Amazon, since April 1, has sold 105 books for its Kindle e-reader for every 100 hardcover and paperback books. While this is a milestone for e-books and Amazon, digital copies of books still only make up 14% of all books sold. Still, the fact this milestone happened this fast, has Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezoz smiling ear to ear.
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48 Hours Later Playstation Network Accounts at Risk Again
The Sony scorecard keeps improving. A new exploit allows hackers or anyone with the proper information for that matter, to change any accounts password on Playstation.com.
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There are case mods, and then there are works of art.
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Apparently, the most effective way to elude being noticed online by modern intelligence agencies is to possess a below average understanding of how to utilize the internet.
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Asia, of all areas, is fresh out of IPv4 addresses. That is to say that there are no more available. Ever. They've all been used.
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Stats taken from StatCounter show that Windows 7 has surpassed Windows XP in the United States. Barely. And both are well ahead of any other OS.
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Sony and the hacker known as "Geohot" are no longer at war, as they have mutually agreed to leave each other the hell alone.
Read More »‘Minecraft’ to Exit Beta in November
Minecraft, the addictive puzzle/build-your-own-world game has a firm release date that will leave the "beta" tag in the dust.
Read More »Lone Georgian Woman Cuts Internet to Almost All of Armenia
A 75-year-old woman in the country of Georgia accidentally cut Internet service to 90% of neighboring Armenia. We say "accidentally" because she's 75 and probably doesn't know what the Internet is.
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