Archive for June, 2009

Pirate Bay Without Piracy? New Buyer Has Legit Plans

Global Gaming Factory X AB, a Swedish software company, has agreed to acquire The Pirate Bay video-sharing Web site — whose owners are under fire for brokering copyrighted content — for nearly $7.8 million.

Pirate Bay is one of the largest video-sharing sites on the Internet. The site has more than 20 million visitors and more [...]

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Red Condor Outperforms Google’s Message Security

Rohnert Park, Calif., June 30, 2009 –- Red Condor, the award-winning provider of fully managed email security solutions, today announced the results of a recent third-party head-to-head anti-spam effectiveness and feature comparison test between Red Condor Message Assurance Gateway 2700 (MAG2700) and Google Inc.’s Message Security powered by Postini. The test, which was conducted by [...]

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Lucid and ISYS Partner on Document Search Technology

SAN MATEO, Calif., June 30, 2009 — Lucid Imagination, a commercial company dedicated to supporting open source Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies, and ISYS Search Software, a global supplier of information access and discovery solutions for mining intelligence and corporate knowledge, today announced a strategic partnership. The agreement enables Lucid Imagination to provide enterprise-class [...]

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Is Wes Cheating on Jillian?

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NVIDIA Tegra smartphone due from a "top five" manufacturer before 2010?

If you want to get HD in your handheld, NVIDIA’s Tegra processor is the hot way to do it at the moment, and we’ve got reasonably concrete sounding rumors from disparate sources that a handset containing one one of the chips is currently under development by a “top five” smartphone builder (we’re guessing it’s not [...]

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HTC Hero spotted on Orange UK website

The HTC Hero has made its first appearance on a UK carrier’s website, but finds itself burdened with a teasing “coming soon” badge. Having talked to Orange, we can confirm previous reports that the device will be available for free on some, as yet undetermined but surely eye-gouging, price plans. The company said they are [...]

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Pirate Bay acquired by Global Gaming Factory, going legit like Napster

It’s true, The Pirate Bay has agreed to being purchased by Global Gaming Factory (owner of a network of Internet cafes and gaming centers) for 60 million Swedish Krona or roughly $7.8 million. According to a press release, “GGF intends to launch new business models that allow compensation to the content providers [...]

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Bernie Madoff gets 150-year sentence. Appropriate?

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How much are you concerned about the environment now?

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Did you buy anything from Bill Mays?

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