New project taps 100 million monthly active users to compare download traffic, upload traffic, BitTorrent traffic, and HTTP traffic so it “can answer questions like: I live in this city in the world–it could be anywhere, literally anywhere–which ISP should I use?”
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Not often do IT companies offer promotions on their products, but it seems Advanced Micro Devices figured it was time for a nice little, or in this case not so little, program involving its high-end CPUs and graphics cards.
As consumers know, AMD saw quite some success with its Radeon HD 5000 series of video cards in 2009 and last year.
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Just last week Sony said that those found to have hacked their PlayStation 3 consoles would have their PlayStation Network access "terminated permanently."
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Name recognition? Ah, who cares? Particularly when you're hawking anIon 2-based media PC for €200 Xtreamer -- the same folks responsible for the e-TRAYz NAS -- is gearing up to unveil its latest concoction at CeBIT 2011, but it looks as if most of the beans have already been spilled.
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LIBYA HAS SHUT DOWN the Internet for its citizens two days in a row as Gaddafi's thugs turn on protestors.
Data collected by US company Arbor Networks show that from last Friday 30 international Internet providers had their traffic to and from Libya shut off.
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Listen carefully to the sound your computer is making right now. Noisy? Most computers make noise, but we found one that’s tremendously powerful, yet it’s so quiet we couldn’t tell it was running.
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Maria Jesus Galan had 600 Facebook friends. She liked to communicate with them, to spread good news.
However, her Facebook habit has lost her something very dear--her habit.
The hot internet companies of the moment, admittedly there aren't that many of them, are raising money left and right while their valuation rises. Facebook and Groupon have raised huge chunks, Twitter is valued at close to $10 billion so it's no wonder that the other hot startup, Zynga is raising some money of its own, $500 million at an almost $10 billion valuation.
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A Romanian man has pleaded guilty to participating in a well-organized scam that took in about US$2.7 million from unsuspecting users of online marketplaces such as eBay, Craigslist and AutoTrader.com.
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Following the publication of a paper which investigates how using the same username across multiple web sites may expose Internet users to scammers, TorrentFreak decided to apply the same research idea to a random sampling of file-sharers, with some eye-opening results.
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While we wait for the official Sony-created PlayStation emulatorto hit the Android platform, one of the best mobile PlayStation emulators, FPSeCe, has made the jump from Windows Mobile to Android.
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
grizzli Yesterday, 07:22 PM