Napster. KaZaA. LimeWire. All three of these existed in the glory days of illegal music pirating. But new research shows that the good ‘ol days of copping the latest Britney tracks from someone’s library are as good as over.
A P2P file-sharing study (PDF) conducted by Envisional shows that out of all the media we share (illegally) on …
The mythical white iPhone 4 might be upon us very soon… this time for real. Adding further confirmation to the rumors that Best Buy will carry the alabaster version of Apple’s smartphone, sources tell Engadget that they saw this tag at a local Houston store over the weekend.
Looks like it’s going to cost the same as the regular …
With no announced plans of an official Starcraft iOS game, Gameloft has taken matters into their own hands and came up with their own iPhone and iPod Touch versions of the title. Called Starfront: Collision, probably to avoid any copyright issues, the galactic strategy game will be released on February 10.
Let me be clear, they are …
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Sanyo HD pocket camcorder: $150 at Amazon (today only)
Normally priced at just north of $222, Amazon is selling the Sanyo VPC-CS1 high-definition pocket camcorder for $150—the deal’s good today only.
Oh, and it’s pink.
Acer 10-inch netbook: $200 at Target (in-store only)
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First things first! Did you see the Motorola Xoom ad during the Super Bowl last night? If not, here it is.
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You’ll notice that Motorola’s taking a shot at Apple users, which seems like kind of an odd choice considering someone who might be interested in the iPad fits roughly …
Good morning! Here are some of today’s top tech links so far.
AOL acquires Huffington Post
Link: CNN
AOL makes an even bigger push into the online media realm with the $315 million purchase of The Huffington Post.
Best Buy ad prices Motorola Xoom at $800, affirms February 24th launch date
Link: Engadget
Motorola’s …
You might be signed up for Lovely-Faces.com’s dating services and not even know it. Website creators Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico took information from 250,000 Facebook users and used it to create their project which uses facial recognition technology to categorize users into the kinds of people they look like they would be. …
I’ve been wrestling with Lynd Ward’s comics lately–staring at them, flipping through them, doubling back on them, trying to get a grasp on what’s happening on their surface and beneath it. Part of the wrestling comes from the fact that he didn’t quite think of them as comics, and they only really got gerrymandered into the comics family …
It only took two days, but News Corp.’s The Daily has made it from the iPad to the internet, for free. Thank Andy Baio, the man behind The Daily: Indexed, a Tumblr linking to each story’s home on the web. He explained the origins behind the site over on his personal blog:
The Daily’s publishing free, web-based versions to every article,
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If it were real money, it’d be an impressive haul: A 29 year old British businessman plead guilty this week to stealing $12 million worth of virtual poker chips over four months, managing to sell a portion of them for $86,000.
Ashley Mitchell hacked the servers of online game Zynga Poker at some point between June 30th and September …
With Ad Age predicting that we will see more digital online advertising during the Super Bowl than ever before, you can expect people to by simultaneously watching the game while surfing the Internet at the same time. According to a ComScore survey about web use during Superbowl Sunday 2010, two-thirds of people who responded said they …
Let’s face it; you’re into some weird, tasteless, mind-numbingly awful stuff on the internet. But should you have to use your own e-mail address to get access to all of it? Did we lose a war?!
Microsoft’s Hotmail service has added a new feature that lets you whip up an e-mail alias completely separate from your regular e-mail address …
