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Streaming Traffic Up, P2P Down

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 11:26 PM | Tuesday, September 2, 2008 | (url: http://community....)

Streaming usage is now 168.9% higher per day than it was 1 year ago (3.1TB compared to 1.1TB). Total traffic is 26.5% higher per day than 1 year ago (37.2TB compared to 47TB).

P2P traffic is actually 8.75% lower per day than it was 1 year ago shrinking to 25.93% of total traffic from 35.95% one year ago (13.4TB reduced to 12.2TB).

I've personally been bittorrenting less and using hulu more.

Google's Chrome Beta Released

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 01:55 PM | Tuesday, September 2, 2008 | (url: http://www.google...)

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

Google's Browser, "Chrome"

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 01:18 PM | Monday, September 1, 2008 | (url: http://blogoscope...)

Google Chrome is Googles open source browser project. As rumored before under the name of Google Browser, this will be based on the existing rendering engine Webkit. Furthermore, it will include Googles Gears project.

The browser will include a JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8, built from scratch by a team in Denmark, and open-sourced as well so other browsers could include it. One aim of V8 was to speed up JavaScript performance in the browser, as its such an important component on the web today. Google also say theyre using a multi-process design which they say means a bit more memory up front but over time also less memory bloat. When web pages or plug-ins do use a lot of memory, you can spot them in Chromes task manager, placing blame where blame belongs.

Warhammer Online Goes Gold

Submitted by: DudeofDeath @ 04:52 PM | Tuesday, August 26, 2008 | (url: http://kotaku.com...)

The long awaited fantasy MMO Warhammer Online has "gone gold" meaning that the game's software is being duplicated into disks and being prepared to ship to stores.

Warhammer Online is due for release on September 18.

Nintendo Faces Patent Suit over Wiimote

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 01:05 PM | Thursday, August 21, 2008 | (url: http://news.yahoo...)

Nintendo's hit Wii console with its wandlike remote controller has been targeted in patent infringement complaints by a U.S. technology company.

Hillcrest Laboratories, based in Rockville, Md., has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington D.C., and a patent infringement lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Maryland against Nintendo Corp., the company said in a statement Wednesday.

Kyoto-based Nintendo spokesman Yasuhiro Minagawa said Thursday the Japanese video game company has not yet received the lawsuit and had no comment.

Hillcrest is accusing Nintendo of infringement in four patents dealing with technology for a handheld three-dimensional pointing device and a display interface system for organizing graphic content on a TV, it said.

High-Energy Aircraft Laser Ground Tested

Submitted by: DudeofDeath @ 08:15 PM | Thursday, August 14, 2008 | (url: http://www.dailyt...)

"Wired showed an image depicting the phenomenal speed and accuracy of the laser, which claims that the ATL aircraft could in theory, in a mere 26 second engagement strike 32 different tires, 11 antenna, three missile launchers, 11 EO devices, four mortars, and five machine guns in a convoy of military vehicles. The entire strike could be done without hitting one single soldier or refugees nearby".

US Broadband growth plummets

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 12:54 PM | Monday, August 11, 2008 | (url: http://ap.google....)

The number of new broadband Internet subscribers in the United States fell in the second quarter to the lowest level in at least seven years, a research company said Monday.

The 20 largest cable and telephone companies added a net 887,000 high-speed Internet subscribers in the three months ending June 30, according to Leichtman Research Group Inc.'s tally, which is based on public reports and estimates. The company started tracking the broadband market seven years ago.

Cable companies did much better than phone companies in the quarter. While the two industries have usually divided new broadband customers evenly between them, 76 percent of the new business went to cable companies in the quarter.

Amazon Launches Paypal Competitor

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 03:57 AM | Thursday, July 31, 2008 | (url: http://www.pcauth...)

Amazon has introduced two new payment systems for merchants and consumers which brings it into a market dominated by PayPal.

Checkout is aimed at online merchants who want a pre-packaged payment system, including tools for managing delivery charges, VAT, promotions and special offers. It features Amazon's One-click option for rapid payment.

Simple Pay is aimed at consumers who want to use their Amazon account to make purchases on other retailers' websites. Google introduced a similar system for merchants and consumers in 2006, also called Checkout, but it has not found favour with online retailers.

Auction giant eBay, which owns PayPal, has prevented consumers from using the Google system.

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows Trailer

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 10:28 AM | Tuesday, July 29, 2008 | (url: http://www.gametr...)

As if Peter Parker hasn't already have enough problems with a single Venom symbiote in Eddie Brock, now he has to face a city taken overrun by the alien parasites.

Activision Set to Sell Sierra

Submitted by: Dangerdoggie @ 11:07 PM | Monday, July 28, 2008 | (url: http://www.edge-o...)

Since Vivendi joined with Activision last year, much speculation has been growing about the companys plans. Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith said Monday that the company is looking at selling off classic publishing label Sierra as well as its affiliated studios.

Google URL Index Over 1 Trillion Uniques

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 06:45 AM | Saturday, July 26, 2008 | (url: http://www.pcworl...)

In a discovery that would probably send the Dr. Evil character of the "Austin Powers" movies into cardiac arrest, Google recently detected more than a trillion unique URLs on the Web.

This milestone awed Google search engineers, who are seeing the Web growing by several billion individual pages every day, company officials wrote in a blog post Friday.

"We don't index every one of those trillion pages -- many of them are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content ... that isn't very useful to searchers. But we're proud to have the most comprehensive index of any search engine, and our goal always has been to index all the world's data," wrote Jesse Alpert and Nissan Hajaj, software engineers in Google's Web Search Infrastructure Team.

Liquid Metal-Based CPU Cooler

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 09:04 PM | Sunday, July 20, 2008 | (url: http://www.biosma...)

The LM10 is a liquid metal based CPU cooler that combines liquid metal with an electromagnetic pump. It is claimed to be the worlds best performing air-cooler and have cooling capabilities that exceed those of most water-cooling systems.

The liquid metal is a key component in Danamics cooling systems. Liquid metal has two major advantages when cooling high power density heat sources: Firstly it has superior thermo physical properties that decrease temperature - and temperature non-uniformity - on die and across chips. Secondly, the electrical properties of the liquid metal enables efficient, reliable and ultra compact electromagnetic pumping without the use of moving parts, shafts, seals, etc.

Nintendo Loses Controller Lawsuit

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 11:10 PM | Tuesday, July 22, 2008 | (url: http://www.1up.co...)

The lawsuit concerns the analog sticks in the Classic Controller and GameCube controllers, which Texas-based Anascape Ltd. claims to hold a patent on that Nintendo violated. The court has ruled in favor of Anascape, and U.S. District Judge Ron Clark has rejected Nintendo's request for a new trial. As a result, Clark said he will put a ban on the sale of the controllers (which includes sales of GameCube systems) starting tomorrow, July 23, unless Nintendo posts a bond or puts royalties into an escrow account.

While the ruling concerns the analog sticks on the controllers, it doesn't include sales of the Nunchuck attachment for the Wii remote, which was deemed not to violate Anascape's patent.

Some DX11 Details Announced

Submitted by: Beren @ 06:41 PM | Tuesday, July 22, 2008 | (url: http://www.shackn...)

MS has annouced some of the details about DX11, including: support for tessellation, Multi-threaded resource handling, and more features for DX10 cards. No release dates as yet, but dx releases do come fairly predictably. So my bet is on late next year.

The 18 Greatest Video Game Intros Ever

Submitted by: Colosus @ 09:56 AM | Tuesday, December 11, 2007 | (url: http://gamerhelp....)

Often times, it is a video gameÂ’s introduction that fires us up to the point where we want nothing more than to spend countless hours playing it in order to discover the game'Â’s true glory (or lack thereof). Here are 18 of the greatest game intros (with videos).