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100 Mb Symmetric: Oh, the Iniquity!

February 11th, 2008

As the rest of the first world solidifies their broadband net infrastructure (despite the issues some regions are facing with their exostructure), ISPs in the U.S. continue to offer only modest “high-speed” internet access packages. It’s true: the average consumer would find the upgrade from dial-up to 1.5Mb download speeds astonishing . . . [...]

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Free The Pirate Bay, Wear Yellow for Sharing

February 7th, 2008

In a few months from now the trial of The Pirate Bay four will start. The “Free The Pirate Bay” group on Facebook has proclaimed Friday February 8th to be “wear yellow for sharing day”, so everyone can show their support for the Pirate Bay team, and file-sharing in general.
More on this topic can be [...]

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Trinome? A Monome Clone

February 7th, 2008

The monome is a gorgeous, minimalist, open-source light-and-button pad used primarily by musicians as a controller. This beautiful clone takes on the awesome challenge of creating a full color palette by means of mixing color channels together. A complete how-to-guide as well as design specs and part requirements to build your own mix-master-LED unit can [...]

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Firefox 2.0.0.12 Released Today

February 7th, 2008

Fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.12
MFSA 2008-11 Web forgery overwrite with div overlay
MFSA 2008-10 URL token stealing via stylesheet redirect
MFSA 2008-09 Mishandling of locally-saved plain text files
MFSA 2008-08 File action dialog tampering
MFSA 2008-06 Web browsing history and [...]

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IPv6 Is Activated On Internet Root DNS Servers

February 6th, 2008

 Years after the Internet Corportation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) began their push for IPv6 adoption they finally took the first steps to allowing that to actually happen yesterday. The root DNS zone was updated with IPv6 addresses for six of the thirteen servers. This change effectively allows other systems on the Internet to [...]

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16GB iPhone and 32GB iPod Touch Released

February 5th, 2008

Thats right, Apple has officially released the 16 GB iPhone and they are available immediately in both the US and internationally. This pumped up iPhone can be your too for only $499.
An even more awesome and surprising release is of the new 32 GB iPod Touch. This new iPod touch will also cost $499 and [...]

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Goowy To Be Acquired By AOL

February 3rd, 2008

On Monday February 4th AOL will announce the acquisition of San Diego-based Goowy, a startup founded in late 2004 which has developed quite a nice set of simple & intuitive tools for communicating and sharing on the web. Essentially they have created a complete web-based desktop environment with all the tools needed to productive without [...]

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Google Responds To Possible Yahoo Acquisition By Microsoft

February 3rd, 2008

Google speaks out on the issue of Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo! and how this will likely hinder the preservation of the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.
“Could the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft — despite its legacy of serious legal and regulatory offenses — to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating [...]

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Super Bowl XLII (2008) Ads - Live Coverage

February 3rd, 2008

Mahalo Sports will be providing LIVE COVERAGE of the Super Bowl Commercials during Super Bowl XLII on Sunday, February 3, 2008. Coverage begins at 6:00PM ET.
Watch them all.

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Rambo Movies - Kill Stats Breakdown

February 2nd, 2008

We think this statistics page speaks to how bloody the new Rambo IV “Rambo” movie is. If blood and guts are part of your complete movie watching experience then odds are Rambo IV is right up your alley.

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