features | Kris Smith has read these articles about "features" | www.croncast.comThis is the keyword feed for "features" from my read items in Google Reader. If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.phpPiracy Fight Blamed for Shutdown of TV Website- May 30, 2008 One of the most popular Internet-based television networks was shut down all weekend, a casualty in the entertainment industry's fight against pirated material. The outage at Revision3, which features shows such as "Diggnation" and others targeted at techies, highlighted the risks of serious collateral damage in the usually invisible but bare-knuckled technological war between copyright holders and pirates.Read the article: Los Angeles TimesTags: fight collateral damage invisible serioushttp://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/05/piracy-fight-blamed-for-shutdown-of-tv.html Open-Source Router Firmware DD-WRT Updates Router Hacks- May 23, 2008 Free router firmware DD-WRT, which we used to show you how to turn your $60 router into a $600 router, updates to version 24. The update features several new advanced features and the same excellent featureslike Wi-Fi signal boostingas earlier versions. If DD-WRT isn&39;t your bag, check out the alternative Tomato firmware, with twice the eye candy. Tags: router dd firmware wrt updateshttp://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/296869484/open+source-router-firmware-dd+wrt... AOL's Blast From the Past- May 20, 2008 Just how creative were AOL's attempts to cajole customers to buy $1 billion in advertising they neither wanted nor needed So creative, according to federal officials, that even Scott Sullivan, the former chief financial officer of WorldCom now serving out a five-year prison sentence for his role in the biggest accounting fraud in history, saw a sham. "This has turned into a money changing scheme and it can&39;t continue," reads a Nov. 2001 e-mail from WorldCom cited in a complaint...http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/top-5/2008/05/20/Fraud-Suit-Against-AOL-Executives?r... Google to Crank Out More iPhone Apps- May 20, 2008 With Apple set to roll out the next major software update for the iPhone, and with it official support for third-party applications, it will come as no surprise that Google is busy prepping some new wares. We expect to have applications at Day One, Google's vice president of engineering, Vic Gundotra, told Macworld. Syndicated from last100, our digital lifestyle blog Even before the publicly available Software Development Kit (SDK) announced in March, Google had partnered with Apple to...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/294100196/google_iphone_apps.php |