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Twitter traffic jumps almost 50pct after Oprah joins

23  April  2009
Oprah Winfrey’s effect on book sales when she supports a new title is legendary. She may have even contributed to the election of the nation’s first black president with her endorsement of Barack Obama. So what happened in Twitterland after Winfrey started Tweeting, and used her TV show as a platform to announce her online Twitter presence? According to market tracker Hitwise, tr
 

AMD plans 16-core server chip

22  April  2009
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said today that it's designing a server processor with up to 16 cores, which would quadruple the count in the company's existing quad-core Opteron chips. But the new chip, which is code-named Interlagos and slated to support between 12 and 16 processor cores, will be a long time coming. The processor won't be released until 2011, AMD officials said duri
 

Pirate Bay founders found guilty

17  April  2009
A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most high-profile file-sharing website. Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail. They were also ordered to pay 30m kronor (�2.4m) in damages. In a Twitter posting, Mr Sunde said: "Nothing wi
 

Microsoft to open campus drinking hole

16  April  2009
Microsoft has reached an agreement to move forward with a new campus pub -- reversing course after having second thoughts and surprising the bar owner with a lease termination last week. Under the compromise plan, the Spitfire pub will serve beer and wine in the afternoons and evenings, after 3 p.m., but it will be open during those hours only for scheduled gatherings and catered
 

Nokia's net profit falls 90 percent

16  April  2009
If you were wondering how bad things have gotten for the mobile handset market, just take a look at Nokia, the world's largest maker of cell phones. The company on Thursday reported a 90 percent fall in first-quarter net profits as the global recession took a big bite out of demand for mobile devices. For the first quarter, which ended March 31, Nokia said that net profits fell
 

ISP sabotages file sharing law

16  April  2009
Broadband operator Bahnhof has begun destroying the IP address details of its customers in an open and fully legal bid to undermine Sweden's new anti-file sharing laws. Bahnhof CEO Jon Karlung, a vociferous opponent of the measures that came into force on April 1st, has said he is determined to protect the company's clients. The new file sharing law is based on the European Union
 

Study: Facebook users get lower grades in college

14  April  2009
Need your kids to pick their grades up? Tell them to spend less time on Facebook. A new study released by Ohio State University shows that college students who use Facebook spend less time studying and have lower grades than students who don't use the popular social networking site. But don't count on the Facebook users admitting the problem. The university report noted that 79%
 

First SMS Worm Detected to Infect Smartphones

14  April  2009
Internet security vendor, F-Secure says that it has detected the first known SMS based worm for mobile phones. In its quarterly update on the security issues faced by computer and smartphone users, the company noted that the biggest malware story of 2009 so far has been the Conficker (aka Downadup) worm. It is a classic worm exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, of the
 

Mininova serves 8 billionth torrent

11  April  2009
Mininova, one of the world’s most visited BitTorrent sites, broke another download record today. Just a few hours ago the download counter displayed a staggering 8,000,000,000 downloads. That’s enough for everyone on planet earth to have one - and then some. mininovaFounded in January 2005, Mininova quickly became one of the most successful torrent sites. With millions of daily
 

Facebook set to hit milestone today -- 200 millionth user

8  April  2009
Just a few months after its fifth anniversary, Facebook Inc. today is set to welcome its 200 millionth user. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a blog post this morning that the social networking site is on track to welcome its 200 millionth user before the day is out. To celebrate, the company has hooked up with 16 charities and advocacy groups that have created virtual gifts
 

Review: Skype for iPhone

7  April  2009
At long last, the iPhone and iPod touch have a Skype client all their own. This is a momentous turn of events, particularly for iPhone users who haven't opted for AT&T's unlimited voice plan and want to save their precious minutes. iPod touch users will, of course, welcome the chance to add any sort of calling capability to their mobile device. This mobile version of Skype looks a
 

Google sees voice search as core

4  April  2009
Google has said it sees voice search as a major opportunity for the company in building a presence on the mobile web. The company's vice president of engineering made the comments during a wide-ranging discussion at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. "We believe voice search is a new form of search and that it is core to our business," said Vic Gundotra. SearchEngineLand editor
 

Google 'in talks to buy Twitter'

3  April  2009
Google Inc may be in talks to buy internet start-up Twitter, the free micro-blogging service that allows people to send short text messages to a network of friends, the TechCrunch website said late on Thursday. TechCrunch's article by Michael Arrington said the two companies are also considering working together on a Google real time search engine. Google would pay for Twitter in
 

Nokia Dismisses WiMAX As a "Wireless Betamax"

2  April  2009
Nokia has dismissed WiMAX as a failed idea and likened it to the Betamax video format which lost the video tape war in the 1980s. Nokia's head of sales and manufacturing, Anssi Vanjoki told the Financial Times that he doesn't "see that WiMax is taking hold anywhere in a big way," "I don't think the future is very promising [for WiMax]. This is a classic example of industry standard
 

FBI called in over X-Men: Wolverine leak

2  April  2009
The FBI are investigating the online leak of an almost finished copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a month before the film's cinema release. The Hugh Jackman film was downloaded an estimated several 100,000 times from file sharing websites on Tuesday. 20th Century Fox confirmed the copy had now been removed and the FBI informed. The studio behind Wolverine stated: "The source of
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