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Lenovo has announced the the IdeaPad U300s, U300e and U400 for the Malaysian market. First on the Ultrabook lineup is the U300s, its 14.9mm thick (2mm thinner than the Macbook Air) but the Macbook’s design tapers off at the end making it look thinner. The U300s is built from a single-piece of aluminium weighing 1.36 … Read more
For the first time, Facebook has revealed details about how it tracks users across the web. Through interviews with Facebook engineering director Arturo Bejar, Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes, Facebook corporate spokesman Barry Schnitt and Facebook engineering manager Gregg Stefancik, USA Today‘s Byron Acohido was able to compile the most complete picture to date of how … Read more
. An anti-piracy group say they have sent an urgent letter to a court demanding that Grooveshark should be subjected to an ISP DNS blockade, an action which would take the site offline in Denmark. Anti-piracy group RettighedsAlliancen, who are better known by their former name of Antipiratgruppen, have revealed their latest target. Surprisingly though, … Read more
Two newly proposed pieces of legislation in the Senate and House of Representatives attempt to curtail piracy of intellectual property on the internet, but many argue that they go too far. If passed, these bills would have significant impact on anyone who shares media on the internet–including sites that post music and videos. The House’s … Read more
China has long been dubbed “factory of the world” but this time around China is not trying to export to you new shiny gadgets or fancy shoes, instead it now might just be exporting the most advanced Internet censorship and surveillance system around. Americans piously condemning China’s “Great Firewall” and hoping for a technological silver … Read more
Malaysian Wireless is reporting that the Apple iPhone 4s will be launched in Malaysia on the 16th of December 2011. Excerpt from Malaysian Wireless: This post is an update of our previous post with the title “Malaysia Apple iPhone 4S in Nov“. First of all we didn’t make a mistake. Apple did originally planned to … Read more
TechCrunch reports that Google just announced Google Music — which launched over the summer in a private, invite-only beta — is open to everyone. The service allows you to upload your music library and stream it to all of your other devices. And while Google had initially stated this would be a premium service after … Read more
The ad is from creative agency Vitro Videos, and the concept is insanely smart. They brought in real world marathon runner (and Olympic athlete), Ryan Hall, and filmed him running at his normal marathon pace, using multiple cameras side by side. Then they installed a video wall in a public subway station, so that the … Read more
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, a 22-year-old co-founder of the hyped Facebook rival Diaspora committed suicide this weekend in San Francisco. Now the tech community is reeling, and asking hard questions about the pressure facing young tech entrepreneurs. Silicon Valley is mourning today for Zhitomirskiy, a recent NYU grad dropout, who by all accounts was a bright, motivated … Read more
WordPress now hosts more than 60 million blogs, CEO Matt Mullenweg confirmed Thursday. The online publishing platform is now fielding in excess of 300 million unique visitors per month. But according to him, this is just the beginning: WordPress’ developments on the social and mobile fronts are on track to drive even bigger growth in … Read more