Microsoft has joined with a Russian startup in an effort to crack down on online copyright infringement. The resulting partnership could prove a boon for Hollywood, which has long sought to curtail illegal filesharing on the Web. Pirate Pay, as the startup calls itself, may be the answer to copyright holders' prayers, as it targets torrents directly and takes them down.
Amazon's two Android tablets have had their launch windows narrowed down to the end of summer. Part suppliers maintained Tuesday night that the previous "second half" target now expected it to ship as early as August or September. The production ramp would be timed to make sure Amazon hit its sales stride by Thanksgiving, Digitimes had heard.
Amazon's tablet family has been broken down into more specific models in a rumor Monday evening. An entry level model, the Coyote, was cast by BGR sources as much like every other tablet with a dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2. A second model, the Hollywood, would use NVIDIA's quad-core Kal-El and theoretically run up to five times faster than its ancestor.
