This page contains all the news items for the month of January 2011.
 | Sony's answer to the Nintendo 3DS, codenamed the Next Generation Portable, has quite a few innovations ... Read more ... | |
 | Another day, another copyright troll, this time it's suing users who downloaded the Paris Hilton sex tapes illegally ... Read more ... | |
 | Google has bowed to the entertainment lobby's threats and has started filtering keywords like "torrent" for its auto-complete/instant function ... Read more ... | |
 | Prices for Blu-ray players are predicted to go south, way south, in 2011, along with the Wii, Kindle amongst 12 other products ... Read more ... | |
 | Images that expire after a certain period may be good for those that lacks the impulse control not to upload embarrassing photos of themselves, but could it also be used as a form of DRM? ... Read more ... | |
 | The 3DS may be a revolutionary portable console, but some of its "new" features may be downright regressive ... Read more ... | |
 | Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 15th January, the week that The Social Network was released ... Read more ... | |
 | One of the first anti-piracy law firms in the UK to engage in mass lawsuits may have called it a day, after a string of setbacks ... Read more ... | |
 | No seriously, musician will.i.am is now a director of creative innovations at Intel ... Read more ... | |
 | A new service aims to solve the problem of cross-browser and phone compatibility for online video ... Read more ... | |
 | Michael Pachter says that Nintendo should not wait until the Wii has sold 45 million consoles in the US before launching the Wii 2 ... Read more ... | |
 | Do you suffer from nausea, eye strain, after watching a 3D presentation? It seems you're not alone ... Read more ... | |
 | The Pirate Bay may be launching a new music sharing service that it promises will scare the living daylights out of the music industry ... Read more ... | |
 | The British government wants ISPs to contribute to the cost of anti-piracy activities, and optimistically estimates the benefit of such a scheme ... Read more ... | |
 | Sony may introduce unique serial keys to future PS3 games to combat the recent security debacle of their own making ... Read more ... | |
 | A new bug fix release of DAEMON Tools Lite is now available to download ... Read more ... | |
 | A $70 device is promising to bring smell-o-vision to gaming and home video, later this year ... Read more ... | |
 | Microsoft devs have offered an olive branch to notorious hackers geohot, even as he is being sued by Sony for hacking Microsoft's rival's console, the PS3 ... Read more ... | |
 | Malware writers are starting to use DRM to protect their investment, so they can loan out their toolkits to more people ... Read more ... | |
 | Playboy will soon release an iPad app that allows users access to all old and new issues of Playboy uncensored ... Read more ... | |
 | The RIAA is at it again, this time threatening ICANN for not helping enough to stop piracy ... Read more ... | |
 | Apple's COO hints at the fact that the iPad is stealing sales away from netbooks and laptops, even in Apple's own range ... Read more ... | |
 | This feature highlights the newly released free software Easy Subtitles Synchronizer, which attempts to make the job of subtitle editing much easier ... Read more ... | |
 | From breaking your foot from, to getting arrested for it, playing Xbox 360 Kinect has never been so dangerous ... Read more ... | |
 | An update on the PS3 hack saga, the lawsuit filed by Sony, a new custom firmware that may brick your PS3, and Modern Warfare 2 the latest victim of the hack ... Read more ... | |
 | Songs will now be made available to purchase faster than before in a bid to combat online piracy ... Read more ... | |
 | LG are going to make more 3D TVs using passive glasses. We examine what this means, and what it means for the consumer ... Read more ... | |
 | Rumours abound on the Internet that the yet unreleased Nintendo 3DS has already been hacked to play pirated ROMs ... Read more ... | |
 | Infamous anti-piracy outfit Aiplex is in the news again, this time threatening a Torrent indexer for paying its users for spotting fake torrents ... Read more ... | |
 | Want to find out whether the Wii outsold the Xbox 360, and how the PS3 perform? Read our monthly NPD analysis feature and get informed ... Read more ... | |
 | A new version of the popular disc burning tool, ImgBurn, has just been released ... Read more ... | |
 | RapidShare is angry at a new study that claims it is one of the most popular sources for pirated content online, even more so than BitTorrent networks ... Read more ... | |
 | Security firm Trend Micro says that Android phones are more vulnerable to viruses than Apple iOS devices ... Read more ... | |
 | Is it a hoax, an Apple plant, or actually based on factory leaks? The iPad 2 dummy shown at the CES has users wondering ... Read more ... | |
 | The HTML5 war is heating up, with Google announcing they're no longer supporting H.264 ... Read more ... | |
 | The way we buy movies may just be about to change, thanks to a new system called UltraViolet unveiled at the CES ... Read more ... | |
 | Sony has launched a lawsuit against geohot and fail0verflow, the hacker that leaked the hacked 3.55 PS3 firmware to the world ... Read more ... | |
 | A new technology was unveiled at the CES that claims to dramatically improve details of even 1080p Blu-ray movies ... Read more ... | |
 | The US Copyright Group is helping with Kenneth Ford's porn lawsuits ... Read more ... | |
 | Analog HD output on new Blu-ray players will now be restricted to only SD ... Read more ... | |
 | The BPI says piracy is responsible for a yearly revenue decline, however music sales are actually up significantly ... Read more ... | |
 | Steve Ballmer hints at official Kinect support for PCs ... Read more ... | |
 | 50,000 hacked iTunes accounts are put up for sale on a Chinese auction website ... Read more ... | |
 | The world's first wireless HDMI blu-ray player has been launched by Philips at CES 2011, and also news on more 21:9 HDTVs ... Read more ... | |
 | George Lucas has officially announced the release date for Star Wars on Blu-ray, to be available before the end of September 2011 ... Read more ... | |
 | The Xbox 360 Kinect device has beat its holidays sales target, as Microsoft announced a new Avatar Kinect chat feature at CES 2011 ... Read more ... | |
 | Blu-ray, digital downloads/streaming and rentals are helping to offset the decline in DVD sales ... Read more ... | |
| The US Copyright Group are at it again, this time suing the thousands that have downloaded the 2010 film, The Expendables ... Read more ... | |
 | Following the hack of the PS3, in which the root key was obtained, hackers have moved on to create a custom firmware for the PS3 that could lead to the return of homebrew ... or mass piracy ... Read more ... | |
 | The infamous ZapTunes, which offered the unbelievable deal 8 million DRM-free song downloads for only $25 per month, has just cancelled the accounts of all of those who signed up ... Read more ... | |
 | Reports of the new Xbox 360 console scratching Kinect Adventure discs has gamers concerned ... Read more ... | |
 | Microsoft warns of a new security threat for older Windows versions in relation to folder thumbnail previews, but is not issuing a fix just yet ... Read more ... | |
 | The Fellowship of the Ring as a public domain work? That could have been a reality this January 1st, but sadly, it did not happen ... Read more ... | |
| Intel Insider is a new Video-On-Demand service, but users will have to put up with a new hardware based DRM ... Read more ... | |
| New pictures may show what the new upcoming 3DS looks like ... Read more ... | |
 | Users are reporting a bug with Hotmail which sees many of their messages missing completely or moved to the "Delete" folder for no reason ... Read more ... | |
 | A software bug in the iPhone alarm clock causes havoc around the world ... Read more ... | |
 | Ubisoft appears to have softened their controversial DRM system, by no longer requiring you to have a constant connection to their servers ... Read more ... | |
 | Despite being only available recently, the Windows Phone 7 DRM appears to have already been broken, meaning that WP7 app piracy is about to begin ... Read more ... | |
| A new security breach for the console once dubbed the hardest the crack, could now make the PS3 the least secure console on the market ... Read more ... | |
 | Media Player Classic is a multimedia player capable of playing DivX movies and other video formats ... Read more ... | |
 | Vista Codec Package takes the best codecs and settings and allows playback of DVDs and other movie formats in Windows Vista ... Read more ... | |
 | Windows 7 Codecs is a codec pack for Microsofts new operating system Windows 7, similar to Vista Codec Package for Windows Vista ... Read more ... | |
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