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Publié: février 18, 2009, 11:46pm CET
The Swedish language Web site belonging to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry -- which is leading the legal charge against file sharing site The Pirate Bay -- was hacked this afternoon and has been pulled offline.
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Publié: février 18, 2009, 11:40pm CET
The US Federal Communications Commission reports that, after 421 of the nation's analog television stations ceased transmission on February 17 as originally planned, its call centers received a grand total of 28,000 calls from viewers, with a great many of those apparently concerning the proper use of converter boxes already received.
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Publié: février 18, 2009, 11:05pm CET
If Microsoft's Silverlight is indeed fizzling, someone didn't get the message out to the NCAA. For its annual endeavor in covering all the NCAA basketball playoff games online, CBS has opted to triple the NCAA's bandwidth over last year by switching from a Flash-based player -- which already received rave reviews -- to a Silverlight player produced in conjunction with Microsoft.
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Publié: février 18, 2009, 10:41pm CET
Two years ago, the Micro USB spec was standardized, and shortly thereafter, the Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) announced that it had approved it as the universal standard phone cable.
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Publié: février 18, 2009, 10:33pm CET
A privacy invasion case against Google that was given extra attention after the company asserted in court that getting your picture taken is just part of life in the 21st century, was dismissed yesterday by a judge who apparently agrees.
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Publié: février 18, 2009, 9:35pm CET
It's been a long strange trip toward better security for Microsoft, but they've made enough progress to have both improvements to their technique and some highly interesting war stories. The company's got a new site explaining the past decade's advances, and you have a reason to read comics at work today.
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Publié: février 18, 2009, 8:47pm CET
In an attempt to block the Courtroom View Network (CVN) from broadcasting the RIAA v. Tenenbaum trial, the counsel representing the record labels escalated the affair to the US Court of Appeals.
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Publié: février 18, 2009, 8:16pm CET
In an age of breakdown, a small but cheerful -- not to mention colorful -- bit of news reaches us from Texas, where woot.com's t-shirt site recently sold its 1,000,000th printed piece of geek culture. Since site launch, shirt.woot.com has sold a garment every 48.24 seconds since July 22, 2007.
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Publié: février 18, 2009, 7:21pm CET
Partners in Verizon's most recently announced LTE deployment will include hardware vendors Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent, packet core vendor Starent Networks, and IMS partner Nokia Siemens.
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Publié: février 18, 2009, 7:07pm CET
Social network MySpace is now battling back against Facebook by adding more smartphone support to its mobile site, including new applications for both the Palm Pre and Symbian OS-based Nokia S60 phones.
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Publié: février 18, 2009, 7:02pm CET
Today, Nintendo announced that the next generation of its DS handheld gaming console will be released on April 5 in the Americas, just one day later than last month's predictions.
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Publié: février 18, 2009, 5:41pm CET
Updated Last July, Nvidia announced it would make its chipsets and SLI multi-GPU technology interoperable with Intel's latest generation of CPUs, with their highly-advanced Nehalem architecture. Monday, Intel said no to that in court.
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Publié: février 18, 2009, 5:26pm CET
HP's Linux support will no longer be limited to Red Hat and SuSE Linux. Through a new partnership with Canonical, HP is becoming one of the latest in a series of huge IT players to hop aboard the Ubuntu Linux bandwagon.
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Publié: février 18, 2009, 3:48pm CET
Handset manufacturer Nokia and wireless chip maker Qualcomm were in and out of court for the better part of two years. Now, after a six-month truce, they'll be working together on UMTS devices for the North American market.
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Publié: février 18, 2009, 10:45am CET
Sightings of both the Sidekick 2009 and the Palm Pre -- both wildly anticipated smartphones not yet available to the masses -- have been inflaming the gear-gossip blogs for days in the wake of the the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona.
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Publié: février 18, 2009, 9:44am CET
Key management standards may not be the most glamorous aspect of IT security, but when you're trying to get your encryption-using devices to interoperate with your network, it matters. Now Sun's offering an open-source option.
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Publié: février 18, 2009, 2:01am CET
Facebook's recently changed ToS slipped in new language that many users identified as a violation of personal privacy and copyright... and, after mass uproar, promptly rolled them back again.
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Publié: février 18, 2009, 1:17am CET
An SEC inquiry into whether their options-granting practices were on the square has concluded for Research In Motion, which has -- jointly with four of its senior executives -- entered into two settlements over the matter.
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Publié: février 18, 2009, 12:50am CET
It was supposed to be a day of reduced confusion, but in many places around the US today, some major affiliate stations have gone dark on their old analog frequencies...while others go on.
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Publié: février 18, 2009, 12:24am CET
Market research company NPD released its non-game software sales figures for 2008, which showed a nearly 10% overall decline, with operating systems taking the greatest hit, selling 40% less than the previous year.