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Vegas Tech Start Up Questionable LLC Launches Questionable Friends iPhone App
23 May 2012 4:53 PM | No Commentsvar AdBrite_Title_Color = '0000FF'; var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000'; var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF'; var AdBrite_Border_Color = 'CCCCCC'; var AdBrite_URL_Color = '008000'; try{var AdBrite_Iframe=window.top!=window.self?2:1;var AdBrite_Referrer=document.referrer==''?document.location:document.referrer;AdBrite_Referrer=encodeURIComponent(AdBrite_Referrer);}catch(e){var AdBrite_Iframe='';var AdBrite_Referrer='';} document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,83,67,82,73,80,84));document.write(' src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=2053203&zs=3436385f3630&ifr='+AdBrite_Iframe+'&ref='+AdBrite_Referrer+'" type="text/javascript">');document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,47,83,67,82,73,80,84,62)); LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Questionable™ today introduced Questionable Friends™ for iPhone®. Questionable Friends lets you send questions to your...
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Sidecar Revolutionizes Phone Calls by Bringing “Smart Calling” to Smartphones
22 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Launching today, Sidecar (www.sidecar.me) is a new mobile app that brings Smart Calling to smartphones. Smart Calling allows people to share live See What I See video, brilliant ...
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TransCore Launches Mobile iPad App for TransSuite Traffic Management System
21 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsWASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intelligent Transportation Society of America Annual Meeting – TransCore brings the ease of mobile computing to its TransSuite® advanced traffic management system (ATMS), launching its iPad® ...
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Cellfish Marvel’s The Avengers Live Wallpaper Android App Reaches 1.3 Million Downloads
16 May 2012 2:05 PM | No CommentsNEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Marvel’s The Avengers Live Wallpaper Android personalization app, created by Cellfish, has been downloaded 1.3 million times, driven by the massive success of Marvel Studios’ blockbuster movie. ...
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Kodak Introduces ESP 3.2 All-in-One Printer and New Pic Flick HD App for iPad
16 May 2012 12:30 PM | No CommentsROCHESTER, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Continuing to offer consumers a no-compromise choice in home printers, Kodak today introduced its new KODAK ESP 3.2 All-in-One Printer combining advanced features, quality, and ...
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Bittorrent Archive
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Are The Pirate Bay’s servers now stored in a nuclear bunker?
Posted on October 8, 2009 | No CommentsI think we've all had our fill of The Pirate Bay stories, but here's one more in the interest of killing five minutes. The site moved its servers from Sweden to Ukraine last week, and rather than have its servers being stored in some random server farm, they're being stored in a former NATO nuclear bunker. So we think, at least.
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Dear Hollywood: Wanna stop BitTorrent piracy of your TV shows? Make them available overseas in a timely manner!
Posted on October 5, 2009 | No CommentsWhat's wrong with sites like Hulu? Well nothing, per se, except for the fact that they can't be used anywhere outside of the Unites States. As if other countries don't want to watch... um, really great shows like “Extreme Makeover” and “The [American] Office”! Perhaps that's why, then, BitTorrent site EZTV has seen traffic double, mainly from non-American IPs, in the past year? For whatever reason, people want to watch these shows, but since there's no legal outlet to do so, well, it's not exactly hard to configure uTorrent or Transmission, now is it?
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Thank the Lord, for The Pirate Bay is back on Google
Posted on October 5, 2009 | No CommentsAt ease, soldiers. The Pirate Bay is back in the Google search index. I understand this was eating at your very soul for some time now.
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Oh dear: The Pirate Bay removed from Google’s search index
Posted on October 2, 2009 | No Comments
The Pirate Bay just can't catch a break these days. I won't bore you with the past, but today's juicy gossip is: Google has removed The Pirate Bay from its search index because of a DMCA complaint!
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Company that wants to buy The Pirate Bay thrown off Swedish stock exchange
Posted on September 10, 2009 | No CommentsLost in all the Apple hoopla yesterday: the company that wanted to buy The Pirate Bay was just thrown off the Swedish stock exchange. Still think the deal is going down?
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Hexagon.cc: Now it’s BitTorrent’s turn to go ‘social’
Posted on September 3, 2009 | No CommentsSocial this, social that. Looks like everything is being socialized these days—but not the American health care system, zing!—so it only makes sense for someone to try to socialize BitTorrent. It doesn't hurt when that “someone” is the people behind IsoHunt, who just launched Hexagon.cc, a message board/social network hybrid built around sharing content.
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Apple rejects BitTorrent monitoring App, claims it’ll be used to infringe copyright
Posted on September 1, 2009 | No CommentsIt's not even a story any more that Apple loves to reject Apps from the App Store. Today's entry in the Big Book of App Rejections is µMonitor, an App that monitors µTorrent that you have running on your PC. Apple rejected it because “this category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third party rights.”
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More comedy from The Pirate Bay Sale: Key partner says there’s no money, CEO has property repossessed
Posted on August 29, 2009 | No CommentsYears from now, when the history of BitTorrent-related Internet piracy is written, there will have to be at least one chapter devoted to The Pirate Bay. It showed up just as the likes of Suprnova and LokiTorrent were being shut down, and quickly became the go-to place for, shall we say, the less savvy BitTorrent user. It also became a symbol of the copyright reform movement, though the site's cavalier attitude toward any sort of authority ultimately led to its undoing. (The whole “we're untouchable!” gimmick the site had played up was, we can now say, ill advised.)
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Global Gaming Foundation X approves acquisition of The Pirate Bay
Posted on August 27, 2009 | No CommentsOh, God. Well, it looks like Global Gaming Foundation X, the company that wanted to buy The Pirate Bay, has approved the acquisition. All the financing is in place (the deal will be financed by GGF itself, which means that nobody else wanted anything to do with the deal), and GGF is ready to roll, officially. Total price: 60 million Swedish kroner, or about $8.3 million. In the immortal words of Greg “Opie” Hughes, “Good luck, bro.”
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Now it’s Mininova’s turn: Ordered to remove all infringing content, or else!
Posted on August 27, 2009 | No CommentsScratch one Web site off that “alternative to The Pirate Bay” list. Mininova has been ordered by a Dutch court to remove all links to copyrighted items from its servers, or face fines to the tune of €5 million. You get the feeling that the era of BitTorrent as we know it is about to end, don't you?
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It’s time for The Pirate Bay to die
Posted on August 25, 2009 | No CommentsYou need only one word to describe The Pirate Bay. It comes from the Ancient Greek, is six letters long, and entered the English language in 1884, some 120 years before the Web site's founding. When The Pirate Bay starts to compare its struggles to those of Western Europe during World War II—you know, the struggle against Nazi Germany—only one word is needed. That word is hubris, and if it were possible to die from hubris, The Pirate Bay would have already expired. Hopefully there's no such thing as copyright in Heaven (or Hell).
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T-minus 3 days till The Pirate Sale goes through (maybe)
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Copies of The Pirate Bay are already popping up
Posted on August 20, 2009 | No CommentsThis goes to show you just how quickly someone will replace The Pirate Bay if it ever goes “legit.” As you're probably aware, someone downloaded every single torrent fie hosted on TPB's servers; that torrent file was the uploaded back to TPB, where it's now being seeded from hundreds of sources. What's new is that someone took that copy of TPB and uploaded it to another Web site, creating, in essence, a copy of TPB.
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And now The Pirate Bay has been ordered to close up shop in the Netherlands
Posted on July 30, 2009 | No CommentsYou might like to know that The Pirate Bay has been ordered to shut down in the Netherlands. That is, courts there would like to prevent people from inside the land of orange from accessing the site. Of course, The Pirate Bay, when they found out* about the case, denied all wrongdoing.
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What a surprise: Sale of The Pirate Bay possibly in danger
Posted on July 29, 2009 | No CommentsNot for nothing, but it looks like the sale of The Pirate Bay may well be in jeopardy. You'll recall that the site announced last month that it had found a buyer in Global Gaming Factory. The deal was predicated on the ability of GGF to come up with nearly $7 million, which now doesn't look all that certain.