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Nintendo and Google have finally released the YouTube application for the Nintendo 3DS. The news was originally confirmed in a previous Nintendo Direct presentation, but Nintendo declined to say when it was coming to the handheld format. Well, now it’s here. The download is available in both North America and Europe and is 113 blocks. Go check it out and tell us what you think.

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Using cloud infrastructure is the natural starting point for any new project because it’s one of the ideal use cases for cloud infrastructure – where you have unknown requirements; the other being where you need elasticity to run workloads for short periods at large scale, or handle traffic spikes. The problem comes months later when you know your baseline resource requirements.

Let’s consider a high throughput database as an example. Most web applications have a database storing customer information behind the scenes but whatever the project, requirements are very similar – you need a lot of memory and high performance disk I/O.

Evaluating pure cloud

Looking at the costs for a single instance illustrates the requirements. In the real world you would need multiple instances for redundancy and replication but will just work with a single instance for now:

Amazon EC2 c3.4xlarge (we can’t consider m2.2xlarge because it is not…

This spaghetti was born on a “why-isn’t-it-Friday” Monday, inspired by our hands down favourite Samoan food, palusami (ok, maybe a close tie with the pina coladas with freshly made coconut cream). Our friends’ Lonely Planet guide described palusami as “calorie bombs” of coconut cream and we knew we had to try them. Fortunately, we were lucky enough to enjoy these creamy parcels made the Samoan way – wrapped in fresh taro leaves, then banana and breadfruit leaves, and placed atop some taro root that roasted in red hot stones covered with a motherload of banana leaves (all part of an umu). You should have seen the four of us descend upon the deliciously ugly, curdled, almost cheese-like palusami, with hunks of roasted taro. We cleaned up every last drop within minutes, after a somewhat hesitant start.

Since taro leaves and fresh coconut cream is a little hard to come…

A ABES – Associação Brasileira das Empresas de Software realizou, em outubro, a remoção de cerca de 5 mil links que davam acesso a arquivos com conteúdo que violavam o Direito Autoral de Programas de Computador de associados da entidade. Na soma do ano foram quase 30 mil.

Com relação aos sites de Leilão, foram removidos 2.353 anúncios de programas de computador ilegais em Outubro, totalizando 16.147 neste ano. Nove portais completos de 26 detectados também saíram do ar como resultado do Monitoramento realizado pela Associação. No ano foram 64 removidos dos 167 detectados.

A ação é realizada pelo setor de Monitoramento de Internet da entidade há cerca de 10 anos e atua em três frentes de trabalho: Monitoramento de Links, Monitoramento de Sites de Leilão e Monitoramento de Websites. Em todos os casos, o rastreamento e avaliação é focado na localização de conteúdo que viole os Direitos Autorais de…

Broadband rollouts in parts of Europe are likely to get substantially cheaper and easier, after a committee of the European Parliament backed plans to encourage access to existing infrastructure.

When you’re laying fiber in the ground, it’s a bit of a no-brainer to do it in ducts that already exist – sewage pipes and drainage systems, for example – particularly as most of the cost of a rollout lies in civil works.

Countries such as the UK and France already promote this kind of infrastructure-sharing, but now the same idea seems set to spread across the EU. On Thursday, the European Parliament’s industry committee said it had approved a draft law that would give broadband firms the right to “access ‘promptly’, via a single information point, at least information on the location, route, size, type and current use, name of owner and a contact point for existing infrastructure.”

They will…

Creator Nill31 has made one of the best videogame-inspired liveries yet, a Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker car. Shiny gold, sky blue, and Toon Link all come together for a standout design. Forza 5 is out now exclusive to Xbox One and The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD is out now exclusive to Wii U.

Thanks, Morgan

Nintendo UK marketing boss Shelly Pearce has said that she’s very pleased with the reception that both The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds and Super Mario 3D World have received by the press. She says that both titles have been lauded as must have games by the mainstream media and specialist press. You can read our Super Mario 3D World review here, and our Legend of Zelda: Link Between Worlds review right here.

“The latest adventures in two of our most loved franchises, Mario and The Legend of Zelda, have achieved 10/10 review scores in mainstream and specialist media and have been credited as ‘must-have titles’ as well as reasons to purchase hardware,” said Nintendo UK marketing boss Shelly Pearce. We look forward to hearing more from the fans.”