Posted February 26, 2013, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
The Pirate Bay has vacated its Swedish homeland in hopes of dodging legal troubles brewing for Piratpartiet, otherwise known as the Pirate Party of Sweden. A local anti-piracy group, Rights Alliance, threatened to sue Piratpartiet for providing bandwidth to The…
Posted February 14, 2013, 12:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Despite having the most developed LTE infrastructure in the world, the speedy 4G network in the US isn’t actually all that fast compared to implementations in other countries. According to a new report from UK network testing firm OpenSignal, seven…
Posted September 3, 2012, 1:00 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in The Web
The Swedish authorities have finally caught up with the Pirate Bay’s missing co-founder after local police in Cambodia arrested him at a home he had rented in the capital, Phnom Penh. An international warrant had been issued by Swedish officials for the…
Posted January 5, 2012, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
File sharing has officially been recognized as a religion by the Swedish government agency Kammarkollegiet. The Church of Kopimism reportedly applied for religious status three times over the course of more than a year before finally succeeding just before Christmas,…
Over 40 percent of 6,000 drivers surveyed believe hands-free headsets are safe to use while driving, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. However, the National Transportation and Safety Board would most definitely disagree. The argument against hands-free devices boils…
We all know that US mobile data usage is skyrocketing, but the latest numbers from Chetan Sharma, an analyst who tracks the wireless-data industry, are staggering. The data market grew 25 percent year over year, and brought in $14 billion…
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