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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 the initial leak and any subsequent postings will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
"The courts have han... |
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April 2009 |
Hewlett-Packard Co. may build netbook PCs running Google Inc.'s Linux-based Android operating system, the Wall Street Journal reported today.
The Journal cited unnamed sources in its report. Satjiv Chahil, a vice president in HP's PC division, declined to comment on whether the world's largest PC maker will sell either netbooks or smartphones running Android but confirmed that HP is "studying" the free operating system.
HP did not immediately reply to a Computerworld request for comment.
Asustek Co... |
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March 2009 |
A report by Juniper Research has concluded that revenues from LTE mobile broadband subscribers will exceed $70 billion globally by 2014. Juniper Research found that this exciting technology will create a new connected era for devices such as portable games consoles and digital cameras, with vendors already eyeing the prospects. In this way, LTE will bridge the gap between the mobile and consumer electronics worlds.
Challenges Ahead
However, the report determined that there are several open issues that... |
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March 2009 |
Motorola has shown off a new CDMA based touch-screen phone, the Evoke QA4 - which it says is a "socially-inclined device". Evoke supports different messaging styles with a full touch-screen QWERTY keyboard and slide out traditional keypad.
“We understand the importance of having a mobile phone that helps you stay connected simply and seamlessly with your friends and family, whether you prefer to talk, text or network,” said Mark Shockley, corporate vice president and general manager, Motorola Mobile Devi... |
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March 2009 |
With the recent trial out of the way, it seems The Pirate Bay team have had more time for development of the site. Just last week they announced the addition of personal RSS feeds. This week we revealed that they will also offer a new IPRED-busting VPN service.
That’s not all though, the team has recently rolled out a new feature which is almost guaranteed to spark controversy. Visitors to a torrent details page on the site - such as this random Ubuntu torrent - will notice the addition of a brand new bu... |
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March 2009 |
Twitter is taking a much-anticipated first-step in its quest to parlay popularity into revenue by offering business customers an expanded range of fee-based services.
The company is preparing to offer commercial accounts in which corporations and other types of businesses pay a fee to receive an enhanced version of Twitter, a free service that allows people to send short, 140-character text messages to their network of friends.
"We think there will be opportunities to provide services to commercial en... |
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March 2009 |
Having recently gone on trial, the founders of the world's largest BitTorrent file sharing site, ThePirateBay.Org, are soon to launch a network service that'll allow file sharers to become even harder for copyright police to detect.
ThePirateBay aims to make the online activities of subscribers as anonymous as possible using Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies, which provide a secure and encrypted point to point connection that only authorised users can access, making downloaded data and IP addres... |
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March 2009 |
Sony Ericsson today announced the T707a, a stylish clamshell with light effects that glow when calls are received and gesture control to mute or end calls by waving a hand over its screen.
The Japanese-Swedish joint venture said the handset's pulsating notifications and light effects can be personalized to each friend.
Photos taken with the 3.2-megapixel camera can be uploaded to social networking sites using the HTML web browser.
The handset also includes an MP3 player, FM radio and Bluetooth audi... |
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March 2009 |
Nokia Corp., the world's largest maker of cell phones, is making a large investment in a California-based startup that wants to make the mobile phone the credit card of the developing world.
The amount of Nokia's investment in Obopay Inc. of Redwood City was not disclosed Wednesday, but the startup made a regulatory filing this month for the sale of up to $70 million in preferred stock. The filing also noted that Nokia's head of corporate business development, Teppo Paavolo, will get a seat on Obopay's b... |
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March 2009 |
Caving to pressure from a horde of often irate users, Facebook Inc. today announced changes to the unpopular redesign of its home page earlier this month.
The popular social networking site has been hammered hard by users revolting against the new Facebook design. The updated home page added, among other things, a real-time news feed stream and a highlights section. The redesign also allows users to share their information with an unlimited number of friends -- making the social network a lot more like T... |
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March 2009 |
Skype might not be performing quite as well as parent company eBay would prefer a $2.6 billion acquisition to perform, but that hasn't dampened worldwide enthusiasm for the VoIP service. Skype is so popular, in fact, that new numbers out from TeleGeography suggest that it has become the "largest provider of cross-border voice communications in the world." Take that, AT&T!
Actually, AT&T probably doesn't care, since long distance has lost some of its revenue-generating luster, but the surging popularity o... |
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March 2009 |
The iPhone Dev-Team says the upcoming iPhone OS 3.0 can be jailbroken but issued a warning to some 3G users eager to get that shiny new copy-paste feature.
Apple unveiled on Tuesday some of what it says will be 100 new features coming to the iPhone and iPod Touch with the new version of the mobile operating system. A beta version was made available immediately to everyone in the iPhone Developer Program, and it didn't take long for developers to get cracking on iPhone OS 3.0.
The Dev-Team confirmed th... |
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March 2009 |
The Internet Archive organization plans next week to announce the opening of a new data center to house two petabytes of information for its Wayback Machine, the digital time capsule that stores archived versions of Web pages dating back to 1996.
For example, this is what Computerworld's Web site looked like in 1997, what Google looked like in 1998 and what CNN looked like in 2000.
The Wayback Machine houses 85 billion Web pages archived for more than a dozen years, which amounts to three petabytes of... |
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March 2009 |
According to a German report, Ericsson is looking to sell Sony its share in their joint Sony Ericsson cellphone business. Sources familiar with the current situation claim that Sony has expressed an interest in taking sole control of the company, but that their own precarious financial position has left them negotiating with banks in order to clinch the deal.
Sony announced a huge 95-percent drop in profits over the last three months of 2008, compared to performance twelve months previous. They went on... |
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March 2009 |
Apple has previewed an upgrade of its operating system for the iPhone handsets, along with the immediate availability of a beta software release to registered developers. The iPhone OS 3.0 beta release includes an updated Software Development Kit (SDK) with over 1,000 new Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) including In-App Purchases; Peer-to-Peer connections; an app interface for accessories; access to the iPod music library; a new Maps API and Push Notifications.
Apple also announced over 100 new... |
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