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Internet service providers cannot ration service to heavy users of the Internet, the Federal Communications Commission rules this week. The FCC said that Comcast, one of the largest Internet service providers, broke the law when it slowed the transfer of video files among a group of its customers to ensure that other customers had adequate bandwidth. the FCC ruled that Comcast had no right to act as Internet traffic cop.

(From The Week, vol. 8, issue 373, p. 6)

A start-up called Cuil is mounting a challenge to Google's dominance of the Internet search business, said Michael Liedtke in the Associated Press. Processing its first search requests this week, Cuil (pronounced "cool") claims to search more Internet pages than Google does, while presenting results in a more usable form. "Cuil is hoping to attract traffic by promising not to retain information about its users' search histories or surfing patterns -- something that Google does, much to the con . . . Read more

PhotoshopCandy is happy to announce another Corporate Logo Design contest.

Contest will be running from July 25th - August 24th 2008.
During this time the client will be able to see all submissions and will decide upon a winner.
Client will have 7 days to choose a winner after this period.

CONTEST DESCRIPTION: Inspire Events. The Favicon Based on the logo. Favicon size: 16×16 pixels

COMPANY DESCRIPTION: Inspire Events is a full service event planning company specializing in weddings, . . . Read more

Okay; so LUGRadio is almost gone; but for their final show; they're holding what appears to be a gaming competition. The guys from bytemark.co.uk have put together an awesome setup for this weekend live show, so if your in the UK (near Wolverhampton) then get down to The Lighthouse Media Centre, Chubb Buildings, Fryer Street; as linux geeks talk, and gamers can play!

For More Infomation: http://www.lugradio.org/live/UK2008/

Judge Dava Tunis' full report to the Florida Supreme Court in Jack Thompson's Florida Bar Trial, in which she recommends permanent disbarment for the attorney, also recommends he pay disciplinary costs of $43,675.35. Judge Tunis, Referee in the case, noted in her 169-page report that she considered some 5,900 pages of evidence, "hundreds, maybe more" documents submitted over the past eighteen months of litigation.


Source: http://kotaku.com/5023506…e-thompson-report-judge-r . . . Read more

Hackers have broken into CitiBank's network of ATMs and stolen millions of dollars and user's PINs. This shows that at least some banks aren't encrypting their PINs as well as they could or should be. ATMs are becoming more and more based on Windows OS (never a good thing) in order to be remotely accessed to be diagnosed and repaired, and it seems that the hackers were able to use this remote access to obtain the PINs, possibly got them during the unencrypted transfer of the PINs to the main co . . . Read more

Some new cell service providers have begun a service to accept customer's cell phones from other providers and unlock them so that the customer does not need to buy a new phone every time they switch providers. MetroPCS is the first company to do this, but it would appear that many more may follow suit. Also, apparently if you are with Verizon or Sprint, when you leave their service they are required by law to unlock your phone for you so you can use it with your next service.

If you want . . . Read more

Scientists are coming ever closer to cloaking technology in the real world now, and are going through two different approaches. The first approach (and the only one that has actually come off the math pages into real life) is to use metamaterials that would redirect the light to look like it's going straight through the object, when in reality it's it's actually being bent around the object. This type of technology has two working models, one that only works 2 dimensionally on a microscopic sc . . . Read more

A new study says that the reason broadband isn't as widespread is because many people actually just plain do not want it rather than not having access to it. At least 19% refuse to upgrade for any reason, while only 14% say it's unavailable and 35% say it's too expensive (the remainder put other).

You can read the article over here.

Scientists now have the ability to listen to the natural sounds that Earth makes, the sounds produced by the same mechanism that makes the auroras. It sounds like a chirping sound, very high pitched.

You can go listen to it here.

YouTube was recently ordered to hand over the logs of what users watched what videos on their site in the lawsuit over whether or not YouTube had the ability to remove copyrighted material faster than they did. They were resisting citing that turning over the logs would take away some user privacy, in addition to costing a lot of money (the requested information accounts for 12 terabytes of data). It is unknown whether Google will appeal or just ask for the search to be more narrowed down.

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Time Warner Cable and Comcast are launching test High Speed Data services with a new management style for controlling bandwidth consumption -- alternatives include packet throttling and application specific throttling.

Read More @ dslreports.com & BetaNews.com

Yes, another news story has cropped up about how bad games consoles are.

Apparently they let the paedophile get his/her 'foot in the door' when it comes to meeting your child. What's annoying is, no one seems to have mentioned that most of these kids have unrestricted, unmonitored access to the net, chatrooms, and the hundreds of thousands of dodgy websites that float around the net.

Somehow, compared to that, the console is now the devil.

Full story [url="http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatod . . . Read more

In wake of the non-existent rape scene announcement from a Connecticut Senator, New York officials linked a recent teen crime spree to Grand Theft Auto 4. They based this connection off of an arrested suspect who said the only reason they went on a crime spree was because they "got drunk and thought it would be fun to play out GTA4"

http://www.gamepolitics.c…nnection-teen-crime-spree

First of all, I am furious with that suspect. He just u . . . Read more

Spain has just won the Euro 2008 After 44 years of nothing!

Germany put up a good fight but in the end Spain's 1 Goal in the First-Half lead them to a 1-0 Win!

One only need to look at the launch sales of GTA IV (as per Draqul's recent article) to see video games as a significant portion of the entertainment industry. Several reports have popped up around the Internet following the results of a survey conducted by GameStrata.

The survey examines the financial commitment of a 30 year gaming lifetime, which generally encompasses the 'peak' gaming years, 18-48. During this time, the average gamer will spend $US30,000 on video games, or gaming related h . . . Read more

Winners are Germany and Spain!


Final is going to be 29 of June!

I will cover it the Final in lots of Detail!

"Thanks to AMD’s vocal efforts, Intel is facing antitrust charges from the European Union’s (EU) European Commission (EC) and has been subject to raids. However, here in the U.S., it was thought that Intel was safe thanks to looser anticompetition laws; that is until the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a formal investigation into Intel’s discounting practices."

You can read the article [url=http://www.insidetech.com/news/2397-amdintel-case-highlights-differences-in-antitrust-la . . . Read more

A team at MIT has developed and built a new solar dish that has the capability to melt steel at it's focal point. It amplifies the sun's energy 1,000 times, and can be very useful in developing more forms of fossil fuel independence. The best thing about it? It is made completely of aluminum pipes and mirrors, so it has a relatively low price, especially compared to other forms of solar power such as photovoltaic cells.

You can read the article [url=http://www.insidetech.com/news/2389-mit- . . . Read more

From guyslitware.blogspot.com:

"Rob Heinsoo has been lucky enough to take his passion growing up and turn it into his career. This demigod of gaming has worked on everything from trading-card games to board games to miniatures games, as a freelance designer and now working for Wizards of the Coast. Most recently, he led the team behind Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition--a new installment of the game with a faster, more fun play-style that's likely to pull in new players. Rob talked to us at . . . Read more

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