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If your one of the unfortunate 75 people a day that is going to check there mail and find a legal notice you better get a lawyer. The RIAA is sending out 75 subpoenas a day and guess what they are just getting started. I figure that's 75 more people a day that are going to be on the Net
I blogged about this earlier in the week, and now I think it deserves more. Sony has come up with, in my opinion, the best PDA there is. [Picture One] I just can't believe how long it took to think of this concept. This is definatly my next PDA buy. It has the look and feel of a laptop (with
Update: Scott over at Feedster got in touch with us. Somehow e-mail from us to him went missing. We appreciate his refund but we also said we want to suport him and will be sending our payment back to him. He has fixed the problem and has been great. We rely on e-mail to such a great extent that even
Every once in a while you run across something that just makes you go hmmm. If you want some stats on how many IP's are currently in use you need to visit this page and look at some of the cool stats they have. I am not sure how accurate they are but makes you scratch your chin a little
Seems the gang over at Microsoft has updated there PowerToys pack. (Sounds like something you would buy your kids). There are a couple of improvements to some of the popular applications should be worth the download. [FileForum]
The RIAA's printing presses are running 24/7 printing out there legal supines to get the names from the ISP's of those users that they are going to prosecute. ISP that are small and ill equipped to handle this are going to feel some pain. In other regards I am sure some ISP's are secretly going to be happy about this
Now I have heard just about everything will anyone stop the insanity. People are gonna share no matter what happens. People are going to share, e-mail, upload, transfer music to there hearts content. No law is going to stop it. Sorry won't work. Desperate times call for desperate measures the recording industry is finished. [Yahoo]
News.com has a great article on Web Rivalries that is worth a read. "Web services--the technology heralded as a way to connect incompatible software--is suffering from a communications breakdown as rival alliances jockey to establish standards. In a mark of an increasingly contentious standards-setting process, two factions--represented by Microsoft on one side and Sun Microsystems on the other--have developed competing
We have talked about this subject several times here at Geek News and I can assure you the whole matter is nothing to laugh about. If you want and example of what the RIAA can do just look at what DirecTV is doing. God forbid you like to experiment with computer gear let alone anything that can be used to
Many PC companies right now are expanding their products line to more than just computers, but entertainment. One of the few major companies that is still a mainly PC maker, is Dell. Gateway is now entertainment "Gateway, scrambling to reinvent itself in the midst of a difficult PC market, is expected to unveil four new TV models on Thursday. The
I just needed to post some good news for the day, so I think this would suit the need. This shows that the whole market doesn't suck. "Despite the SARS epidemic, the war in Iraq and economic uncertainty, the PC market grew faster than expected in the second quarter. PC shipments rose by nearly 10 percent in the April-to-June period
As you might all know, I have a Dell Axim, and was thinking of upgrading, until I read this today. "Dell has halted shipments of its Axim x5 PDA until it can fix a problem that has knocked Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC performance for six. As we reported on Monday, the glitch manifests itself as extended read/write times
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