Tags: uk

01/03/11

Permalink 03:43:59 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: belgium, bluray, customs, eu, france, germany, holland, lg, netherlands, patent, playstation 3, ps3, seizure, sony, uk
Well thats nice, what goes around comes around Sony (my 2006 arguement you know!). Apprantly LG has filed a suit against Sony citing  some patent infringement or other relating to the play back of the BluRay dics (it does not mention games/data or video… more »

19/01/11

Permalink 11:27:17 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: 3ds, hmv, launch, nintendo, price, titles, uk, us
Little bit of info on the upcoming Nintendo 3DS. Article contains region info and pricing, as usual UK gets shafted on the price but we do get the 3DS before the US only by 2 days though :( HMV have the system listed and a price at £230, expect the usu… more »

07/09/10

Permalink 09:21:24 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: blocked, detection, dongle, jailbreak, playstation3, ps3, psgoove, sony, uk, usb
Well that lasted long... new firmware which is apprantly mandatory from Sony for the PS3 has closed the loop hole that allowed the device to be used. However if users wish to carry on then they may do so by not updating, thing is there are ways to detect… more »

18/08/10

Permalink 02:41:55 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: move, packages, playstation 3, price, ps3, release, sony, uk
Some Sony news, the release of 2 new Playstation 3 models with bigger hard drives and thats about it :p Sony wins for the most whores, most we can't even post here : "Sony has unveiled two new models of Playstation 3 which have larger hard drives.Th… more »
Permalink 11:24:16 am by drf, Categories: News , Tags: 3ds, nintendo, preorder, pricing, status, uk, update
Some jibberish about the DS, might as well post it. It's about the suggested UK pricing being about £200. I'm not sure many will pay that now after all the other models that flew out in short succession during this apparent recession, thank you capitalis… more »

13/05/10

Permalink 11:05:31 am by drf, Categories: News , Tags: bs, faggots, gmail, google, googlemail, iir, trademark, uk
Googlemail to be known once again as Gmail, at least in the UK. Some 5yr old trademark rant between Google and IIR has come to a end, but no one mentions how. Previously Google said IIRs demands for the "Gmail" name was too much but now its "happily reso… more »

12/05/10

Permalink 02:29:21 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: bsa, floppy, piracy, somebollocks, spazmolic, theft, uk
Pirated software usage falling? you sure? or has it just got harder to detect with everyone either not caring or moving onto more covert methods of piracy? I don't have much to say on this matter as the whole thing is a legal mess of abuse and try ons. M… more »

08/05/10

Permalink 07:49:51 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: election, failure, party, pirate, result, uk
Alas! me hartys TeH failure of a greetl33tness has washed upon ye shore's (or something) Pirate Party UK loosly based on the I think Dutch one (although they actually seem to have done something), only managed to pick up just over 1,100 votes :( a sad… more »

22/03/10

Permalink 04:18:16 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: adsl, broadband, bullshit, dsl, telecoms, uk
Going down faster than his approval ratings, more promises more BS, the people have give up. GB expects us all on super fast broadband for all, and have all these lovely goverment services intergrated online, the current state of affairs however... ask a… more »

13/02/10

Permalink 08:01:00 am by drf, Categories: News , Tags: coms, internet, law, screwing you, servers, uk, us
Not quite sure how this is going to work out. This case relates to 2 blokes who was publishing some racist stuff, on a server in California, they wanted in UK, they ran to US, got deported etc. etc. now this is the latest turn in the story. According to… more »

09/02/10

Permalink 06:18:34 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: adsl, broadband, dsl, telecoms, uk
Not even going to get into this, the UK lags far behind in terms of anything telecom related. According to this "SuperFast" or as these idiots call it "SuperBand" access is 25Mb now considering BT claim they have to rewire the whole country to even get u… more »

09/01/10

Permalink 08:38:46 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: ddos, isp, latvia, uk, vispa
Quite rare for a whole ISP to be knocked over by a DDoS. Oddly it knocked out there POTs system too (Plain Old Telephone) not too great if you needed 999."About 30,000 customers of the Cheshire-based ISP Vispa were forced offline for almost 12 hours toda… more »

05/01/10

Permalink 09:09:50 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: 3g, google, iphone, mobile, phones, uk
Following on more info on the all wonderful Google phone thingy : " Google has surprised no one by unveiling the Google-branded and Google-sold Nexus One phone at a press event in Mountain View. Manufactured by Taiwanese manufacturer HTC, the phone wil… more »
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