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The Pirate Bay (TPB) is known as a pirate haven for illegally downloaded goods and copyrighted material on the net. However, The Pirate Bay will turn straight after being sold to Global Gaming Factory X.

Swedish company, TPB was sold to Global Gaming Factory X for $ 7.8 million and the deal has infuriated its fans and fellow pirates. Pirates have been bad mouthing their once safe haven site as well as the owner, Peter Sunde, on social networking sites such as Twitter and on torrent tracking forums including Mininova, SuprBay and TorrentFreak.

One user states that “calling TPB a sellout is mild. I was a fan because of their audacity…TBP doing something like this seems contrary to what they stood for. So it sucks.”

Words such as “sell out” have been thrown around a lot. Many fans claim that TBP have ironically, made “a deal with the devil.” One user claims “there are plenty of other sites that will be able to handle my needs. RIP Pirate Bay.”

However, even with the end of this piracy haven, this is most certainly not the end to illegal internet downloads. One user comments, “TBP’s time has simply come. Piracy overcame the fall of the likes of Napster and Suprnova and it will also overcome the loss of TPB as we know it.”

Even with the fall of The Pirate Bay, piracy will most likely still sail the high internet seas for many years to come.

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After a much anticipated wait, Google users are happy to see that Google Voice services are finally going live. Those who have registered on their website since March are the first to get in on the goods.

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It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since Mozilla announced the availability of Firefox 3.0. That announcement was done to considerable fanfare as Mozilla tried to break the world record for browser downloads in a 24 hour period.

Although today’s new of Firefox 3.5 was somewhat low key, there is much excitement regarding this release as this web browser upgrade offers many new features and improvements.

Some of the key features include:

• Speed improvements - This version of Firefox is the fastest yet due to the inclusion of TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
• Low memory footprint
• Improved session restore
• Support for open video and audio formats

According to recent statistics, Firefox ranks second only to Microsoft Internet Explorer in terms of popular web browsers and although it is a significant difference between the two, you can see Firefox gaining additional market share with each enhancement.

For a full list of new features and a free download, be sure to visit www.getfirefox.com.

Microsoft Corp announced today their free online application known as Hohm. Using the latest in analytical software licensed from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Hohm is able to offer consumer tips on how to reduce energy consumption, lower energy bills and hence save money.

The types of energy saving tips you can expect to receive from Microsoft Hohm include installing a programmable thermostat and caulking windows to eliminate air leaks.

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The world of online search engines is highly crowded. It’s because this market is so lucrative, that companies are always looking for a means to gain a competitive advantage over the competition.

Varying business strategies are employed. Google takes a “full meal deal” approach to search in that they provide a variety of highly useful free tools such as Google RSS reader, Google chrome, their internet browser and Google docs, with the expectation that if you use their other products, you are more likely to use their search engine.

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Social networking site Facebook has announced that tonight at midnight EDT, they will open up online registration for personal urls.

Facebook has been under tremendous pressure to keep up with other social sites such as Twitter and Myspace which currently offers this feature.

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The rumor making it’s way across the Blogosphere is that search engine giant Google is holding talks with their counterparts at the micro blogging phenomenon known as Twitter.

The nature of the discussions are somewhat sketchy with some saying that Google is looking to buy Twitter for about $1 billion dollars in stocks and cash.

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When it comes to free email providers, Google Gmail is an exceptional product that is unmatched. Today, on the official Gmail Blog, Google announced a new feature known as Undo Send. Have you ever sent a nasty email or a message that was supposed to have an email file attachment, only to realize that after you hit the send button that it wasn’t included.

It’s not often that you get a chance to redo something, but the Undo Send feature is exactly that. Once you send you message, you will have 5 seconds to recall it so that you can make the necessary changes required. According to engineer Yuzo Fujishima, “just five seconds would be enough time to catch most of those regrettable emails.”.

This feature will certainly help with immediate fixes, but if won’t help if you happen to send a strongly worded email while in a drunken stupor, only to realize what you’ve done after sobering up. In these cases, you may still be back to grovelling on your knees.

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