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Skype, Yahoo, eBay, and Others Plead with UK Government Over Net Neutrality
The UK communications minister, Ed Vaizey, gave a speech November 17th about his stance on net neutrality in the United Kingdom. In the speech, he specified that the government would retain net neutrality, but only pursue it lightly—the relative limpness of his wording lead many to believe that this would enable ISPs and others to ...
Chrome 8 Enhancements Include PDF Security
Adobe’s PDF format is the most popular printable-document format ever and it’s almost impossible to find a computer, device, or media viewing application incapable of displaying one. As a result, it’s also become a favorite target for worms and viruses, as extremely prevalent code therefore becomes a center of attention. Amid a myriad of security ...
Xbox Gets a Silver Lining as Microsoft Announces Silverlight 5
With the rapid innovation of playable media for mobile devices running strong, Microsoft announced that they’d be shifting away from Silverlight towards HTML5. This shift probably left a certain number of Silverlight developers abandoned even as Bing dropped its Silverlight foundation for HTML5. According to an article on The Next Web, it became obvious recently ...
LimeWire Closes Its Online Store, Gone by Dec 31st
It looks like the long winded LimeWire saga is coming to a close with the shuttering of its online store. According to All Things D, notices posted on its website now tell the story of its closure by December 31, 2010. The company is also closing its online music store at the end of the ...
Zynga Angling for More Mobile Presence with Newtoy Acquisition
The online game publisher Zynga has been in the news a lot lately with seven acquisitions in as many months. They already dominate the landscape of Facebook and a lot of online social and casual gaming and are looking to press their way further into the mobile market. The newly acquired company, Texas-based Newtoy, produces ...
Google Improving Copyright Protection Basics
Google is upgrading their procedures for the submission of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices against copyright infringing materials on their services and also the procedures for filing counter notices. The dreaded DMCA notice is a common event on YouTUBE, especially for new users making music videos by compiling together popular music and clips from ...
eBay Purchasing Milo.com for $75 Million
An article running right now in Business Insider lays out the news that eBay has acquired Milo.com for $75 million and cites two anonymous sources, Milo.com is a shopping search engine that lets you find out what’s in stock at local stores. How does Milo fit with eBay? For starters, it plays in the same ...
Xbox 360 Kinect Sensor Sales Booming, Exceeded 2.5 Million
Not just popular for the homebrew front, Kinect has hit the heart of gamer households to the tune of 2.5 million units sold since its release only 27 days ago. It’s already seen its share of controversial press, some homebrew hacking to do fun stuff (even shadow puppets!) but that’s not the only market that ...
Verizon Launching “4G” Network December 7th
We’ve been hearing about this for a while now, but no solid dates have fallen out of Verizon’s plans to roll out their Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology infrastructure and put their customers on 4G. Well, here it is: it’s coming December 7th, 2010. According to an article running on CNET, the carrier plans to unveil ...
Want 3D Processing? Oliver Kreylos Shows Two Kinects are Better than One
When last we checked in on Oliver Kreylos he was hacking a single Xbox 360 Kinect device to produce fairly cool 3D streaming visuals. Now, he’s gone a step further and tied the feeds of two Kinect cameras together to give his creation stereoscopic vision. This is the same way how humans perceive depth, with ...