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Just last week we reported on a streaming service called Popcorn Time. It was basically a pirate’s equivalent of Netflix where users would be able to stream torrents instead of downloading the files onto their computers.

According to its creators, they claim that Popcorn Time is 100% legal, although we’re not sure how. Perhaps it could be due to a loophole in the law, but whatever it is, its creators asserted its legality, although the act of piracy itself is not. That being said, they decided to shut down its service anyway, but not before the code for the program made its way onto GitHub where it has since been forked several times. (more…)

Popcorn Time Gets Resurrected Under A Different Torrent Group original content from Ubergizmo.

Berlin has many bragging rights, but the latest among them is a world’s first: scoring the first city domain name. Starting March 18, applicable websites will be able to use … Continue reading

It is safe to say that banner ads can be pretty intrusive, but unfortunately that is just one of the ways websites survive, through these banner ads. In fact Google had recently attempted at introducing gigantic banner ads of their own on their search results page.

As you can see in the image above, a Google search for “southwest airlines” will result in a giant Southwest Airlines banner splashed across the top of the page. Naturally this is great for advertisers who want to ensure they get the top view and pushing other results further down the page, but thankfully that experiment has come to an end. (more…)

Google Does Away With Banner Ad Experiment original content from Ubergizmo.

The cloud storage niche is becoming increasingly competitive and all players are doing whatever they can to stay ahead of their rivals. One of the main aspects is price, and this is where companies can get creative and show everyone that they’re on the offense. Google stepped into the market as well almost two years back, and Google Drive is now one of the widely used cloud storage services. Crediting new infrastructure developments that now enable it to offer more for less, the company today announced that Google Drive pricing is being revised.

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Google Drive Pricing Revised original content from Ubergizmo.

How do you sing happy birthday to a computer? Or, more specifically, how do you sing happy birthday to a system of hyperlinked files accessible, by the internet, that live inside your computer (and phone, and tablet, and so on)? It is, after all, the World Wide Web’s 25th birthday.

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