Posted in Cellphones, Internet, Security, Software, Wireless. February 21st, 2010
What is the meaning of life? According to a recent article in The Guardian, mobile phones are well on their way to answer life’s big questions. Maybe they’re not quite up to the philosophical stuff just yet, but they’ve certainly come a long way to making life all the easier for the multitude of [...]
Posted in Internet. February 2nd, 2010
What about the Super Bowl 44 Commercials that is being filled out in all the timeouts in the Super Bowl? super bowl 44 commercials are of buzz these days as in 2010, CBS Television Network set a new record when it attempted to sell Super Bowl spots for $3 million per 30-second commercial. Last [...]
Posted in Internet. January 20th, 2010
The DVR patent fight just got a little crazier, with Microsoft greasing itself up and jumping into the arena — seemingly to preserve the honor of AT&T. You’ll remember (maybe) that TiVo and AT&T have been having something of a fight over a few different patents primarily related to time shifting. Now Microsoft is [...]
Posted in Internet, Security, Software, Windows. January 15th, 2010
As the Linux Foundation tells it, the Linux-related job market is today 80 percent larger than it was five years ago. Whereas other industries have had to shed workers in the current recession, the Foundation is hopeful penny-pinching measures might actually encourage businesses to transition to Linux-based software and thereby further stimulate employment opportunities [...]
Posted in Internet, Security. January 13th, 2010
Google’s really sticking it to the man this week, first over the Chinese censorship issue and now with their battle over Gmail security, switching from “http” to the far-safer “https” as the default setting.
What does this mean for you? Not much admittedly, as they’ve been offering the option for using https since 2008. You [...]
Posted in Cellphones, Internet, Wireless. January 13th, 2010
Sprint’s got a nice head start in the 4G race over Verizon and AT&T — a message it’s heavily broadcasting these days — but with the onslaught of LTE networks and equipment around the world now just months away, momentum is unquestionably going to shift, giving the carrier every reason to act quickly to [...]
Posted in Internet. January 13th, 2010
Google’s been taking bad press about Chinese search result filtering for years, and now it looks like the company simply fed up: it’s going to stop filtering Google.cn and it may pull of out the country entirely. The move comes on the heels of coordinated attacks on Gmail, which Google says were aimed at [...]
Posted in Internet, Wireless. January 12th, 2010
Normally we might not cover the formation of a new consortium with ridiculously lofty goals like this, but check it: Bell Labs has managed to corral a who’s-who of carriers, universities, government agencies, and industry labs with the goal of making communications networks more energy efficient than they are today. What makes the goal [...]