QuickSilverScreen as of 11:50pm ET
Early this morning, Malaysian time, video-link aggregator QuickSilverScreen.com’s site posted the following message:
This morning we were falsely accused of hosting copyrighted content by the Malaysian government, in result our host (located in Malaysia) asked us to shutdown the QSS main site …
Toshiba is expected to release a notebook PC this year that uses a variant of the Cell processor, the same chip used in Sony’s PlayStation.
Toshiba Qosmio G40
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The Toshiba Qosmio G40 notebook will sport a SpursEngine SE1000 chip, a Cell stream processor also used in the …
Correction 6:18 p.m. PT: I misinterpreted the announcement; Inquisitor founder David Watanabe isn’t joining Yahoo.
Inquisitor augments Safari by autocompleting search queries and showing results.
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Yahoo has acquired Inquisitor in a move to improve how search results appear on Apple computers.
The Safari browser plug-in …
With every Google enterprise announcement Microsoft must hear the war drums beating.
Sure, Google owns the search market. And, as a result, the company is the online advertising leader. But Microsoft has all those Windows desktops out there, and owns the corporate market, right?
Well, maybe not for long.
Sure, …
It looks like EA has made a turn-around in response to fan outrage at its plans for a complicated DRM scheme in two high-profile PC games due out later this year.
Word came out yesterday that Spore (from Sims-meister Will Wright) and the PC version of Xbox 360 hit …
If Circuit City gets sold anytime soon, it probably won’t be to its chief suitor, Blockbuster, according to one of the electronics chain’s most vocal investors.
In an interview with TWICE magazine Friday, Jim Wattles, owner of Wattles Capital Management, which owns 6.5 percent of Circuit City …
March of the Penguins: the only movie in Netflix's top 100 that you can stream
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The “Watch Now” feature on Netflix is a great idea: instant access to thousands of movies and TV shows, available for instant streaming to your browser at the touch of a button. There’s just one big problem: despite an advertised library of over 8,000 titles, very few of them seem to be movies or TV shows that I want to watch.
Out of 41 titles currently in my queue, only 4–The King of Marvin Gardens, Das Boot, The Good German, and Pickup of South Street–are available to be streamed. OK, fine–my taste for older movies is probably throwing things off. Surely plenty of newer, more popular movies are available to be streamed, right?
Wrong. …
The entertainment industry’s controversial efforts to get universities to be more proactive about policing peer-to-peer piracy have begun to spread from Capitol Hill to the states.
Earlier this year, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a Hollywood-backed proposal buried in a higher education reauthorization bill that would require …
The fate of Philadephia’s citywide Wi-Fi deployment is still in limbo as EarthLink threatens to pull the plug.
EarthLink, which fronted $20 million to build the network and has completed 80 percent of the build-out, stopped accepting new customers last week, according to a report by Metro Philadelphia. The …
Wind energy company Noble Environmental Power has filed to raise as much as $375 million in an initial public offering, according to a document with the Securities and Exchange Commission that was filed Thursday.
The Connecticut-based company, which plans to list its shares with the Nasdaq under the symbol “NEPI,” …