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Who says Privacy is Dead?

dvorak — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:28:29 +0000

Ballmer in the news yakking about the MSFT pad. Kindle expensive to make. Probably losing money on the device. Meanwhile RIM delivering the Blackpad. Privacy issues abound. Windows shortcut hole at issue. Moto Droid getting 2.2 finally. Global warming undeniable says NG. NYC subways to go wireless. Android apps sending data to China. Why? Samsung 4G LTE ready to go says FCC. Mars Rover to die soon.

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New Kindle is a Winner

dvorak — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:09:53 +0000

New Kindle is a winner with everything improved. Steve Ballmer moaning about Apple sales. 170,000,000 Facebook users data in the wild. Win Phone 7 reviews mostly positive. Motorola Android sales saving the company. Hacker finds code to make ATM machines cough out money. Android will win the mobile OS wars. iPhone costs more than Droids to make. UK clears Google on Wi-Fi theft.

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Google Yahoo Microsoft Spells GYM!

dvorak — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:46:50 +0000

MSFT moaning about Yahoo Japan. Black Hat event underway with cool discoveries. 3D a theme with Panasonic as the company brings out a camera and camcorder with 3D capability. Plankton is dying! Verizon users use more data than anyone else. Why? I have a theory.

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50 Gbps Coming to Your Home

dvorak — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:30:23 +0000

Mac OSX 10.6.4 now out for new iMacs. Apple shows magic trackpad. Apple begs people to not Jailbreak phones. Google does backdoor deal with Yahoo Japan. Dell Streak delayed, kind of. Gamestop buys online games company. Good idea. Laser chips added to silicon for faster network. Droid-X is in shortage. AT&T doing Win Phone 7. Nobody will pay for Twitter. Climate change means Mexicans will come to USA. nVidia loses to Rambus. One million ebooks sold by author. Black Hat and Defcon coming to the news cycle.

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Hadron Collider Obsolete Already? What?

dvorak — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:30:04 +0000

IPhone jailbreaking is legal, but Apple does not care. New Google cloud targeting gov’t security needs. This is a dead end. AT&T goes Wi-Fi to bolster 3G and 4G networks. What? UAE says Smartphones may be a security threat. Hmmm. CTIA suing SF over dumb law. Hadron collider is obsolete? Chat roulette has issues. EU going after IBM once more. IPv6 back in the discussion. Infoworld muses about Perl 6.

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Nook on Droid

dvorak — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:02:15 +0000

Microsoft making nothing but money. Stock languishes. Company will give away 90,000 phones to its own employees. Facebook CEO could lose company? What? AT&T making money thanks to Apple. Female users are clueless with Facebook says survey. IBM mainframes are boring but profitable. Droid 2.2 coming shortly. Stonehenge II found! Crazy new app locks your car. Nook app helps Android. Java can be huge.

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IBM Makes Money. Huh?

dvorak — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:52:57 +0000

Over 800 stories about the friggin’ antenna. Windows shell has a huge messed up vulnerability. iPad being rolled out in the EU and Mexico this week. Facebook declares 500 million users. Netflix going instant in Canada. Foursquare wants its data shared with the search engines. IBM all over the news. IBM news elaborate and confusing. HP likes Foxconn. Amazon says kindle books outselling hardcovers. Wow.

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Increase Font Size In Firefox Menu

Rich Schumaker — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:58:51 +0000

If you are tired of having to put your reading glasses on to read the menus as you surf the net, I have a fix for you. Check out the Theme Font Size Changer add-on for Firefox. You can instantly change the font size of all windows, menus, toolbars, etc within Firefox using a drop down menu. Like all the Firefox add-ons, it is FREE – as in beer. Check it out.

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Google Nexus One All Done

dvorak — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:21:35 +0000

iPhone 4 news dominating things because of the antenna. Free bumpers for everyone. The phone still has connection issues. Google buys Metaweb. Droid Smartphones all different. Stop the presses! The Gizmodo search warrant has been withdrawn. What a nightmare. The Nexus One is now kaput. Look for Nexus Two. Video games slumping, hardware surging. NASA kills moon program altogether. Comic Con coming. Everyone wanted to buy Palm. Who knew?

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Apple Netbook?

dvorak — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:27:05 +0000

Droid-X looks good. Google earnings not up to par. WSJ says Apple know of the iPhone antenna glitch. Old Spice making a comeback. Verizon joins with junkware? Mercury flyby shows planet Mercury has huge magnetic field. HP needs to ditch Android tablet sez expert. Microsoft to co-fund dev work on Phone 7. 11.6-inch Mac Book Air coming? Apple buying small tech companies. Zynga killing it.

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Blackberry Comeback?

dvorak — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:55:43 +0000

Bing gaining market share says the experts. Too many stories at once. I’m suspicious. 12 Russian spy at Microsoft! The company will be financing WinPhone7 apps. Instant charging batteries. Apple gets in to mapping. Android sales continue to swell. Chicken and egg mystery cracked. Music in the cloud coming soon. RIM to make comeback. Hot new Sony NEX camcorder kicks it.

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Google Spending Big onGames?

dvorak — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:06:16 +0000

Google codeless App Inventor getting attention. MSFT now selling cloud services to others. I hear eBay will be testing it. HTC EVO 4G phones taking forever to ramp. RIM to do Blackberry tablet? Google buying into Zynga. I have a Google profile! So? Facebook adds panic button for dummies. US Senator worried about doomsday. Acoustic fibers can sing!

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Parking Lot or Auto Dealership?

Rich Schumaker — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:44:53 +0000

Sean Phillips opened the Sell It lot on U.S. 11 in Radford to give people a high visible lot to display their vehicles for sale. However, a DMV spokesperson says Virginia law makes it illegal for “anyone except a licensed dealer to do anything for profit that involves any aspect of displaying, offering or attempting to sell motor vehicles for themselves or for others.”

If you want to sell your own car in Virginia, it must be displayed on the owner’s private land or the landowner must be a licensed dealer.

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I am sure that the DMV spokesperson is technically correct but, in practice, this law is virtually unenforceable. Just take a second to think this one through. How many vehicle have you seen parked on the street downtown with a “For Sale” sign in the window. Have you driven by a Walmart parking lot lately? It isn’t uncommon to see 10 or15 cars parked near the street and marked for sale.

Mr. Phillips could argue that he is merely renting a parking space that happens to be in a high visibility area. At worst, by its very nature, this law is resulting in selective enforcement at its worst.

3D Camera Awaits

dvorak — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:05:46 +0000

YouTube mobile takes off. New iPOD Touch revealed. NSA to be monitoring the power grid. Facebook lawsuit woes. Are women addicted to Facebook? Answer: yes. AT&T limits iPhone fun. MSFT Kin to disappear. I predict it will be gone from the timeline. 3D Camera coming. Twitter to become the next Google? How?

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