AOL strategy crashes in Latin America

AOL Latin America files for bankruptcy protection after losing $1 billion. ;-)
When: 7/31/2005
Company: AOL Latin America

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Website that distributes free "abandonware" games.

This site, called Macintosh Garden, distributes old games that have been made public domain by defunct companies. It features hundreds games including Sim City 2000, (the original) Prince of Persia, and many more.

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Breaking News: 10th planet discovered

NASA is currently holding a press conference announcing the discovery of the solar systems 10th planet which is larger than Pluto.

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New world may be double Pluto's size

Astronomical detectives make a stunning discovery - hiding in plain view, the object may be the biggest orbiting in the outer solar system

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Oops The Evil RIAA did it Again. Sued 765 illegal file sharers.

The RIAA, on behalf of its member companies, today announced a new round of copyright infringement lawsuits against 765 illegal file sharers. for July

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Illegal downloaders are also biggest spenders: research - // Zeropaid.com News

Illegal downloaders are also biggest spenders: research - // Zeropaid.com News: "A British organization has discovered that illegal music downloaders spend much more on paid music downloads than strictly legal file-sharers do.

The Leading Question, a digital music consumer research firm, says music pirates spent four-and-a-half times more for legal music downloads than average fans."

How to cancel your AOL account

An AOL dialup account has always been notoriously easy to sign up for and hard to cancel. Tech expert Dave Taylor says it took 50 minutes (!) in total to cancel his account after signing up with one of those ubiquitous free CDs for fun.

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Slashdot | Google Maps Creator Takes Browsers To The Limit

Slashdot | Google Maps Creator Takes Browsers To The Limit: "Addressing a crowd of developers in Sydney today, Google Maps creator Lars Rasmussen encouraged them to embrace bleeding edge technology in browser software. He cited the example of how Google Maps can command Internet Explorer to use VML (Vector Markup Language by Microsoft) to display a blue line between geographical points, but use a PNG graphic format and a linear description for the Firefox browser.' From the article: 'Firstly, the Web allows rapid deployment and there is no software for users to install. It's also much easier to make sure code runs on multiple browsers compared with multiple operating systems like Mac OS X and Windows. The downside is that browsers don't give programmers full access to a computer's resources such as memory, process power and hard disk space. This is a bottleneck the engineer sees being removed in future, although he thinks the simplicity of the current Web browsing experience needs to be maintained.'"

Slashdot | Leo Laporte On UNIX As the Future

Slashdot | Leo Laporte On UNIX As the Future: "In a well-written interview with Mad Penguin, techmeister Leo Laporte (formerly of G4/TechTV fame) discusses his vision of the future of proprietary and open platforms: 'I think there's a lot of hope for Linux, although I don't think that Linux is the answer. I think that UNIX is the answer, in some form or fashion. It might be BSD, it might be Linux, it might be some third thing. But UNIX is such a well understood and smart to handle the issues that an operating system has to handle that it ultimately will prevail.'"

The Birth of Google

It began with an argument. When he first met Larry Page in the summer of 1995, Sergey Brin was a second-year grad student in the computer science department at Stanford University.

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Mozilla Firefox Downloaded 75,000,000 Times

Spread Firefox is reporting that Mozilla Firefox has been downloaded 75,000,000 times. The 75 millionth download came at 11:17:10am UTC/GMT today. The download count does not include upgrades obtained using Firefox's in-built software update system.

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How to Bypass BIOS Passwords

BIOS passwords can add an extra layer of security for desktop and laptop computers. There are a few known backdoors and other tricks of the trade that can be used to bypass or reset the BIOS password on most systems.

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TV Guide Dropping Listings from magazine!

The new TV Guide, which will launch with the Oct. 17 issue, will contain just 25 percent listings and 75 percent stories, versus the 75 percent listings and 25 percent stories it has now, the company said early Tuesday.

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Apple Releases New ibooks and mac minis

Apple has finally released their new ibooks and mac minis

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KXAN.com - Home

KXAN.com - Home: "Shuttle Lifts Off

The space shuttle Discovery has lifted off for a flight to the international space station. It marks a return to flight for the shuttle, two and a-half years after the Columbia disaster. Seven crew members are on board."

Thousands and Thousands of Hours of PVR TV

new technology from Promise TV takes the form of a home-built PVR with lots of high-capacity hard drives and claims to be able to record every show on every channel being recorded in the UK for an entire month.

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Don't Forget About SoulSeek

With all the controversy, legal battles, and political debates surrounding P2P, it’s easy to forget about the original focus of P2P.

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David Bradley describes how he invented CTRL-ALT-DEL, then tries to packped

David Bradley describes how he invented CTRL-ALT-DEL, then tries to packpedal after he inadvertantly slams Bill Gates for making it famous.

I love the look on Bills face when David Bradley implies that Bill made it famous because of Windows crashing all the time! Ohh the acward silence..

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New terrain for chipmakers | CNET News.com

New terrain for chipmakers | CNET News.com: "One in 10 server chips now from AMD
A big jump in quarterly market share pushes Advanced Micro Devices into double-digit market share in server chips for the first time."

FIBER HARD DRIVES FATA! (will reach 120TB)

ENOUGH SAID!

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