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Submission + - Intel admits defeat with Viiv

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Thursday December 20, 2007 @04:08PM

Stony Stevenson writes: Intel is set to roll back its Viiv brand, bringing an end to Viiv label PCs and limiting the platform to a sub-brand of Intel CPUs. Starting in 2008, the brand will become 'Intel Core 2 with Viiv'. Some analysts blamed the rise of sites such as YouTube and Facebook for turning consumers off of media-centric PCs.

Submission + - What a dumb a year it's been!

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 20, 2007 @03:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: Fortune's "101 Dumbest Moments in Business" is out for 2007. And what a banner year it has been! Everything from CEO excesses (playing *LOTS* of golf while Merrill Lynch posts the first quarterly loss ever), fancy restaurants with expensive desserts (then the restaurant fails health inspection), sleazy business practices (e.g., Best Buy setting up an in-store web server with higher priced specials), and loads of hilariously defective or just plain unlucky technological stuff (e.g., 365 Main's 3-backup power failure). Apparently you can't be charged with DUI in New Jersey if you are driving a Zamboni (who knew?). Oh, and of course, there's Comcast's surprise porn.

Submission + - Comcast Blocks BitTorrent (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by FsG on Friday August 17, 2007 @09:06PM

FsG writes: Over the past few weeks, more and more Comcast users have reported that their BitTorrent traffic is severely throttled and they are totally unable to seed. Comcast doesn't seem to discriminate between legitimate and infringing torrent traffic, and most of the BitTorrent encryption techniques in use today aren't helping. If more ISPs adopt their strategy, could this mean the end of BitTorrent?

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