The most pirated films
The top ten in pirated movies this week according to torrentfreak.com have been mixed up a little with the introduction of a couple of new arrivals. X Men Origins: Wolverine is still doing better than its main rival Star Trek.
So what are the top ten in downloaded films on BitTorrent:
1 (…) Coraline
2 (6) Push
2 (1) [...]
Netbooks out selling Laptops
The introduction of the smaller and cheaper mini laptops is having a serious affect on the sale of PC’s and full size laptop computers, this could have some serious long term effects on the development of new hardware in the future.
Not only that software providers such as Microsoft are also suffering as these handheld computers [...]
Windows 7 could be bad for Vista sales
It seems that ever since the first signs that Windows 7 was on its way, sales of Vista have started to stall and it is not as if consumers were beating their way to Microsoft’s door in the first place for a copy of Vista either.
It looks as if the amount of businesses and consumers [...]
Microsoft accused of monopoly in Europe
It seems like an age ago when Microsoft were first accused of having an monopoly when it comes to their browser Internet Explorer, for most people this was cleared up a long time ago by the authorities and by Microsoft themselves.
However it would seem that in Europe this is not so and the European Union [...]
Windows 7 beta on torrent trackers
Windows 7 may becoming available as a beta release next month, but there are some people who are already running it on their machines, this is because as with all good software, Windows 7 has been leaked onto the main torrent trackers.
This ISO is the Windows 7 M1 Build (7000) this one runs better than [...]
Piracy overtaken by legal downloads
It must be a dream come true for the music industry as recent suggest that finally legal downloads of music have now overtaken illegal downloads and out of interest CD sales are also down.
Fifteen percent of Internet users purchased music from online music stores, such as iTunes and AmazonMP3, which is an increase of 2 [...]
December 18, 2008Opensource is not necessarily free
For many people the word Opensource usually means that this software is free, but it seems that this is not necessarily so, if fact the idea that opensource is yours to do with as you please is totally wrong and it fact has never been that way.
This is where the huge business Cisco have come [...]
Nintendo sued over Wii
There is a class action law suit in the US, which could mean that the Nintendo Wii said to be the biggest seller this Christmas, being blamed for the damage to televisions.
The £3 million case has been started by Molly Elvig, whose son threw the controller into the TV set while playing a game of [...]
Googles phone coming soon
The Apple iPhone killer is about to launched by Google sometime in the next couple of months, but have they left it too late, because the iPhone 3G is going great guns at the moment. If Google could have slipped their phone prior to the iPhone 3G launch then maybe they would have been able [...]
September 10, 2008Eye scans to pay for shopping
It’s funny how technology from the small and big screen make it into the real world, all be it not in the way that they were first portrayed in the screenplay. Take the use of retina scans, this has been seen in Star Trek and other sci fi shows, now you would expect this to [...]
June 25, 2008Microsoft fears the rise of open source
If there is just one thing that the top execs at Microsoft fear it’s the threat from the success of all of the open source projects that are springing up all over the net. That is according to Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Architect, who was speaking at a conference in New York.
Most people [...]
June 4, 2008Paying for web content
One of the top guys over at Google has made it clear that in times to come, all content will be paid for on the internet in a similar manner as the print industry works today, with magazines and newspapers.
In fact it was implied that those sites that do not or will not charge [...]
May 14, 2008Paying by fingerprint
It is a belief by many shoppers that with a few years they will be able to pay for their goods and services by simply placing their thumb or finger print onto a biometric pad, they also believe that this will be coming by the year 2015!
But there are even more revealing ideas for [...]
May 7, 2008Safer online shopping
As more people begin to use the internet for many of their purchases, there is an opportunity for criminals to cash in on the mistakes that both consumers and businesses make, in order to make the whole online shopping experience so much easier and faster.
Helpful Hints when looking to buy something from an online [...]
April 18, 2008Intellect available soon to buy
Could we be soon going out shopping for some extra memory for our brains? Some people may say that the human brain is far more complex than any computer in the entire world and they would be right. Yet a computer can memorize and recall anything that is inputted into it, whereas humans cannot.
So [...]
April 4, 2008Trapster fights speed cameras
Normally if you are driving along and someone flashes their headlights, it means that they either know you or that there is a police speed trap down the road, this friendly warning system is ok. However naturally not everyone is going to let you know, but there could be a new system that works like [...]
March 17, 2008Shopping basket no sales not followed up
It would seem that there is a lot of lost business happening on many ecommerce sites. But it does not necessarily have to be like that at all. What we are talking about here is the amount of times that an online shopper goes through the buying process only to bail out when it comes [...]
February 22, 2008Firefox downloaded 500 million times
Great news for fans of Firefox the browser has been downloaded over 500 million times, it is just amazing to think of that many computers out there all running Firefox which is and always will be the best open source browser out there at the moment.
As if that was not enough the Firefox 3 [...]