Category: Linklog

Technology has made staying in touch with your friends and family both easier and harder: living a fast-paced, on-the-go lifestyle is easier (and a lot of fun), but it’s more difficult to keep track of everyone when they’re running around at warp speed. That’s why we’re excited to announce that we’ve acquired Jaiku… Read more →

R&D Magazine has sponsored the “Oscars of Inventions” for 45 years. These research and design awards are coveted by government as well as private industry inventors. The 100 winners selected by R&D Magazine for 2007 are stunning innovations – resourceful, effective, inspiring. Read more →

It’s reasonably clear that the RIAA chose to head to trial with a case it knew it would win. Let’s look at each element of the plaintiff’s case against Jammie Thomas so we can piece together what made this one so ideal for the RIAA. Read more →

Jammie Thomas has decided to appeal last week’s verdict that she willfully infringed on the recording industry’s copyrights. Her appeal is expected to focus on the question of whether making a file available for download on a P2P network is “distribution” as defined by the Copyright Act. Read more →

“My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a ‘lone traveler’ and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family…” Read more →

Bit-tech.net continues their feature examining how computer games are written and designed by looking specifically at adventure games. With exclusive, in-depth interviews from Dave Grossman (Lucasarts, Sam and Max) and David Cage (Quantic Dream, Fahrenheit, Indigo Prophecy), the article is a fresh look at the process of how games are designed. Read more →

Promoter Harvey Goldsmith has branded eBay the “biggest rip-off merchants in the world” after tickets to the forthcoming Led Zeppelin gig appeared for sale. “I have begged them to take [the tickets] off and they have basically told us to fuck off. So I will do everything I possibly can to ruin their lives.” Read more →

Apple has made a huge mistake by offering the fourth episode of the popular science fiction TV-show “Stargate Atlantis” instead of the season premiere via its iTunes store. Soon after the episode leaked it spread to BitTorrent and other P2P networks. Read more →

Unremarked on by every commentator is the following fact: RIMM added 1.45M new subscribers last quarter. In the entire world. In over 120 countries, served by 300 carriers. In other words, throughout the globe, on every carrier, in every country, RIMM added 1.45M new users (not replacement handsets or upgrades for existing users … Read more →

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il called himself an ”Internet expert” during summit talks with South Korea’s president this week, a news report said Friday. The reclusive leader made the remark after South Korean President asked that South Korean companies at an industrial park in the North Korean city of Kaesong be allowed to use… Read more →