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Pirate Bay hit with DDoS attack
Torrent website The Pirate Bay has been the target of just about every authority around the globe that fights copyright infringement and piracy. Recently courts in Europe have ordered that the website be blocked by ISPs and people who use the site are finding it increasingly difficult to access. The Pirate Bay is now fighting an attack that has taken it off-line for many users, which is something authorities had a difficult time doing.
Over the last 24 hours or so The Pirate Bay has been mostly inaccessible in many countries due to a DDoS attack. Interestingly, the pirate website apparently criticized the hacker group Anonymous for launching a DDoS attack against Virgin Media in the UK last week. I can certainly see some disgruntled Anonymous hackers attacking Pirate Bay in retaliation to the criticism. Reports indicate that many Pirate Bay users believed Čítaj ďalej: http://feeds.slashgear.com/~r/slashgear/~3/xiDwKoBGW-o/
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Rant: Why do midrange smartphones exist?
Nokia and Samsung are famous for having portfolios that consist of 30+ devices. When Apple entered the smartphone game back in 2007, they had just one phone. Before the first iPhone even hit the market, analysts started speculating that Apple would soon offer a cheaper model to attract a wider user base; five years later and that still hasn’t happened. Instead, Apple has simply chosen to sell last year’s iPhone, and the iPhone from two years ago, to people who can’t afford their latest and greatest Jesus Phone.
This has got me thinking, why do midrange phones exist? When companies want to make a new product, they have to jump through multiple hoops. First, they need to design the thing. Second, they need to setup a factory to actually make the phone. Third, they need to make software for the phone in question. Fourth, they need to create a
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Telefonica unveils 2 EUR/day EU data access
Telefonica has unveiled a pan-European data roaming tariff for smartphone subscribers, offering 25MB of data usage for 2 EUR a day.
The Spanish-owned operator group said the new tariff protects customers from “bill shock” and is also significantly below the new price caps announced by the European Union last week. As a reminder, EU ruled that a mobile data cap will be set at 0.70 EUR per megabyte from this summer and will then fall in stages to 0.45 EUR in 2013, and then 0.20 EUR on July 1st, 2014.
Back to Telefonica’s EU tariff… O2 Germany customers will be the first ones to get it, followed by other O2 and Movistar markets in Spain, UK, Ireland, Czech Republic and Slovakia, where folks will be able to get the same deal at some point this summer.
According to Telefonica, that 25 megs is good for 250 visits to “essential websites” and
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Samsung Galaxy S III user manual makes great restroom reading
You’re a smart person, and you crave knowledge. You probably collect smartphone and tablet user manuals, in which case you’re in for a royal treat today. The full 181 page user manual for the Samsung Galaxy S III has been posted along, two weeks ahead of the phone’s official release. Inside you’ll be able to unlock the mysteries of the phone, discover its untold secrets, and master its functions. Or maybe not, but it does give you heads up for some functions and operations ahead of the phone’s official launch. Here are a couple of things we’ve managed to take away from the device: Čítaj ďalej: http://feeds.slashgear.com/~r/slashgear/~3/MPSyMvNmL4k/
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Acer announces Aspire M5 Ultrabooks
Acer has today announced its new range of Ultrabooks, the Aspire M5 series. Acer will offer both 14 and 15-inch models featuring Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processors and discrete NVIDIA graphics. The company has gone back to the drawing board in terms of design, offering a display with a thinner bezel as well as a metallic silver finish for the chassis. Acer doesn’t specify exactly which processors the two Ultrabooks will have, only that they’ll be the new Ivy Bridge variants. Graphics duties will be handled by an NVIDIA GT 640M with 1GB of RAM, and the company says the ‘books will boot in 1.5 seconds from sleep thanks to an instant on mode. Resolution on both the 14 and 15-inch models is said to be 1366×768. Thickness comes in at around 20mm, but the 15-inch model still packs an optical drive despite Čítaj ďalej: http://feeds.slashgear.com/~r/slashgear/~3/UMFGJZulgzw/
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