Tuesday, 30. June 2009

Press conference Global Gaming Factory


bambuser.com

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The Pirate Bay Will Close Its Tracker and Remove Torrents (Updated)


Alongside the news that The Pirate Bay will sell shares on the Swedish stock market come some other significant changes. The site itself will decentralize and stop hosting and tracking torrents. Instead, The Pirate Bay will use a third party tracker and torrent hosting service to serve its users.

torrentfreak.com

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Schwedische IT-Firma kauft The Pirate Bay


Die schwedische IT-Firma Global Gaming Factory hat angekündigt, die Website The Pirate Bay zum Preis von umgerechnet 5,5 Millionen Euro übernehmen zu wollen. Auf der alten Piraten-Domain soll ein neues Vertriebssystem für digitale Medieninhalte entstehen. Die alte Pirate Bay ist damit wohl Geschichte.

futurezone.orf.at

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The Pirate Bay Sold For $7.8 Million


Today, Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB has announced it has acquired The Pirate Bay website for 60 million SEK, which is roughly the equivalent of 7.8 million dollars.

This was almost immediately confirmed by The Pirate Bay. Although the title of their post is entitled “TPB might change owner,” from the text of the post it is obvious that the site has indeed been sold.

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techcrunch.com mashable.com thepiratebay.org The Pirate Bay Sold To Software Company, Goes Legal wired.com theregister.co.uk

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Animated PNG files


In late 2007, PHUG, an open source community had the opportunity to meet Andrew Smith one of the key developers of APNG. Eager to get involved and expand on the open source community, PHUG placed it's initiative into the contribution of the APNG open source project. Our goal is to educate both open source commercial developers and designers on the beneficial aspects of using the APNG specification.

animatedpng.com

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Your Future Is Calling: 15 Cool Cell Phone Concepts


Cell phone technology and styling continue to progress by leaps and bounds bu that still leaves a lot of wiggle room for creative engineers eager to answer the call for ever odder phones. Here are 15 of the hottest cellphone concepts around. Your future’s calling!

Hyun Jin Yoon and Eun Hak Lee

weburbanist.com

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Glastonbury 2009 - The Big Picture


Over the weekend, appoximately 190,000 people made their way to Worthy Farm in western England to attend the 2009 Glastonbury Festival. Attendees came to see performances at what is billed as "Europe's largest open-air music festival" on many stages over four days - headliners included Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, and a reunited Blur.

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Blur Live @ Glastonbury 2009

bigpicture Blur Live @ Glastonbury 2009

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U2 360° Tour Preview


On June 30th, in Barcelona, Spain, the U2 360° Tour will open to a sold out audience of 90,000 people. Here's a behind the scenes preview of the tour.

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Thieves 'using Google Earth to steal koi carp'


They are believed to be using Internet mapping systems to identify gardens with ponds so they can take the sought-after specimens.

Twelve thefts of the exotic fish and pond equipment, some of which are worth hundreds of pounds, have been reported over a three-week period across Hull, East Yorks.

telegraph.co.uk

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Hot chilli grenades


Indian scientists are to put one of the world's hottest chilli powders into hand grenades.

ananova.com

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America's Fortress: Cheyenne Mountain, NORAD live on


If there are two things that drive the folks at the world-famous Cheyenne Mountain complex crazy, it's the widely held public perceptions that, for one, the complex has shut down altogether, and that it is synonymous with NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command.

cnet.com

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Iran's Web Spying Aided By Western Technology


The Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale.

wsj.com

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