A recent study conducted by the internet traffic experts at Sandvine Inc. revealed that peer-to-peer file sharing networks have just been surpassed in North American bandwidth usage by Netflix, which may be the first time in the history of the more »
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Reconnected: PlayStation Network Back Online
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After 22 grueling days of outage, gamers and users throughout the world can finally reconnect to the PlayStation Network after Sony carried out a phased restoration process. Although PlayStation store access won’t be restored until later, PSN’s reactivation restores online more »
The End of Google I/O 2011
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“Innovation in the Open” or Input/Output? Take your pick. Whichever you chose, yesterday marked the end of 2011’s “Google I/O”, a two-day developer-focused conference that’s taken place every year since 2008. The live conference features comprehensive and highly technical sessions more »
10 Must-Have Android Apps
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Android has come a long way since the inception of Google’s first Android-based smartphone, the HTC Dream. Better known as T-Mobile’s G1, the HTC Dream was the 3rd cell phone that I have ever owned, and I definitely saw promise more »
AT&T Begins Capping Broadband Services
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Hate to be the bearer of bad news for AT&T Broadband users, but on Sunday the 2nd, AT&T began implementing the usage of data caps for their terrestrial broadband services. After being tested in portions of Texas and Nevada, the more »
Transitions: Intel’s New 3-D Transistor
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3-D Tri-Gate. While it might sound like a mix between Trident gum and the Watergate scandal, Tri-Gate is actually a revolutionary 3-D transistor designed by Intel that will soon be put into high-volume manufacturing. As the microscopic building block of more »
The World’s Most Wanted: Osama bin Laden
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know by now that the world’s most wanted international terrorist, Osama bin Laden, was killed in his million-dollar compound in Pakistan on the 1st of May. Suspected as the mastermind behind the more »
Adiós, April
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From tornadoes and thundering superstorms, to the dry, blistering heat of the approaching summer, April had its fair share of interesting weather here in Georgia. Much like the annual return of the scorching heat and the pestering pollen, I figured more »
Whee for Wii 2!
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Wii! Nintendo announced earlier this week that the successor to the popular Wii gaming console will be launched sometime after March of 2012. Although the Wii was already cheaper than its rival consoles, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3, more »
The Hype Behind Cloud Computing
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Cloud computing is all the rage these days, but what exactly is this mysterious “cloud” that businesses are trying to embrace? In the most basic sense, cloud computing refers to users accessing applications through shared servers over the internet instead more »