Updates

05/13/2008 BitTorrent Community Mourns as Tracker Founder Passes Away

Last month, TorrentFreak had the pleasure of interviewing Merrin, the founder of the 150,000 member MVGroup tracker. It is with great sadness that we bring the news that after a long struggle against increasing health problems, Merrin has passed away, aged just 32.

05/13/2008 HP seals the deal, buys EDS for $14B

HP said Tuesday morning that it has signed a deal to acquire IT outsourcer EDS for just about $14 billion, or $25 per share. The deal has been approved by both companies' boards of directors, and is expected to close in the second half of this year.

05/13/2008 Powerset Unveils Test Version of Google-killer

The public will get its first chance Monday to test a search engine from start-up Powerset that eschews conventional keyword technology and instead is designed to understand the meaning of Web pages.

05/13/2008 88,000 UK Homes Get 100 Mbps via Sewer-Line Broadband

Bournemouth has become the first town in the UK to get super-fast internet connections - via the sewerage system. More than 88,000 homes and businesses in the Dorset town will benefit from internet speeds up to 100Mbps under the scheme, considerably faster than consumer broadband speeds on the market.

05/12/2008 Digg's CEO Comments On Recent Events

Digg CEO talks about recent events and Digg's past and future. He also talks about the Time 100, Webby Awards, and Sarah Lacy's Book.

05/12/2008 Big Content fighting campus P2P by lobbying for state laws

The entertainment industry has so far failed to convince Washington to impose P2P technology mandates on higher education, so it's taking the fight directly to the states. Colleges and universities are fighting back.

05/12/2008 New Google Service Turns Web Pages into Networking Sites

To socialize these days, hundreds of millions of people every month turn to social networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook.

05/12/2008 Broadband: Other Countries Do it Better, But How?

The US continues to fall on global broadband rankings, even as countries that are more rural and less wealthy surge ahead. Here's how they do it (hint: it does not involve wholesale deregulation).

05/12/2008 What Google Knows About Spam

If you didn’t attend Web 2.0, you can watch my ten-minute keynote about “What Google Knows About Spam” (and several other keynotes) on blip.tv. I’ll embed the keynote below as well.

05/12/2008 How to Love a LEGO Lunatic

The look in Jesus' eyes. You may say baleful, but I see your baleful and I raise you pure, unadulterated, naked hurt. A lot of humble pie was eaten that night. I vowed to change, so I came up with a ten-point plan with which to sink my irrational plastic jealousy.