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Rapidshare’s Latest Marketing Move: Prepaid Cards
After the introduction of new sections with which the service hopes to attract the young segment even more (Rapidgames and the yet-to-be-released Rapidmusic), Rapidshare tries to make money off prepaid cards Over the last month some debates have become quite ardent – the amazing growth of file hosting services such as RapidShare or Megaupload prompted people to see in it the end of p2p or at least to compare the two most popular ways through which people currently download movies, music, eBooks or other types of files. About the level that Rapidshare.com has reached tells us the latest move of the site – after offering premium accounts for quite some time now, the service will be selling prepaid cards through retail outlets in Europe, Gulli reports. This means users can purchase membership cards of various denominations from one to 12 months.
Continue reading »Humax Freeview HD set-top box to debut ‘early 2010′
Ahead of the rest? Just days after Register Hardware was told by telly chiefs that no Freeview HD kit will be available in the UK ahead of the service’s switch-on next month, manufacturer Humax has announced the impending launch of its first Freeview HD-compatible set-top box.…
Continue reading »Gmail users howl over Halloween outage
Google not listening Some Gmail users say they’ve been unable to access to the service for long stretches today and yesterday, though Google has not acknowledged any problem on its ” Apps Status Dashboard .”…
Continue reading »GoalBit: P2P Streaming Goes Open Source
Bandwidth-conscious broadcasters have a new way to distribute their live video streams. A group of Uruguay-based P2P researchers recently released the first English-language version of their open-source P2P streaming application, GoalBit. The application, which is based on a BitTorrent-like architecture, aims to compete with P2P streaming services like PPLive and PPStream by giving anyone looking to distribute their own live video programming a way to do so.
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