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Look mom, I outsourced my homework to India!

June 27th, 2008 at 7:02 pm » Comments (0)

Birmingham City University officials say as many as 1000 students worldwide are outsourcing their homework to coders in India.  The students attend or have attended universities and A-School (Britain’s equivalent of the last two years of a US high school) and outsourced homework as simple as a minor coding project to full-blown post-graduate dissertations.  Birmingham [...]



Blu-ray on track to surpass DVD sales in 2012

June 27th, 2008 at 7:00 pm » Comments (0)

High-definition video saw substantial growth in 2007, but it will take four more years until consumers will spend more money on Blu-ray discs than on DVDs, the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) concluded in its 2007 Annual Report. In 2007, high-definition video sales accounted for only 1.6% of all video sales.
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Google’s media server connects PC to consumer devices

June 27th, 2008 at 6:50 pm » Comments (0)

A desktop Gadget released by Internet Giant Google allows you to connect your PC with other internet enabled devices.
“Google Media Server uses an open technology known as Universal Plug n’ Play to stream media to consumer electronic devices. The UPnP specification allows for a variety of hardware (gaming consoles, set-top boxes, photo frames) to communicate [...]