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Someone’s probably watching you downloading that film, file-sharers warned

- Gadgets & Tech RSS Feed — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:00:00 +0000

Illegally downloading just a single blockbuster movie or hit song using so-called "torrent" software means your computer is likely to be secretly logged and monitored by copyright enforcement agencies, undercover research has shown.

BBC downloads can go mobile

- Gadgets & Tech RSS Feed — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:00:00 +0000

The BBC has launched a new download feature which means people can store programmes from the iPlayer on to their phone or tablet and watch them later without an internet connection.

Anomaly Warzone Earth; Donkey Kong Jr.; The Expendables 2 Videogame – Review shorts

- Gadgets & Tech RSS Feed — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:00:11 +0000

Anomaly Warzone Earth

Iomega: SOHO punters will pay hard cash for our cheap boxes

The Register - Hardware: Storage — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:43:07 +0000

EMC storage biz unit shows off non-enterprise figures

Networked storage is not just for enterprise buyers. The wee consumer arm of storage-and-networking giant EMC says that small office and home office (SOHO) and small and medium business customers have bought more than a million of its StorCenter networked storage boxes.…

GridIron crams fat Hadoop ready-meal boxes into data centres

The Register - Hardware: Storage — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:02:05 +0000

Would you fries chips with that compute'n'flash combo?

Flash array startup GridIron is touting a converged compute'n'flash iNode go-faster box with Zettaset Big Data management software. A reference architecture tells users how to build a 100TB, 1.5 million IOPS Hadoop virtual cluster.…

Why Bruce Willis’s top tracks die hard

- Gadgets & Tech RSS Feed — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 23:00:00 +0000

My vinyl copy of Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica is a treasured thing – all four unlistenable sides of it – and it's there in my will as part of the motley collection of recordings I've amassed over the years. If I get hit by a bus today, my friend Jenny will get it, but the fate of the gigabytes of music I've bought online isn't so clear. Weirdly, they're not mine to bequeath; under the terms of license I merely have them on some kind of permanent loan.

Guild Wars 2 surges to the summit of the all formats games chart

- Gadgets & Tech RSS Feed — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:00:10 +0000

Guild Wars 2′s quest to top the all formats games charts has ended in success, with NCsoft’s PC-exclusive MMORPG outselling anything and everything across all formats.

Square Enix unveils Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII

- Gadgets & Tech RSS Feed — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 15:00:10 +0000

Square Enix has announced the concluding chapter to the story of Lightning, who’s jounrey has so far impacted events in both FF XIII and FF XIII-2, in the shape of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII.

Queen star Freddie Mercury becomes Angry Birds character

- Gadgets & Tech RSS Feed — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:09:47 +0000

Queen star Freddie Mercury has been turned into a character from hit game Angry Birds.

Cleversafe: Our mad rig can gobble A TERABYTE in A SECOND

The Register - Hardware: Storage — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 12:34:44 +0000

Big Data? This is Giant Fat Chair-smashing Bastard Data

Cleversafe claims it has the biggest mouth for objects on the planet, gulping them in at a terabyte a second.…