Torrent fines not paid
This is a slightly worrying subject which seems to have made its way under the wire, but no more. It has been found that the in recent years the attempts of lawyers acting on behalf of the media companies who believe that they are in breach of copyright.
This information comes from Logistep who are an [...]
The world’s fastest computer
It may have cost around £50 million to build, but the computer which has been called “Roadrunner” is reputed to be the fastest computer in the world.
It was announced by scientists in Washington, USA that the computer will be able to perform around 1,000 trillion actions per second. This was found by running the computer [...]
The DS finished off by Apple
There are probably many people out there who are going to think that this is really crazy, but could it be the end for the Nintendo DS?
With Apple bringing out the iTouch to partner the iPhone it has to be a direct competitor for DS even though since it has been revamped and modernised, the [...]
Gardening or computing
For some parents it is a full time job just getting the kids off of the computer these days, for what ever the reason, be it home work, surfing or talking to their friends, some kids just stay glued to their seats and are rarely seen coming out of their rooms apart from when there [...]
April 4, 2008Music downloads free with broadband packages
Some of the major music companies have seen the light and started to talk with the UK ISP’s with a view of providing a free or low costing music download system for their subscribers. How this will be operated is not yet known, but there are several possibilities.
The music industry has two ways that could [...]
Hard drives wiped by man
A young man from New York will destroy all computers that he touches without even thinking anything about it. He has been dubbed the “Magneto Man” or as some people may say he is just no good with computers, very similar to many other people around the world including most of my family!
But this guy [...]
Gangs recruiting via social networking
Social networking sites are the haven for young people, some even feel that age is very important there and older should not be allowed, which is why this could become a dangerous place for young people be visiting.
For the average person these sites are used to make friends, share music etc, but there seems to [...]
Apples trademark for Gaming
Apple has applied for a trade mark extension, this means that they are looking to add additional terms that are associated with the trade mark and trade name of Apple.
This is a major job to undertake, after all everyone knows that Apple stood for personal computers, but today it stands for music players, phones and [...]
Microsoft sorry about Xbox Live
There was a serious problem concerning the Xbox Live, the reasons for the apparent lack of service is due to the amount of new users signing up for the service all at one time.
But the problem was that the service was down as such, it was intermittent which is probably even worse than the [...]
The cost of creating a game
There was a time when a computer game like Pac man, would cost a mere £50,000 to develop, but that was in 1982 and that was when a £50k was worth about £100k at today’s valuation, but still that sort of cost would be small change to how much producing a computer game today.
In a [...]