Morning Xtra: P2P Banned in Antarctica, Digg to Question Tim Geithner
by Leila Brillson on August 19, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines...
- Employees of the United States Antarctic Program are not only asked to freeze their butts off, but they're now being directed to freeze... their P2P usage as well. The administration warned against the bandwidth and security issues brought by systems like BitTorrent and LimeWire, and their "potential to overwhelm the Internet connections on the Ice." [From: FreakBits, via DownloadSquad]
- Digg Dialogue, an online question-and-answer series, is partnering with the Wall Street Journal to bring Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to the Digg-ing public. Users of the news aggregator will be able to ask Geithner about the current financial atmosphere in the U.S. [From: WSJ Blogs]
- While Americans and our counterparts across the pond do our fair share of daily surfing, security firm Arbor Net has discovered that when the sun goes down, Europeans tend to log off. The U.S.? We keep on downloadin' all night long. [From: Arbor Networks]
- Marvel game guru Ira Rubenstein has proclaimed that the company is no longer making 'crappy movie-based games.' That's a real quote, and Rubenstein says that characters will stick to their original context, instead of movie tie-ins. [From: Joystiq]
- In news of the obvious, yet another study points out that 'screenagers' in Britain spend as many as 10 hours a day in front of the computer. [From: TechDigest]
- Microsoft has asked courts to hold off on the shocking Word ruling that prohibits the sale of the software. The Redmond-based company stated that the public will suffer if Word is unavailable -- of course, it could just make it free, thus saving us from hunting for those darn cracked copies. [From: USAToday.com]
- While Apple's prices are high, they're at least consistent. Reports have been confirmed that Brits will be paying a mere £65 (about $107) for the full version of Windows 7. That's about half of the $200 Yanks will pay for the same software. Hmm. [From: Crave.CNet.co.uk]
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