Archive for March, 2008
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I’ve just spent some time over the last few days taking FireFox 3 beta 4 (portable version) out for a test drive. Overall I have to say that I like the way it’s shaping up. [...]
March 28th, 2008 | Posted in Internet, Misc, Opinion, Tech, news, software | Comments Off
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Just in case you’ve been in a cave (virtual or otherwise) and like me haven’t heard about this until now, anybody using “G-Archinver” is advised to change their GMail passwords immediately. Apparently this thing has been collecting login information and sending it to one of the program’s developers.
According to [...]
March 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, Internet, Misc, Opinion, Privacy, Websites, software | 3 Comments
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It seems that the work on Firefox 3 is moving along nicely with the recent release of the “Beta 4″ version. According to the release notes there’s a lot of new features going in and there’s been tons of fixes. Thing is, I took a look at FF3 a [...]
March 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Computers, Internet, Misc, Opinion, Programming, news, software | 4 Comments
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According to a recent LA Times Story there is a growing debate over the question of Wikipedia’s funding. Specificaly, should they accept advertising so that they don’t have to rely quite so much on donations?
I’m thinking that there’s a couple of ways to look at this. On the one [...]
March 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Business, Internet, Misc, Opinion, Websites | 1 Comment
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Since everybody seems to be offering opinions about the current financial crisis going on I figured that I’d jump in and offer some of my ideas just for the heck of it. From what I know, the whole thing that’s led up to the fire-sale of Bear Stearns can be [...]
March 19th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Financial, Misc, Opinion, news | Comments Off
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I just read an annoying item on pcpro.co.uk that’s basically a Ericsson-pats-themselves-on-the-back-for-being-so-bright piece. In it, This executive is basically saying that with the advent of Internet connectivity on mobile devices like phones, PDAs and so on, that Wi-Fi hotspots will go the way of the dinosaur and the box telephone [...]
March 19th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, Electronics, Hardware, Internet, Misc, Opinion, Tech | Comments Off
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I stopped by my stumbleupon profile a while ago and I saw something I actually didn’t expect… Spam. It wasn’t even the kind of thing that you could say actually could be legitimate, like a website with tempting offers from an online car insurance company or a super cheap printer [...]
March 17th, 2008 | Posted in Blogging, Misc, Networking, Opinion, Websites | 1 Comment
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Now that this case as been granted class action status, Microsoft is of course flailing away at this latest development. Now they’re trying to get the legal process of discovery halted while it appeals the decision to make the case a class action.
This process is where each side finds out [...]
March 15th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, Financial, Internet, Misc, Opinion, Programming, news, software | Comments Off
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Rep. Howard Coble of North Carolina, a member of the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, recently wrote something recently with the sensationalist title “Share your music — lose your identity“, which shows that in my opinion there is a more than probable chance that he’s pretty [...]
March 12th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, DRM, File Sharing, Financial, Freedom of Speech, Internet, Opinion, Privacy, news, software, surveillance | 1 Comment
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For a long time now the MPAA has been jumping up and down screaming bloody murder about how the nasty evil pirates are destroying their ability to make a profit. They spend a lot of time and money trying to convince people that we need to have special anti-piracy laws [...]
March 9th, 2008 | Posted in Business, DRM, File Sharing, Financial, Internet, Movies, Music, Opinion | 1 Comment