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Google is announcing another round of spring cleaning, in fall. The company has been looking to shed unsuccessful projects and has dropped plenty of lesser known services this year.
Now it's announcing a new bunch of services that are getting shut down. There are some names you'll remember, but most that y... |
23 November 2011
05:16 GMT |
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I have been playing with Windows 8 Developer Preview Build 8102 Milestone 3 (M3) even before it was officially made available for download, and while I fully enjoy the new experiences and innovation from Microsoft, I also see a few aspects of the OS that could be better.
Close buttons for Metro apps for example,... |
3 October 2011
10:47 GMT |
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Yahoo Buzz, a would be competitor to Digg, is about to get shutdown. It's not much of a surprise, Yahoo announced that it will be closing down the service a few months ago. Now we have a date, the site will no longer be working come April 21, 2011. "Yahoo! Buzz will be discontinued as of April 21, 2011. As of th... |
18 April 2011
11:22 GMT |
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Industry watchers are expecting Apple to launch a web-based version of iTunes, following the acquisition, and now the closing of Lala.com, a service that enabled its subscribes to upload their music libraries and access the songs through a Web browser on an array of devices. Lala.com offered its subscribers the abil... |
2 June 2010
05:06 GMT |
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It has been confirmed that Lala.com, an online music service acquired by Apple in 2009, is now shutting down, a move fueling speculation that the Mac maker is on track to launching its own web-based music-streaming service – iTunes.com. Lala itself has announced the closure on its website, saying it would shut ... |
4 May 2010
04:02 GMT |
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A California court has issued an order for IsoHunt's administrators to remove all of the infringing torrent files from their website. To get around the judge's decision, Gary Fung, IsoHunt's founder, is trying to have the court approve a lighter version of the torrent search engine as an alternative to... |
1 April 2010
09:43 GMT |
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Housekeeping operations at Yahoo are in full throttle and yet another important service is being shut down in the coming days. Starting with March 11, 2010, Yahoo Tech will be shut down, content and traffic being redirected to Yahoo! News' Technology section.In a closure notice posted a few days ago on Yahoo! Te... |
10 February 2010
09:55 GMT |
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Customers having problems with the Shut Down process of Microsoft’s latest iteration of the Windows client can now turn to the company for a possible resolve. The software giant informed that in certain scenarios users of Windows 7 RTM that attempt to Shut Down, or put their computer into Sleep mode, won’... |
24 November 2009
02:37 GMT |
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As far as the Windows operating system goes, Microsoft advocates the use of Sleep rather than Shut Down, with two immediate consequences. The first is intimately related to power savings, while the second involves being able to bring the operating system back to life in under 2 seconds. Windows in general, and Window... |
6 January 2009
11:11 GMT |
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Some of you might have heard about the Free Radical development studio, which is based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. Its major works include the pretty popular TimeSplitters series and the recent, but not so well received, Haze first-person shooter. Although the team was set to have a pretty successful future, with ... |
19 December 2008
03:14 GMT |
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Nowadays, there are many solutions offering you the possibility to schedule various actions of your computer. You can launch applications automatically, monitor the activity of your computer remotely, and even schedule your Mac to shut down, sleep or log off after a certain period of time or when a specific action ta... |
11 November 2008
11:31 GMT |
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Most of us are intimately familiar with self-induced sleep deprivation. We're not proud of it, but we've all pulled all-nighters at least half a dozen times in our lives, for the most varied reasons imaginable. Whether it was exam fever, a project that had to be finished by the following morning or a restle... |
21 May 2008
06:59 GMT |
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MVGroup, a torrent tracker that has nothing to do with illegal material or copyrighted content, has gone offline due to what seems to be the error of the anti-piracy group that requested the host to shut down the servers. According to TorrentFreak, the BitTorrent website went offline a few days ago and it's stil... |
23 April 2008
04:25 GMT |
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NCsoft steps up battle in the fight against illegal game servers, which they consider "intellectual property theft". Alarmed by the number of unofficial and illegal servers for their popular MMOs Guild Wars, City of Heroes and, especially, Lineage II, NCsoft decided that there's only one way to stop them growing... |
11 April 2008
02:34 GMT |
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It's well known the fact that media companies around the world have started a powerful campaign against the BitTorrent websites that encourage and enhance the distribution of pirated content, so such a piece of news shouldn't amaze anybody. However, when hearing about another BitTorrent service that bit the... |
7 April 2008
17:41 GMT |
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Sameskybooks.com, a website that hosted messages posted by the users criticizing the Thai monarchy, got banned after the country's authorities forced the ISP to close the page. Internet Service Provider Netservice sent a letter to the operator of the website to inform him that it got pressured by the Information... |
7 January 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Sprint Nextel is in big trouble and in danger of being shut down by FCC if it does not consider its terms on the bands that this network uses. A large number of organizations have encountered problems with this operator's safety radio systems, which could lead to drastic measures from FCC.The threat is cast upon... |
21 November 2007
05:23 GMT |
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Imaginary conversation between two guys. A: Dude, check my site, here's the link! B: What site, dude? A: This site! B: Page cannot be displayed. A: Oh, the authorities shut it down...In the recent period, several countries have decided to shut down multiple websites but the authorities avoided to provide the rea... |
24 October 2007
09:00 GMT |
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The time has arrived. A time for authorities from all around the world to join their forces and start an offensive against the pirated content and the torrent trackers. After TorrentSpy kept the front page of the newspapers for several weeks, Demonoid is now brought in the spotlights as the BitTorrent tracker was una... |
26 September 2007
05:06 GMT |
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We were surprised to find out that Nintendo has closed its official message boards, the famous NSider forums. There was no announcement made (not one that we know of), but don't worry as this is all part of a major change happening at the Nintendo.com site. I'm sorry for the NSider members, but the web con... |
18 September 2007
04:22 GMT |
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Google has finally decided: it will shut down the download-to-own/download-to-rent program from Google Video on August 15, 2007 meaning that no user will be able to purchase or download videos from the search giant's technology after this deadline. If you didn't know, this technology was implemented in Janu... |
13 August 2007
03:36 GMT |
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Yahoo Bill Pay, a product launched in September 1999 and which allows users to pay their bills straight from a computer with Internet connection, will be totally shut down on October 31. In an announcement published today, Yahoo said that Bill Pay will be closed in two steps: starting with September 15, 2007 the prod... |
9 July 2007
05:55 GMT |
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That is the question that concerns the power button in Windows Vista. The power button placed on the bottom right hand side of the Start Menu, accompanying the Search field in Windows Vista for laptops is configured a tad different than we were used to in Windows XP. Pressing it will actually not Shut Down the machin... |
3 January 2007
11:24 GMT |
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