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FBI Shuts Down File-Sharing Giant MegaUpload.com
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 01/19/2012
Despite SOPA being stalled by website protests/blackouts across the web this week, the FBI has stepped in and shut down one of the world's most popular file-sharing websites, MegaUpload.com. According to the Wall Street Journal, the FBI shut down the file-sharing giant on Thursday (January 19) and arrested four of the people behind the website... |
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SOPA Blackout Helps Stall Anti-Piracy Bill From Moving Through Senate ... For Now
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 01/18/2012
After more than 7,000 high-traffic websites -- including Wikipedia, Reddit, Google, Amazon and others -- blacked out and/or supported the protest of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act) on Wednesday (January 18), several co-sponsors of the Senate bill withdrew their support ... thus stopping the attempt at web censorship in its... |
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Google Launches Long-Rumored Google Music Service
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 11/17/2011
Following a summer of beta testing and speculation, Google officially launched its Google Music service on Wednesday (November 16) in an attempt to take on Apple's unrivaled digital music series, iTunes. The tech community has ruled that Google's new service is similar to iTunes, but ...not as good. Google Music allows users to store up... |
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MC Hammer Reveals Plans To Launch New Search Engine, WireDoo
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 10/20/2011
MC Hammer has been praised for embracing the technology world in recent years ... and hopes to break into the industry further with his newest venture: a search engine focused on "deep search " and relational topics. Dubbed WireDoo, the former rap star helped announce plans to launch the new search engine during the Web... |
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Apple Rolls Out New iPhone/iPad Operating System: iOS 5
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 10/13/2011
Apple was dealt a big blow earlier this month with the death of their co-founder, Steve Jobs, but due to his vision and plan he laid out for the company, bouncing back won't be a problem. Following the release of the iPhone 4S, the electronics/software company has rolled out their latest innovation -- an all-new operating system for the iPhone, iOS 5. It has more... |
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View The World Of Underwater Internet Cable With New Google Map
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 09/21/2011
Everybody takes the Internet for granted. They don't realize what it actually is. It's a global system of interconnected computer networks, but how are all these computers connected? By miles of cables that stretch underwater from continent to continent. The cable system is actually pretty amazing. According to TIME.com, the cables are called "tubes", or "submarine communications cables, which are giant cables laid on the... |
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Check Out Cheeba.com, The 'Marijuana-Based Search Engine'
Life / Culture ♦ Posted 08/30/2011
While medical marijuana is legal in California and several other sites, those online trying to advertise medicinal sticky-icky are "treated like outlaws" to quote L.A. Weekly. Google isn't very weed friendly, so how does a supporter of legal marijuana make money online? Through a "marijuana-based search engine" called Cheeba.com. "While ad networks like Google AdSense seem to flat out ban companies from reaching out the... |
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Wale Crashes HulkShare Servers With Release Of New Mixtape
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 08/23/2011
Wale is getting ready... preparing the November release of his Maybach Music debut, Ambition. But last week, the DC dropped a brand new mixtape for fans, crashing free download sharing services, Hulkshare and Sendspace. The mixtape, titled The Eleven One Eleven Theory, was released as a promise to fans after he reached 1 million Twitter followers @Wale. According to Hulkshare, the traffic surrounding the downlad... |
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Kanye West & Lady Gaga Among Group Invested In Upstart, Turntable.fm
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 08/05/2011
Musicians are getting into the tech game heavy. Chamillionaire recently visited the TechCrunch Mobile Conference, and Justin Timberlake nabbed a piece of MySpace ... and now, Kanye West and Lady Gaga are the latest to put their money behind technology. West and Gaga recently joined forces to put their money behind rising NYC start-up, Turntable.fm. According to Business Insider, the celebrity investors teamed up with... |
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T-Pain Vows To Never Use Auto-Tune Again, Announces 'The T-Pain Effect'
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 06/03/2011
When Jay-Z declared the "Death of Auto-Tune" in the summer of 2009, with the Blueprint 3 single "D.O.A.," the hip-hop star may have jumped the gun. Afterall, at the time, artists like Lil Wayne, Kanye West, and of course, T-Pain, were using the popular vocal effect with much success. In 2011, its popularity has died down quite a bit. Pain, who helped bring its popularity... |
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LimeWire Settles With the RIAA For $105 Million
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 05/19/2011
Limewire is completely lost at the hands of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) last week, when they agreed to a nine-digit payout to major record labels. The now-defunct peer-to-peer client agreed, last week, to pay $105M to the major record labels as part of a settlement between both parties -- the labels being represented by the copyright watchdog. They paid for 9,715 pirated... |
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Jay-Z Launches New, Lifestyle Blog/Website
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 04/05/2011
Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z has taken a page outta Kanye West's book with the launch of a new lifestyle website called LifeandTimes.com. The recently launched website offers a fresh take on categories such as style, leisure, art & design, technology, music, and sports, featuring everything from short video clips, brief blogs and stories, as well as pictures. The site currently boasts feature stories on boxing champ... |
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Tech Company Helps Users Video Chat Over Mobile Phones With New App
Tech & Gaming ♦ Posted 12/28/2010
While we're not a tech-based publication per say, we always keep our eyes and ears open to new things on the technology-based side to things we think are cool. One of the latest things we came across is Tango, a free mobile video calling service that supports and works between numerous devices, including iPhones, and dozens of Android devices over 3G, 4G, and Wi-Fi. The... |
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Website Owners Dispute Government Seizures, Say They Aren't To Blame
Politics ♦ Posted 12/21/2010
While most people were enjoying turkey with their families over the Thanksgiving holiday, federal authorities were shutting down several websites, as part of Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA), which allows the seizure of domain names without due process or even a mention of wrong-doing. Popular hip-hop websites OnSmash.com and RapGodFathers.com were among the 82 domain names snatched up from under their... |
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