Chad Weirick
Chad Weirick
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Torrent tracker site supreme, Demonoid, has allegedly been shut down again, this time by the Canadian Recording Industry Association. This isn't the first time in recent history the Demonoid has gone off the air, having moved from the Netherlands to avoid legal threats there.Demois, the site operator, has yet to be heard from since the site...
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Given the wild success of the iPhone, Apple seems to be considering a return to the PDA market according to sources.This isn't the first time such rumors have made the rounds, and it could very well be that Apple has occasionally borrowed development resources from the project and put them to work on products like the iPhone. With other projects...
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According to a recent study done via the Internet, it seems that the number of women who own gaming consoles is actually higher than men. While the test audience is a bit small at barely 1000, and there are some large questions about the methodology of the test and the demographics of the respondents, the results could also be due to broader...
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We recently brought you a story about Toshiba buying out Sony's interest in the Cell technology, including the production facilities. What we didn't have at the time was why. Now we do: Toshiba is planning to use the Cell technology to produce graphics cards.At first glance this concept might seem a little strange as we're used to large,...
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A Google user group has apparently started to uncover a surprisingly large number of related bugs in Excel 2007. The bug seems to take most, perhaps all, multiplications problems that would result in the answer 65535 and displays the answer 100000 instead.The bug doesn't just stop there, there are times when doing further operations on a...
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An as yet unidentified individual posted allegedly private & secure account information for approximately 1200 eBay users on eBay's own forums. Thankfully the post has now been removed, but what kind of damage was done to those 1200 users? We'll let the eBay spokesperson answer that:“Nichola Sharpe, an eBay spokeswoman, confirmed that...
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While large corporations routinely go through phases of expansion and lay-offs, it is usually something that the company announces before bloggers do it for them.Sadly, that doesn't seem to be the case for Intel who had an upcoming downsizing of its IT department revealed in a blog that would seem to be from an inside source. The source even...
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Apple promised to release Leopard in October, but hasn't set a specific date that they're willing to share with the world. It seems likely that it'll be towards the end of October due to the sheer volume of bugs reported in recent builds of their newest OS, and the fact that nobody has been talking about the discs going gold just yet.A new...
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The recent feud between Apple and NBC Universal had it all: accusations, frustrated customers, threats, and even a new download service from NBC Universal. While it is fairly clear what customers think of the drama where do other broadcasters stand?We reported earlier that FOX is either content or playing their cards really close to their...
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Ever wonder what the world of phishing is like? Neither did we, but it is actually a bit more interesting than we expected according to a research scientist for Cloudmark, who spent a few weeks getting to know the phishing community.Not surprisingly, it seems most phishers actually get their tools from other phishers (shall we call these...
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Some people still have a difficult time accepting Windows Vista. It has beeb about seven months after its release there are still people who just don't want to install it on their systems and are begging vendors for XP. The problem is that those vendors are MS partners and are trying to help the Redmond giant in their attempt to transition...
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The company whose name is virtually synonymous with on-line searches has been rumored to be interested in getting into the telecom business for quite a while now. Apparently that rumor may be more fascinating than the truth: Google has a need for speed that only fiber optics can fufill:Google does have an abiding interest in bandwidth. Google's...
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While it might not sound as fun as bashing in an opponents face with a well placed move in Virtua Fighter 5, the Cell CPU at the heart of each and every PS3 can also be put to use helping researchers understand diseases such as various forms of cancer, Alzheimer's & even Parkinson's disease.Due to the highly parallel nature of the research...
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As if the potential danger to the hardware (and occasionally the owner/hacker) isn't enough to make people shy away from an 'unlocked' iPhone, it seems that the phones are possibly becoming blacklisted.If this turns out to be the case across the board, owners of 'unlocked' iPhones shouldn't be expecting replacements, repairs, or possibly even...
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Around midday on Friday Google Inc.'s stock hit an all time high price of $560.55, which would give the 9-year-old company a market value near $175 billion.For those of you hoping that the new advertisements on YouTube, Google's video service, would be going away, this should probably be proof that it isn't likely to happen any time soon....
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Blizzard has taken their commitment to banning gold farmers and account sales quite seriously. Some people read about it and decide not to test the waters, others have to learn the hard way.Enter an as yet unnamed WoW-fanatic believed to be from the EU, who is willing to pay an exorbitant amount of money for a high level Rogue and comedy...
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MediaDefender, on the of major players in the anti-piracy software industry, apparently had their source code heisted and BitTorrented to the far corners of the planet. Who would do such a thing?Was it clever hackers using some super-secret back-door hack into MD's server(s)? Perhaps some sort of virus disguised as an e-mail selling discount...
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The recent news that Ameritrade had been leaking sensitive customer data was enough to drive some investors away from Ameritrade for the time being, and possibly forever. If you're an investor who is on the fence deciding when you might put your faith and financial security into Ameritrade's hands again, then you might want to know that Ameritrade...
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Microsoft Office is the standard when it comes to desktop office software, though there are many companies who would like to change that fact.Office is widely used in every corner of the planet, even though there are plenty of competitors out there. The competition ranges from similar retail offerings to free packages that run on the web...
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After being an industry mainstay for more than a quarter of a century, it looks like legal battles (some of which they initiated) may finally have doomed SCO, who filed for Chapter 11 as we reported earlier this week.At the time it was assumed that SCO would come out of the bankruptcy proceedings with some sort of payment plan and schedule...
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AMD made an announcement a few weeks ago that made many in the industry scratch their heads: AMD (not Intel) will release SSE5. This was quite confusing since AMD is known for their own set of instructions, 3D Now!, which the company has quietly dropped development of in favor or following Intel's lead with SSE instruction sets.One of the...
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Straight out of Silicon Valley, and perhaps a Skype Exec's worst nightmare, a new startup calling itself Ooma is planning to offer a $399 device that will allow users to make unlimited free calls. Unlike Skype, which made its debut on computers before moving on to telephone-like devices, Ooma is simply a box that will sit between your phone...
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