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Tribler Makes BitTorrent Impossible to Shut Down
torrentfreak.com
The Tribler BitTorrent client is no newcomer to the BitTorrent scene. It has been in development for more than 5 years and has delivered many innovative features, which have mostly been ignored by the masses. Today, however, Tribler is more relevant than ever before. Developed by a team of researchers...
Leaked Report Reveals Music Industry's Global Anti-Piracy Strategy
torrentfreak.com
Dated April 2012, the IFPI report obtained by TorrentFreak was put together by the music industry group’s chief anti-piracy officer Mo Ali. The 30-page report presents a global view of IFPI’s “problems”, “current and future threats” and the industry’s responses to them. IFPI says it has five possible reactions to...
Hackers open up offline play, modding tools for SimCity
arstechnica.com
Highways... in the middle of a city? Dare to dream, SimCity owners. Youtube / UKAzzer EA and Maxis' claim that it would take "significant engineering work" to make a workable offline version of SimCity took another hit today. Hackers have released modding tools that disable the game's periodic server...
O2 Wallet targets contactless payments market
www.guardian.co.uk
Smartphone app, which aims to simplify online shopping and money transfers, is open to mobile users across all networksMobile operator O2 has become the latest firm to offer a mobile payments service, allowing consumers to use their handset to send money to other people and shop more quickly online.Following in...
Microsoft details Windows 8 Enterprise’s feature set
thenextweb.com
We’re going to keep this extremely brief, as this post is essentially an information dump. Today Microsoft announced the feature set for Windows 8 Enterprise, essentially explaining what volume and InTune customers will be able to buy, and how it differs from the consumer SKUs. For more information on what flavors of...
Microsoft Uncloaks Windows 8 For ‘Consumerized’ Businesses
www.wired.com
Windows president Steve Sinofsky shows off the new Windows (Credit: Microsoft) Microsoft has shared some added details about the makeup of Windows 8 Enterprise, the version of its upcoming new operating system designed specifically for large businesses. On Tuesday, Microsoft briefly mentioned the enterprise version of Windows 8 in a...
The OS is the new browser -- apps are the tabs
pandodaily.com
With the advent of Web 2.0 and webapps like Gmail (circa 2003), everyone started talking out how all desktop apps would be eventually converted to webapps. Prior to Gmail, people didn’t believe that such a paradigm shift was possible. Websites were not considered as heavy-duty as desktop apps for a lot of use cases....
Researchers To Release an Anonymous BitTorrent Client
torrentfreak.com
BitTorrent users are increasingly looking for more anonymity but right now their options are limited. For a monthly fee they can sign up with a VPN or proxy to hide their IP-address. Free options with decent speeds or without other restrictions aren’t easily available. This lack of fast, unlimited and...
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