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Microsoft oPhone
Spoofing the Apple iPhone, Microsoft pokes some fun at Apple, but mostly at itself. The Windows Mobile oPhone Video [Inside Microsoft]
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HDTV the new PC?
Mark Cuban, the outspoken owner of HDNet and the Dallas Mavericks recently blogged about the TV replacing the importance of the PC in US households. Among his claims are that in 18-24 months every HDTV will have a built-in web browser. That Web 2.0 content like YouTube is…
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30 – 50 times faster Internet?
No, it’s not a commercial for switching from dial-up to broadband. It’s the potential speed increase for existing cable Internet customers using a new standard DOCSIS 3.0. Download speeds of 160mps and upload speeds of 120mps are possible. South Korea and Singapore…
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Geeks gone bad?
GeekSquad, the well marketed, much advertised, but seldom recommended tech support team at BestBuy is no stranger to bad publicity. A GeekSquad agent was recently caught video taping a client in the shower. Prior to that they were sued for using unlicensed software by…
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Dumbest Moments in Business
Business 2.0 is a technology business magazine published by Time. It periodically reminds readers the importance of backups and filing your pennsylvania llc annual report. On Monday, April 23, the magazine’s editorial system crashed, wiping out all the work that had been…
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Taking pee out of a swimming pool
Joe Rogan’s character on Newsradio stated it well: Dude, you can’t take something off the Internet… that’s like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool. A high-profile case has again proven that point. In February 2007 the AACS processing key was…
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Vista more secure than OSX?
Dino Dai Zovi, the New York-based security researcher who took home $10,000 in a highly-publicized MacBook Pro hijack on April 20, has stated in an interview that he thinks Vista is more secure than OSX. From your research on both platforms, is there a winner between Mac OS X…
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Another Sony blunder
As if dismal PlayStation3 sales weren’t bad enough, Sony recently threw a party in Greece to celebrate the launch of a new Playstation2 title, God of War II. According to reports, this party featured topless women feeding grapes to people in the crowd, and a beheaded…
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Vista weaknesses to be exposed
Respected security researcher Joanna Rutkowska promises to reveal new rootkit techniques for Vista, and ways to defeat it’s BitLocker drive encryption. On her blog she notes there will be a training session for “legitimate companies” during the Black Hat…
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Dell to offer Ubuntu (yes, Linux)
Dell said they asked consumers for feedback regarding a Linux distribution, and Ubuntu was the overwhelming favorite (followed closely by OpenOffice). Ubunto 7.0.4 will soon be offered and supported (now even on Dell forums) on consumer models. This in addition to RedHat that…