Amazon is expected tomorrow to roll out the ability for consumers to preorder digital game downloads for PC.
However, it is Amazon that has the popularity, network infrastructure, and deal-oriented presence to expand its role and shake up the PC gaming marketplace.
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A release group blamed for a Hollywood boycott of all early release movies in Hungary has been raided by the authorities. Dramatic footage shows armed and masked police raiding home addresses and a datacenter said to be connected to CiNEDUB, a release group which provided worldwide high-profile cam releases.
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Last night, Facebook rolled out its latest edition of the constant stream of updates from all of your friends you don't really keep in touch with News Feed, complete with a real-time, scrolling update box on the upper left, the introduction of user-determined "top" stories, and an annoying box for new people you should "subscribe to" (still figuring that one out).
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Maybe it's time for Facebook to finally roll out that "dislike" button.
Facebook is getting an earful about changes it made to the News Feed right before its annual developers conference on Thursday in the US.
Of course, anytime the social networking site makes changes, users revolt at audible levels. Facebook is the world's most popular social networking service with more than 750 million users, so even a small protest can stir up the web.
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The Cybernorms research group at Sweden’s Lund University partnered with The Pirate Bay earlier this year to carry out the largest survey among file-sharers in history. 75,000 people from all over the world participated in the study, and today the researchers revealed some of the initial results. Girls don’t fancy The Pirate Bay, most pirates download movies, and they are increasingly worried about their anonymity.
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A report released Sept. 11 by Nielsen, the media research and ratings company, reveals that Americans are spending more time than ever perusing social networks and blogs. Unsurprisingly, the report found that "Americans spend more time on Facebook than any other site."
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The operators of Usenet indexing site Newzbin2 have introduced measures to circumvent court-ordered web-blocking measures designed to render the site inoperable in the UK. Site staff aren’t revealing how the stand-alone software client works but some basic network packet analysis shows that it defeats ISP BT’s Cleanfeed censorship system by using a handful of techniques including encryption.
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A new technology that allows devices to send and receive data at the same time could debut in a few years as the foundation for future 5G networks, its developers say.
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A hacker broke into the Twitter account of NBC News and sent out a handful of false tweets about a suspected hijacking and a plane attack at ground zero just days before the tenth anniversary of 9/11.
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AMD has just made a pretty huge mistake while trying to promote its Radeon graphics cards by offering a free copy of Dirt 3 on the PC, as an SQL database that was hosted on its public servers without any sort of access restrictions was quickly found and leaked on the web by a few clever users, essentially resulting in around 1.7 million Dirt 3 Steam codes being out in the wild.
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Apparently there were a couple of videos shot to promote Bittorrent way, way back in the dark ages of 2007. They followed the Get a Mac ad format and were reasonably entertaining: they made fun of iTunes’ slow download speeds and lower definition movies, etc. The first video in the series was sort of a fail – it was amusing enough, but if you are promoting a product that is quite often used for illegal purposes then you are probably better off not associating it with violent criminality (you will see what I mean). The other videos were kind of cute though.
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omas2110 Yesterday, 11:57 PM