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- Bono Puts Policing Piracy Into His Next Decade Top 10
Many writers have been penning top 10 lists of one kind or another recently, either reviewing the last decade or looking forward to the next one. Among them, U2 frontman Bono has published his next-decade wish list, including a desire for the Internet to be policed for copyright infringement.
Published : 2010-01-03 Source : torrentfreak.com - Publishers Fear eBook Piracy, But Shouldn’t
The music industry has made it quite clear that the Internet is a scary place full of pirates. These same fears have spread into the minds of book publishers, who are about to make the same mistakes as the major record labels did. Its not too late though.
Published : 2010-01-03 Source : torrentfreak.com - Four reasons Apple will launch a tablet in 2010
Editors Note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld . For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworlds Macintosh Knowledge Center .
Published : 2010-01-03 Source : www.topix.net - Apple Refuses To Return Stolen iPhone To Owner
Consumerist reader Alisa Finkelstein recently was robbed on a Brooklyn subway, losing her iPhone in the process as well. While police came on-scene to investigate, she never went down to the station to file a police report, and thats why shes not going to get her iPhone back, apparently.
Published : 2010-01-03 Source : www.topix.net - iPhone App Ad Hoc Distribution End User Instructions
Have you ever been invited to beta test an iPhone application? Because of the way that Apple distributes apps, only through the iPhone, developers trying to run an iPhone beta program have to jump through hoops to do so.
Published : 2010-01-03 Source : www.topix.net - Some Cell Phone Users Experience The Y2016 SMS Bug
Microsofts Windows Mobile is off to a bad start in 2010. WM is the whipping boy among smartphone platforms anyway, and this is just going to make things worse for Microsoft.
Published : 2010-01-03 Source : www.topix.net - Windows market share slide resumes
Microsofts Windows resumed its usual losing form last month as the operating systems usage share dropped by about a third of a point even as the new Windows 7 posted a second straight month of impressive gains, Web metrics firm Net Applications said Friday.
Published : 2010-01-03 Source : www.topix.net - Mininova Uploader Gets Three Years Probation
A Californian resident of Irvine has plead guilty to sharing The Love Guru through BitTorrent. After getting his hands on a leaked copy of the film, the man decided to upload the film to Mininova. The 31 year-old man confessed and agreed to a sentence of three years probation.
Published : 2010-01-02 Source : torrentfreak.com - Six Ways File-Sharers Will Neutralize 3 Strikes
After extended legal battles, Frances President Sarkozy finally got his way. This year will see some of the most aggressive anti-piracy action against citizens which, if ministers are to be believed, will dramatically reduce online piracy. This might be possible, if the measures werent so easily circumvented.
Published : 2010-01-02 Source : torrentfreak.com - 2009 – A ZeroPaid Year in Review – Part 1 of 3
2008 was an interesting year in file-sharing and 2009 didn’t necessarily disappoint. There was plenty of ways to look at it, but there is one way one can look at the year – eventful. ZeroPaid reviews 2009. January 2009 kicked things off with a bang with the ever ongoing Australian plan to filter the internet. [...]
Published : 2010-01-02 Source : www.zeropaid.com - 2009 – A ZeroPaid Year in Review – Part 2 of 3
We continue with our 2009 year in review with part two of our three part review. Part one of three. May May started off with several stories pretty much happening at the exact same time. One of those stories was the increase in support for municipal broadband by major tech companies. Project Greenlight, the [...]
Published : 2010-01-02 Source : www.zeropaid.com - New Peter Jackson Flic “Lovely Bones” Leaks to BitTorrent
Screener debuts on BitTorrent tracker sites everywhere well ahead of its January 15th national release date. Oscar screener leak season has been upon us for a while now, but that doesn’t mean a surprise isn’t in store every now and then. Such as is the case today with news that a screener copy of director Peter [...]
Published : 2010-01-02 Source : www.zeropaid.com - Solar showdown in Calif. tortoises desert home
On a strip of Californias Mojave Desert, two dozen rare tortoises could stand in the way of a sprawling solar-energy complex in a case that highlights mounting tensions between wilderness conservation and the nations quest for cleaner power.
Published : 2010-01-02 Source : www.topix.net - New Solar Energy Push In 2010
Massachusetts is planning a new solar energy push in 2010 with a string of programs designed to dramatically increase the number of solar panel arrays.
Published : 2010-01-02 Source : www.topix.net - NASAs Mars rover Spirit has uncertain future as sixth anniversary nears
However, the upcoming Martian winter could end the roving career of the beloved, scrappy robot.
Published : 2010-01-02 Source : www.topix.net - Old House Walls Prove The Perfect Way To Block Wi-Fi
Its probably not something many have thought of, but its something that people living in older houses might want to consider: your houses walls may prove to be the perfect blocker of wi-fi, and other wireless signals.
Published : 2010-01-02 Source : www.topix.net - Google Chrome Rises To Third Among Browsers
Only 16 months after its debut, Chrome has overtaken Safari as the third-most-popular web browser, according to the latest numbers released by web metrics firm Net Applications. Chrome ended the month of December 2009 with a share of 4.63 percent, while Apples Safari dropped into fourth place with a share of 4.46 percent.
Published : 2010-01-02 Source : www.topix.net - Global warming blamed for rise in malaria on Mount Kenya
Global warming has caused a seven-fold increase in cases of malaria on the slopes of Mount Kenya, a British-funded research team has found.
Published : 2010-01-02 Source : www.topix.net - Hackers Mimic Huffington Posts Twitter Feed
A Huffington Post spokesman says the left-leaning news and opinion Web site was not hacked when a Twitter social network feed emerged in its name and began issuing insults with a conservative bent.
Published : 2010-01-02 Source : www.topix.net - Five BitTorrent Predictions for 2010
A whole new and exiting year lies ahead of us, so this is an opportune time for some BitTorrent predictions for 2010. On the upside, video streaming sites will begin experimenting with BitTorrent. One of the negatives is that a major BitTorrent client will be sued by the entertainment industry for assisting copyright infringement.
Published : 2010-01-01 Source : torrentfreak.com - Netflix to Hollywood: Video Streaming “New Opportunity” Not Threat
Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, a former video-store clerk, is trying to convince movie studios that offering online video streaming won’t “destroy the ecosystem,” that in fact it’s “creating a new opportunity” to reach consumers. Netflix has always had a penchant for seeing the future and adapting its business model accordingly, and unlike Blockbuster Video, [...]
Published : 2010-01-01 Source : www.zeropaid.com - China: Reaffirms Plans to “Purify” the Internet
Says crackdown on online pornography is part of overall effort to preserve “national long-term stability,” build a “harmonious socialist society,” and prevent the “poisoning of young people’s physical and mental health,” but most likely is all about strengthening its grip on the what could be a dangerous conduit for threatening images and ideas. I mentioned [...]
Published : 2010-01-01 Source : www.zeropaid.com - Customers back ammonia-treated beef after report
Restaurant chains and beef processors defended their products safety Thursday after a report that an ammonia treatment thought to kill harmful germs in meat isnt as effective as the industry and regulators believed.
Published : 2010-01-01 Source : www.topix.net - IPO comeback in 2009 sets stage for busy 2010
The pipeline of initial public offerings for 2010 looks promising as private equity firms look to cash in on their investments after coming back to the nearly defunct market in the fall.
Published : 2010-01-01 Source : www.topix.net - Cell Phone Software Designed To Lead Illegal Immigrants To Water
Faculty at University of California, San Diego are developing software to be added to a cheap GPS-enabled cell phone to point dehydrated migrants to water. The software, called the Transborder Immigrant Tool, has already proved controversial, before it has even been released, as critics have said the developers are aiding illegal entry to the United States, a felony.
Published : 2010-01-01 Source : www.topix.net - Playing With Processes In Google Chrome
In the old days, if a single tab in your tabbed browser crashed (assuming you were using a tabbed browser), your whole browser would be brought down. Newer browsers, such as Internet Explorer 8 and Chrome, launch a separate process for each tab. A tab crashes, and it just brings down one tab, not the entire browser.
Published : 2010-01-01 Source : www.topix.net - Apple Expects To Ship 10 Million Tablet PCs in 2010: Report
Former Google executive Lee Kai-fu, citing an anonymous friend familiar with the project, said that Apple expects to ship 10 million tablet PCs in 2010. There is already a January 26th Apple event scheduled, with the normal Apple secrecy, at which the iSlate, iGuide, or iTablet, whatever it will be known as, is expected to be unveiled.
Published : 2010-01-01 Source : www.topix.net - P&G open to outside ideas, but no kitty Swiffers
Swiffer kitties? Just attach little dusting pads to your felines paws, so they can help keep your floors clean while making their rounds.
Published : 2010-01-01 Source : www.topix.net - As 2010 Begins, AT&T Still Missing iPhone Tethering, 3G MicroCells
Its not as though anyone needs a reminder of the negatives of AT&Ts network vs. Verizons, but unshockingly, we are now into 2010 without two things AT&T said it was going to provide in 2009. Those would be tethering for the iPhone, as well as 3G MicroCells (AT&Ts version of a femtocell).
Published : 2010-01-01 Source : www.topix.net - Top 10 Most Pirated TV-Shows of 2009
As the year moves toward its conclusion, we have been listing the most pirated entertainment titles of 2009. Following our Top 10 games and movies charts, we now turn to the most downloaded TV-shows. Despite declining viewership offline, Heroes is the most downloaded show, with over 6 million downloads for a single episode.
Published : 2009-12-31 Source : torrentfreak.com
