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Global Gaming Buys the Pirate Bay
STOCKHOLM Swedish vidgame company Global Gaming Factory X has bought file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, whose founders were sent to jail earlier this year for being accessory to copyright infringement. Global Gaming paid Swedish kroner 60 million ($7.7 million) for the company, which it intends to relaunch as a legal download site. Global Gaming CEO Hans ...
Jazz, Fine Wine and..... Kayak?
Elegant Hand-Crafted Wooden Kayak Outperforms High-Tech Peers When you see a pile of wood strips, you probably think tinder. Crown molding at best. But Nick Schade of Guillemot Kayaks envisions an elegant boat that, though handcrafted using the oldest of techniques, outperforms its newfangled peers. Guillemot's vessels are so striking that the New York Museum of ...
Overloaded with Data? Trendrr Launches Pro
A First Look & How It Compares Information and trends spread across the global net with lightening speed. Bloggers and fans love a show, hate a single, publish a photo, share an impression. Each of these “events", whether they are on the rise or decline and where they are coming from all come together to create ...
Pirate Bay Raising the Surrender Flag to Hollywood
The world's most notorious website for illegal music and movie downloading is going legit. The Pirate Bay, a Sweden-based website that's one of the most popular sources for Internet piracy, has agreed to be acquired by Global Gaming Factor, a Swedish operator of Internet cafes, for $7.8 million. Hans Pandeya, CEO of Global Gaming Factor, said ...
China Postpones Controversial Web Filter
China postponed a plan to require personal computer makers to supply Internet-filtering software Tuesday, retreating in the face of protests by Washington and Chinese Web surfers just hours before it was due to take effect. The rule would have required manufacturers to include filtering software known as Green Dam with every computer produced for sale in ...
Great Wall of Facebook: Keep Google Out
Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan to Dominate the Internet and Keep Google Out Today, the Google-Facebook rivalry isn't just going strong, it has evolved into a full-blown battle over the future of the Internetits structure, design, and utility. For the last decade or so, the Web has been defined by Google's algorithmsrigorous and ...
Pirate Bay Retrial Denied; Judge Declared "Unbiased"
After The Pirate Bay defendants lost a high-profile copyright infringement trial in Sweden, they charged that the judge belonged to pro-copyright groups and was therefore biased against them. A Court of Appeals ruling today disagrees; there will be no retrial. A Swedish court ruled that the judge overseeing The Pirate Bay trial earlier this year was ...
Time Warner Cable Charges for a Service It Doesn't Provide
It's telephone customers are charged 99 cents a month to not be listed in a directory published by telecom giants. The kicker: Time Warner doesn't even share the revenue with those companies. I've always admired the way phone companies charge a monthly fee for people not to be listed in a phone book. I mean, talk ...
Myspace Begins Redefining Its Space
Wrenching job cuts at News Corp's MySpace are only the first steps the online hangout must take to regain its cool. Outshone by newcomers Facebook and Twitter, MySpace must reverse worrying trends in user metrics and replace a lucrative $300-million-a-year advertising deal with Google Inc that expires next year, or risk lining up among Friendster, AltaVista, ...
Friendfeed Adds Music File Sharing
How will the RIAA react to this one? FriendFeed, the popular site that enables discovery and discussion of “interesting stuff your friends find on the web", has added the ability to share any file, including music, by attaching it to a FriendFeed post. To share files on friendfeed.com, click the “Files" link underneath ...
