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Archive for August 30th, 2008

HTC’s Android-driven Dream revealed in glorious spy photos (Joshua Topolsky/Engadget)

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
HTC’s Android-driven Dream revealed in glorious spy photos  —  Sure, we’ve seen some blurry videos and managed a few stolen glimpses when Andy Rubin demonstrated this beast, but now we’ve gotten our hands on a slew of pictures showing off a very real T-Mobile-branded Dream in all its Android-running glory.

MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson Was A Real Life “WarGames” Hacker in 1980s (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson Was A Real Life “WarGames” Hacker in 1980s  —  Late last year we discovered that MySpace cofounder Tom Anderson, arguably the most popular individual on the Internet with 240+ million MySpace friends (he is added by default to every MySpace account) …

Is Skype Killing Itself? (Andy Abramson/VoIP Watch)

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
Is Skype Killing Itself?  —  Over the past few months we’ve seen a rash of complaints from bloggers and users about Skype.  —  Now I see they’ve decided to retire SkypeCasts (hat tip to Stuart Henshall).  —  I’m not sure why they would be doing this, but I suspect it […]

Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. (John Markoff/New York Times)

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

John Markoff / New York Times:
Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The era of the American Internet is ending.  —  Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced around the globe.  During the network’s first three decades, most Internet traffic flowed through the United […]

EFF: Veoh Decision Could Save Muxtape and Friends (Eliot Van Buskirk/Listening Post)

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Eliot Van Buskirk / Listening Post:
EFF: Veoh Decision Could Save Muxtape and Friends  —  When a Northern California judge Howard R. Lloyd handed down a decision on Wednesday in favor of the video sharing site Veoh, after it had been accused by IO Group of hosting ten of that company’s pornographic movies […]