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About 99% of BitTorrent Content is Copyright-Infringing
I’m sure this will come as no surprise to anyone, but the vast majority of content being shared using the BitTorrent protocol is of an “illegal” copyright-infringing manner. That includes movies, games and other software, music, pornography, images, and believe it or not… books. The fact that illegal content is downloaded often on BitTorrent is…
Are Games Becoming More Annoying to Play?
I have to admit that at times, I just can’t help but whine about something. This is especially true if it happens to be something that truly “grinds my gears”. Where gaming is concerned, those gripes tend to be traced back to something ridiculous like digital rights management (DRM). But today, I have a rant of a different sort, though still…
Windows 7 Release Candidate Installs to Expire Soon
I am not too sure that the number of people still running the Windows 7 RC is that high, but if you happen to be, take note. On February 15th, RC installs will begin receiving messages that remind the user that as of March 1st, the PC will begin its bi-hourly automatic shutdown. That’s right… bi-hourly. These shutdowns will continue from that…
The Biggest Rip-Offs in America
There are few things on this earth that frustrate me as much as getting ripped-off. Sure, that venti-sized Carmel Macchiato costs a cool $5 or so, but at least it’s delicious. That $4 text message conversation I ended up getting into? Now that’s a rip-off. That’s far from being a lone rip-off, though. CNN Money has taken a look at nine of the most major…
uTorrent Falcon Offers Remote Web Interface, Simplified Sharing
Where BitTorrent clients are concerned, “µTorrent” (pronounced either as a “u” or “micro”) is in a league of its own. It shares similar goals as other competing clients, but goes just a bit further to pack in as much functionality as possible, without ending up with something that feels a bit bloated (like one certain Java-based client, for example)…
2009 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 vs. 1997 McLaren F1
As a car enthusiast, it’s near-impossible to put two amazing cars side-by-side and then choose which one you’d prefer to own. It would almost be like choosing between your kids, or somehow winding up at a party at the Playboy mansion and remembering that your girlfriend is right beside you. Yes, it’s that difficult. So picture this. A 2009…
Windows 7 Becomes Fastest-Selling OS in the World
In mid-December, I took a look at our site statistics for the first half of the month to see the trend of Windows 7 adoption, and the results were rather impressive. At that time, 28.23% of our Windows visitors were using Windows 7. For an OS that was released a mere two months earlier, that says a lot. The acceleration of adoption has slowed, but…
Rest in Peace: Chris “ChrisRay” Arthington
One of the best things about working for a site like Techgage is that I not only get to dabble in bleeding-edge pieces of technology for a living, but I get to meet some of the most interesting people on the planet during all of my travels. One example of this is CES, where last month, I had the opportunity to meet a well-known member of the tech…
Official: First NVIDIA Fermi Cards are GTX 470, GTX 480
Take a guess at the best possible way to discover information from any company today. Subscribe to its press release list? Nope. Contact the company? Nope. In the age of social media, it seems like the best way is to subscribe to that company’s Facebook page, Twitter page, Flickr page, et cetera. Remember when NVIDIA first unveiled proof…
Does Panopticlick Prove that Anonymous Browsing is Dead?
Before you spend time an energy on your new-found goals, you may want to pay attention to an experiment that the Electronic Frontier Foundation is currently working on, called “Panopticlick“. If you’ve ever paid any attention to the ways that you can be tracked online, you’re likely aware that cookies, IP addresses and browser information…
Techgage’s Upgrades – What’s Changed & What’s in Store
A little over a week ago, I made a forum post that discussed some upcoming changes to the site, some of which are clearly obvious even without reading this. Our original goal was to begin working on the back-end, and some of the front-end, and roll out changes in a progressive manner rather than save up a major amount of code and…
70% of Employers Rejected Applicants Based on Online Info
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Google Offers Bounties for Finding Chrome Bugs
As I have mentioned many times in our news section in the past, I’m a big fan of open-sourced software and use it where able. Because I use Linux as my primary operating system, most of the software I use is free and open-sourced, but even for Windows, a lot of what I use there is as well. There are many reasons I like…
Apple’s iPad Greeted to Cold Reception
After months of intense hype, Apple finally announced its “tablet” computer yesterday. I use tablet in quotes, because after making our news post about the iPad yesterday, I quickly realized that Apple itself was not using the word “tablet”. Rather, it simply calls it a “device”. Go ahead, look around Apple’s site, and look for mention of a “tablet”… you won’t find it.
GOG.com Gains Activision’s Support
Our friends at GOG.com have sent along word that they’ve just secured a mega-deal to deliver classic games from a publisher that’s about as classic as they come: Activision. Available on the site immediately are two titles I feel like I need to make the time for, Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura and Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers.
Apple Unveils “iPad” Tablet; Boasts 10 Hours of Battery Life, 9.7″ Screen
Life is full of surprises, but the fact that Apple announced a tablet computer at a special event in San Francisco today isn’t one of them. Officially named the “iPad” (Wow… iTab would have been better), this tablet computer is designed to comfortably fit in between a smartphone and a notebook, offering the right amount of functionality without being too simple, or too complicated. It was long rumored that the OS to be used would be iPhone-esque, and that was right on the money.
Are Paid Online Subscriptions Bound to Take Off?
I’m sure it will come as no surprise to anyone that real newspapers (as in, made of paper) are dying off in huge numbers. Over the years, there’s been many popular and well-known newspapers that have shut down, and that happening was inevitable once the Internet became popular. I still believe that newspapers have their place, but I’m sure many wouldn’t argue that most often, it’s just far more convenient to read the news on a PC. Not to mention, you can’t get late-breaking news via a newspaper, as you can online.
Sony’s PlayStation 3 Successfully Hacked
Earlier this week, I made a little rant about the fact that DRM will be seen in the upcoming BioShock 2. Like it or not, DRM doesn’t seem to be going away, and as much as the game industry would like to ignore it, I truly believe that DRM plays a huge roll in persuading consumers to go pirate games instead. That might sound like a loaded statement, but look at it this way… when has DRM stopped someone from pirating a game? Never. How many people does it inconvenience? Everyone.
Skype for Linux Finally Sees an Update
As a full-time Linux user, I guess you could say that I love using free and open-sourced software, and for the most part, that’s true. I don’t just use Linux because of those two things, though. I simply like how the OS works, and the sheer amount of control I have over it with Gentoo in particular. The fact that almost all of the software I use is open-sourced just makes the entire thing that much sweeter.
The Reasons Printers are from Hell
People who know me tend to realize fast that I’m “anti-online comic”, but it’s for no real reason. I just tend to never find the comics as funny as other people, so I don’t actively seek them out. If there’s an exception to this rule, it would be The Oatmeal. This site publishes what I’d consider to be the best comics out there, because they’re not only informative, but witty and hilarious as well.
KDE 4.4 Set to Launch in Two Weeks
For Linux users, especially those using the KDE desktop environment, February 9 is going to be a fun day. That’s the day that KDE 4.4 will be released, and like all major version increments before it, there’s a lot that it’s going to bring to the table. I’m most excited because 4.3 brought on so many great changes, that I actually started to like it. It wasn’t until that particular release where I finally got around to upgrading from KDE 3.5.
Speculating the Apple Tablet’s Interface
This coming Wednesday, Apple is holding an event in San Francisco where it’s expected to make a couple of big announcements. Even Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, has been clear that there’s something big on the horizon by saying, “We’re starting this week with a major new product“. Even if you don’t follow Apple news too closely, you’d pretty much have to be cut off from the world for the past few months to not know that the product Steve is talking about is the “Apple Tablet”.
BioShock 2 Will Use SecuROM DRM, Has 5-Time Activation Limit
It’s been quite a while since I last ranted about digital rights management (DRM) in our news section, so with the recent news that BioShock 2 will pack in SecuROM, what better time could there be to rant some more? I don’t like ranting for the sake of ranting, but I admit, DRM is something that makes my blood boil. It’s not even because it has effected me to a great degree in the past. It’s just the fact that DRM hurts legal customers more than those who just pirate the software, game, music, or what-have-you.
Fixing Firefox 3.6’s Default Relative Tabs
Late last week, Mozilla released a major update to its Firefox browser, bringing us up to version 3.6. This version brings a couple of new things to the table, such as improved Personas support (custom browser themes that apply instantly), protection from out-of-date plugins, improved full screen video, faster JavaScript performance and a lot of cool toys for developers.
AMD Posts Profit for Q4 2009 – First in 13 Quarters
I’m a bit late on reporting this, but it still should be reported. After going 13 full quarters, posting a loss with each one, AMD managed to post a long-overdue profit during Q4 2009. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it looks like the only reason that happened was thanks to Intel’s mammoth $1.224 billion settlement, which it made just a few months ago.
Just how much did that settlement contributed to the posted profit? Well, AMD’s total profit was $1.288 billion, meaning that if it wasn’t for the settlement, this would have been another quarter with a loss. To be fair to AMD, though, it’s processor sales have been on the up, thanks in part to their great value, and the fact that there seems to be a model for every possible budget (except high-end, of course).
It’s hard to know at this point just where the growth is coming from, but for AMD’s sake, it’s good to see. Part of it could be the recovering economy, or heck, it could be the lack of recovery, causing people to go with lesser-expensive parts. I’m sure Windows 7 also had something to do with it, because with new OSes, comes new PCs and the need for processors.
Being a realist, I have to wonder when the time will come when AMD can post a real profit. Over the past couple of years, the company has focused very hard on pushing out processors based on architectures that haven’t changed all too much through the past generation. Phenom II brought some greater performance to the table, but the difference isn’t as stark as what we saw with Intel’s Nehalem, for example. When is AMD going to release it’s first real strike to Intel in quite a while? I’d love to know.
In the third quarter of 2009, AMD had revenue of $1.396 billion, a net loss attributable to AMD common stockholders of $128 million and an operating loss of $77 million. In the fourth quarter of 2008, AMD had revenue of $1.162 billion, a net loss attributable to AMD common stockholders of $1.436 billion and an operating loss of $1.274 billion.
| Source: AMD Press Release |
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