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The FBI now wants to require all encrypted communications systems to have back doors for surveillance, according to a New York Times report, and to the nation’s top crypto experts it sounds like a battle they’ve fought before. Back in the 1990s, in what’s remembered as the crypto wars, the FBI and NSA...

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Those photos of Jessica Alba may be murder on your PC. That Google search result that looks as if it answers all your questions may do nothing but create a serious tech headache. The fun you had watching that hilarious video you downloaded may not be worth the misery it can cause your system. You've been...

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Study after study shows that distracted drivers are far more likely to get into accidents, which has led a number of states to craft laws intended to limit one of the most significant distractions: the cell phone. Initial efforts focused on keeping both hands on the wheel by mandating hands-free use...

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Anybody who’s even mildly interested in technology has felt it. It’s why people stand in line all night for the new Xbox or Playstation, or one of those products whose name starts with an “i." It’s gadget lust. Companies like Apple have become so good at slowly amping up the mystique and hype arou...

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wo hackers convicted of defacing Comcast's website two years ago were sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison. Christopher Lewis, 20, and Michael Nebel, 28, were part of a telephone hacking group called Kryogeniks that took control of the Comcast.net website in May 2008. After taking over an accou...

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Thanks to the explosion of social networking and all those nifty Web apps people use to bank and shop online, the bad guys now have an endless supply of attack vectors to steal personal data. In fact, some security industry experts have declared privacy dead. Whatever the case may be, companies are in...

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You can't install the apps you want on your smartphone. You can't play the movies you bought on your PC. You can't even walk into a store without getting upsold, enrolled, restocked, and recalled. Welcome to the world of tech in 2010, where your phone doesn't work--and companies tell you that "y...

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The FBI and other police agencies don't need a search warrant to track the locations of Americans' cell phones, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a precedent-setting decision. In the first decision of its kind, a Philadelphia appeals court agreed with the Obama administration that no searc...

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A Nigerian man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sending out fraudulent e-mails offering victims big bucks in exchange for moving cash to the United States. Okpako Mike Diamreyan, 31, was sentenced to 151 months of prison Wednesday by United States District Judge Janet Hall in Bridgeport...

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Only 24 hours after the launch of Apple's new social network, Ping, the service has been overrun by spammers. The fraudsters have created iTunes profiles and are posting links to a number of online scams, including ones that promises "free iPhones" or "free iPads" in exchang...

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E-mail has invaded every aspect of our lives. We don’t need a survey to tell us as much, but new research from Xobni and Harris Interactive confirms that we’re not alone in dealing with e-mail overload. 2,200 adults 18 and older in the U.S. and U.K were surveyed on their e-mail habits and attitudes. Mos...

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One of the less pleasant aspects of our online Age of Anxiety is that most of us now get anonymous e-mails on a daily basis from people who, given their druthers, would rob us silly as fast as technologically possible. Of late, I've been getting a frenzy of bogus missives thanking me for the five thousan...

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Grown-ups don't text as much as teens -- at least not yet. A new survey suggests they may be catching up. About 72 percent of adult mobile phone users send text messages with their phones, according to a report released Thursday from the Pew Research Center. That's up from 65 percent just a year ago. Abo...

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Students are slowly beginning to move in to their new homes in and around their respective universities in preparation for the upcoming academic term. Most bills and subscriptions like electricity, gas, water, TV licence and other commodities are provided already and simply need a direct debit t...

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These days, most of your electronics have miniature computers built-in: Home-theater gear, handheld devices, phones, and even appliances now have embedded smarts in the form of a microprocessor, memory, and software. And just like computer software, firmware--the software that runs on your g...

barney · barney

High-definition TVs have come a long way in the past two years. In 2008, a 1080p HDTV set was still a high-end item; today, it's pretty much the norm (as it should be for optimal Blu-ray Disc playback). LED-backlit sets were just starting to appear then, and their price tags were astronomical--Sony ch...

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As American Eagle Outfitters learned in July, even if you do everything right to ensure you have disaster recovery and business continuity plans in place, Murphy's Law sometimes takes over. And problems can be compounded if you rely on an outsourcer for disaster recovery services. The multibilli...

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YouTube isn’t just for kittens, cute kids, and confabulating celebrities. It’s also home to some of the most inspiring moments from history ever captured on camera. Here, we’ve selected 10 videos highlighting some of the most amazing scenes that can be witnessed on-demand through the world’s mos...

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Eureka has been Giz's celebration of inventors of all stripe, from Tesla to Popeil. But some of the most memorable inventors of our time were actually invented themselves. Here are ten fictional innovators near and dear to our hearts. Who: Major Boothroyd, MI6 Quartermaster, Q was responsible for...

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It seems that Blockbuster video/DVD rental chain is lumbering one step closer to oblivion as it plans to file for something it calls “pre-planned bankruptcy.” The company is the latest victim of our move to a digital, ethereal existence. The company is in a pretty deep hole, and hopes that Chapter...

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"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits," Thomas Edison once said. But is hustling all it takes? Is progress always deliberate? Sometimes genius arrives not by choice—but by chance. Below are our ten favorite serendipitous innovations. Gizmodo has the details HERE!

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When some event is happening—such as an earthquake, a major court ruling, an iProduct launch, or a celebrity death—there's a certain group of users who want to see what people are saying about it across the entire Internet, right now. Twitter's search works decently enough in this case, but it's lim...

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As it turns out, Windows Vista really wasn't all that slow; and no, your PC probably won't fry if you open it up without wearing a wrist strap. Thanks in large part to the Internet, the tech world is teeming with lies, half-truths, and misinformation. We've dug up some of the Web's most notorious nugget...

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With its new location-based Places feature, Facebook may have just lit the match that will ignite another round of privacy controversy. On Wednesday, Facebook took the wraps off of Places, a smartphone-based service that enables users to tell their friends where they are, and to track friends. Th...

barney · barney

What’s the first thing young women do when they wake up? Check Facebook. How do enterprise employees pass the time at work? With social media. With so many studies highlighting ever-accelerating social media usage rates, the conclusion is obvious — social media is everywhere. What follows are fiv...

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Friends, I am here today to tell you that you are being bamboozled! Hoodwinked! Flim-flammed! Throw out that beefy new Alienware workstation and get yourself a sturdy little slim profile desktop. Trade in that big honking business laptop and get yourself a sleek, shiny netbook. Sounds kind of sill...

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When you're ready to say "Take this job and shove it," how should you deliver the message? With thanks to JetBlue's newest hero, here's a look at 8 unique job resignations using everything from song to sheetcake. Networkworld has the slideshow HERE!

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Some users are hot at Microsoft over snafus in the new Hotmail that have locked them out of their accounts, blocked them from viewing mail or kept them from accessing contacts. Microsoft started rolling out a revamp of its Windows Live Hotmail in mid-June, and said it had completed the upgrade for 350...

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Baylor University doesn't want its students using peer-to-peer networks. A BlueCoat PacketShaper locks down bandwidth to students, and all inbound ports are blocked by the campus firewall to keep "computers from acting as servers or super nodes in peer to peer networks." Illinois St...

barney · barney

Bill Gates thinks something is going to die too. No, it’s not physical books like Nicholas Negroponte — instead, Gates thinks the idea of young adults having to go to universities in order to get an education is going to go away relatively soon. Well, provided they’re self-motivated learners. “Five...

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	FBI Drive for Encryption Backdoors Is Déjà Vu for Security Experts (Preview) The FBI now wants to require all encrypted communications systems to have back doors for surveillance, according to a New York Times report, and to the nation’s top crypto experts it sounds like a battle they’ve fought before. Back in the 1990s, in what’s remembered as the crypto wars, the FBI and NSA...	barney	0	147	Sep 29, 2010 by barney
	The 17 Most Dangerous Places on the Web (Preview) Those photos of Jessica Alba may be murder on your PC. That Google search result that looks as if it answers all your questions may do nothing but create a serious tech headache. The fun you had watching that hilarious video you downloaded may not be worth the misery it can cause your system. You've been...	barney	0	153	Sep 28, 2010 by barney
	Texting bans for drivers not putting a dent in accident rates (Preview) Study after study shows that distracted drivers are far more likely to get into accidents, which has led a number of states to craft laws intended to limit one of the most significant distractions: the cell phone. Initial efforts focused on keeping both hands on the wheel by mandating hands-free use...	barney	0	137	Sep 28, 2010 by barney
	Don't Be Blinded By 'Gadget Lust' (Preview) Anybody who’s even mildly interested in technology has felt it. It’s why people stand in line all night for the new Xbox or Playstation, or one of those products whose name starts with an “i." It’s gadget lust. Companies like Apple have become so good at slowly amping up the mystique and hype arou...	barney	4	210	Sep 26, 2010 by NicKnayme
	Comcast hackers get 18 months in prison (Preview) wo hackers convicted of defacing Comcast's website two years ago were sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison. Christopher Lewis, 20, and Michael Nebel, 28, were part of a telephone hacking group called Kryogeniks that took control of the Comcast.net website in May 2008. After taking over an accou...	barney	0	167	Sep 25, 2010 by barney
	Can privacy be saved? Maybe (Preview) Thanks to the explosion of social networking and all those nifty Web apps people use to bank and shop online, the bad guys now have an endless supply of attack vectors to steal personal data. In fact, some security industry experts have declared privacy dead. Whatever the case may be, companies are in...	barney	0	133	Sep 15, 2010 by barney
	How the Tech Industry Is Screwing You (Preview) You can't install the apps you want on your smartphone. You can't play the movies you bought on your PC. You can't even walk into a store without getting upsold, enrolled, restocked, and recalled. Welcome to the world of tech in 2010, where your phone doesn't work--and companies tell you that "y...	barney	0	163	Sep 11, 2010 by barney
	Court allows warrantless cell location tracking (Preview) The FBI and other police agencies don't need a search warrant to track the locations of Americans' cell phones, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a precedent-setting decision. In the first decision of its kind, a Philadelphia appeals court agreed with the Obama administration that no searc...	barney	1	181	Sep 9, 2010 by Vindicated
	Nigerian advance-fee scammer gets 12 years (Preview) A Nigerian man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sending out fraudulent e-mails offering victims big bucks in exchange for moving cash to the United States. Okpako Mike Diamreyan, 31, was sentenced to 151 months of prison Wednesday by United States District Judge Janet Hall in Bridgeport...	barney	1	167	Sep 4, 2010 by Vindicated
	Apple's Ping Overrun with Spam (Preview) Only 24 hours after the launch of Apple's new social network, Ping, the service has been overrun by spammers. The fraudsters have created iTunes profiles and are posting links to a number of online scams, including ones that promises "free iPhones" or "free iPads" in exchang...	barney	0	152	Sep 4, 2010 by barney
	The Truth About E-mail: We Check It All the Time (Preview) E-mail has invaded every aspect of our lives. We don’t need a survey to tell us as much, but new research from Xobni and Harris Interactive confirms that we’re not alone in dealing with e-mail overload. 2,200 adults 18 and older in the U.S. and U.K were surveyed on their e-mail habits and attitudes. Mos...	barney	0	160	Sep 3, 2010 by barney
	Drumroll, please: the top Web scams of the decade (Preview) One of the less pleasant aspects of our online Age of Anxiety is that most of us now get anonymous e-mails on a daily basis from people who, given their druthers, would rob us silly as fast as technologically possible. Of late, I've been getting a frenzy of bogus missives thanking me for the five thousan...	barney	0	160	Sep 3, 2010 by barney
	Adult texters catching up to teens (Preview) Grown-ups don't text as much as teens -- at least not yet. A new survey suggests they may be catching up. About 72 percent of adult mobile phone users send text messages with their phones, according to a report released Thursday from the Pew Research Center. That's up from 65 percent just a year ago. Abo...	barney	0	163	Sep 2, 2010 by barney
	Should public Wi-Fi access be 'free'? (Preview) Students are slowly beginning to move in to their new homes in and around their respective universities in preparation for the upcoming academic term. Most bills and subscriptions like electricity, gas, water, TV licence and other commodities are provided already and simply need a direct debit t...	barney	0	137	Sep 2, 2010 by barney
	Update the Firmware On Your HDTV, Camera, Smartphone, PC, and More (Preview) These days, most of your electronics have miniature computers built-in: Home-theater gear, handheld devices, phones, and even appliances now have embedded smarts in the form of a microprocessor, memory, and software. And just like computer software, firmware--the software that runs on your g...	barney	0	137	Sep 1, 2010 by barney
	10 Things You Need to Know Before Buying an HDTV (Preview) High-definition TVs have come a long way in the past two years. In 2008, a 1080p HDTV set was still a high-end item; today, it's pretty much the norm (as it should be for optimal Blu-ray Disc playback). LED-backlit sets were just starting to appear then, and their price tags were astronomical--Sony ch...	barney	0	159	Sep 1, 2010 by barney
	American Eagle Outfitters learns a painful service provider lesson (Preview) As American Eagle Outfitters learned in July, even if you do everything right to ensure you have disaster recovery and business continuity plans in place, Murphy's Law sometimes takes over. And problems can be compounded if you rely on an outsourcer for disaster recovery services. The multibilli...	barney	0	139	Aug 30, 2010 by barney
	10 Incredibly Inspirational Moments on YouTube (Preview) YouTube isn’t just for kittens, cute kids, and confabulating celebrities. It’s also home to some of the most inspiring moments from history ever captured on camera. Here, we’ve selected 10 videos highlighting some of the most amazing scenes that can be witnessed on-demand through the world’s mos...	barney	0	144	Aug 29, 2010 by barney
	The 10 Greatest Fictional Inventors of All Time (Preview) Eureka has been Giz's celebration of inventors of all stripe, from Tesla to Popeil. But some of the most memorable inventors of our time were actually invented themselves. Here are ten fictional innovators near and dear to our hearts. Who: Major Boothroyd, MI6 Quartermaster, Q was responsible for...	barney	0	152	Aug 29, 2010 by barney
	Blockbuster to file for "pre-planned bankruptcy" (Preview) It seems that Blockbuster video/DVD rental chain is lumbering one step closer to oblivion as it plans to file for something it calls “pre-planned bankruptcy.” The company is the latest victim of our move to a digital, ethereal existence. The company is in a pretty deep hole, and hopes that Chapter...	barney	0	163	Aug 28, 2010 by barney
	Whoops! The 10 Greatest (Accidental) Inventions of All Time (Preview) "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits," Thomas Edison once said. But is hustling all it takes? Is progress always deliberate? Sometimes genius arrives not by choice—but by chance. Below are our ten favorite serendipitous innovations. Gizmodo has the details HERE!	barney	0	144	Aug 27, 2010 by barney
	Google Realtime Rolls To The Masses (Preview) When some event is happening—such as an earthquake, a major court ruling, an iProduct launch, or a celebrity death—there's a certain group of users who want to see what people are saying about it across the entire Internet, right now. Twitter's search works decently enough in this case, but it's lim...	barney	0	132	Aug 27, 2010 by barney
	Technology's Biggest Myths (Preview) As it turns out, Windows Vista really wasn't all that slow; and no, your PC probably won't fry if you open it up without wearing a wrist strap. Thanks in large part to the Internet, the tech world is teeming with lies, half-truths, and misinformation. We've dug up some of the Web's most notorious nugget...	barney	0	156	Aug 23, 2010 by barney
	Facebook Places could spark new privacy fire (Preview) With its new location-based Places feature, Facebook may have just lit the match that will ignite another round of privacy controversy. On Wednesday, Facebook took the wraps off of Places, a smartphone-based service that enables users to tell their friends where they are, and to track friends. Th...	barney	0	144	Aug 22, 2010 by barney
	5 Huge Trends in Social Media Right Now (Preview) What’s the first thing young women do when they wake up? Check Facebook. How do enterprise employees pass the time at work? With social media. With so many studies highlighting ever-accelerating social media usage rates, the conclusion is obvious — social media is everywhere. What follows are fiv...	barney	0	141	Aug 21, 2010 by barney
	Downgrading your computer: Why less is more (Preview) Friends, I am here today to tell you that you are being bamboozled! Hoodwinked! Flim-flammed! Throw out that beefy new Alienware workstation and get yourself a sturdy little slim profile desktop. Trade in that big honking business laptop and get yourself a sleek, shiny netbook. Sounds kind of sill...	barney	0	138	Aug 21, 2010 by barney
	I Quit! 8 Dramatic Ways to Leave Your Job (Preview) When you're ready to say "Take this job and shove it," how should you deliver the message? With thanks to JetBlue's newest hero, here's a look at 8 unique job resignations using everything from song to sheetcake. Networkworld has the slideshow HERE!	barney	0	152	Aug 14, 2010 by barney
	Hotmail users get hot under the collar after upgrade (Preview) Some users are hot at Microsoft over snafus in the new Hotmail that have locked them out of their accounts, blocked them from viewing mail or kept them from accessing contacts. Microsoft started rolling out a revamp of its Windows Live Hotmail in mid-June, and said it had completed the upgrade for 350...	barney	1	286	Aug 13, 2010 by Vindicated
	New antipiracy countermeasures await returning students (Preview) Baylor University doesn't want its students using peer-to-peer networks. A BlueCoat PacketShaper locks down bandwidth to students, and all inbound ports are blocked by the campus firewall to keep "computers from acting as servers or super nodes in peer to peer networks." Illinois St...	barney	0	140	Aug 12, 2010 by barney
	Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web (Preview) Bill Gates thinks something is going to die too. No, it’s not physical books like Nicholas Negroponte — instead, Gates thinks the idea of young adults having to go to universities in order to get an education is going to go away relatively soon. Well, provided they’re self-motivated learners. “Five...	barney	0	142	Aug 10, 2010 by barney
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