With its desktop DDR DRAM business now dead and buried, OCZ is making good use of its additional R&D resources by cranking out solid state drives at a breakneck pace, and the company's newly announced Z-Drive Revision 4 (R4) PCI Express storage solutions offer breakneck speeds for the enterprise. [......]
A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against video streaming service Zediva. The MPAA's Dan Robbins called the ruling "a great victory for the more than two million American men and women whose livelihoods depend on a thriving film and television industry." Zediva argues that it is an ordinary DVD rental service that happens to allow customers to view their rented movies via the World Wide Web—imagine a tremendously long cord stretching from your home to the Zediva office[......]
There are several different ways to increase your net worth by seven figures. [......]
A Scottish man police accuse of being "Topiary," a key spokesman for the hacker group LulzSec, appeared in court on Monday to face the charges against him. [......]
Fox challenges cord-cutters by sticking TV shows behind paywall : If you've made a habit of watching TV shows from Fox online the day after they air, get ready for a rude awakening. The network has decided to put all of its online offerings behind a paywall for eight days after broadcast, and you can only access them if you have an acceptable cable or satellite subscription. And this is only the beginning[......]
Outraged at the decision to sue a Czech high school student for €5 million for running a site linking to pirated material, the Czech Pirate Party has launched Tipnafilm.cz , a linking site of its very own. [......]
Users still clinging to Windows XP like that fast and gnarly Trans Am from yesteryear that's just too familiar to part with have yet another reason to consider a new ride. According to security firm Avast, XP is a fertile breeding ground for cyber infection, especially for rootkits, of which 74 percent of infections originated from in a recent six-month study cataloging over 630,000 samples. [......]
The Metropolitan Police claimed yesterday that they had arrested prominent Lulz Security and AnonOps member Topiary. The initial report claimed that a 19-year-old man was arrested in the Shetland Islands and was being flown down to London for questioning. That report has now been adjusted , saying that he was in fact an 18 -year-old man. [......]
LightSquared has entered into a new agreement with Sprint Nextel that will allow the open access satellite/4G LTE broadband company to accelerate its deployment and stay ahead of the Federal Communication Commission's 2015 rollout deadline. The deal, which spans 15 years, means that LightSquared's wholesale customers will be able to offer 4G services to users along with 3G roaming via Sprint's network once LightSquared goes live with its first 4G markets in 2012. LightSquared has been working on launching a new nationwide satellite/terrestrial network since roughly a year ago . [......]
Some people thought Asus was downright crazy when it said it was building a $200 netbook. That's not a whole lot more than an eBook reader, and it's certainly cheaper than most tablet PCs that are supposedly cannibalizing the netbook market. Well, Asus is proving the skeptics wrong with its $199 Eee PC X101, an ultrathin netbook that now has an official product page . [......]
Intel has big plans for its Ultrabook concept. [......]
Microsoft makes Windows, a closed source platform. Suse builds open source Linux distros aimed at enterprise users[......]
Bursor & Fisher, P.A., a New York-based law firm with a history of taking on telecoms, has launched Fight The Merger , an initiative opposing the proposed $39 billion merger between AT&T and T-Mobile. Merger opponents argue that a successful block of the merger will prevent a duopoly between AT&T and Verizon, and preserve competition in the wireless market[......]
A pound of flesh: how Cisco's "unmitigated gall" derailed one man's life : As part of a legal battle with a rival firm, computer networking giant Cisco convinced the US government to have the opposing CEO arrested in Canada—where he faced a bizarre one-year battle to free himself. The Kafka-esque story was enough to "make the average well-informed member of the public blanche at the audacity of it all," said the Canadian judge handling the case. Life without adapters: how more ports let the Toshiba Thrive tablet compete : Toshiba's Thrive enters the crowded world of Android tablets armed with... [......]
The Mexican Senate voted against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Read More: Michael Geist Read the comments on this post [......]
