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Thursday, 08 December 2011 07:00
US DoJ Investigating E-Book Price Fixing Too
Written by Sean Kalinich
Although this is not really new information; it appears that there is enough evidence that the major players in the e-book market have been collaborating to keep e-book prices higher than they should be in the US that an investigation…
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Well, well, well. Remember how we told you that AMD is providing direct hardware and engineering support for the Android-x86 project? Well now we are hearing that Intel is working on Android for x86 too. However, instead of working with…
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It looks like the CarrierIQ debacle was quite possibly be a case of Chicken Little meets the digital era with a sinister plot twist. A few weeks ago the news broke that a software researcher (Trevor Eckhart) had found that…
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With SOPA still a hot topic we are hearing about more fallout as lines are being drawn even between one time partners. We have heard that several members of the Business Software Alliance have asked the organization to pull all…
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Friday, 02 December 2011 07:10
More Evidence of AMD's Move to Mobile Devices Pops Up
Written by Sean Kalinich
Ok... remember how we told you that we had a suspicion that AMD might be working on an x86 based SoC. We have already seen several signs pointing to a major push on something new and we know that AMD…
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You knew this would happen (as it does almost every time a new CPU is ready to hit the market). In the hype leading up to the release we always start to see “leaked” slides that contain pricing, technical details…
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Thursday, 01 December 2011 20:42
Senator Al Franken says CarrierIQ "has a lot of questions to answer"
Written by Sean Kalinich
With everything going on in the world and the noise about SOPA the last thing we need is another scandal. Unfortunately that is exactly what we have with CarrierIQ, a tracking and metrics software that is reported installed on a…
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Thursday, 01 December 2011 07:08
PCIe GEN 4.0 to be released in 2014-2015, aimed at improving tablets
Written by Sean Kalinich
With PCIe 3.0 just coming on to the scene the PCI special interest group (PCI-SIG) just announced that they are planning on releasing PCIe 4.0 sometime around 2014-2015. Now that is assuming we all survive the Mayan apocalypse, but if…
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Karma is a bitch they say and there are times when that is perfectly the case. The FCC was blocked from enforcing a level of net neutrality and also in its attempts to prevent carriers and ISPs overstepping their bounds…
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Tuesday, 29 November 2011 11:57
New Keyboard and Mouse Project Promises Zero Moving Parts
Written by Sean Kalinich
Have you ever seen something on the Internet and though “that is the coolest thing I have ever seen!” well yesterday while looking at the state of the industry (as seen through various news outlets) I stumbled across one of…
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The Internet is all a buzz with the news that AMD is now releasing memory that has the AMD brand on it (it is rumored that Patriot is actually making the RAM). Many seem to be surprised by this new…
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Monday, 28 November 2011 12:01
HDCP Copy Protection Broken with Man in the Middle attack
Written by Sean Kalinich
There is an old saying that says “what man can lock, man can also unlock” this is probably one of the most true statements ever made and covers more than just physical locking. Despite hundreds of thousands of hours spent…
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The race to 28nm is going to be an interesting one. Both AMD and nVidia already have working silicon models but neither are ready to start shipping parts to the market. The biggest reason for this is the fact that…
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Sunday, 27 November 2011 18:47
New Exhibit to Showcase the Patents of Steve Jobs
Written by Sean Kalinich
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has launched a new exhibit with the help of Invent Now, Inc. The Exhibit is features the Patents of Steve Jobs; and has been designed to look like a long string of iPhones.…
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There are times when you have to wonder what people are thinking. With the SOPA act we wondered that ourselves; especially after a rash of articles came out linking the BSA (Business Software Alliance) to SOPA and by proxy to…
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Despite a good deal of negative criticism for Windows 8 Microsoft is still trying to promote it to new users. In their “Building Windows 8” Blog they are now covering the issue of installation time. This little issue is something…
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