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Posted at February 6, 2012 by 0 Comment

Samsung Galaxy Note Up For Pre-Order Online At AT&T

We’ve heard rumors regarding the availability of the Samsung Galaxy Note on AT&T and it looks like February 19 should be the day to circle in your calendar if you’re waiting for this phone-tablet hybrid. However, as expected to happen, the Samsung Galaxy Note is now available for pre-order online at AT&T. Following the source link below you’ll be able to secure your unit which goes for $299 with a new two-year contract. Expect the unit to ship by February 17, which should be just a couple of days before the official availability date. As a reminder, the Galaxy Note on AT&T ...

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Coca-Cola, Acura Websites Crashed During Super Bowl

The New England Patriots weren’t the only ones who choked Sunday night. Websites from Coca-Cola, Acura and film Act of Valor crashed Sunday night after being overwhelmed by Super Bowl ad-driven traffic. In Coke’s case, a Facebook app featuring animated polar bears in the ads buckled under the strain. On the other hand, Kia’s site had the most reliable, fastest performance of all Super Bowl advertisers Sunday night, according to Yottaa, a website optimization firm. Yottaa monitored all the Super Bowl advertisers’ sites Sunday and found those three sites were the only ones that crashed. Coke’s site was down long enough for ...

Posted at February 06, 2012 by 0 Comment
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The Pirate Bay to stop offering torrent file links

The Pirate Bay, one of the most well known torrent-themed web sites in the world, will soon stop offering direct torrent links. In a blog post on the web site today, it states: Quite some time ago we decided to not host torrent files anymore. In following with that decision, we decided to make Magnet links the default option for the Download buttons! We've just changed places on the links. Magnet is now default, Download torrent is now where the magnet links used to be. The reason is the same as always: Magnets are now good enough to use, and ...

Posted at January 14, 2012 by 0 Comment
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Microsoft web sites could be blocked in India

Microsoft and many other major Internet companies could have some of their sites blocked in India. ZDNet reports that Delhi’s High Court warned Microsoft as well as Facebook, Yahoo, Google and others that they risked having their sites blocked if they did not check and censor their content. On Friday, the Indian government sanctioned the actions of Delhi's High Court. This effort started in 2011 when a journalist in India named Vinay Rai filed a private complaint against 21 companies, including those listed above, claiming that the companies offered objectionable content on some of their sites via webcasting. Lawyers for both Google ...

Posted at January 14, 2012 by 2 Comments
Category : Technology News
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More web sites and games going dark to protest SOPA

Even though opponents of the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) won a big victory on Friday when it was announced that the DNS blocking provision would be removed from the bill, it looks like the idea of shutting down web sites to protest the bill is gaining steam. We have already reported that Reddit plans to shut down for 12 hours on Wednesday, January 18 in their own SOPA protest. Now Marcus "Notch" Persson, the creator of the hit PC game Minecraft, has announced via his Twitter page, "We'll silently take down http://minecraft.net and http://mojang.com on the 18th ...

Posted at January 14, 2012 by 0 Comment
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