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Taking Another Shot at Taxing AmazonAmazon is making too much money it seems. The company has been a target in various states around the country and now it looks like Texas has its eyes on finding some way to ta...

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Turn Email Over to the U.S. Postal ServiceThis idea first appeared in the 1980s when most people were doing email on CompuServe, MCI Mail and AT&T, along with a very few Arpanet users. Within a few short y...

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Earth will get buzzed by an asteroid on MondayHere's something to dwell on as you head to work next week: A small asteroid the size of a tour bus will make an extremely close pass by the Earth on Monday, but it poses no threat to the planet. The ast...

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It's that time of month again -- if your Microsoft Updates don't download automatically, better go get them!!

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Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has drawn a line under his company's row with Apple over the lack of Flash on the iOS platform. Speaking on stage at the D9 conference hosted by All Things Digital Narayen also said that Apple's dominance of the tablet market would soon come to an end with tablets based on Goog...

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Facebook Wants Your Pre-TeenThere are plenty of educational benefits to the Internet but for pre-teens Facebook is not one of them. The parents who grew up with Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campa...

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Next month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is expected to declare that all vehicles must contain an event data recorder, known more commonly as a “black box.” The device, similar to those found in aircraft, records vehicle inputs and, in the event of a crash, provides a snapsho...

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A footballer has launched legal action against Twitter after a number of the microblogging site's users purported to reveal the name of the player who allegedly had an affair with model Imogen Thomas. The footballer's legal team began the legal action at the high court in London on Wednesday, in wha...

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Happy Mother's DayTo all of our GREAT Moms!

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The head of the Senate’s powerful commerce committee said Friday he’ll introduce a bill that forces online advertising and tracking companies to let users easily opt out of online tracking. Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) said the bill, to be introduced next week, will create a “unive...

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Buying a gadget is beginning to resemble buying a car. You walk into a retailer and as you pull out your wallet, you are pelted with all manner of service plans, extended warranties, and other tack-ons that can double the price. The similarity should come as no surprise. Car dealers and electronics re...

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Remember those Apple ads that cast the Mac as a 20-something, self-satisfied hipster while the PC was portrayed by an older, square-looking guy in a brown suit? Well, those characterizations, unfair as they may be, appear to have some truth to them. An unscientific survey by Hunch, a site that makes...

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Last Friday, I departed from my normal business technology beat to talk about the geek entertainment event Game of Thrones. This week I’m going to plug into our Friday Geekend theme again, but this time the topic is something more nefarious — the entertainment industry’s misguided scam of the pub...

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Google has today made a decision to postpone the closure of their Google Video service, following a number of complaints by users about the apparent inability to export the videos to YouTube. The company has announced that following on from the closure notice sent out to the remaining users last we...

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The chief executive of Miami’s CompUSA and TigerDirect is being fired following an investigation of an anonymous whistleblower complaint. The news of Gilbert Fiorentino’s departure was announced Monday by Systemax, the parent company of both CompUSA and TigerDirect. Fiorentino, who also ser...

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From the ... HUH? File...... Computer hackers embody classic Christian virtues, a Vatican publication says, and shouldn’t be perceived negatively. In their passionate commitment to creating, and their openness to sharing ideas, hackers see their online exploits as “a form of participation i...

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According to the Guardian, one little old lady in Georgia managed to cut off an entire country, Armenia, from the Internet for five hours Her weapon? A shovel. No, I’m not kidding. The story goes that the woman was hunting for copper, which is worth real money these days everywhere, when in mid-dig, he...

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Greetings. And welcome to. The Old PC Yard. There are. Bzzzzt. Numerous. Failures in PC history. We've isolated the. Worst 16. Around. We are certain that a smart human such as yourself. Will. Have strong opinions on this list. If TRUE, then replay in. Comments. If FALSE, have a. Nice day. Initiating...

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I’m going on vacation this week and I figured I’d try to lighten my load. First off, I had to do some deep thinking about what I would actually need while away. Since it’s a vacation, most people would think that I would just take my phone along, and check e-mail if I have to. Unfortunately, in today’s worl...

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Java Founder Takes Job At Google

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In the wake of Tuesday’s Netflix Instant outage, the company has issued a mea culpa and service credit to affected users. “We are sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused,” reads an email from Netflix. “If you attempted and were unable to instantly watch TV episodes or movies yesterday, clic...

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OK, I'm going to call it: Digg is dead. No, the site hasn't gone dark. It still functions and has millions of users. But then so does MySpace. I used to be a very active Digg user -- as were many of my techno-journalist-pundit type friends. Five years ago, Digg was the future of content discovery. But now I...

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Facebook has removed the blue Comment button from beside the comment box on its website. This appears to affect all Facebook objects that can be commented on: a story on the News Feed, a friend’s status, a photo, and so on. Previously, to comment on a Facebook object, users would type out their post and...

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Beware of the Granny Scam Got a variation of this Scam yesterday. The caller identified herself as calling from the Madison County jail and instructed that I should "press 1 to accept the charges...

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Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne formed Apple Computers on April 1, 1976. The coincidence of the date should not go unnoticed. The first commercially successful home computer, the Apple II, was released a year later. Jobs’ early years prior to forming Apple played a great part in explaini...

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Google has just announced a new feature to block websites which users do not wish to appear in future searches. Starting from today people who use the search engine will start to see a new option, 'block all results', that means any future searches will not show any items from the desired domain name. &...

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South Korean officials are reporting that over 40 high profile websites from 29 institutions have fallen victim to a DDoS cyber attack. This sites include the National Assembly, the Cheong Wa Dae, Government departments, various military areas, the Korea-based US Forces and a number of major ban...

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Apple is reportedly negotiating with several major record labels to ease restrictions on downloads of purchased music from iTunes. “Three people with knowledge of the plans” have confided in Bloomberg saying that the discussions are revolving around unlimited downloads to iPhone, iPod and iP...

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Privacy policies are rarely written for the majority of the people who actually use a given product or service, but Facebook wants to change that on its website after constant complaints about its own legal document. The website’s privacy team has taken on a new project with the goal of developing a p...

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Imagine walking into a meeting and encountering not just your current co-workers, but all your colleagues and managers from jobs past, along with your spouse, your drinking buddies, and, off in a corner, your adolescent son, busy telling your boss how many hours he logs in every day playing Grand Th...

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	Taking Another Shot at Taxing Amazon (Preview) Taking Another Shot at Taxing AmazonAmazon is making too much money it seems. The company has been a target in various states around the country and now it looks like Texas has its eyes on finding some way to ta...	Vindicated	0	139	Jun 27, 2011 by Vindicated
	Turn Email Over to the U.S. Postal Service (Preview) Turn Email Over to the U.S. Postal ServiceThis idea first appeared in the 1980s when most people were doing email on CompuServe, MCI Mail and AT&T, along with a very few Arpanet users. Within a few short y...	Vindicated	0	227	Jun 27, 2011 by Vindicated
	Earth will get buzzed by an asteroid on Monday. (Preview) Earth will get buzzed by an asteroid on MondayHere's something to dwell on as you head to work next week: A small asteroid the size of a tour bus will make an extremely close pass by the Earth on Monday, but it poses no threat to the planet. The ast...	Vindicated	2	313	Jun 26, 2011 by Vindicated
	Microsoft Updates (Preview) It's that time of month again -- if your Microsoft Updates don't download automatically, better go get them!!	Vindicated	0	289	Jun 15, 2011 by Vindicated
	Adobe: Row with Apple over Flash is over (Preview) Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has drawn a line under his company's row with Apple over the lack of Flash on the iOS platform. Speaking on stage at the D9 conference hosted by All Things Digital Narayen also said that Apple's dominance of the tablet market would soon come to an end with tablets based on Goog...	barney	0	269	Jun 5, 2011 by barney
	Facebook Wants Your Pre-Teen (Preview) Facebook Wants Your Pre-TeenThere are plenty of educational benefits to the Internet but for pre-teens Facebook is not one of them. The parents who grew up with Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campa...	Vindicated	1	261	May 26, 2011 by Vindicated
	Automotive Black Boxes, Minus the Gray Area (Preview) Next month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is expected to declare that all vehicles must contain an event data recorder, known more commonly as a “black box.” The device, similar to those found in aircraft, records vehicle inputs and, in the event of a crash, provides a snapsho...	barney	3	173	May 24, 2011 by Vindicated
	Twitter faces legal action by footballer over privacy (Preview) A footballer has launched legal action against Twitter after a number of the microblogging site's users purported to reveal the name of the player who allegedly had an affair with model Imogen Thomas. The footballer's legal team began the legal action at the high court in London on Wednesday, in wha...	barney	0	141	May 24, 2011 by barney
	Happy Mother's Day (Preview) Happy Mother's DayTo all of our GREAT Moms!	Vindicated	0	203	May 8, 2011 by Vindicated
	Sen. Rockefeller Announces Anti-Online-Tracking Bill (Preview) The head of the Senate’s powerful commerce committee said Friday he’ll introduce a bill that forces online advertising and tracking companies to let users easily opt out of online tracking. Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) said the bill, to be introduced next week, will create a “unive...	barney	0	128	May 8, 2011 by barney
	The dirty details of those gadget buy-back programs (Preview) Buying a gadget is beginning to resemble buying a car. You walk into a retailer and as you pull out your wallet, you are pelted with all manner of service plans, extended warranties, and other tack-ons that can double the price. The similarity should come as no surprise. Car dealers and electronics re...	barney	1	166	May 8, 2011 by Vindicated
	Mac vs. PC: The stereotypes may be true (Preview) Remember those Apple ads that cast the Mac as a 20-something, self-satisfied hipster while the PC was portrayed by an older, square-looking guy in a brown suit? Well, those characterizations, unfair as they may be, appear to have some truth to them. An unscientific survey by Hunch, a site that makes...	barney	3	437	Apr 25, 2011 by Vindicated
	The 3D scam: Reject and repeat (Preview) Last Friday, I departed from my normal business technology beat to talk about the geek entertainment event Game of Thrones. This week I’m going to plug into our Friday Geekend theme again, but this time the topic is something more nefarious — the entertainment industry’s misguided scam of the pub...	barney	0	139	Apr 23, 2011 by barney
	Google Video shutdown halted following user complaints (Preview) Google has today made a decision to postpone the closure of their Google Video service, following a number of complaints by users about the apparent inability to export the videos to YouTube. The company has announced that following on from the closure notice sent out to the remaining users last we...	barney	0	116	Apr 23, 2011 by barney
	President of CompUSA, TigerDirect fired (Preview) The chief executive of Miami’s CompUSA and TigerDirect is being fired following an investigation of an anonymous whistleblower complaint. The news of Gilbert Fiorentino’s departure was announced Monday by Systemax, the parent company of both CompUSA and TigerDirect. Fiorentino, who also ser...	barney	2	334	Apr 19, 2011 by NicKnayme
	Vatican : Hackers do God’s work (Preview) From the ... HUH? File...... Computer hackers embody classic Christian virtues, a Vatican publication says, and shouldn’t be perceived negatively. In their passionate commitment to creating, and their openness to sharing ideas, hackers see their online exploits as “a form of participation i...	barney	1	193	Apr 10, 2011 by Vindicated
	How to cut off the Internet the easy way? A Shovel (Preview) According to the Guardian, one little old lady in Georgia managed to cut off an entire country, Armenia, from the Internet for five hours Her weapon? A shovel. No, I’m not kidding. The story goes that the woman was hunting for copper, which is worth real money these days everywhere, when in mid-dig, he...	barney	0	171	Apr 10, 2011 by barney
	The 16 Worst Failed Computers of All Time (Preview) Greetings. And welcome to. The Old PC Yard. There are. Bzzzzt. Numerous. Failures in PC history. We've isolated the. Worst 16. Around. We are certain that a smart human such as yourself. Will. Have strong opinions on this list. If TRUE, then replay in. Comments. If FALSE, have a. Nice day. Initiating...	barney	0	154	Apr 8, 2011 by barney
	Which gadgets to take on vacation (Preview) I’m going on vacation this week and I figured I’d try to lighten my load. First off, I had to do some deep thinking about what I would actually need while away. Since it’s a vacation, most people would think that I would just take my phone along, and check e-mail if I have to. Unfortunately, in today’s worl...	barney	0	159	Apr 2, 2011 by barney
	Java Founder Takes Job At Google (Preview) Java Founder Takes Job At Google	Vindicated	0	222	Mar 28, 2011 by Vindicated
	Netflix issues apology, service credit for Instant downtime (Preview) In the wake of Tuesday’s Netflix Instant outage, the company has issued a mea culpa and service credit to affected users. “We are sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused,” reads an email from Netflix. “If you attempted and were unable to instantly watch TV episodes or movies yesterday, clic...	barney	0	153	Mar 25, 2011 by barney
	Why Digg failed (Preview) OK, I'm going to call it: Digg is dead. No, the site hasn't gone dark. It still functions and has millions of users. But then so does MySpace. I used to be a very active Digg user -- as were many of my techno-journalist-pundit type friends. Five years ago, Digg was the future of content discovery. But now I...	barney	0	142	Mar 20, 2011 by barney
	Facebook removes the comment button (Preview) Facebook has removed the blue Comment button from beside the comment box on its website. This appears to affect all Facebook objects that can be commented on: a story on the News Feed, a friend’s status, a photo, and so on. Previously, to comment on a Facebook object, users would type out their post and...	barney	0	132	Mar 20, 2011 by barney
	Beware of the Granny Scam (Preview) Beware of the Granny Scam Got a variation of this Scam yesterday. The caller identified herself as calling from the Madison County jail and instructed that I should "press 1 to accept the charges...	Vindicated	0	151	Mar 18, 2011 by Vindicated
	Steve Jobs: Apple's greatest legacy or its biggest obstacle? (Preview) Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne formed Apple Computers on April 1, 1976. The coincidence of the date should not go unnoticed. The first commercially successful home computer, the Apple II, was released a year later. Jobs’ early years prior to forming Apple played a great part in explaini...	barney	2	521	Mar 12, 2011 by NicKnayme
	Google introduces site blocking (Preview) Google has just announced a new feature to block websites which users do not wish to appear in future searches. Starting from today people who use the search engine will start to see a new option, 'block all results', that means any future searches will not show any items from the desired domain name. &...	barney	0	139	Mar 12, 2011 by barney
	South Korea under cyber attack (Preview) South Korean officials are reporting that over 40 high profile websites from 29 institutions have fallen victim to a DDoS cyber attack. This sites include the National Assembly, the Cheong Wa Dae, Government departments, various military areas, the Korea-based US Forces and a number of major ban...	barney	0	137	Mar 5, 2011 by barney
	Apple discussing unlimited downloads of purchased songs from iTunes (Preview) Apple is reportedly negotiating with several major record labels to ease restrictions on downloads of purchased music from iTunes. “Three people with knowledge of the plans” have confided in Bloomberg saying that the discussions are revolving around unlimited downloads to iPhone, iPod and iP...	barney	0	129	Mar 5, 2011 by barney
	Facebook offers new privacy policy for regular people (Preview) Privacy policies are rarely written for the majority of the people who actually use a given product or service, but Facebook wants to change that on its website after constant complaints about its own legal document. The website’s privacy team has taken on a new project with the goal of developing a p...	barney	1	169	Feb 27, 2011 by Vindicated
	How Facebook mucks up office life (Preview) Imagine walking into a meeting and encountering not just your current co-workers, but all your colleagues and managers from jobs past, along with your spouse, your drinking buddies, and, off in a corner, your adolescent son, busy telling your boss how many hours he logs in every day playing Grand Th...	barney	1	201	Feb 22, 2011 by Vindicated
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