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The Dark Night on its way to become the most pirated movie of 2008
The Batman sequel The Dark Night was a smash hit at the box office,
with $400 million in U.S. ticket sales in its first 18 days after
release and more than $1 billion in sales globally so far. But the
title achieved another significant milestone: It amassed over one
million illegal downloads on BitTorrent in less than seven days.
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Stockwatch: Chip makers hit hard by pessimistic 2009 forecast
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NASA tests interplanetary Internet
Interplanetary Internet? Shouldn’t we figure out how to survive
conveniently on other planets first before we are making plans for an
Internet connection on Mars? Questions like this one may come to mind
when we hear NASA talking about its deep space Internet, but there is
in fact a very practical use for this technology: It could enable a
much more reliable and useful communications platform for future space
missions that take spacecraft millions of miles away from Earth.
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Microsoft moves to take back antivirus market
Analyst Opinion - Microsoft just announced it will be discontinuing
OneCare and roll out out a free antivirus product soon. I believe the
company made a huge mistake by not owning all aspects of primary
security for Windows from the start. I applaud this move, because it
corrects a problem Microsoft created itself. Apple should learn from
Microsoft's lead here, because if Microsoft is successful, virus
writers and Bots Masters may shift to Mac OS X. Some are already
reporting that this shift has begun....
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IBM to acquire Transitive
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Valve selling Half-Life for 98 cents
Ok, we admit it, there are ways to get Half-Life for free, you may even
have a copy in a graphics card box in your closet (at least I do in the
box of the original ATI Radeon AIW), but we felt it was worth noting
that Valve’s Half-Life game turned 10 today and the company is
celebrating the birthday with a 98 cent edition of the game.
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Judge dismisses Psystar's antitrust claims against Apple
The legal battle between the Mac-clone maker Psystar and Apple took a
drastic a drastic turn as a Judge granted Apple's motion to dismiss
Psystar's antitrust claims. Psystar failed to convince Judge William
Alsup that Macs represent an independent market and that Apple is
actively depriving "legitimate" rivals like Psystar from competing with
the company. We are now expecting Apple's legal sharks to come out in
force and go after Psystar.
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A diamond bigger than Earth discovered
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