February 7th, 2013

Kim Dotcom’s Mega Gets A Full Time CEO To Build Out Its 2.5M User-Base

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Kim Dotcom’s latest venture Mega, which opened its doors last month offering encrypted cloud-storage services, has a new CEO — announcing today that Vikram Kumar, former CEO of not-for-profit open internet advocacy organization InternetNZ, will take over from Mega’s interim CEO, Tony Lentino. → Read More

January 30th, 2013

Kim Dotcom’s Mega Gets A Crowdsourced Search Engine

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Kim Dotcom’s Mega file hosting service puts an emphasis on privacy, which makes it impossible for Google and others to index the files its users store on the service. Even Mega itself doesn’t really know what’s on its servers, but that isn’t stopping some intrepid developers from trying to build services on top of Mega. Mega-Search.me, for example, is a new search engine for the service, but… → Read More

January 22nd, 2013

Kim Dotcom Tackles Mega Security Concerns, Points To Password Changes In The Pipeline

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Though it launched to considerable fanfare, Kim Dotcom’s Mega encrypted storage service has recently drawn fire from the press thanks to supposedly questionable security practices. Well, Mr. Dotcom is none too pleased with the conclusions that some news outlets have come to, and has taken to the official Mega blog to address some of those issues head-on. → Read More

January 19th, 2013

Mega Launches Its Cloud Storage And File Sharing Service As ‘The Privacy Company’, ‘Thousands Of Registrations Per Minute’

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Kim Dotcom’s new secure file storage-and-file-sharing venture, Mega, has now officially launched, with the timing, 6.48 AM New Zealand time on January 20, made to coincide exactly with the one-year anniversary of the raid on his home by New Zealand authorities, after the closure of Megaupload, another file-sharing and file storage site that was seized by U.S. authorities for copyright violations. → Read More

January 18th, 2013

Kim Dotcom’s Mega Opens For Early-Access Users, Reveals Pricing Tiers, Roadmap With Mobile Access, IM, Office-Style Features

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Leading up to the launch of Kim Dotcom’s latest effort, Mega, today the company opened the site up to its first early-access users. It’s also published pricing for premium users, as well as a roadmap of features that it plans to add to the site after launch, having run out of time to implement them all before Sunday. The list reveals a wide ambition that includes mobile access; word-processing… → Read More

January 18th, 2013

Instra CEO (And Mega Investor) Brian Clarkson: ‘We Will Do Everything We Can To Protect Innovation’ [Updated]

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We are now two days away from the launch of Mega, the file storage service that is the next big project from the controversial Kim Dotcom, founder of now-defunct media storage and streaming site Megaupload. Mega has today opened the site up to a limited number of users, and as we inch closer to the big event at Dotcom’s lavish New Zealand mansion (Kim preparing for it pictured here), Mega has… → Read More

December 28th, 2012

Kim Dotcom To Host Mega’s Launch Event At His New Mega Zealand Mansion Next Month

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Kim Dotcom doesn’t do things small. The man behind the Megaupload empire is about to launch his next service dubbed simply Mega. But don’t expect a simple press event in a hotel conference room. Nope, on January 20, 2013, exactly one year after his over-the-top takedown, Dotcom is hosting the Mega launch event at his sprawling New Zealand estate — effectively giving the finger to the RIAA, MPAA… → Read More

October 20th, 2009

Mega Man Drum Kit = Awesome

What are you doing reading the text?! Look at the picture! It’s a frakkin’ Mega Man drum kit! Those rings light up and everything! This thing is almost as cool as those Star Wars guitars back in 2002. [VIDEO] → Read More