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Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:53
How a Facebook Phone Might Fit Into the Market and Why Facebook, Microsoft and Nokia Need One
Written by Sean Kalinich
The internet has been flooded with talk about a Facebook branded phone (both for and against). There have been rumors of purchases, new hires and more floating around all that seem to point to the fabled device. We have talked…
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Wednesday, 30 May 2012 08:23
Microsoft Moves to Ban Class Action Lawsuits With New Windows 8 EULA... What Are They Worried About?
Written by Sean Kalinich
One of the most interesting things in the software market is he EULA (End-User License Agreement). These wordy and boring multi-page documents are always attached to every game, application, and even operating system that you buy or use. They are…
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Tuesday, 29 May 2012 18:44
Facebook Rolls Out Sponsored Posts... Not Much More than Sponsored Spam Really
Written by Sean Kalinich
Remember when we told you that Facebook was going to allow companies to pay to promote certain posts? Well it is now in full swing as it looks like Facebook has rolled out the service to everyone’s pages. Over the…
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Tuesday, 29 May 2012 17:40
The EU Will Vote on ACTA This Week, Time To Make Your Voice Heard
Written by Sean Kalinich
The EU Parliament will be voting on ACTA this week. If you have been living under a rock lately ACTA (Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement) is a US backed bit of legislation that wants to establish better control over the internet for…
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Monday, 28 May 2012 16:17
Trinity APUs Have Great Graphics, But The CPUs Inside Still Have Memory and Caching Issues
Written by Sean Kalinich
We have talked quite a bit about AMD’s move to the APU (something that they talked about long before the ATi buyout) and what it has, so far, meant to AMD. Right now AMD’s Llano and Trinity APUs have brought…
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Monday, 28 May 2012 09:34
Rumors Point To A "Facebook" Phone, But Is It a Good Idea?
Written by Sean Kalinich
So the rumors about a “Facebook” phone have begun to pop up again. This time they are claiming that the arrival date of the social device will be sometime next year. These rumors are being fueled by other rumors (which…
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Sunday, 27 May 2012 13:35
Hacked User Accounts, Fired Executives (West and Zampella), Are They a By-Product of Activision Blizzard's Corporate Personality?
Written by Sean Kalinich
There is a tendency to assign personalities to corporations due to the way they seem to, at times, to take on the life of their CEO. One of the places this is most noticeable is in the tech industry. One…
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Saturday, 26 May 2012 23:10
Blizzard Claims The Users are to Blame for Hacked Diablo III Accounts...
Written by Sean Kalinich
So far we stayed away from the whole Diablo III fiasco (with the exception of a poll on the site about it). For the most part there is simply too many stories about it, it is almost as bad as…
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Saturday, 26 May 2012 10:19
Just what is the FBI's National Domestic Communications Assistance Center For?
Written by Sean Kalinich
So the FBI has started a new club and one that involves the US Marshals, the DEA and apparently even the NSA. This clubs whole purpose is to find ways to monitor and decrypt data that transferred through electronic communications.…
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Friday, 25 May 2012 22:50
Google Adds Takedown Request Data To Thier Transparency Report, But Who Is The Data For?
Written by Sean Kalinich
So Google is now adding a listing of takedown requests to their transparency report to show that they are working with copyright holders and the government in the war on piracy. If you remember back in the days of SOPA…
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Friday, 25 May 2012 21:13
Does Facebook Camera Show That The Instagram Buy Was Only About Locking Out The Competition?
Written by Sean Kalinich
Back when Facebook bought Instagram for a cool $1 billion it was widely thought that Facebook did this to be able to compete in the mobile market against companies like Google, Apple and a few others. In fact Facebook even…
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Thursday, 24 May 2012 12:31
New York Is Trying To Pass A Law Limiting Anonymous Posting...
Written by Sean Kalinich
It looks like another censorship is about to sail on the waters of the internet. This time the legislation comes from the State of New York (you know the same state that is still wasting money prosecuting OWS protesters). The…
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Wednesday, 23 May 2012 09:53
Windows 8 Fast Boot Times are a Problem for Non-UEFI Based Systems
Written by Sean Kalinich
As we have continued to work with Windows 8 in all of its x86/64 forms (we have it on desktop, virtual and tablet hardware) we have found one item that is both amazing and annoying all at the same time.…
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Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:07
Google Finishes the Buyout Of Motorola; What You Should and Should Not Worry About
Written by Sean Kalinich
In other Google news, the advertising giant is now the proud owner of a maker of smart (and dumb) phones. The buyout of Motorola Mobility finished today with the replacement of the former CEO with Google Americas President Dennis Woodside…
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 19:41
Cloud Computing Is Not All Blue Skies, There Are Storms Ahead Amid Privacy and Security Concerns
Written by Sean Kalinich
Earlier today we talked about how AMD’s Rory Read is looking to cloud based services to help overcome the lack of processing power available to AMD’s APUs (and other CPUs moving forward) in that article we talked (very briefly) about…
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Sunday, 20 May 2012 11:30
AMD's Rory Read Says; "There’s enough processing power on every laptop on the planet today" So You Do Not Need More
Written by Sean Kalinich
Although we reported on this last year it seems that AMD is intent on reminding all of us about their new strategy. In comments to BloombergBusinessweek CEO Rory Read has made the comment that AMD will no longer compete head…
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