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New Bit Torrent Encryption Proposal

February 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Developers working with Bit Torrent technology are gearing up to take it to the next level against filtering techniques used by ISPs especially Comcast. The life of the network administrator is about to become a miserable existence as clever Bit Torrent developers are planning to bypass filtering techniques through the use of a new [...]

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HD DVD Is Now Officially Dead

February 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Finally after months on a downward spiral HD DVD is officially dead as Toshiba pulls the plug. I’m not surprised, and I’m sure nobody else is either, especially since there’s no content on HD DVD. Every major film company has made the switch to Blu-ray.
There was still a pretty heated battle between Blu-ray [...]

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Yahoo Buzz Could Be A Ploy

February 16th, 2008 · No Comments

There’s a post on Valleywag about the supposed Digg competitor “Yahoo Buzz” to be released to beta on the 26th of this month. While its in beta only 100 selected publishers will be appearing, but sometime this summer it’ll be open to everyone.
Looking at the screens of Buzz on Valleywag I don’t see any [...]

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Everex CloudBook

February 16th, 2008 · No Comments

The Everex CloudBook is a subnotebook that weighs only 2 pounds and can hold a charge for up to 5 hours. The notebook features the gOS Rocket operating system and comes packed full of “cloud computing applications” (gMail, Meebo, Skype, Wikipedia, Blogger, YouTube, [...]

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