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On November 16, 2009, Greg Hoglund, a cofounder of computer security firm HBGary, sent an e-mail to two colleagues. The message came with an attachment, a Microsoft Word file called AL_QAEDA.doc, which had been further compressed and password protected for safety. Its contents were dangerous. &...

barney · barney

When Amazon first introduced the Kindle, in addition to changing the way the eBook market worked, they also added a new way to mark your location in a book using something called "locations." Locations were Amazon's answer to displaying different text sizes and accommodating the diffe...

barney · barney

Google is the new Microsoft. Something tells me you've heard that one before. By my count, people have been saying that since 2005. But the question remains: Is it really a fair comparison? Microsoft dominated the desktop computer industry for the past 15 years with purported ruthlessness and cunn...

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barney · barney

Employees should be able to say what they’d like about their employer, their working conditions or even their wages on their Facebook pages and not be disciplined by the boss because of it. That’s essentially the message that’s being sent today with news of a legal settlement between a Connecticut a...

barney · barney

How does a unknown dating site, with the absurd intention of destroying Facebook, launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day? Simple. You scrape data from Facebook. At least, that’s the approach taken by two provocateurs who launched Lovely-Faces.com this week, with profiles — names, l...

barney · barney

According to a report by the WSJ, the NASDAQ Stock Market's computer network was repeatedly compromised during the last year. So far it appears that no damage was done and that the hackers "have just been looking around." While there are no official statements just yet, several sources f...

barney · barney

Mohan Srivastava, a geological statistician living in Toronto, was working in his office in June 2003, waiting for some files to download onto his computer, when he discovered a couple of old lottery tickets buried under some paper on his desk. The tickets were cheap scratchers—a gag gift from his s...

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If the Internet was a car, it would be running out of gas and the fuel warning idiot light would have just come on. Late yesterday, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigned its last two available blocks of IPv4 addresses to the Asia-Pacific Network Information Center. That leaves us w...

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Yesterday, something unprecedented happened: Egypt turned off the internet. A nation of 80,000,000 instantly disconnected. So how'd they do it? Phone Calls There was no giant lever or big red button involved, but in reality it was almost as easy: the Egyptian Government simply issued an order for...

barney · barney

On the surface this seems like a silly question. Surely you own your Facebook photos, status updates, notes, links, or anything else you've shared. Because, after all, you put them there. Right? Not necessarily. Facebook's terms of service make it clear that, while you technically "own&quo...

Vindicated · Vindicated

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Credit cards may soon be as outdated as vinyl records. (Remember those?) And this is the year that the slow, steady march to oblivion begins. You can already use your iPhone, Droid or BlackBerry to buy a hotdog at the ballgame, buy your Starbucks latté, or give a friend a few bucks by Bumping phones. But...

barney · barney

That shiny new Android phone you just bought? Yeah, it's a piece of trash. No, I'm not some Google-hating Apple fanboy. The iPhone 4 is junk, too. So is that giant, flat-screen 3D TV and tablet you bought in the past year. It's trash. All trash. Of course, everything ends up broken, obsolete and unusabl...

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On February 2nd around 4 a.m., the Internet will run out of its current version of IP addresses. At least that’s what one Internet Service Provider is predicting based on a rate of about one million addresses every four hours. Hurricane Electric has launched Twitter and Facebook accounts that count...

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Apple has a long way to go to catch up to the 100+ billion hamburgers that McDonalds has served, but they’re clearly closing the gap quickly. They currently sit at 9.7 billion applications downloaded in their worldwide App Store and the number is rapidly increasing by the second. As they hurtle towar...

barney · barney

CES 2011 a convinced me that 3D has a 70% chance of becoming mainstream consumer tech. But there’s 2 conditions: 3D will be glasses-free; and it will take 10 years, not 3. CES in 3D 3D was big at CES. Sony was all in, with 3D from the cool Bloggie HD video camera for $250, to crisp giant rear projection scree...

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Twelve teetering technologies: will they survive or die? MaximumPC rounds up its Dirty Dozen techs that they expect to die out by 2020—or at least come close. Here's who's on the chopping block. You will likely disagree with some of our assessments. But you're wrong and we're right. At least we think...

barney · barney

Apple has struck a blow again Microsoft by making multi-Mac ownership cheaper than multi-PC ownership. Note: Putting aside that whole piracy problem plaguing the Mac App Store … How has Apple pulled off this trick? Through this simple entry in the Mac App Store FAQ: Q: Can I use apps from the Mac App St...

barney · barney

The age old dilemma: what kind of birthday present do you get for the mad Professor who has everything? Well, the University of Nottingham's Nanotechnology Center decided to help Professor of chemistry, Martyn Poliakoff celebrate his special day by "etching" a copy of his beloved Peri...

barney · barney

Samsung is demonstrating a working version of multi-player games at CES this week that interact with each other across phone, tablet and TV. The games, all running on Android, allow end users to play whilst they're travelling or using a tablet. Users can compete against friends who are sitting in th...

barney · barney

One trend that has become very clear at this year’s CES is that the Internet is slowly making its way into our cars. Of course, you can already browse the Net and play music from Pandora through your smartphone, but the next generation of cars – and especially electric cars – are making the Internet an in...

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More than 30 years after NASA's Viking landers found no evidence for organic materials on Mars, scientists say a new experiment on Mars-like soil shows Viking did, in fact, hit pay dirt. Article HERE!

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Graphics chipmaker Nvidia, eager to hasten the arrival of the 3D graphics era and spur demand for new 3D hardware, today unveiled a site for content called 3DVisionLive. At the site, people can share their own 3D photos and see more from professional photographers; watch short videos, trailers, an...

barney · barney

Fan of the early upgrade? Hope you're not on Big Red, then. Android Central's obtained what's purported to be a slide from Verizon's training material, one that says customers on a two-year contract "will no longer be able to upgrade in months 13 - 20 of their 24 month contract as a standard polic...

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Microsoft says it has fixed a problem with its Windows Live Hotmail service that temporarily deleted the e-mail of more than 17,000 users. The trouble began on Dec. 30 when the e-mail in 17,355 accounts disappeared. On Monday, a Microsoft executive wrote that the company had identified the technic...

barney · barney

Well, it’s official. Pretty much everyone now has broadband and the majority us of use the Internet more than we watch TV. Everyone and their grandmother is on Facebook, and many of us have some kind of embarrassing moment enshrined on YouTube. But how much do you really know about the Internet revolu...

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One thing that reached new heights of both stupidity and tragedy in 2010 was the trend of online impersonation. If you’re shaking your USB-enabled cane and shouting “there oughta be a law” in between pre-NYE shots of Metamucil, then you’re in luck. As of January 1, 2011, California’s first online im...

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	Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for the government (Preview) On November 16, 2009, Greg Hoglund, a cofounder of computer security firm HBGary, sent an e-mail to two colleagues. The message came with an attachment, a Microsoft Word file called AL_QAEDA.doc, which had been further compressed and password protected for safety. Its contents were dangerous. &...	barney	0	134	Feb 20, 2011 by barney
	Kindle update to add real page numbers (Preview) When Amazon first introduced the Kindle, in addition to changing the way the eBook market worked, they also added a new way to mark your location in a book using something called "locations." Locations were Amazon's answer to displaying different text sizes and accommodating the diffe...	barney	9	959	Feb 13, 2011 by barney
	10 Ways Google Is the New Microsoft (Preview) Google is the new Microsoft. Something tells me you've heard that one before. By my count, people have been saying that since 2005. But the question remains: Is it really a fair comparison? Microsoft dominated the desktop computer industry for the past 15 years with purported ruthlessness and cunn...	barney	0	139	Feb 12, 2011 by barney
	Adobe Releases Flash Player 10.2 with 'Stage Video' (Preview) [url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379908,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ziffdavis%2Fpcmag%2Fbreakingnews+%28PCMag.com+Breaking+News%29&utm_content=My+MSN]Adobe Releas...	Vindicated	0	201	Feb 9, 2011 by Vindicated
	Microsoft Finally Turns Off AutoRun in Latest Windows Update (Preview) [url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379901,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ziffdavis%2Fpcmag%2Fbreakingnews+%28PCMag.com+Breaking+News%29&utm_content=My+MSN]Microsoft Fi...	Vindicated	0	165	Feb 9, 2011 by Vindicated
	Settlement: Boss-bashing on Facebook can't get you fired (Preview) Employees should be able to say what they’d like about their employer, their working conditions or even their wages on their Facebook pages and not be disciplined by the boss because of it. That’s essentially the message that’s being sent today with news of a legal settlement between a Connecticut a...	barney	1	169	Feb 9, 2011 by Vindicated
	Dating website imports 250,000 unwitting Facebook accounts (Preview) How does a unknown dating site, with the absurd intention of destroying Facebook, launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day? Simple. You scrape data from Facebook. At least, that’s the approach taken by two provocateurs who launched Lovely-Faces.com this week, with profiles — names, l...	barney	1	175	Feb 5, 2011 by Vindicated
	NASDAQ Stock Market Computers Compromised Repeatedly During Last Year (Preview) According to a report by the WSJ, the NASDAQ Stock Market's computer network was repeatedly compromised during the last year. So far it appears that no damage was done and that the hackers "have just been looking around." While there are no official statements just yet, several sources f...	barney	0	132	Feb 5, 2011 by barney
	Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code (Preview) Mohan Srivastava, a geological statistician living in Toronto, was working in his office in June 2003, waiting for some files to download onto his computer, when he discovered a couple of old lottery tickets buried under some paper on his desk. The tickets were cheap scratchers—a gag gift from his s...	barney	0	124	Feb 5, 2011 by barney
	The Internet’s IPv4 Gas Tank is running on empty (Preview) If the Internet was a car, it would be running out of gas and the fuel warning idiot light would have just come on. Late yesterday, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigned its last two available blocks of IPv4 addresses to the Asia-Pacific Network Information Center. That leaves us w...	barney	0	116	Feb 2, 2011 by barney
	New Personal Mobility Device! (Preview)	barney	1	162	Jan 29, 2011 by Vindicated
	How Egypt Turned Off the Internet (Preview) Yesterday, something unprecedented happened: Egypt turned off the internet. A nation of 80,000,000 instantly disconnected. So how'd they do it? Phone Calls There was no giant lever or big red button involved, but in reality it was almost as easy: the Egyptian Government simply issued an order for...	barney	1	169	Jan 29, 2011 by Vindicated
	Who Owns Your Facebook Data? (Preview) On the surface this seems like a silly question. Surely you own your Facebook photos, status updates, notes, links, or anything else you've shared. Because, after all, you put them there. Right? Not necessarily. Facebook's terms of service make it clear that, while you technically "own&quo...	barney	0	120	Jan 29, 2011 by barney
	Government in Egypt Reportedly Cuts All Access to Internet (Preview) [url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2376863,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ziffdavis%2Fpcmag%2Fbreakingnews+%28PCMag.com+Breaking+News%29&utm_content=My+MSN]Government i...	Vindicated	1	193	Jan 29, 2011 by Vindicated
	The end of credit cards is coming (Preview) Credit cards may soon be as outdated as vinyl records. (Remember those?) And this is the year that the slow, steady march to oblivion begins. You can already use your iPhone, Droid or BlackBerry to buy a hotdog at the ballgame, buy your Starbucks latté, or give a friend a few bucks by Bumping phones. But...	barney	0	148	Jan 25, 2011 by barney
	Gadgets: built to not last (Preview) That shiny new Android phone you just bought? Yeah, it's a piece of trash. No, I'm not some Google-hating Apple fanboy. The iPhone 4 is junk, too. So is that giant, flat-screen 3D TV and tablet you bought in the past year. It's trash. All trash. Of course, everything ends up broken, obsolete and unusabl...	barney	2	197	Jan 24, 2011 by barney
	The Internet is Running Out of Space…Kind of (Preview) On February 2nd around 4 a.m., the Internet will run out of its current version of IP addresses. At least that’s what one Internet Service Provider is predicting based on a rate of about one million addresses every four hours. Hurricane Electric has launched Twitter and Facebook accounts that count...	barney	0	111	Jan 23, 2011 by barney
	Apple offering $10,000 Gift Card for the 10 billionth download (Preview) Apple has a long way to go to catch up to the 100+ billion hamburgers that McDonalds has served, but they’re clearly closing the gap quickly. They currently sit at 9.7 billion applications downloaded in their worldwide App Store and the number is rapidly increasing by the second. As they hurtle towar...	barney	0	130	Jan 15, 2011 by barney
	How 3D will evolve (Preview) CES 2011 a convinced me that 3D has a 70% chance of becoming mainstream consumer tech. But there’s 2 conditions: 3D will be glasses-free; and it will take 10 years, not 3. CES in 3D 3D was big at CES. Sony was all in, with 3D from the cool Bloggie HD video camera for $250, to crisp giant rear projection scree...	barney	0	134	Jan 12, 2011 by barney
	12 Technologies On The Verge of Extinction (Preview) Twelve teetering technologies: will they survive or die? MaximumPC rounds up its Dirty Dozen techs that they expect to die out by 2020—or at least come close. Here's who's on the chopping block. You will likely disagree with some of our assessments. But you're wrong and we're right. At least we think...	barney	0	125	Jan 12, 2011 by barney
	The Mac App Store makes multi-Mac ownership cheaper than multi-PC ownership (Preview) Apple has struck a blow again Microsoft by making multi-Mac ownership cheaper than multi-PC ownership. Note: Putting aside that whole piracy problem plaguing the Mac App Store … How has Apple pulled off this trick? Through this simple entry in the Mac App Store FAQ: Q: Can I use apps from the Mac App St...	barney	0	152	Jan 10, 2011 by barney
	World's Smallest Periodic Table Etched Onto a Single Hair (Preview) The age old dilemma: what kind of birthday present do you get for the mad Professor who has everything? Well, the University of Nottingham's Nanotechnology Center decided to help Professor of chemistry, Martyn Poliakoff celebrate his special day by "etching" a copy of his beloved Peri...	barney	0	161	Jan 8, 2011 by barney
	Samsung shows off multi-player Android gaming across phone, tablet and TV (Preview) Samsung is demonstrating a working version of multi-player games at CES this week that interact with each other across phone, tablet and TV. The games, all running on Android, allow end users to play whilst they're travelling or using a tablet. Users can compete against friends who are sitting in th...	barney	0	110	Jan 8, 2011 by barney
	Why Your Next Car Will Have an IP Address (Preview) One trend that has become very clear at this year’s CES is that the Internet is slowly making its way into our cars. Of course, you can already browse the Net and play music from Pandora through your smartphone, but the next generation of cars – and especially electric cars – are making the Internet an in...	barney	0	135	Jan 8, 2011 by barney
	Viking Found Organics on Mars, Experiment Confirms (Preview) More than 30 years after NASA's Viking landers found no evidence for organic materials on Mars, scientists say a new experiment on Mars-like soil shows Viking did, in fact, hit pay dirt. Article HERE!	NicKnayme	0	125	Jan 5, 2011 by NicKnayme
	Nvidia unveils site for 3D video, photos, sports (Preview) Graphics chipmaker Nvidia, eager to hasten the arrival of the 3D graphics era and spur demand for new 3D hardware, today unveiled a site for content called 3DVisionLive. At the site, people can share their own 3D photos and see more from professional photographers; watch short videos, trailers, an...	barney	0	125	Jan 5, 2011 by barney
	Verizon Wireless nixing early upgrades and New Every Two program? (Preview) Fan of the early upgrade? Hope you're not on Big Red, then. Android Central's obtained what's purported to be a slide from Verizon's training material, one that says customers on a two-year contract "will no longer be able to upgrade in months 13 - 20 of their 24 month contract as a standard polic...	barney	0	142	Jan 5, 2011 by barney
	Microsoft blames server problem for Hotmail outage (Preview) Microsoft says it has fixed a problem with its Windows Live Hotmail service that temporarily deleted the e-mail of more than 17,000 users. The trouble began on Dec. 30 when the e-mail in 17,355 accounts disappeared. On Monday, a Microsoft executive wrote that the company had identified the technic...	barney	0	140	Jan 5, 2011 by barney
	18 Fun Interesting Facts You Never Knew About The Internet (Preview) Well, it’s official. Pretty much everyone now has broadband and the majority us of use the Internet more than we watch TV. Everyone and their grandmother is on Facebook, and many of us have some kind of embarrassing moment enshrined on YouTube. But how much do you really know about the Internet revolu...	barney	0	146	Jan 2, 2011 by barney
	California's Online Impersonation Law, Effective January 1 (Preview) One thing that reached new heights of both stupidity and tragedy in 2010 was the trend of online impersonation. If you’re shaking your USB-enabled cane and shouting “there oughta be a law” in between pre-NYE shots of Metamucil, then you’re in luck. As of January 1, 2011, California’s first online im...	barney	0	132	Jan 2, 2011 by barney
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