Archive for June, 2009

A Pirates Ransom for The Pirate Bay

It appears that The Pirate Bay has been purchased for $7.8 million by Swedish firm Global Gaming Factory X. They have stated they are going to work on a compensation plan for copyright owners and content operators.

File Sharing

Sprint going Android!

It was announced today via Phonenews that Sprint will be getting the new HTC Hero device.

Mobile Devices, Sprint

Google Voice first impressions

Well I have had my Google Voice account setup for all of an hour and a half and already I feel like this is something that should have happened long ago. As expected, Google Voice uses your contacts in your Gmail address book. So the people I talk with the most already have their phone [...]

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Yet Another Google Voice Post

Rumor has it that today is the day that Google Voice will be released to the masses. (At least the masses in the United States.) Of course this very same rumor has been flying around for months, and each day (and a few thousand F5 presses) the log in page http://voice.google.com still shows “Google Voice [...]

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Opera Unite fears

Unite ships with the newest version of Opera (v10) and is effectively a webserver built into the browser. That means you can share virtually anything on your computer just as you would if you placed the items out on the Internet for others do view, but you don’t have to go through the effort of posting anything onto the web.

File Sharing, Opera

File sharing is still an issue?

when do you become a criminal, and when are you simply social networking? If I download music from an anonymous person via bittorrent I am committing a crime. If I download a song being shared by a fellow Opera Unite user I am social networking

File Sharing

Google Voice, good or bad, it’s coming

The one number to rule them all prospect seems like the ideal thing for a person constantly on the go between home, work, and the various moments in between. One of my friends however, decided upon first hearing about it that he would avoid it like the plague.

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