are available for testing now), and that will be the last beta release before Firefox enters the release candidate stage.Hopefully by June all of the FF Developers will update their Plug-ins to be compatible with FF 3.0 as of now left than have are.

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Google: No kids allowed

"Google's terms of service, while ignored by the vast majority of users, contain a pretty shocking clause: Under 18's are not permitted to use any of Google's web properties. Thats right kids - no search, YouTube, Gmail, news, or images."

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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Give an Old Laptop New Life with Cheap (or Free) Projects

Like a famed race horse or a classic book, you don't just throw away a laptop because it's banged up a little. With some free software, a little know-how and some creative thinking about your home network, nearly any old laptop can find its second wind, and today I'll run through some of the best ways to get it there.

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Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Official: 16GB iPhone available and 32GB iPod touch, $499

Out of the rumor mill comes the 16GB iPhone, now official. Ever since the 16GB iPod touch was announced in September, we all knew it was just a matter of time until Apple could bung the same NAND chip into their chubbier iPhone. The Surprise is a new 32GB iPod touch for the same $499. Both are available immediately. So why did apple waited today to make the announcement. Steve should have made the introduced for the 16GB iPhone and the new 32GB iPod touch at this years Macworld in January.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

January 30th is International Delete Your MySpace Day

PLease no more myspace. . . . We were just recently alerted here at Mashable that January 30th, just a few scant days away, is International Delete Your MySpace Account Day. Cory Geller sent us to a blog post by Simon Owens describing his growing disgust with the constant friend requests from the fembots I have delete, myspace over a year ago. To take part in the excitement. I am going to create another one than Delete it Again to join in the fun!!

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January 30th is International Delete Your MySpace Day

PLease no more myspace. . . . We were just recently alerted here at Mashable that January 30th, just a few scant days away, is International Delete Your MySpace Account Day. Cory Geller sent us to a blog post by Simon Owens describing his growing disgust with the constant friend requests from the fembots I have delete, myspace over a year ago. To take part in the excitement. I am going to create another one than Delete it Again to join in the fun!!

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Monday, January 21, 2008

Talking About AT&T's Internet Filtering on AT&T's Own Show

Joel Johnson of Boing Boing Gadgets was invited to talk about gadgets onThe Hugh Thompson Show, a television-style talk show sponsored exclusively by AT&T for distribution on the online AT&T Tech Channel. I eventually did talk about gadgets, but in light of AT&T's shocking and baffling announcement of their plans to filter the internet, I thought.

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Apple Adds Five Apps To The iPod Touch -- For A Price

It's not all love for the iPhone today -- Apple just announced that Mail, Maps, Stocks, Notes and Weather are all coming to the iPod touch. New touch owners get 'em all for free, but all of you early adopters will have to cough up: the bundle is going to set you back a whopping $20.

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Saturday, January 05, 2008

HD-DVD - Runs and hides from CES

"....HD DVD group is canceling its CES press conference; tail severely between legs over today's explosive news that Warner -- the last "undecided" studio -- was going to the other side and doing Blu-ray discs exclusively."For now I am going to stick and Major other Geels out there with my Upconverting DVD Player. And let this Next Gen DVD Format War Just play out for another Year, Until there is a clear winner.

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Intel Quits One Laptop Per Child Program

That didn't last long! Citing disagreements with the organization, Intel Corp. said Thursday it has abandoned the One Laptop Per Child program, dealing a big blow to the ambitious project seeking to bring millions of low-cost laptops to children in developing countries.

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