By Peter | Published:
March 14, 2006
via ArsTechica: “Google will have to turn over some of the data requested by the Department of Justice, according to a ruling just handed down by US District Judge James Ware. The DoJ had subpoenaed search records from a one-week period covering 1 million random web addresses in an attempt to make its case for [...]
By Peter | Published:
February 13, 2006
According to sources close to Microsoft, the company has finalised the editions that they will be releasing mid-end of October 2006. To co-inside with the 5 year anniversary of Windows XP, Microsoft will release the following editions: Windows Vista Windows Vista Business Windows Vista Business N Windows Vista Home Basic Windows Vista Home Basic N [...]
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By Peter | Published:
January 25, 2006
The tyrannical tyke in the Fox animated series “Family Guy” will be the virtual host of a talk show being developed strictly for the Internet later this year. Stewie’s show will be based on familyguy.com (http://www.familyguy.com) and other News Corp.-owned Web properties catering to the young demographics that have embraced the Fox series.
By Peter | Published:
January 17, 2006
A NEW STUDY into cyberslacking indicates that it is not the quiet ones, or even the most open minded types which are more distracted by the Interweb, but extroverts.The study, from Monash University, reverses previous research and dubs extroverted types as cyberslackers who are more likely to waste time emailing friends and doing general internet [...]
By Peter | Published:
January 13, 2006
I have offically switched my RSS stuff over to FeedBurner to help me track how many users are reading via RSS readers and the like. If you experience any problems just let me know. You can also see my daily RSS readers on the front page in the lower right. (subscribe to the feed if [...]
By Peter | Published:
January 13, 2006
Watch out for black cats, ladders and mirrors that might break!
By Peter | Published:
January 6, 2006
Posted on Gareth Branwyn’s Street Tech: Julian Dibbell has an interesting piece in the Jan/Feb issue of Legal Affairs where he explores the idea of whether the trading of virtual “goods” in virtual worlds could constitute an income-generating, and therefore, taxable exchange under the IRS rules of barter. This may sound ridiculous on the face [...]
By Peter | Published:
January 2, 2006
Looking at my stats for last month, I noticed that the site broke 5,000 unique visitors in just 30 days! Almost double from Nov. when we were around 3,000 unique visitors/month. Total pages visited topped out at 16,600! So, hello to all my new readers! I hope you find the info I post intresting and [...]
By Peter | Published:
December 31, 2005
New Year’s Eve 2006 revelers from all around the world now have the opportunity to experience nonstop streams covering New York City’s Times Square New Year’s Eve countdown event in real time via an exclusive webcast from MSN® Video. The live event in Times Square on Dec. 31 begins at 7 p.m. EST/4 p.m. PST. [...]
By Peter | Published:
December 24, 2005
The hardworking staff at PD wanted to wish you and your family a safe and happy holiday! Here is a Santa radar tracker from Google Earth.