TorrentReactor, listed among the five most popular torrent sites on the Internet, has surprised friends and foes by acquiring a small town in central Russia. The town formerly known as Gar has reportedly been bought for the equivalent of $148,000 and was quickly renamed after the Russian-based torrent site.
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After years of doing comparatively little to protect copyright, in recent months authorities in Bulgaria came down hard on file-sharing sites. While two of the country’s biggest BitTorrent sites continue to function, the previous owner of one – Zamunda.net – will face court this year charged with crimes against copyright. The authorities are hoping for Pirate Bay-style levels of punishment.
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With the release of Platform Preview 4 Build 1.9.7.9.16.6000 of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), Microsoft compared fully-accelerated HTML5 web experiences in the next iteration of its browser to what open source rivals Firefox and Chrome are capable of delivering.
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Quora, the real-time question and answer service started by two former Facebook employees, will start being indexed by search engines tomorrow, a week after Facebook rolled out the first version of the similar service Facebook Questions.
PayPal has just released version 2.0 of its Android app, adding new features like the ability to use bump technology to quickly and easily transfer funds between devices.
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It has been revealed that Facebook has acquired 18 key patents and patent applications on social networking owned by Friendster, the pioneering social network. Friendster had been acquired by MOL Global, a Malaysian company.
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Mark Papermaster, the senior vice president ultimately responsible for the iPhone’s hardware, has left Apple only a short time after his start date. Neither Papermaster nor Apple will comment on the story behind the departure, but insiders are speculating that he was dropped from the company as a result of the iPhone 4’s “Antennagate” PR disaster.
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Microsoft developers planned "industry-leading" privacy features in Internet Explorer 8 that would have automatically blocked third-party tracking tools like beacons, but one feature was scaled back and another was dropped because they went against the interests of advertisers, the Wall Street Journal reported in its seven-part feature on Internet privacy today.
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The sharing and tracking of torrents through Twitter just got a little easier with today’s release of BitTorrent’s Torrent Tweet, an app that you can add to torrent client uTorrent in order to organize the discussions surrounding individual torrents on Twitter. Through Torrent Tweet, tweets are published with an automatically generated hashtag unique to each torrent file, like this one.
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Google Wave, the revolutionary product, platform and protocol for distributed, real time, app-augmented collaboration will no longer be actively developed and may be shuttered after the end of the year, Google announced this afternoon.
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In its latest move targeting small to medium-sized businesses, Google launched a new blog yesterday called the Google Small Business Blog, which promises to offer tips and tools for SMB's.
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The Wall Street Journal today reports that in Saudi Arabia, the government division responsible for telecom oversight has reached a preliminary agreement with BlackBerry maker RIM, based in Canada, over the matter of government access to BlackBerry messaging data.
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Toilets weren't the only thing on Bill Gates' mind at yesterday's Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe—the former Microsoft CEO also offered his vision of the future of education. The next great educational institution, he thinks, is the Internet.
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