Smartphone Capability Comparison

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Windows 7 SP1

Windows 7 SP1 Beta is out, provided are hotfile and torrent links and the changelog for the release.

Microsoft’s Translating Telephone

Microsoft has developed a translating-phone that combines speech recognition, machine translation, and text-to-speech technology allowing two people of different languages to carry on a phone conversation.

Where the media’s profits go

Music and Piracy Infographic

Google search: redesigned

New Google Redesign

Google has rolled out a redesign of their search engine. BATP takes a look back to 2007 at the origins of this transition.

Bilzzard Battle.net 2 preview

As Starcraft 2 Beta approaches details have been shed on the Battle.net service which is an underlying component for all blizzard games.

Wordcamp 2010 in San Francisco

WordCamp 2010

WordCamp is a WordPress conference being held on May 1st, in SF Mission Bay Conference Center, and on may 2nd a developers’ unconference is held at the same location. Tickets are avaiable at $50, and $60 walk-in. You can volunteer or buy a ticket. We’ll be covering the event live, and keeping an extra eye [...]

First Windows 8 Build Screenshots

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Comrades at WZor, as promised, have publicized a number of screenshots from a Windows 7 post RTM build as well as the technical data from build 7700.0.100122-190. MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.7.POST-RTM.7700.X64.RETAIL.ENGLISH.DVD-WZT FILE: 7700.0.100122-1900_x64fre_client_en-us-GRMCXFRE_EN_DVD.iso SIZE: 3,231,166,464 byte SHA1: C0CB719B781D49B39D8CC93A27F990A366B8E4C7 MD5: EBEB8AEC73339536564D26DB584A9474 CRC: B3F323D6

The silent death of Technorati

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In October to November of 2009 a peculiar problem arose, as a search engine Technorati is not indexing any of the 26,000,000+ new blogs which were created in the past 2+ months, according to math.

Operation Chokehold: take down ATT data network

Operation Chokehold

Operation Chokehold is a protest against the policies of AT&T. The aim is to bring justice and improve future consumer experience with this company.