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Monday, 30 April 2012 22:24
UK Judge Orders UK ISPs to Block The Pirate Bay
Written by Sean Kalinich
Well we all knew it had to start somewhere. The possibility that some democracy would forget the concept of free speech and free and open communication was always there. I do not think that anyone thought it was going to…
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Monday, 30 April 2012 09:47
Asus Makes Great Tablets and Now Smart Phones, But Can you Get them Anywhere?
Written by Sean Kalinich
Asus has recently released their quarterly results for the other side of Asus. This is the part of the company that makes and sells notebooks, netbooks, the EEE Pad, PC and Slate. It is also a part of the company…
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Sunday, 29 April 2012 17:45
Security Concerns Pop-up From The VMware Breach and Not Just About the HyperVisor
Written by Sean Kalinich
Remember the article that we posted a couple of weeks ago stating that one thing that Anonymous has done is highlight security concerns that corporations would rather keep hidden? Well it turns out that the recent hack on the China…
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It seems that Microsoft is working the PR angle again. First we saw this when it was obvious that public opinion was turning against it with SOPA and PIPA. They distanced themselves from the BSA (Business Software Alliance) and then…
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Saturday, 28 April 2012 11:26
Google Drive Signaling the End of Microsoft Office? Umm No.
Written by Sean Kalinich
Understandably the news has been filled with information on Google’s new product. We have heard about their typical tendency to copy and paste their terms of service along with how it is going to kill Dropbox and other storage providers.…
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Friday, 27 April 2012 10:43
CISPA Will Not Fix the Security Issues That The US Has; Then Again It Was Never Meant To
Written by Sean Kalinich
Today’s copyright, patent and intellectual property laws are something to read. If you have an extra couple of days that you do not mind losing you should read through some of them. They are astonishing in their complexity and how…
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Thursday, 26 April 2012 12:41
AMD Snags Less than a Percent of Market Share from Intel; Will it Last?
Written by Sean Kalinich
There will be some rejoicing as AMD managed to grab a tiny amount of the x86 market share from Intel last quarter. According to Mercury research AMD’s combined x86 market share rose from 18.2 percent to 19.1. This .9 percent…
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Thursday, 26 April 2012 11:13
Google Tries to Own All Of Your Data With Google Drive... Just Like it Did with Chrome
Written by Sean Kalinich
There is a huge amount of traffic on Google’s new Google drive cloud storage system. There are predictions from “they will kill Drop Box and Sky Drive” to it will fail. So this is pretty much your average launch of…
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Thursday, 26 April 2012 10:12
Tim Cook's Toaster and Refrigerator Comment Seems to Have Missed the Second-Best Selling Tablet on the Market
Written by Sean Kalinich
In our continuing coverage of life after Steve Jobs at Apple (and our preparation for that new website Sh*t Tim Cook Says) we are bringing in a few new links and other fun items today. It seems that a typical…
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Sunday, 22 April 2012 12:17
Will Windows 8 Really Work For Both Consumers and Businesses?
Written by Sean Kalinich
Since the release of the customer preview program version of Windows 8 we have covered more than a few of its features, advantages, disadvantages and even where we feel that Microsoft is going with this new OS. The one thing…
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Saturday, 21 April 2012 14:51
MegaUpload Was Never Served with Criminal Charges; Judge Says The Case May Never Go To Trial Now
Written by Sean Kalinich
There was something of a victory for MegaUpload and in many ways supporters of a free and open internet. The judge presiding over the case has stated that the case may never actual go to trial because the FBI and…
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Monday, 16 April 2012 14:03
Confused by All of the Legal Action Going On over Privacy and Antitrust? You Are Supposed To Be...
Written by Sean Kalinich
During the last few years the corporate world has enjoyed something of a respite from the typical anti-trust laws that are upheld by the Sherman Antitrust Act. This means that things like the MPAA, RIAA, the Viacom merger and too…
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Friday, 13 April 2012 10:22
Anonymous Has Helped to Bring Corporate and Government Ignorance to Light
Written by Sean Kalinich
If there is one thing that you can say Anonymous has done that has a measurable positive effect it is exposing the level of Corporate and Government Ignorance. Ignorance is not an admissible excuse any longer in this day and…
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Friday, 13 April 2012 09:14
Hey Hollywood, you might want to take a look at this…
Written by Sean Kalinich
In the last few days we have seen a couple of things that just might break the old business model of the MPAA and RIAA. The indicators are things like the decision that code is not physical property was pushed…
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Thursday, 12 April 2012 21:51
Just How Much Data Does Your Phone Collect and Transmit About You?
Written by Sean Kalinich
The explosion of the smart phone tied to the sudden need for people to post where they are and what they are doing every minute of the day has led to some rather interesting consequences. We all have heard the…
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Wednesday, 11 April 2012 12:52
Is Much of the Recent Apple and Google Press Damage Control?
Written by Sean Kalinich
One of my favorite movies is the move “Heat” (for multiple reasons) in this movie there is a scene where Tone Loc is talking to Al Pacino about one of the “bad guys” he makes a very telling comment; “But…
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