2006: Swedish police raid The Pirate Bay website and shut it down.

“Pirate Bay was a huge source of pirated films for people around the world, and today they are no longer.”

That was a statement issued exactly five years ago Tuesday by Kori Bernards, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture Association of America.

After all, Swedish police that day had just raided the file sharing site’s offices and carted away a boatload of servers.

What would happen if your future arrived too early? If you got the keys to your first car when you were eight? Landed your first big management job at 15?

I’ve been asking those questions while playing with the Cr-48 laptop, the first implementation of Google’s cloud-based Chrome operating system. After a few months with it, I feel like it’s important, but I also think it’s from a future we’re simply not ready for.

While vacationing in France, you find a DVD of Ishtar. Score! (It’s never been released on DVD in the US). But when you get home, you discover that you’ve purchased a Region 2 disc, which, in your Region 1 player, is as useful as a coaster. This raises two questions: Why do you want to watch Ishtar? And why do we still have region codes?

The answers: taste and money, respectively. Though there’s no accounting for the former, those codes may soon be gone.

Regional restrictions began in 1997, as DVD technology was rolling out. They have nothing to do with the NTSC and PAL...

Ce qu’il y a de bien avec les techniques d’optimisation de référencement dans les moteurs de recherche (SEO), c’est que l’on en apprend tous les jours, que l’on soit un cador de la discipline ou un simple amateur curieux. Ce qu’il y a de moins bien c’est que l’on apprend parfois à ses dépens.

Ainsi ai-je découvert via un article sur The Next Web qu’un truc qui parait aussi déconnecté du web qu’une newsletter peut avoir un impact négatif sur le classement de votre site dans les moteurs de recherche. C’est Jake Ludington qui révèle et explique en détail la chose dans Lockergnome.

Mothers, lock up your gamers. The PlayStation phone has arrived.

And while it’s a bit on the chubby side, we think that, for Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play, big is beautiful.

You could almost call the Xperia Play the shorter, fatter cousin to the svelte Xperia Arc, which Sony Ericsson once described as the “world’s thinnest smartphone.” At .62 inches, the Play looks positively bulky compared to its Xperia-line relatives — a veritable Jan Brady to the Arc’s Marcia.

On dirait qu’Ouriel Ohayon et ses associés et investisseurs ont eu le nez creux quand ils ont créé Appsfiredébut 2010. L’application pour iPhone et Android qui permet de découvrir et partager des applications pour iPhone et Android surfe sur le développement exponentiel des App Stores pour iPhone et Android, et apparemment ça marche.

AMD is laying the foundation for its Socket AM3+, Bulldozer-based Zambezi processors with the 990FX chipset, functionally identical to 890FX. The big news is that motherboard vendors are licensing SLI again, and we want to compare performance to Intel.