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Blocking File Sharing Sites: The Pirate Bay Is Next?

When FBI took down MegaUpload a few days ago, it quite a huge uproar. The hacktivist group, Anonymous, retaliated by attacking a number of US government websites. But that has not affected the authorities. One of the main reason being that Hollywood continues heavy funding of anti-piracy bills, even those which infringe upon internet censorship. In the latest round of these efforts, a court in Sweden has indicted the team behind www.thepiratebay.org, one of the largest file-sharing websites online.

FBI Eyes Facebook, Twitter To Gather Future Intel

Social media has come about to play a huge role in national as well as international affairs. From Arab Spring to protest over Megaupload, social media has proved to be a highly effective tool. In view of this, FBI is now eyeing the social media to gather future intelligence as well as respond to emergencies. According to FBI, social media is quicker than 911 in prompting over emergencies. This has forced the intelligence agency to take the social networking sites into view.

Anonymous Plans To Take Down Facebook On January 28

Recently, as FBI took down Megaupload, Anonymous, the clandestine group of internet hacktivists, went on a revenge spree. They took down one site after the other, including US Department of Justice website, FBI website and CBS.com among others. Now that SOPA and PIPA have been trashed, there are talks of ACTA, another similar bill, in Europe. A video claims that Anonymous plans to launch an attack on Facebook on January 28 as a protest against ACTA. The video also calls for common users to be a part of this attack.

Download Android App Player For BlackBerry PlayBook

RIM’s Android app player for PlayBook leaked and the company has not said when the Android player will become officially available, but that hasn’t stopped someone from digging around the RIM servers and finding a download link. The App Player doesn’t just let you install Android apps on your tablet, t also provides an emulated Android environment and you can also use the Android web browser, calendar, contact manager and other built-in apps as well as any third party apps you install……………

Direct Links: Download iOS 5 Beta 2

iOS 5 beta 2 is now available for download from Apple’s developer site and if you are a paid ($99/year) dev, you can sign in with your developer credentials to gain access to this beta. Apple has also pushed out new iTunes 10.5 Beta 2 for developers and iOS 5 beta 2 requires iTunes 10.5 beta 2 and OS X 10.6.8 or Lion. Apple has enabled wireless syncing in iOS 5 beta 2 and wireless syncing is triggered automatically when the device is connected to power and on the same network as the paired computer…………

Chainfire 3D Allow To Play Tegra Zone Games On Non Tegra Devices

Lots of people want to play Tegra 2 games but don’t currently have a Tegra 2 device, there is hope in the form of an app called Chainfire3D, which is an OpenGL video driver that lets you do some pretty awesome things in general but the main thing is with graphic manipulation. In this post you can find how to play Tegra Zone games on non-Tegra2 Android phones with Chainfire 3D………..

Desire HD Gets HTC Sensation ROM

Desire HD gets first crack at leaked HTC Sensation ROM and needs some tailoring for it to fit.The port isn’t perfect, those who dive in will lose camera support and the images need some resizing to properly fit on the HD’s 800 x 480 display, but brave souls who hit the source link for the download still get all those mellifluous movements that Sense 3.0 provides……..

Download Swiftly on iPad 2 With I’m Downloading App

A new downloading app has released for iPad 2 naming as I’m Downloading app. This is a great download manager for your iPad which lets you download movies, music, archives, pictures, pdf, text and much more. It gives you a lot of options which you are downloading like: you can search on 3 search engines, Do Private Browsing, Choose between Full Screen/ Landscape/ Portrait Mode, Gives High Download Speed.