Tech titans fall but Apple defies gravity

As the global economic crisis shows little sign of relenting, last week was a brutal one in technology. News Corp digital chief Jonathan Miller fired MySpace's two co-founders, chief executive Chris DeWolfe and president Tom Anderson. A Swedish court sentenced the two founders of Pirate Bay to a year in prison.

Yahoo! announced plans to lay off another 5 per cent of staff and shut down GeoCities, the web hosting company it bought for US$3.6 billion ($6.4 billion) in 1999.

The once promising search start-up Cuil has closed, while Joost, at one point the great hope of online video, is for sale. Even Microsoft announced a 6 per cent annual drop in revenue, the first since it went public in 1986.

Microsoft chief financial officer Chris Liddell describes business conditions as "the most difficult economic environment the company has faced in our 30-year history". But for Apple, Microsoft's greatest rival over the last 25 years, the most serious global economic crisis in a century has had little impact on the company's growth.

Yes, in the midst of all the economic carnage, a Steve Jobs-less Apple continues to defy economic gravity.

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RapidShare

Indeed. They are Sharing Rapidly your IPs to the labels.

The popular Germany-based file hosting service RapidShare has allegedly begun handing over user information to record labels looking to pursue illegal file-sharers. The labels appear to be making use of paragraph 101 of German copyright law, which allows content owners to seek a court order to force ISPs to identify users behind specific IP addresses. Though RapidShare does not make IP information public, the company appears to have given the information to at least one label, which took it to an ISP to have the user identified.

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First, ThePirateBay.org and now this? You people surely are dumb as dumb can be.

So, pirates vs companies, what is the score? 4-0? YOU ARE DAMN SHEEP!

Notice to Tim Cook: Apple Has A Netbook

>> RETARD ALERT ON <<

Sorry, Tim. But you’ve already done it. You have a netbook, today. It’s called the MacBook Air. And it has a hard time measuring up to Windows-based netbooks, on price, or Mac OS-based laptops, based on performance.

You can avoid the facts, if you want. But the class “A” netbook on the PC side is the Asus Eee PC 1000HE. The class “A” netbook on your side is the base version of the Air. Kid yourself not. When consumers are comparing portable computers that let them move about with little weight, decent-sized keyboards and screens and access to Web, these are the machines (and Windows and Linux equivalents) that let them do so.

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However, below are my two cents for what they worth.

That retard, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, is amazingly diving into the bullshit territory with his above post. He compares that ASUS crap book with a real high tech wonder book that MacBook Air still is and that other bigger PC players than ASUS, even in the next half year if not more, STILL trying to play catch up while NO MATTER what their price level is.

And yet, here we are, talking about THE MOST retarded post of that professional ZD writer in quite some time. Just to give you an example, if all the above seems chinese to you, its like saying that an apple fruit equals an orange fruit. Tom Steinert-Threlkeld = stupid. Oh, yes. STUPID. What a retard. Please go and commit a suicide before you even point to Apple that they already have a netbook product.

Oh, and while you are there, please check around the world how many professional writers, analysts, business people, et al BEGGING Apple to produce a netbook. Oh, wait, didn't you just did the same thing on your post? Let me remind your OWN RETARD words:

Get over the acerbic analysis. Get on with a market-redefining product for accessing the Internet.

That uses both hands. Or voice alone. But not the slow tap-tap-tap of the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Get lost you Micro$oft hypocrite. YES, YOU the Mr. Tom Steinert-Threlkeld person. Or should I say, GTFO of our Internet world.

>> RETARD ALERT OFF <<

Conficker's estimated economic cost? $9.1 billion

In a recent blog post, the Cyber Secure Institute claims that based on their previous studies into the average cost of such malware attacks, the economic loss due to the Conficker worm could be as high as $9.1 billion.

Despite that their analysis also considered a much limited infection rate (200,000 infected hosts), they claim that the cost of the virus in this case is still around $200 million. The research excludes an important fact though - not only is Conficker still active and infecting, but also, according to the most recent infection rate estimate courtesy of the Conficker Working Group, the number of infected hosts is 3.5 million.

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Microsoft sales fall for first time in 23 years

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that declining PC sales hurt revenue, as the software giant reported quarterly sales that fell for the first time in its 23-year history as a public company.

The Redmond, Wash.-based company said sales fell 6% from a year earlier to $13.7 billion, missing analysts' expectations of $14.1 billion.

Meanwhile, the company's net income fell 32% to $2.98 billion, or 33 cents per share, in its third quarter ended March 31.

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EDIT:

I've long thought it funny when Microsoft-fans would tell me how Linux, open-source, the Mac, whatever would never be important because Microsoft products were clearly better. Now, everyone can get on the joke as Microsoft's earnings plummeted in the last quarter by over 30%.

For the stockholders among you that means Microsoft's diluted earnings per share were down 30% over last year and well below what the the analysts were expecting. What carved into Microsoft's piggy-bank? According to Microsoft it was "a poor showing in its Client, Microsoft Business Division and Server & Tools groups." In other words, pretty much everything.

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World of Warcraft

Your friends are concerned about how much you play World of Warcraft.

Watch until the end. Enjoy.

Thanks a billion

Over 1 billion downloads in just nine months. Only on the App Store. Of course I'm talking here about Apple's iPhone and its amazing loyal customers. Congratulations people. You did it. Thumbs up!

Ubuntu 9.04

Ubuntu 9.04 is here at last. I have been waiting for this baby for so long. Go and download this bad ass Linux distribution now and you can thank me later.

It makes ANY Windows OS seem like MS-DOS seems next to Windows 7. Yeap. THAT crap ;)

The Prodigy

The Prodigy.Com


The Prodigy - Omen from The Prodigy on Vimeo.


The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die from The Prodigy on Vimeo.

The Prodigy - Warrior's Dance


Shocking. Uplifting. Beats. Dance. Best. Videos. MUST BUY!

While you are there watch the most controversial Prodigy music video ever!

Smack My Bitch Up
by TheProdigy-Official

Powerful till the very end. Legendary stuff. Epic!

Computer Zombies

are everywhere nowadays. How about almost two million of them infected by the same trojan serving their masters? Its true you know?

Today we announced our recent discovery of a network of 1.9 million infected computers controlled by cybercriminals. This is one of the largest bot networks controlled by a single team of cybercriminals (or cybergang) that we found this year. In this blog post we will provide you with additional details about this network, the malware in use and how the operators are using it to make money – after all, this is the main drive for cybercrime today.

Also some Mac pirate buffoons are embarrassing our community by running a similar botnet based with pirated copies of Apple's iWork '09 and Adobe's CS4 in the past few months.

Read more about computer zombies here.

Oceans

Ain't this beautiful? Ain't this love at first sight? Well, we have to fight for it in order to survive. Wake up. Act. NOW!

You can also watch the trailer in full HD here.

While you are there, learn about the Bright Green Environmentalism, another way of understanding the global "green" matters.

The sky is falling

Apple is falling. Apple is doomed and all that. Whatever.

"We are extremely pleased to report the best non-holiday quarter revenue and earnings in our history," said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's CFO. "Apple's financial condition remains very robust, with almost $29 billion in cash and marketable securities on our balance sheet."

Apparently Apple is kicking ass, taking no prisoners and we are loving it. Thank God.

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Apple's Press Release here.

Thumbs up to Apple and its loyal customers.