Final update: GoDaddy is up, and claims that the outage was due to internal errors and not a DDoS attack. According to many customers, sites hosted by major web host and domain registrar GoDaddy are down. According to the official GoDaddy Twitter account the company is aware of the issue and is working to resolve it. Update: customers are complaining that GoDaddy hosted...

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An Akamai Technologies report, titled State of the Internet Q4 2011 holds the answers to the queries of those of you who think that the state of the Internet (no pun intended) is particularly deplorable in their part of the country. The report, which helped itself with data from the company’s Akamai Intelligent Platform has found the Internet connectivity in India to be...

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   By James Phillips. James Phillips is co-founder and senior vice president of products for Couchbase, a leading NoSQL databasecompany. Online gaming has steadily grown over the past decade, now generating billions of dollars in annual revenue and representing one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy. In the last couple of years, social games have taken center stage, producing the vast majority of growth...

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On Wednesday, Sweden’s Supreme Court announced that it decided not to grant an appeal in the long-running Pirate Bay trial. After a nine-day trial in April 2009, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström were found guilty of assistance to copyright infringement and sentenced to one year each in prison and payment of roughly $7 million in damages. Each defendant appealed...

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We learned a lot of things about Facebook from its IPO filing. But there is one detail that sticks out for its improbable exactness: The $1.000 billion in profits Facebook reported for 2011. The number wasn’t $998 million. It wasn’t $1.003 billion. It was $1.000 billion right on the dot. Is this just a happy coincidence, or did Zuckerberg “manage” earnings to make a statement? Companies have many...

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The single-cylinder 125 Duke is a street bike jointly developed by KTM with Bajaj and already introduced in select European markets. It's taken no time to charge into the lead and become a segment leader there, while Indians have patiently stood by waiting for a 200cc variant of the same bike to be specially prepared for our market. The eagerly anticipated KTM 200...

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Dell's (Nasdaq: DELL) gaming computer brand, Alienware, has released a new desktop computer that -- while not quite in keeping with the trend toward mobile gaming -- is compact, powerful and sleek. The Alienware X51 The X51, which weighs about 12 pounds and measures roughly 13 inches tall by 12.5 inches deep by 4 inches wide, is unobtrusive enough to be placed near...

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The top most and sought after encyclopaedia on the internet is Wikipedia and it must be said that many have enriched their knowledge after visiting this website. However, this hot site has been facing the threat of a shutdown thanks to an initiative by the US Congress and its laws. However, Wikipedia seems to be in no mood to give up and they...

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Amid complaints with regard to the quality of the low-cost ‘Aakash’ tablet PC, the government on Monday said it is hopeful of bringing out an upgraded version of the device, ‘Aakash-II’, by April this year. “In order to cater to the huge demand, we need several manufacturers to manufacture Aakash. We are enhancing the specifications on the basis of feedback we have received...

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The struggling Eastman Kodak Co. on Tuesday sued Apple Inc , whose market value is more than 2,400 times greater, accusing it of infringing four patents related to digital camera images. Kodak also sued Taiwan's HTC Corp, alleging violations of the four patents as well as a fifth. It said it filed a related complaint against both companies with the U.S. International Trade...

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