Category Archive for: ‘Technology’

  • Verisign – Top net villain

    BBC NEWS – “Britain’s net industry has named internet domain giant Verisign as its villain of the year.” Good. I agree that Verisign deserves it. Yes, even more than the RIAA. At least the RIAA is doing this on legal grounds, despite their methods. Verisign’s …

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  • Yahoo dumps Google as engine

    SearchEngineWatch.com – “Yahoo is rolling out a brand new search engine today, with its own index and ranking mechanisms, casting aside its long-standing use of Google-powered search results. The move is bound to roil the industry and sets in motion a new race for the …

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  • Record Industry Sues 531 More

    Reuters – “The U.S. music industry on Tuesday sued 531 more people for online copyright infringement using a method known as the “John Doe” litigation process because their names are not yet known.” Woo hoo! More RIAA fun! Wheeeeeee! Meanwhile, the world keeps a-spinnin’ and …

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  • State Of The Arcade Industry

    1up.com – “There was a time when an arcade operator in America could buy a Ms. Pac-Man machine for less than $1,000, let it sit in an arcade, bar or storefront, and see that game make back over 30 times the initial investment. In 2004, …

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  • Google Achieves Search Milestone

    BusinessWire – “Google Inc. today announced it expanded the breadth of its web index to more than 6 billion items. Google’s collection comprises 4.28 billion web pages, 880 million images, 845 million Usenet messages, and a growing collection of book-related information pages.” As always, it’s …

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  • New Bagle.B Internet worm appears

    Yahoo! News – “A new variant of the Bagle Internet worm, dubbed Bagle.B, was spreading quickly by e-mail throughout the world, Internet security experts said.” Oh good, another one. Time to test the stupidity of e-mail users again.

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  • Cingular to Buy AT&T Wireless

    Yahoo! News – “Cingular Wireless agreed to pay nearly $41 billion in cash to buy AT&T Wireless Services to create the nation’s largest mobile phone company” Yeah, that’s for sure. Not sure if this is a good or a bad thing. Since I’m not a …

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  • State Of Dual-Display Gaming

    Tom’s Hardware – “Games, however, have been late to take advantage of multi-displays. There is only a small number of games that support multi-display modes. Instead, many game developers try to cram as much of their game’s interface onto one screen as possible.” Multi-display technology …

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  • Lindows now Lindash

    The Register – “The operating system Lindows is now available as Lin—s (pronounced: Lin-dash) in those countries where Microsoft has blocked the availability of the desktop Linux distribution.” Doesn’t get much funnier than this, folks. This is what trademarks and intellectual property rights have come …

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