As expected, The Pirate Bay returns

From CNET News.com: The Pirate Bay, the highly controversial BitTorrent search engine, re-emerged Tuesday in typically defiant fashion after Hollywood film studios helped trigger a day-long blackout of the site.

The Web site, which is targeted for elimination by content owners...

Microsoft's new Hotmail takes aim at Google

From CNET News.com: Like all parents, Microsoft likes to tout the accomplishments of its offspring. Any conversation about Hotmail is likely to start with the fact that, at least globally, the free Web mail service has more active accounts than any of its rivals.

Pressed, though...

Magazines Struggle on iPad; GQ Sells Only 365 Copies

From DailyTech: When Apple demoed the iPad to its corporate contacts in the publishing world, they were thrilled. Unlike e-book readers before it, the iPad had a large LCD screen, capable of displaying a book or magazine in glorious color.

Many publishers jumped at the opportunity...

Apple MacBook Gets Faster Processor, 10-hour Battery

From DailyTech: The final piece to Apple's notebook puzzle is now in place. The company today officially unveiled a slightly revamped entry-level MacBook (the update was actually leaked over the weekend).

The latest polycarbonate white MacBook now features a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo...

2012: The Decisive Year for WiMAX - Analysts

From X-bit Labs: The recent surge of demand towards high-speed mobile data transfer has opened the doors for a plethora of new technologies, services, types of devices and other products that satisfy the need. The WiMAX technology has been around for several years now, but the year...

Apple claims 'huge' loss over iPhone leak

From InfoWorld: Apple officials told police investigators that the publication of photos of an iPhone prototype were "immensely damaging" to the company and represented a "huge" loss, recently released court documents show.

Those documents, released Friday by a San Mateo, Calif...

24 Million iPhone 4GS Units Said in the Wings

From PC World: Foxconn is to manufacture 24 million units of Apple's next-gen iPhone in 2010, reports this morning claim.

Further, the device will sport new LCD displays which should make the handheld device much better for reading iBooks.

Apple appears set for a June introduction...

HP won Palm in six-company bidding war

From CNET News.com: Hewlett-Packard landed Palm by raising its bid following interest from other suitors after intellectual property and a potential licensing arrangement for the WebOS.

The proxy statement, which sparked a good bit of discussion, provides an interesting read on how...

Microsoft to pay $200 million in patent dispute

From CNET News.com: Microsoft will pay VirnetX Holding $200 million to settle a patent dispute over VPN technology in Windows, the companies announced Monday.

As part of the settlement, Microsoft will also obtain a license to use VirnetX technology in Microsoft products.

VirnetX...

YouTube, Internet's Third Most Visited Site, Turns Five

From DailyTech: In February 2005, three former PayPal employees -- Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim – founded a video sharing site called YouTube. At the time, there were a handful of video sharing sites, but none had proved particularly successful. YouTube, however, proved a...

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