Swedish Pirate Party may get seat in EU Parliament Posted on – Tue May 5, 2009 10:05AM EDT STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s Pirate Party, which wants to reform copyright law, could ride a wave of discontent over tighter control of computer file-sharing all the way into the European Parliament in June. The jail sentences handed […]
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Just minutes ago the verdict in the case of The Pirate Bay Four was announced. All four defendants were accused of “assisting in making copyright content available”. Peter Sunde: Guilty. Fredrik Neij: Guilty. Gottfrid Svartholm: Guilty. Carl Lundström: Guilty. All receive 1 year in jail. While only a few weeks ago, it seems like an […]
By Austin Modine in San Francisco Posted in Operating Systems, 7th April 2009 18:29 GMT Microsoft will drop free support for handful of aging products next week, including consumer versions of Windows XP and Office 2003. On April 14, the Redmond giant ends “mainstream” support for Office 2003 in addition to Windows XP Home and […]
Mozilla officials admit Firefox continues to rely on a monolithic architecture that can lead to instability and memory leaks. By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek March 25, 2009 Mozilla, faced with more insistent competition for Web browser market share from Apple, Google, and M*crosoft, is asking for help managing Firefox’s appetite for memory. In a blog post […]
Having dealt with the SoftMod Windows Vista activation crack, Microsoft will start hunting down and “killing” pirated copies of Windows XP Professional, the flavor of the operating system labeled by the company as most popular with pirates. The software giant has cooked and will release an update to Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications designed to sniff […]
eSATA: A doomed stopgap? The kiss of USB 3.0 death By Chris Mellor Posted in Storage, 20th March 2009 08:02 GMT Comment The external SATA (eSATA) interconnect is merely an interim idea and the coming of USB 3.0 will kill it off, according to Verbatim’s EMEA business development manager Hans Christoph Kaiser. The background is […]
Gmail offers ‘undo’ email option Stupid POP tricks By Austin Modine Posted in Applications, 20th March 2009 19:05 GMT The folks at Gmail Labs obviously dedicate a healthy amount of brainpower to the prevention of regrettable emails sent through their service. Custodial hearts at Google who’ve brought us Mail Goggles to stave off late-night drunken […]
Cybercrime server exposed through Google cache UK and US IDs exposed to world By John Leyden Posted in Crime, 23rd March 2009 15:30 GMT A reported 22,000 card records have been exposed through cached copies of data stored on a defunct cybercrime server. iTnews in Australia reports that 19,000 of the 22,000 exposed details referred […]
corporate Twitter snooping Cloudy conversations By Gavin Clarke in San Francisco Posted in Applications, 23rd March 2009 17:32 GMT Twitter has become Salesforce.com’s latest Web 2.0 darling, with a plug-in to the company’s customer relationship management (CRM) system. On Monday the company announced Salesforce.com CRM for Twitter, which it said would let CRM users search, […]