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- Rumor: Is Google Drive Still Alive?
- $10 Music Piracy Fine: Fair or Extortion?
- NVidia Claims PC Gaming Sales Will Overtake Consoles By 2014 -Hardware Already 10x More Powerful
- RIM Experiments with $299 Playbook Pricing In Canada – Some Models Sell Out
| Rumor: Is Google Drive Still Alive? Posted: 25 Sep 2011 01:09 PM PDT
The evidence of the service's existence was captured by social media consultant name Johannes Wignad, showing what appears to be a modified version of Google Docs. The redesign appears to be better suited to managing files, as opposed to just static documents, and could well be an internal change being tested by the Google staff prior to roll out. TechCrunch also claims to have inside information suggesting that it will be more than just Windows Live Skydrive style web storage, and will even include a Dropbox style sync client for the desktops and mobile devices. Do you have a hole in your life that the Gdrive could fill? Or is Dropbox taking care of your needs?
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| $10 Music Piracy Fine: Fair or Extortion? Posted: 25 Sep 2011 12:38 PM PDT
Instead of the more expensive process of soliciting ISP's for information and then going through the courts, DRC has discovered a way to automate the process, and handle these claims in bulk. When they discover an IP address suspected of infringement, they will send out a DMCA takedown notice to the ISP, which will pass it along to the subscriber's email address on file. The email contains a link to the DRC website, where most likely, they will offer to settle your claim for a mere $10. Conveniently enough, you are offered the option to pay the fine using any major credit card. The strangest twist in all of this is that DRC has no idea who the actual infringement claim is being sent to, and doesn't actually have any information on file until you settle the claim. Even if you believe in the DMCA, copyright, and all the social justice Digital Rights claims to stand for, sending a settlement note out blindly like this doesn't feel like justice. In addition to threatening to shut down your Internet service if you don't pay the $10 fine, the email also warns you that you could be liable for up to $150,000 in damages. What if you didn't commit the offense you ask? Well according to the company's FAQ, and I quote: "I have never downloaded any music or movies from the Internet, why did I get this notice? A computer using the IP Address" Not sure what they are going for here, but it doesn't look like they have an option for "not guilty".
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| NVidia Claims PC Gaming Sales Will Overtake Consoles By 2014 -Hardware Already 10x More Powerful Posted: 25 Sep 2011 11:56 AM PDT
The exact science behind NVidia claims wasn't entirely transparent, especially when you consider that Valve, one of the largest online PC retailers doesn't share its sales data with the public. Despite our reservations we willing to give Nvidia and their market research firm the benefit of the doubt, and let you decide for yourself if you agree with the assessment. Do you believe PC gaming is poised to go mainstream? Or will it forever remain a niche?
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| RIM Experiments with $299 Playbook Pricing In Canada – Some Models Sell Out Posted: 25 Sep 2011 10:19 AM PDT
This quick online stock check method isn't intended to declare RIM's playbook a winner at $299, but it does make you wonder just how big the market for a less expensive iPad really is. For under $300 the flash enabled Playbook would make for a great web surfing couch tablet, but it certainly isn't without its flaws. Basic features such as email and calendar have yet to materialize, though according to reports this should finally be rectified by the end of September. Even if $299 turns out to be the magic number for iPad competitors such as the Playbook, we still don't know if companies can make enough money at this price point to justify the engineering investment. This is especially true for Research in Motion who has to continue innovating on not just hardware front, but software development as well. Would you pick up a Playbook at $200 less than the equivalently spec'd iPad? Or are you waiting to see if RIM will pull an HP and take the fire sale route. Future Shop
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Rumors of a Google branded cloud storage solution are almost as old as the company itself, but yet, it never materialized. The search giant offers a ton of solutions to help migrate your computing needs online, but when it comes to managing files they have been pretty slow to respond. In Steven Levy's in-depth look at the inner workings of Google titled "In The Plex", he claims Googlers viewed files as an outdated concept, and uses that logic to explain why the Gdrive never came to be. Years of silence, combined with recent confirmation in print would normally have lead us to write of the service for good, but according to 
The music industry is sending out notices to suspected copyright infringers asking for money. And while this might sound like "business as usual", a new report has confirmed they are indeed mixing things up a bit. Instead of demanding $3,000 or more per infraction, file-sharing monitoring firm Digital Rights Corp has confirmed they are taking the shotgun approach to finding the guilty,
NVidia is famous for talking up the potential of PC gaming, but considering that the company's profits are almost entirely dependent on the success of that genre, many have taken it with a grain of salt. For years they have claimed PC gaming is on the rise, but now they can actually put a date to it. According to analysts commissioned by the graphics chip maker, 
HP didn't do much with the Touchpad, but they did at least prove that there is a healthy market out there for a $99 tablet. RIM isn't quite ready to go that crazy with its struggling Playbook just yet, but they have started to test the waters. Last week RIM dropped the price of each model of playbook by an even $100 in Canada, and also began offering an additional $100 gift card at two of the country's biggest brick & mortar retailers, 
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