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Finnish Music Industry Sues ISP to Censor The Pirate Bay
Record labels from Finland, a Nordic land full of guitars strung with grim repose and death metal, have filed a lawsuit at the District Court of Helsinki to block access to The Pirate Bay. SiliconANGLE has covered actions against The Pirate Bay before, a now infamous BitTorrent tracker (dubbed the world’s largest) that is constantly ...
Microsoft’s Stealth Internet-to-Living-Room Entertainment System: the Xbox
In a new report, Microsoft brags that their Xbox 360 system accounts for an interesting level of entertainment use above and beyond video games. “While people are still playing a ton of video games, 40 percent of all Xbox activity now is non-game.” According to the stats, Xbox owners watch an average of 30 hours ...
Apple’s iCloud: Coming to a Living Room Near You?
For some time now, Apple has been seen as extremely deficient with their delivery of the personal cloud for customers. In fact, even services such as iTunes fall down when it comes to offering online storage—considering instead selling customers mp3s and movies that first must be downloaded directly to their computers and devices. Keeping in ...
Intel Announces Launch of Laptop-tablet Hybrid Line the ‘Ultrabook’ and Android Optimized Medfield
Intel executives have outlined designs for a new class of laptops that sport an ultra thin, low-power design at the Computex tradeshow in Taiwan. These new laptops, dubbed “ultrabooks” will combine a sleek, lightweight design (reminiscent of Macbooks) with the sheer power of a new Intel 22nm chip process called Ivy Bridge. According to Executive ...
Lockheed Martin Network Disruption Connected to RSA SecurID
Last Friday, the network of Lockheed Martin, the largest U.S. defense contractor, suffered a disruption that has reportedly been connected to RSA SecurID tokens—little keychain fob dongles that use a crypto algorithm to cycle a numerical token every 60 seconds, a sort of rotating password, if you will. Lockheed themselves declined to discuss any specifics ...
Futuremark Games Studio Piles On Cats, Cockpits, and UFOs for Electronic Entertainment Expo
For those hooked into the vibe of the gaming industry a big event is just around the corner: E3 or the Electronic Entertainment Expo. At this huge event a multitude of industry giants find their way onto the stage and display their wares to anxious audiences full of both the cynical and the sycophantic. Up-and-comer ...
Sony May Change Production Strategy for NGP to Reduce Costs
Launching a new game system rough business and it involves a lot of time, energy, and money. As a result, when a console publisher develops a new system, they spend a lot in investments—this leads a trend of losses in that sector until the returns catch up with the production costs. Right now, Sony is ...
Android-Powered Gaming Console EVO 2 Will Bring Mobile Games to Your Television
Envizions Computer Entertainment, Inc. has announced the upcoming production of an expensive gaming console that will bring both Google Android and notable computing power to televisions everywhere. However, it comes at a notable price—with a cost of $249 a pop, it really needs to sport more than an offer of being an Android-based game console. ...
Google Runs with Smartphone as Digital Wallet, Coupon Center
Today at an event in New York, Google has unveiled two new products that will be built into smartphones sporting near-field communication technology: Google Wallet and Google Offers. The former presents a method for racking up purchases at a brick-and-mortar store and then using your smartphone as a financial transaction facilitator (like a credit card) ...
Xperia PLAY by Sony Ericsson Delivers Savagely Brilliant Gaming Platform Camouflaged as a Smartphone
Look in that product release press conference. It’s a smartphone. It’s a handheld gaming system. It’s the Xperia PLAY by Sony Ericsson! Of course, this gaming device business productivity mobile runs the world’s favorite hybrid OS with Gingerbread Android 2.3 and is now available from Verizon wireless for $200. At 4.7 inches high and 2.4 ...