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Well, well, well it looks like the folks at AT&T are going to have a go at settling the Anti-Trust suit brought by the DOJ. Originally some statements from the Telecommunications giant had indicated they would fight this in court.…
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A man in Bernal Heights might have had his home searched by Apple Employees who were masquerading as police. According to SFWeekly Sergio Calderón is the person whose home was searched. Calderón’s story, if true, is extremely concerning and raises…
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Thursday, 01 September 2011 20:54
DOJ files Anti-Trust suit over AT&T TMobile merger
Written by Sean Kalinich
Although the news of this broke a couple of days ago we thought we would wait and take a deeper look at what the recent DOJ (Department of Justice) Anti-Trust suit means to the AT&T/T-Mobile merger. First and foremost the…
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In what has to be rather big blow to Netflix Starz has ceased contract negotiations with Netflix. This means that once the contract expires in February 2012 there will be no more Starz movies streaming on Netflix. Although this is…
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Wednesday, 31 August 2011 22:33
Does anyone really know what AMD is doing next?
Written by Sean Kalinich
There is a ton of contradictory information on the net today about just exactly what AMD and Globalfoundries are going to do with the next process. As we already know AMD’s next gen CPU Bulldozer will be a 32nm 8-core…
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Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:14
Google launches an Elevated Privilege Chrome Frame for non admins
Written by Sean Kalinich
So it appears that Google thinks people should use their Chrome Browser even if they work at a company that restricts things of this nature (often with very good reason). Although you will not hear much about this it has…
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We have heard many comments about Steam, Vale’s distribution service these range from very bad to it is the greatest thing since the invention of the internet. Our personal feelings fall in the middle. It is a great service and…
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There were some interesting announcements for AMD at the Globalfoundries event today; although it was not AMD that made these, but Greg Bartlett, Senior VP of Technology and Integration Engineering at GF. Gregg was showing off a few slides of…
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In stunning news VMware announced the reinvention of the wheel at the VMware World Conference in Las Vegas. They showed of their new “wheel” which will run slower and have a greater potential for security risks than the older wheel,…
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Monday, 29 August 2011 21:47
Prior Art is just that... Prior Art. Even if it is Sci-Fi
Written by Sean Kalinich
In the recent patent wars between Apple and, well just about everyone else you hear a lot about Prior Art. This is when someone can point to something that was created or in use before the item in question was…
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Monday, 29 August 2011 20:07
A Google SSL Cert issued to... Someone that was not Google
Written by Sean Kalinich
Not that long ago Microsoft was the victim of an incorrectly assigned certificate. This was issued to more than just Microsoft and caused some havoc with a few firewalls (like Microsoft’s ISA) that check for security certificate validity. Because of…
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Sunday, 28 August 2011 23:19
EDIMAX BR-6258n Nano Wireless Router Impresses us in the Lab Featured
Written by Sean KalinichWireless networking is one of those things that we all have come to rely on. We tend to expect to be able to connect just about anywhere now. I mean, even McDonalds has wireless now so why shouldn’t we? But what do you do when you come across one of those places that either does not have it, has poor quality (like many hotels) or you are just concerned about your security when on those open networks? Well there are a few companies that have a solution to this and we are going to take a look at one from EDIMAX today. It is one of the world’s smallest 802.11n wireless routers the EDIMAX BR-6258n.
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Security is the bane of every network in the world. It is the reason why so many IT technicians end up burnt out or (in the case of men) bald. We all know that the only secure system is one…
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There is RAID and then there is RAID!. Well IBM has the latter that is a conglomerate of 200,000 disk drives combined together to make up a 120 Petabyte (not to be confused with Pedabite which has to do with…
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Thursday, 25 August 2011 23:22
Apple gets temporary ban in the EU on the Galaxy S, S II and Ace but not Tab 10.1
Written by Sean Kalinich
Apple’s legacy of patent lawsuits might be coming unraveled in the EU. Although the California based company did get an injunction on Samsung selling the Galaxy S, Galaxy S II and Ace it only barely managed that one. The issue…
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Wow, file this one under both stupid and scary. It would seem that EA is seriously pushing the boundaries of acceptable behavior. Someone read the full EULA for this new service and has found a clause that is incredibly frightening.…
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