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Apple’s iCloud Signs All Four Major Record Labels, Cost Listed at $25 a Year
Right now, Apple’s upcoming cloud-storage service for iTunes has been all the rage of speculation and interest and more details are coming to light. So far, it’s been revealed that the technology magnificence and strategy of iCloud has been adopted by the four major record labels: Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, ...
Upcoming Sony NGP Reveal at E3 2011 Most Likely the ‘PlayStation Vita’
It started with a rumor. We’ve known for a while now that Sony intended to reveal its Next Generation Platform (NGP) June 6th at the Electronic Entertainment Expo but the would-be official name of the device has been kept under wraps for months now. However, all that may have finally come to an end now ...
Nokia’s Market Share Falling as Android Overtakes Europe
Google’s Android platform may have taken longer to flow into the markets of Europe, but its foothold is definitely growing. As more affordable smartphones begin to push into the mainstream, Android has become the turn-to OS of choice for handset manufacturers to cover their bases. As a result, Android is beginning to gouge deeply into ...
Source Within Northop Grumman Acknowledges Possible Cyberattack
This past week has been hot with security issues after Lockheed Martin discovered a breach in their communication security and shut down their network. As a customer of RSA, who suffered a hack that may have exposed the cryptographic keys for their SecurID product, both Lockheed Martin and Northop Grumman may have been put at ...
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 ...