Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by Steve
The Sydney Morning Herald has an interesting story today about two men from Brisbane who were arrested for allegedly running an offshore BitTorrent video sharing site.
According to the article:
Investigators allege the pair made $10,000 a month by managing an illegal offshore video sharing website with 400,000 international members, including thousands of "VIPs" who paid up [...]
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Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by Steve
Dimdim, a free, client-less web conferencing solution, just exited beta with version 4.5 today.
According to Dimdim:
"Especially in this current economic climate, there is no justification for proprietary, closed, or support-heavy technology that costs you in multiple ways," said Prakash Khot, co-founder and CTO of Dimdim. "With our new Dimdim 4.5, there now exists a solution [...]
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Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by Steve
Laptop anti-theft technology is becoming more widely available, and ranges from the more secure BIOS-based utilities, to simpler freeware tools that rely on your would-be laptop thief stopping for coffee somewhere and using your laptop to browse the web.
Given the technical advancements in GPS, and the broader availability of Wi-Fi hot-spots, the costs [...]
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Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by Steve
Dice Holdings, Inc. performed a survey of 1,000 customers across various industries, and found a very gloomy outlook for the next six months:
Two-thirds of U.S. employers and recruiters plan to scale back hiring plans over the next six months, according to a new survey. One-third of companies believe that layoffs are likely.
Wow. That doesn’t sound [...]
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Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by Steve
The MySQL 5.1 release went out with a long list of bugs, according to the founder and original developer of MySQL Michael Widenius in his personal blog:
We still have 20 known and tagged crashing and wrong result bugs in 5.1 35 more if we add the known crashing bugs from 5.0 that are likely to [...]
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Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by Steve
Here’s a quick round-up of OpenID and Facebook Connect related news that was fairly interesting:
Memo to OpenID: Keep it simple, please – an argument for OpenID to try to simplify its design in order to appeal to more consumers.
Facebook Connect: Scary but good – CBS announces that they’ll support Facebook Connect as a login mechanism [...]
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Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by Steve
Deloitte, financial consulting firm extraordinaire, announced today that they’re working with The Tech Museum in San Jose, California to produce a new renewable energy exhibit as a part of their “pro bono professional services” drive:
The Tech and Deloitte will team up to develop a new exhibit tentatively called “Choices,” which will feature innovative renewable energy [...]
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