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Pirate Bay - Functional in "A Day or Two"
Seeded on Thu Jun 1, 2006 8:38 AM EDT (thepiratebay.com)
The pirate bay bit-torrent site which was closed down yesterday (31/05/06) will be back up and running within the next few days according to a posting on their website.
Terrorism invoked in ISP snooping proposal | CNET News.com
Seeded on Wed May 31, 2006 3:27 PM EDT (CNET)
Apparently "requiring Internet service providers to save records of their customers' online activities is necessary in the fight against terrorism". Is anti terrorism a legitimate reason for invading individual privacy? Where does the public draw the line?
The Pirate Bay Raided: Exclusive Interview | WiredFire
Seeded on Wed May 31, 2006 3:20 PM EDT (wiredfire.org)
More details on the Pirate Bay raid.
Repeat visitors 8 times more likely to make online purchase
Tue May 30, 2006 10:59 AM EDT
Recent research carried out by WebSideStory suggests that "visitors returning to a web site are eight times more likely to make an online purchase than new visitors".
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Google Calendar Released
Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:27 AM EDT
Google Calendar has at long last been released. My early impressions are that it has a very easy to use interface and is quite intuitive.
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Legal Movie Downloads
Fri Apr 7, 2006 7:51 AM EDT
Movies for digital download will soon be offered by the major Hollywood film studios via two new services Movielink and CinemaNow.
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End of iTunes DRM in France?
Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:53 PM EST
French law makers may make it legal to use anti DRM software enabling iTunes customers to use iTunes downloads on non-apple products.
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Google Buys Writely
Sat Mar 11, 2006 12:12 PM EST
The Google domination continues with their purchase of Writely. Writely is a site which allows multiple users to collaboratively work on documents using a GUI which seems very compatible with that of GMAIL.
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Microsoft Patents Watching Games
Sat Mar 11, 2006 12:01 PM EST
Microsoft has just been granted its 5,000th patent. The new patent is for technologies that "allow people to not just play video games against each other online, but to join the game as a spectator from anywhere in the world." (Microsoft). The patents cover two key areas
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Who could be upset by a scheme that allows free use of software? Well, Gervase Markham has found one Trading Standards officer who is
Seeded on Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:48 PM EST (The Times)
Amusing story about how trading standards can't seem to cope with "free" software.
Dutch found to be most computer literate in world - Technology - International Herald Tribune
Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:33 AM EST (International Herald Tribune)
Interesting survery. I believe it would be good to get some thoughts on this story from readers. As only 17 nations are surveyed it can't be 100% representative.
The Search Engines. Google won the battle but the war goes on…
Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:18 PM EST
In late January an interview with Susan Decker the Chief Financial Officer of Yahoo Inc suggested that Yahoo have given up in the battle for search engine dominance she stated It's not our goal to be No. 1 in Internet search.
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Search Engine use in the US, 2005 results.
Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:15 PM EST
Between 2004 and 2005 online search activity increased by 55% in the US (Nielsen 2006). In the US 48.8% of searches were made on Google this compares to Yahoo! Search whose share of searches was 21.4%.
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Return of the Dot.com Boom
Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:45 PM EST
An interesting article from CNET on the Dot.com boom and bust. Reading this article makes me think that all those business ideas that failed may be more viable today then they have ever been. Boo.com had great potential but was far ahead of its time.
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Sex.eu craze
Wed Feb 8, 2006 9:44 AM EST
Businesses and organisations have all been falling over them selves to pre-register sex.eu. The new top level .eu domains are likely to be the next big thing on the internet and represents the first and only pan-European domain.
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