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Saturday, 19 May 2012 12:24
More Apple Censorship News; Apple is Not Censoring the Word Jailbreak, Just the Search for It
Written by Sean Kalinich
So yesterday (Friday May 18th) we heard that Apple was censoring the word “jailbreak” in iTunes and the App Store. This was reported by a few sites and seemed to be rather odd after the backlash from the obvious censoring…
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 08:23
Why The Thought Of The iPhone With a Larger Display Makes us Laugh
Written by Sean Kalinich
Now one thing I do love is irony. Call it a little dark pleasure of mine. I do enjoy it when a larger company (one that might be a tab abusive) finds themselves following when they claim to be leading.…
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 14:13
Judge in Recent Blocks of The Pirate Bay Accused of Corruption
Written by Sean Kalinich
Remember the original trial for the “criminal” copyright infringement case against The Pirate Bay (TPB) and some of the shady things that went on behind the scenes? Well now we find that the copyright industry is doing it again, this…
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Monday, 14 May 2012 19:21
Microsoft Backing a New Company Looking to Attack Torrent Swarms
Written by Sean Kalinich
One of the things that has always bothered us with the way that many companies involved in the “war on piracy” behave is that while they talk about the amount of money they lose every year to piracy they are…
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Monday, 14 May 2012 14:44
Mozilla Says Windows RT And iOS Are Very Different.... No They Are Not.
Written by Sean Kalinich
After reporting on the potential for Congressional involvement in the “issue” over Windows RT we are hearing that Mozilla is trying to drag this into a new area simply because the new software will have the name “Windows” in it.…
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Monday, 14 May 2012 12:08
Windows 8 on x86/64 Tablets Could Be The Real Threat to Google and Apple
Written by Sean Kalinich
You would think today was a slow news day as we see people reporting on something we talked about almost a month ago (well really more than that). It seems that people are waking up from the haze of all…
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Monday, 14 May 2012 11:23
Intel Already Working on 14nm Process; How Will They Deal With Leakage?
Written by Sean Kalinich
Intel is looking to the future even as their newest CPU, the 22nm Ivy Bridge, is taking something of a beating in the media. According to a few slides that have hit daylight Intel is already working on moving some…
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Monday, 14 May 2012 10:11
Is Facebook Preparing to Charge Users for Service? Not Likey.
Written by Sean Kalinich
Wow, the rumors have started early; it seems that some people are trying to push the “Facebook is going to charge you” rumor again after the social networking company tried out a new “pay to promote” feature. This compiled with…
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Monday, 14 May 2012 08:59
Mozilla's Complaining has Congress Involved in the Windows RT Issue...
Written by Sean Kalinich
So Mozilla complains about Microsoft and suddenly Congress wants to take a look at Microsoft’s plans for Windows on ARM. Now we are not really surprised that Mozilla is complaining (after all that is what they do), but we are…
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Friday, 11 May 2012 16:47
One Dell Idiot does not (have to) a Sexist Field Make Featured
Written by Cindy Kalinich
It goes without saying that anyone talking about women as bitches and innovators of only rolling pins is an idiot and doesn’t deserve an audience. What a ridiculous notion, right? Regardless, those points were being touted by the emcee at…
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Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:23
The Dutch High Court Orders All ISPs to Block the Pirate Bay. Good Luck With That..
Written by Sean Kalinich
In not so shocking news another country has followed Britain’s example and has ordered the site The Pirate Bay blocked at the ISP level. This is the second time a “democratic” government has imposed an outright ban on the Torrent…
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Tuesday, 08 May 2012 16:12
Leaked DHS Amber Warnings Claim There is Major Campaign Against US Natural Gas Pipeline, But Is It Real?
Written by Sean Kalinich
The Department of Homeland Security has issues some very unusual warnings for companies that handle the US Natural Gas Pipelines. The three Amber warnings claim that a concerted intrusion attempt is being made on the command and control centers for…
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Sunday, 06 May 2012 21:05
Judge Sanctions Samsung For Not Handing Over Code, But Was it Samsung's to Hand Over?
Written by Sean Kalinich
There are some things that just should not be allowed. One of them is a judge should never, ever have the power to remove a person or company’s right to defend themselves. Unfortunately that is what has happened one of…
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SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, TIPA, and more acronyms than most people care to think about are what is in the news. All of these pieces of legislation are designed with one thought in mind; to control the Internet. Now this may…
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Friday, 04 May 2012 13:58
The FBI Wants Mandatory "Backdoors" to Online Communications Services
Written by Sean Kalinich
After watching the Department of Homeland Security try to force new amendments allowing them very expanded powers to police and control the Internet it seems the FBI wants to get in on some of this too. You see The FBI…
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Thursday, 03 May 2012 12:20
What If All of the Java APIs were not free? How Many Applications Could no Longer Be Sold?
Written by Sean Kalinich
In another installment of our “and that is why you fail” byline we come to the small dispute between Google and Oracle. On the table is not if Google use Java APIs or not, but the basic question of “are…
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