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How Netflix gets your movies to your mailbox so fast

Seeded on Wed Aug 5, 2009 10:16 AM EDT (Chicago Tribune)

If you subscribe to the DVD-rental service, the Netflix warehouse, which you know must exist somewhere; which a P.O.

netflix, entertainment, xbox, movies, golden-ticket

Broadband over Power Lines Gets Standardized… Sort Of

Fri Jul 31, 2009 1:04 PM EDT

What does that mean for you? It means the day when you can walk out of your house or apartment, or into the Great American Desert, and still be connected to the Internet is fast approaching. (And by fast, I mean it could happen in your lifetime).

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technology, internet, ieee, standard, bpl, power-lines, broadband-over-power-lines, you-got-internet-in-my-electricity, you-got-electricity-in-my-internet

Big Brother Amazon? Demystifying the Kindle and its Network

Wed Jul 22, 2009 1:06 PM EDT

Now that the dust is finally starting to settle after the uproar surrounding Amazon's recent deletion of unlicensed materials from their Kindle database and devices, let's take a look at how the device, the network, and the laws that govern it actually work.

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technology, amazon, 1984, kindle, animal-farm, whispernet

USB 3.0 is Sexy, Blue, and Wicked Fast

Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:31 AM EDT

According to gizmodo.com, guru of everything gadgets, computer hardware company ASUS is ready to release the first ever USB 3.0 compatible motherboard.

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technology, computers, data-transfer, usb, data-storage, usb-2-0, usb-3-0

Pirate Bay Getting Legal Using Your Computer

Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:00 PM EDT

We heard a few weeks back that the Pirate Bay was getting sold to Swedish Internet Cafe company Global Gaming Factory X. Today we got a look at how Pirate Bay 2.0 is going to work.

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technology, p2p, torrent, pirate-bay, global-gaming-factory

New LIVE Updates Coming Soon

Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:31 PM EDT

Yeah….wow. There's honestly too much stuff in this update for me to dig through it, so I'll just touch on some highlights. The Good:

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netflix, entertainment, xbox, live, updates

Harry Potter 6 is "O.K."

Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:21 AM EDT

As I sat there, a mere fifteen feet from the towering silver screen, craning my neck backwards and peering upwards so that the picture was fully within my field of view, I thought to myself "Damn… I am really way too close to this movie screen." That type of situation is to …

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entertainment, harry-potter, review, half-blood-prince

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