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Adore Your Android: Cover with a Case from OtterBox
10 February 2012 12:01 AM | 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)); FORT COLLINS, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Known as an innovator of protective solutions, OtterBox® introduces cases for newest Android™ smartphones...
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Isobar’s NFC Hackathon Winners Create Applications for Gaming, Gifting and Music Remixing
09 February 2012 5:10 PM | No CommentsBOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Isobar, a global communications agency, announced today the winners of Isobar Create 32, Silicon Valley’s first hackathon exploring Near Field Communication (NFC) technology...
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WeatherBug 2.0 for iPhone Mobile App Launches in iTunes Store
09 February 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsGERMANTOWN, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Earth Networks SM, the owner of WeatherBug® products and services and operator of the largest weather, lightning and climate observation networks, announces...
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Digi-Key’s Android App Listed as a Top App
08 February 2012 9:58 PM | No CommentsTHIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry’s largest selection of electronic components available for...
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Infonetics Research: Mobile Broadband, Smartphones, LTE Drive Diameter Signaling Controllers to 106% CAGR to 2016
08 February 2012 4:40 PM | No CommentsCAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Communications market research firm Infonetics Research (www.twitter.com/infonetics) on Friday released its Diameter Signaling Control Worldwide and Regional Market Size and Forecasts ...
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Hollywood’s guide to hacking a computer
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Henry Morgan wants the word ‘pirate’ back
Posted on March 19, 2010 | No CommentsHollywood (the movie studios, the record labels, etc.) sure does have a knack for causing its own problems. You'll recall that it's en vogue to call copyright infringers "pirates," which is an insult to legitimate pirates like William Kidd and Henry Morgan. Just because you can fire up uTorrent doesn't mean you can take on a Spanish Armada. But, whatever, it's simply easier for Hollywood and its acolytes to call you kids "pirates" than it is to have an adult discussion about the subject.
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RealNetworks settles RealDVD lawsuit: Has to cough up $4.5 million, stop supporting the software
Posted on March 4, 2010 | No CommentsRight around the time the world's financial markets started to collapse, back in 2008, RealNetworks, the folks behind RealPlayer, released RealDVD. It was a short-lived piece of software that made making DVD movie backups fairly painless—too painless for Hollywood, which immediately took RealNetworks to court, claiming all sorts of copyright infringement hokum. That's all in the past now, for RealNetworks has settled with the six "major" Hollywood studios to the sum of $4.5 million. Ouch.
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Dear Hollywood: You don’t have to worry about people pirating 3D movies (for now at least)
Posted on February 10, 2010 | No CommentsThere's a story going around that 3D movies are harder to pirate. Really, then what's this: Coraline.3D.1080p.BluRay.x264-REFiNED? Are people incapable of buying a pair 3D glasses from Target or wherever it is people buy these things?
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Twilight dude could play Peter Parker in Spider-Man 4; Conan news
Posted on January 14, 2010 | No CommentsShocking news, friends. You know the guy who plays Edward in Twilight, Robert Pattison? (Note: I didn't know the guy until just this very moment. I don't watch TV, you see.) Well if Sony has its way he will play Peter Parker in the new Spider-Man 4 movie. You'll recall that the new movie is going to be a reboot of the franchise (why not just let the franchise die, it had a good run?), and this guy is Hollywood's new "in" guy, so he's been tapped to take Tobey Maguire's old role.
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Hollywood made $10 billion in 2009. In better news, only 5 billion years till the sun runs out of fuel!
Posted on December 28, 2009 | No CommentsOn the face of it, today's story that 2009 was Hollywood's best ever (so thanks for rewarding creativity, America), raking in some $10 billion, should be good news for a few people. It should be good news for the movie studios, which will now invest that money in yachts, caviar, human growth hormone, and sequels to today's sequels. It should be good news for theatre owners, who were concerned that people would stop going to the movies as a result of the recession. Not so! (As if they didn't have a precedent to cite...) It should be good news, in a weird way, to people who pirate movies and bleat that their doing so isn't harming the industry one bit.
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Targeted by Hollywood, OpenBitTorrent lives to fight another day
Posted on December 3, 2009 | No CommentsNot a day goes by without coming across one or more stories related to The Pirate Bay. Today is no different, with OpenBitTorrent (a tracker that Hollywood has accused of being The Pirate Bay's spiritual successor, serving some 550,000 “works”) being given a new lease on life by a Swedish court. The gist is, Hollywood wanted the tracker shut down, but said Swedish court denied the action.
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From the Obvious Department: Scientist says 2012 will not be the end of the world.
Posted on October 12, 2009 | No CommentsSo we're all in agreement: the movie 2012 is terrible, and we'd all be better off if it didn't exist. What we should also acknowledge is that, no, the year 2012 will not, in and of itself, mean the death of mankind. Maybe we'll blow ourselves up before then, but 2012 isn't some magical year that you should all be afraid of.
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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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Media companies freaking out because they don’t know how measure TV ratings anymore
Posted on August 14, 2009 | No CommentsSo I read late last night that pretty much every TV show this summer has crashed and burned. You can attribute that any number of things. One, it's summer and no one watches TV then. Two, the shows were absolutely terrible. Three, maybe people were watching, but the proliferation of the likes of Hulu have totally messed with Hollywood's ability to actually count how many people watch its shows.