Archive for the ‘in the news’ Category

GMail may be vulnerable to Contact List Hijacking

Monday, January 1st, 2007

According to this article, if you use GMail, your Contact list may be vulnerable to hijacking if you stay logged into Gmail. It hasn't been confirmed by Google, but they have been notified. Fortunately, if you use Firefox and Adblock, here is a temporary solution: =========== TEMPORARY SOLUTION =============== Block access ...

People trading in their PS3’s for Wii’s?

Monday, December 25th, 2006

Interesting article on a trend of people trying to use PS3's to obtain Wii's.? From personal experience, I sold two PS3's and made enough money to buy a Wii which is what I wanted.? What's funny is that I found the PS3's while looking for the Wii's!

Oops! I poked a hole in it!

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Recently, Steve Wynn accidentally poked a hole in the Picasso painting "La Reve" ("The Dream"). He had just finalized a deal to sell the painting for a cool $139 million dollars. Good thing he is a bijillionaire or he might have been upset. Smack in the middle ... was a black ...

Google To Acquire YouTube for $1.65 Billion in Stock

Monday, October 9th, 2006

This is pretty big news. Google just acquired one of the more popular sites. I just have to wonder if they will rename it GooTube? MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., October 9, 2006 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the ...

YouTube, MySpace abuse copyright

Friday, September 15th, 2006

Looks like Universal Music group may try to sue YouTube and MySpace. Personally I think it's pretty ridiculous seeing as artists benefit from people adding their songs etc to MySpace pages and YouTube. Free advertising right? Maybe they decided it might be easier to sue these billion ...

Yahoo to sell DRMfree music

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Yahoo is selling the new Jessica Simpson song in MP3 format... however that's not the big new of this article. The big news is that the MP3 doesn't have any DRM built in. What means for the non-geeks is that you can copy it and play it anywhere, anytime, forever. ...

MSN and Yahoo IM beta test starts…

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Soon you'll be able to use MSN Messenger to talk to Yahoo users and vice versa. That will be nice, but people like me who already use Trillian, it doesn't benefit much! This decision was brought on after Google announced their IM service. In coming months, more users will be able ...

Google on Net Neutrality

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Well, Google mentions it would file an anti-trust suit if the Telco companies abuse powers that come along with the Net Neutrality bill. Enough to sway Telco companies from doing that? I doubt it. "If we are not successful in our arguments ... then we will simply have to wait until ...

Net Neutrality and you

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

I found this article to be a pretty good read about net neutrality. It explains what's going on in pretty simple terms. I just hope that the big companies (Google, Yahoo, eBay etc.) against it prevail... If phone companies could wave a magic wand they'd have the whole kit ...

Stolen VA laptop found..

Friday, June 30th, 2006

and data looks to be still safe. I for one am glad. I already got a letter from the VA saying someone might have my personal info, so this is good news for me and millions of others. Now I only hope they stop letting people take ...