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21 Feb 2009 16:39

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Tech: Why it sucks to be an iPhone app

  • 30% of apps get used the next day, then forgotten about source
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21 Feb 2009 11:11

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Biz, Tech: Prepaid cell phones are getting their comeuppance

  • 13% increase in the popularity of pay-as-you-go cell phone plans in the last year; it’s a small, but growing, niche market source
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20 Feb 2009 15:41

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Tech: Missing: One MS prototype phone. Rips off Apple heavily.

  • Windows Mobile 6.5! Stolen! Egads! Sol Trujillo, the CEO of Australian mobile phone company Telstar, was given a phone with the top-secret Microsoft mobile OS on it. He gave that to an executive. And that executive got pick-pocketed during the conference he was at. So some five-fingered dude in Barcelona gets to exclusively see how MS yet again fails at besting Apple at something. Good for them! source
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20 Feb 2009 15:04

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Tech, World: Pirate Bay dude: I had to get AFK to get on the stand

  • We do not use that expression. Everything is in real life. We use AFK—Away From Keyboard.
  • Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi • When asked by the prosecution during the Pirate Bay spectrial about when he met someone IRL. How often does this happen in a courtroom? It should happen more often, and totally straight-faced, too. • source
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20 Feb 2009 14:58

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Tech, World: 80% legal? This Pirate Bay spectrial claim is a head-scratcher

  • He did a survey, seriously Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, a spokesman for the torrent tracker, took the stand today at their Swedish copyright infringement trial, and said that a survey of 1,000 torrent links on the site showed that 70-80% of all torrents were legal. Furthermore, YouTube, he claimed, had more pirated material than The Pirate Bay, despite the name of his site being, well, “The Pirate Bay.” source
  • He did a survey, seriously Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, a spokesman for the torrent tracker, took the stand today at their Swedish copyright infringement trial, and said that a survey of 1,000 torrent links on the site showed that 70-80% of all torrents were legal. Furthermore, YouTube, he claimed, had more pirated material than The Pirate Bay, despite the name of his site being, well, “The Pirate Bay.”
  • Fitting nicely with claims The “spectrial,” still the most entertaining thing happening in the world right now, has up to this point favored The Pirate Bay, but who knows if this claim will change anything. It does play nicely into the defense’s claims that the Web site is a tool with tons of legal uses. Give ’em credit; they’re already more clever than Shawn “Napster” Fanning ever was. source
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19 Feb 2009 21:53

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Tech: Internet Explorer 8 pays for the sins of Internet Explorers past

  • 2,400 sites look wrong in IE8, including Microsoft’s source
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19 Feb 2009 20:40

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Music, Tech: Somehow, it still feels like this iPhone app costs too much

  • iPhone apps are exploding, including for musical artists, but nobody’s done anything like this.
  • Dave Dederer • former singer and guitarist for the Presidents of the United States of America. Dederer is the vice president of business development for app developer Melodeo, and Melodeo released a $3 PUSA iPhone app which allows you to stream the band’s entire catalog for cheap. You could just buy “Lump” and “Peaches” and save a buck. • source
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18 Feb 2009 11:00

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Culture, Tech: These dudes made a cool $500 Half-Life movie

“Escape From City 17” a mix of live action and game visuals. And it’s getting lots of attention. source
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18 Feb 2009 02:13

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Tech: TOS reverted: Facebook gives into user pressure

  • Because of the feedback we received, we have decided to return to our previous Terms of Use while we resolve the issues that people have raised.
  • Facebook • in a message to its users, labeled “Terms of Use Update” posted today. After much controversy, the service backed down publicly. • source
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17 Feb 2009 23:49

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Tech, World: Things are looking up for The Pirate Bay in their spectrial

  • This is a sensation. It is very rare to win half the target in just one and a half days and it is clear that the prosecutor took strong note of what we said yesterday.
  • Per E Samuelson • Defense lawyer in The Pirate Bay’s trial in Sweden. The Torrent tracker now only faces charges of “assisting making available copyright infringement,” as the prosecution could not prove the torrent files were specifically tied to The Pirate Bay. • source
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