Razer’s sleek and stylish Blade gaming laptop is slowly making its way into the hands of customers ballsy enough to drop $2,800 on an untested product from a company that’s never made a gaming laptop before. Did their gamble pay off? More »
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New submitter Kiyyik writes “After weeks of wrangling over shared space on utility poles, Google and the KC Board of Public Utilities have gotten their act together and Google is starting to wire Kansas City, Kansas today. They will be paying attachment fees and hanging the fiber optic lines in the space on the poles reserved for telecommunications. The Kansas City, Missouri side is still on track to begin a few months behind the Kansas side.”
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Torrent search engine BTjunkie is the latest file-sharing
service to fall on its sword in the wake of the
Megaupload sting. Junkie, one of the largest BitTorrent
indexes, decided to shut down voluntarily.
A statement on the
website reads, “This is the end of the line my friends. The
decision does not come easy, but we’ve decided to voluntarily shut
down. We’ve been fighting for years for your right to communicate,
but it’s time to move on. It’s been an experience of a lifetime, we
wish you all the best!”
The site was never directly targeted by copyright holders, an
unnamed BTJunkie founder
told TorrentFreak. However, the site was reported to
the US Trade Representative (USTR) in 2011, the
RIAA and
MPAA listed the torrent index as a ‘rogue’ site, and Google
censored the search term.
Despite avoiding legal attention so far, the site’s founder told
TorrentFreak that the legal action against file-sharing
sites Megaupload and The Pirate Bay played an important role in its
closure.
Online storage locker Megaupload was
seized and shut down by the US Department of Justice in January
2012, for allegedly breaching copyright infringement law. The
site’s staff members were arrested and founder Kim Dotcom was
recently been
denied bail.
Meanwhile, the founders of The Pirate Bay were arrested for
copyright infringement in 2009. This month, the supreme court of
Sweden
made the ruling final, and announced that the founders will not
be able to appeal their months-long prison sentences or combined
fines of 46 million kronor (around $6.83 million).
In response to Megaupload’s shutdown, a raft of popular Web
lockers have
neutered the ability to share files with others. FileSonic,
FileServe and Uploaded.to all cut off file-sharing in the days
after Megaupload was seized.
The Pirate Bay, on the other hand, moved its domain name from
.org to the Swedish .se. A Pirate Bay insider
told TorrentFreak that this was to prevent US
authorities from seizing the popular domain.
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According to a slide uncovered by the Verge, Best Buy is asking its customers for thoughts on a 42-inch, $1,500 Apple HDTV. And it sounds dreamy: runs iOS, full App Store and iCloud support, an iSight camera. Too bad it’s all probably just a guess. More »
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Good Old Games is running a $4.99 sale on multiple Sierra titles including Space Quest and Kings Quest. The games come in packages of three and are compatible with Windows (sorry, Mac users, but here’s a consolation prize).
Each package includes three parts of each series, including Police Quest, Space Quest, and King’s Quest. This includes such hits as the original King’s Quest: Quest for the Crown rendered in beautiful 16-color CGA, a game that literally made my jaw drop when I saw it boot up on my friend’s XT computer in about 1985. That, my friends, was true gaming, before the days of rail shooters and endless RPGs.
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First time accepted submitter AWESOM-O 4k writes “It seems like the popular file sharing site BTJunkie.org is gone. On btjunkie.org you are greeted with the following: ‘2005 — 2012 This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not come easy, but we’ve decided to voluntarily shut down. We’ve been fighting for years for your right to communicate, but it’s time to move on. It’s been an experience of a lifetime, we wish you all the best! ‘”
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tsu doh nimh writes “Two months after authorities shut down a massive Internet traffic hijacking scheme, the malicious software that powered the criminal network is still running on computers at half of the Fortune 500 companies, and on PCs at nearly 50 percent of all federal government agencies. Internet Identity, a Tacoma, Wash. company that sells security services, found evidence of at least one DNSChanger infection in computers at half of all Fortune 500 firms, and 27 out of 55 major government entities. Computers still infected with DNSChanger are up against a countdown clock. As part of the DNSChanger botnet takedown, the feds secured a court order to replace the Trojan’s DNS infrastructure with surrogate, legitimate DNS servers. But those servers are only allowed to operate until March 8, 2012. Unless the court extends that order, any computers still infected with DNSChanger may no longer be able to browse the Web. The FBI is currently debating whether to extend the deadline or let it expire.”
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Yesterday we showed you a few methods for quickly chilling your Superbowl libations, but none are as fast, or easy, as West Coast Chillers new can which lowers the energy drink’s temperature by 30 degrees at the push of a button. More »
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Hugh Pickens writes “PC Magazine reports that Ting, a new reseller of Sprint’s voice, 3G and WiMax services, has a new approach to mobile pricing that lets customers buy minutes, messages, and data separately, and allows households to pool them to an unlimited number of phones and data devices on one account. ‘Household data plans are the next step for consumers, mainly because people are adding more connected screens and devices to their lifestyle,’ writes Kevin Tofel. ‘And different household members have different data needs; some use a little while others consume gobs of gigabytes. Why not average out the usage across multiple devices?’ Both AT&T and Verizon have hinted at offering shared data plans in the future, but the devil’s in the details, says Tofel. ‘My hope is that family data plans come soon, to all carriers, just like we have for family voice and messaging plans.'”
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