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He Said-She Said: Blogs Making Things Up!?


Posted in News, Tech by Evan | 7 Comments

This is surprising. It seems a recent story that made the rounds among the popular tech blogs may not have been anything to write about in the first place. As I ...

Vodafone Gets German Restraining Order Against iPhone Sales


Posted in Mobile, News by Dan | 1 Comment

The Apple mobile phone has done nothing less then stir controversy - this time in germany. The German unit of Vodafone Group PLC has obtained a restraining order against Deutsche Telekom ...

Mininova Serves Up It’s Millionth Torrent


Posted in News, Tech by Dan | Comments Off

In a time where BitTorrent trackers are being shut down faster then they go up, Mininova has reached it's millionth uploaded torrent. Torrent number 1,000,000 was uploaded yesterday by an anonymous ...

Why You Should Not Support the WGA Strike


Posted in Cool, News by Evan | 33 Comments

I agree. Discuss.

Vonage in Trouble. Appeal Refused; Verizon Owed $120 Million


Posted in News by Dan | 5 Comments

Roh, Roh. Vonage is in a small bit of trouble. A US appeals court has refused to revalue their patent dispute against Verizon and agreed that previously decided ...

Hulu Is Here, YouTube Be scared?


Posted in News, Random by Evan | 6 Comments

Well, here it is. Hulu, the site that will be make available full shows from FOX and NBC is rolling out, and the initial reviews are pretty good. The site ...

‘YouTube Material’ Man Jailed For 3 Years


Posted in News by Evan | 10 Comments

A man who urinated on a dying woman saying it was "YouTube material" has been jailed for 3 years. Anthony Anderson, who was a former Soldier, had smoked some cannabis ...

Universal To Sell Music On Flash Drives


Posted in Cool, News by Evan | 4 Comments

Universal Music will begin selling singles on USB drives later this year at £4.99 in the UK while CD singles go for £2.99. The angle here is that they're offering ...

OiNK.CD Shut Down!


Posted in Geeky, News by Evan | 10 Comments

Popular music torrent site OiNK.cd has been shut down by the IFPI and other organizations with acronyms. It seems as though these private sites are going down a lot lately. ...

Your Images Aren’t Really Yours


Posted in Geeky, News by Evan | 4 Comments

We already talked about potential trouble that Creative Commons can cause when it comes to your images and appearing in ads without permission given. Well here is another story, where ...

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