Three Canadian travelers who met each other in Australia decided to become the next big thing in torrent tracking, setting up their own search site at the end of November. And even though it had no users, it was enough to get their visas cancelled and have them thrown out of the country. Read More >>
Mobile phone industry sources claim RIM's about to dump its traditional naming convention when it launches those new BB10 handsets next January, with one of the two new BlackBerry models it's set to announce going under the name BlackBerry Z10. Read More >>
Featured comment by T:
"HTC Desire Z is decent, not sure if it can handle Cyanogenmod 10 though. I hate typing on touchscreen but ditto, no good phone with actual QWERTY keyb..." More »
Pyongyang Racer is a browser-based driving game developed in North Korea, giving us curious westerners a chance to drive around the odd landmarks of the secretive state's capital city. Read More >>
Featured comment by otaviokz:
"Gary,
Did you, by any chance, did some homework and realised that Koryo is a Beijing based company and therefore the game isn't a "North Korea's ga..." More »
Even the Mayans could've seen this coming. BlackBerry maker RIM has seen its profits collapse this year, with the troubled phone company banking just £5.5m last quarter compared with £163m the year before. Read More >>
Featured comment by ProtocolOne:
"Track record for BlackBerrys at Carphone Warehouse, 47% of entire repair amount booked in by customers are BlackBerrys, 68% the handsets replaced by B..." More »
A man who agreed to design a web site for a Swedish torrent site has been found guilty of copyright offences, despite there being no evidence he had anything to do with the running of the site. He just did the design. That was enough. Read More >>
Featured comment by strongp:
"I'd take that quote as journalistic interpretation - if he'd agreed to a slice of the income then I doubt a UK court would accept that he we ignorant ..." More »
The PM was previously rumoured to be planning a crackdown on porn in homes where children are present, now he's come out and said it. ISPs will have to block porn by default for households who have kids. Read More >>
The Ministry of Defence has launched a new communications satellite, making its Skynet comms network bigger and better than ever. And yes, it is called Skynet. Read More >>
Featured comment by Snuggler_2_Zero:
"It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead." More »
Images taken with an unannounced Asus tablet calling itself the ME172V have popped up on image sharing site Picasa, with the low-res 1280 x 720 photos fitting nicely with the 1-Megapixel front-facing camera expected in the new budget tablet. Read More >>
Featured comment by spudhed:
"its all personal taste i know but actually i prefer the 7" form factor, it fits in my pocket (yes i wear combats, and yes i know its not the 90s anymo..." More »
The City of London police is setting up a dedicated intellectual property crime unit, which will directly target individual downloaders of copyrighted material. Read More >>
Whinging over Instagram has been taken to new heights in Sweden, where hundreds of teenagers gathered at a local school to attack the alleged founder of a photo sharing account. Read More >>
Following the shock news of NORAD ditching Google's mapping tools and embracing Bing to power its Santa tracking site, we now have a new in-house Google option to keep track of whose mince pies Father Christmas is currently wolfing down. Read More >>
Featured comment by Aevolve:
"Why cant all companies respond to competition like this? Oh no, someone is competing, lets make something better!
There is however a slight issue w..." More »
This isn't Christmas 2012's hottest sex toy. It's LG's revised Magic Remote, the new way to turn the act of changing channels into a never-ending loop of frustration. Read More >>
A very important legal man has taken a stand against the sudden rush to prosecute people who post offensive things on Twitter, claiming that an apology and deleting the message should be enough to avoid a legal kicking. Read More >>
Featured comment by markcgrant:
"This 'very important man' was the CPS.
Isn't all this really regarding how the UK law deems this on line information with the same weight as any pu..." More »
RIM has started running private trials of its new BB10 hardware and software combo, picking up the bill to bribe some top US businesses to force their staff to use the new Blackberrys. Read More >>
Featured comment by sydsam:
"Sorry, is it possible to get a source on this. Haven't seen the part that where BlackBerry PAYS to upgrade corporate clients to BB10 anywhere on the n..." More »
It's the end of the line for retail park electronics chain Comet, which blinks out of existence today, its last day of trading. The administrators are "pulling a Woolworths" too, with shop fittings, shelving and more all up for grabs. Read More >>
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