BREIN, the Dutch anti-piracy group, has taken down 29 torrent and NZB sites this week although only one, HD-UNiT3D has been named.

Visitors to the HD-U site are now redirected to BREIN'S homepage.

HD-U and the other were hosted in the United States but a BREIN spokesperson said the sites were "directed at the Dutch public and unlawful under Dutch law."

The spokesperson added:

"This year we have made over 600 of these sites inaccessible. Some seek refuge in a foreign hosting provider. These 29 apparently thought that in America they could go undisturbed. That is incorrect.

Through cooperation with our foreign colleagues we can make sites in other countries inaccessible."

In regards to "foreign colleagues" for the recent raid, BREIN used the MPAA.

While it is true BREIN has taken down a significant amount of sites this year, most have been relatively small and unimportant.

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T-Mobile USA and Nokia have announced Long Term HSPA Evolution, a new mobile data standard that promises speeds over 650 Mbps.

Commercial deployment of the standard is expected as soon as 2013.

The current HSPA+ "4G" network offered by T-Mobile in the United States offers speeds of up to 21 Mbps, and the carrier says those speeds will be doubled to 42 Mbps next year.

Says T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray: "Long Term HSPA Evolution will allow us to enhance our 4G mobile broadband network beyond its current and planned near term capabilities, and provide room for considerable growth and speed enhancements. As customer demand for wireless data increases, we are well positioned to compete based on the speed, breadth and evolution path of our mobile broadband service."!-- PAGE BREAK -->

The most notable features of the new standard:

-HSDPA Multicarrier evolution: Combines up to eight carriers and provides peak data rates of up to 672 Mbps along with improving spectrum utilization. To overcome operators' spectrum fragmentation constraints, HSDPA carrier aggregation enables carriers from more than one frequency band to be combined.

-HSDPA Multipoint transmission: Significantly increases the cell edge data rate by coordinating and combining signals from multiple antennas.

-Dual antenna beamforming and MIMO in uplink: Improves the uplink performance with dual-antenna transmission, doubling the uplink peak data rate and improving the user average data rate by 30 percent with 2 x 2 MIMO/ beam forming. With 2 x 4 MIMO, over 100 percent increase in average user data rates can be achieved due to beam forming gain and four receive antennas in the base station.

Verizon and AT&T are set to rollout their LTE 4G networks starting this month and into next year.

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Although it has yet to be confirmed by either Verizon or Apple, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has ramped up his iPhone sales estimates for 2011, fully "baking" in sales for a Verizon model of the popular iOS smartphone.

Rumors have been flying around for months that a Verizon iPhone is ready for launch in the Q1 2011 and Munster believes a CDMA iPhone is indeed on the way.

In a note to clients, Munster said:

"We previously had Verizon partially baked into our model along with some cannibalization built in for iPhones sales at AT&T, but an early- or mid-[calendar year 2011] launch at Verizon is now fully baked into our CY11 estimates."

Munster's estimates model places the Verizon launch around April, or at least somewhere in the early Q2.

Giving shareholders something to cheer about, Munster moved his expected price target for Apple to $438. The stock closed after hours today at $319.66.

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Time magazine has dubbed Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg their 2010 Person of the Year 2010.

Says Time:

For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME's 2010 Person of the Year.

Zuckerberg, who dropped out of Harvard in 2004 to start the service, owns 24 percent of Facebook's private shares, which should make him worth over $6 billion when the company goes public next year.

In response to the honor, Zuckerberg said (via his FB page):

Being named as TIME Person of the Year is a real honor and recognition of how our little team is building something that hundreds of millions of people want to use to make the world more open and connected. I'm happy to be a part of that.

The youngest billionaire in the world, at 26, Zuckerberg has already joined "Giving Pledge," the joint effort of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates to convince other billionaires to give away most of their wealth to charities.

"Giving Pledge" counts Michael Bloomberg, Ted Turner, George Lucas and Barry Diller amongst its roster.

Julian Assange, the head of WikiLeaks, handily won the online vote, but came in second to Zuckerberg.

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Stephen Colbert, the popular political pundit, had the most retweeted tweet for all of 2010 for his commentary on the Gulf oil spill which started this summer.

Colbert, known as @stephenathome on Twitter, currently has 1.9 million followers.

The tweet in question, from June 16th, read:

"In honor of oil-soaked birds, 'tweets' are now 'gurgles.' http://bit.ly/cIhZNf

To honor Colbert, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone will present the TV-show host with a "Golden Tweet" award, to be presented on tonight's "The Colbert Report."

A few other notable celebrities (mainly musicians) topped the list, with Drake in second for "We always ignore the ones who adore us, and adore the ones who ignore us.," Lil Wayne in third for the tweet "Aaaaaaahhhhhhmmmmm baaaaakkkkkkkkkk!," Justin Beiber in 4th with "Te quiero mucho, mi amor," and Kanye West in 8th with "I'm sorry Taylor," days after ruining Swift's speech at the MTV awards.

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Samsung has noted this week that it fully expects to sell 5 million smartphones running the Bada mobile OS by the end of 2010.

The first Bada smartphone launched in June.

Since then, the #3 mobile phone maker in the world has promised five more Bada devices, all within the "Wave" line.

Besides the original Wave, the Wave II, Wave525, Wave533, Wave575 and Wave723 have launched or will launch in 2011.

Additionally, the Samsung App Store has seen over 45 million downloads and the company expects 50 million by the end of the year.

Besides Bada, Samsung was the top seller of Android devices in the Q3 2010, thanks to strong sales of the Galaxy S.

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The PlayStation 3 has gotten its first Sega Genesis emulator this week, from the same source who released the PSX emulator last week.

Dubbed GenesisPlus GX, the emulator supports 2-player gaming, ROM/ZIP support, and SVP emulation.

The emulator is still a test version, and promises to be full of bugs.

PS3SX, the PSX emulator, has support for full speed, full screen, CDDA and XA audio, 2-player support, saving, and image formats .iso, .bin, .mds and .img.

The read-me file for GenesisPlusGX:

Genesisplus GX on PS3 it's just for change my mind before i go back to ps3sx

put all folders so ./genplus ./genplus/roms ./genplus/bios ./genplus/state ./genplus/sram
on root of dev_usb000 so the first usb port on your right .

Support in this test version :
2 Players
roms support
Zip support
svp emulation for virtua racing and Co

TODO :
Fixed the sound i've a mini glich look like the sound buffer size is too long ?!?
Fixe save states already work but freeze on some games so disabled

i'm using genesisplus GX from EkeEke go to google code for the source code:

[ link ]

My thanks go to AerialX , drk||Raziel , charles mcdonalds for the original source code ,
,EkeEke for the uptodate version on wii ,
psxgroovy at www.psxgroovy.com for the dongle sample ,cellframework ,Mathieulh and ps3mrenigma.

With luv Anonymous

You can get the emulator from here: GenesisPlus GX

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