Archive for the ‘in the news’ Category
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:
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Block access ...
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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!
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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