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Bit's and Pieces I've picked up for your entertainment and\or knowledge

Friday, December 15, 2006

Skype as Social Network: SkySpace

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While everyone is talking about Skype’s new pricing plan1 this week, we got a note this morning from a company called Bertorello announcing ...
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Microsoft releasing book search for tens of thousands of out-of-copyright books

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Tens of thousands of out-of-copyright books are set to become available online when Microsoft releases Live Search Books to beta on Wednesda...
Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Move Blogger to the 'New' Google one

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Ryanne and Jay , popular video bloggers, recently spoke to Googler Eric Case who has been part of the Blogger team at Googleplex for the ...
Friday, October 27, 2006

Bombs Away !

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--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl --AZ-01: Rick Renzi --AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth --CA-04: John Doolittle --CA-11: Richard Pombo --CA-50: Brian Bilbray --C...
Friday, August 18, 2006

My Next Cellphone (the laptop will be used alot less as well)

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Sony Mylo The brand new Sony Mylo , due to hit the streets in September, is a lightweight solution to wireless internet browsing, instant...
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Saturday, July 15, 2006

It Happened to Jane: The 1959 Movie about Net Neutrality anyone can understand

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It Happened to Jane (1959) with Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, and Ernie Kovacs. A tycoon buys the only railroad going through a small Maine town...
Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Double Your Existing Hard Drive's Space Without Compression ?

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WILEY SILER has sent us a method which he said was discovered by Scott Komblue and documented by himself which they claim can recover unused...
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Friday, June 16, 2006

Could the architecture of the telecom system resemble the political system around it ?

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Posted by Martin Geddes The AT&T (as opposed to at&t) years reflected the military-industrial era. A “commanding height” of the Col...

Stealth ringtone for those under 30

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"In that old battle of the wills between young people and their keepers, the young have found a new weapon that could change the balanc...
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Wow, I've been lazy...

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Actually, just a lot of work has come down the pipe, and I went on a week long camping trip. I promise to do better, really.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Linux Clustering:so simple, a Ph.D. in chemical engineering could do it

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How many MIT scientists does it take to build a Linux cluster? Just one, at least in the school's Department of Chemical Engineering. A...
Saturday, May 27, 2006

New type of Defense called ASLR to fight against MALWARE in MS Vista

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Mike Howard talks about a new piece of technology coming with Windows Vista designed to help fight malware attacks. Called Address Space Lay...

AT&T leaks it's own sensitive info in NSA suit

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Lawyers for AT&T accidentally released sensitive information while defending a lawsuit that accuses the company of facilitating a govern...
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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Hooray For Net Neutrality !

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Net Neutrality Bill Passes the House Judiciary Committee You can see the roll call at MyDD. A lot of credit for this goes to all the peopl...

Repair Microsoft Windows With Just Eight Commands

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I'm happy to say that I've only had this happen to me once before: Windows really, really won't boot. You can't even get to ...

FCC Won't Investigate NSA Phone Logs

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The FCC has declined to investigate whether telecommunications companies have broken consumer privacy laws by sharing phone call data with t...

New Office Genuine Advantage Activated

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Reported earlier. Windows Genuine Advantage is now being extended to Microsoft Office. Customers of Microsoft Office who validate that thei...

A Brain\Machine Interface in our Lifetime ?

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Honda scientists have created a system that will translate thoughts into electrical signals that can be used to control machinery. The techn...
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MPAA accused of hiring a hacker

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FREE Nationwide Wireless Broadband in US ?

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A San Francisco Bay Area company has submitted a request for spectrum to launch a free high-speed broadband Internet service across the enti...
Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Wired News Publishes AT&T NSA Documents

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A file detailing aspects of AT&T’s alleged participation in the National Security Agency’s warrantless domestic wiretap operation is sit...
Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Remove the New Microsoft WGA Nag Screen For Good !

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I posted this earlier. Seems there are a lot of false positives out there causing problems for legit users: Start -> Search All Files ...
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Monday, May 15, 2006

The Internet Has Always Been Regulated

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It started off as a government network designed to survive nuclear attacks (which, as everyone notes, is why it’s so good at routing around ...
Friday, May 12, 2006

How the NSA Conducts Wiretapping: Introducing The Narus ST-6400 and NarusInsight by Narus Ltd.

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I try to keep this blog free from general politics, so, I'll focus on the technology behind the US\NSA wiretapping program while providi...
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Thursday, May 11, 2006

Google Desktop 4 (beta)

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The Desktop team at Google is working at a frenetic pace. Just yesterday (well, in March actually, but pretty close) I was looking at versi...
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PDF Security Compromised in Gmail !

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PDF authors go to great lengths to protect their documents. But circumventing PDF security could be as easy as opening the document inside G...
Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Windows Media Player 11 for XP release details

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Microsoft is planning a Public Preview Beta of Windows Media Player 11 for XP on Wednesday, May 17th. Users will be able to download the bet...

Novell is Back: Delivers an Open, Low-Cost Alternative to Microsoft

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Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) today announced the Novell Open Workgroup Suite is now available worldwide, giving customers an open, low-cost alterna...
Monday, May 08, 2006

Verizon Communications Threatens The Financial Services Industry Over Net-Neutrality

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Verizon Communications warned the financial services industry may not get the secure networks it needs if Congress a...
Sunday, May 07, 2006

Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Next Level: Genuine Software Initiative (GSI): Users May Have To Prove Legal Windows Use

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Microsoft is piloting an opt-in notification service for its Windows Genuine Advantage online verification program in the U.S., which may ma...
Friday, May 05, 2006

AOL VOIP: AIM Phoneline Offers Free Phone Numbers

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It will be interesting to see how Skype and others react to this. AOL is increasingly looking to capitalize on the growing popularity of AI...

Will Google Buy Olive OCR ? Here's Why it Makes Sense

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Olive Software develops some amazing OCR technology to convert a document in any format (PDF, HTM, Paper, Microfiche) into digital XML for...
Thursday, May 04, 2006

Windows Anti-Counterfeit Tool (WGA) Causing False Counterfeit Calls at Many Universities\Businesses

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Some system administrators are finding that Microsoft’s new anti-piracy software is incorrectly labeling PCs for users logged is with restri...
Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Skype 2.5: SMS and 100 Person Voice Conference Ability Now

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SMS: Short Message Service I like SMS. Great for business. Global . I can now send a text message from Skype to any mobile phone in the wor...

Good Summary of Sweeping Telecom Bill:

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The U.S. Senate took the first serious step on Monday toward rewriting the nation's telecommunications laws, a move that raises politica...
Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Add Language Translation To Your Blog

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Always add language translation to your blog . The blogosphere is multilingual, and deeply international. Mr David Sifry of Technorati conf...
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Eye-Fi: Convert a normal Digital Camera into Wireless Wi-Fi camera

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Wi-Fi capable digital cameras are set to become obsolete even before they hit the market shelves. We have seen Sandisk SD Wi-Fi flash memo...
Monday, May 01, 2006

Please Help Save The Internet

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Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an iPod? Everything we do online will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law next week...

Enable Multi-User Mode for XP's Remote Desktop

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Before its final release, Windows XP's Remote Desktop function had a feature it now lacks: multi-user mode, whereby more than one perso...
Thursday, April 27, 2006

Senate Bill May Ban Streaming MP3s

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No, really. The PERFORM Act (where do they get these names that mean the oposite of what they do) would mean no more MP3 streams if you rely...
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Cheap Cool Infrared Webcam

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The USB InfraRed OptiCam is just too friggin cool. Because you never know when you might need 2 NightVision infrared lamps on your VGA web...

Blog Usage Statistics And Trends: State Of The Blogosphere

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The blogosphere continues to grow at a quickening pace." wrote , Technorati CEO Dave Sifry , almost three months ago, when his leadi...

It's Official: Microsoft Tests New WGA or GOV on Office

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Microsoft has posted the first Office download which has Genuine Office Validation ( not required yet ). It is sounds.exe the download enab...

New Trojan\Virus Demands Ransom From Computer or Cell Phone

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Isn't this nice: A new kind of malware circulating on the Internet freezes a computer and then asks for a ransom paid through the Weste...
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Markey Amendment Fails: House Ignores Public, Sells Out the Internet

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The "Markey Amendment" supporting Net Neutrality was voted down by a vote of 34 to 22. The "Communications Opportunity, Promo...

More on the New Office 2007 File Formats

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The new Office 2007 is due to be released sometime on 2007 and I really like it so far. As I mentioned earlier , Office 2007 will have two m...

Turn a 60$ Router into a 600$ Router: FREE

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This is a simple method for converting a $60 router into a $600 router (PDF alert!) with a firmware upgrade. The router in question is the...
Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Remove the New Microsoft WGA Nag Screen For Good !

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As you might have already found out, The WGA check will now install a nag screen if your license is allegedly invalid . It shows up at boot ...
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Worldwide Email Statistics: 60 billion sent daily

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BERLIN (Reuters) - Internet users around the world send an estimated 60 billion emails every day and many of these are spam or scam attempt...

Microsoft Bringing 'Genuine Advantage' WGA Authentication to Office by 05/01/2206

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As I reported the other day for Windows WGA ; In its increasingly aggressive drive to stamp out piracy, Microsoft is bringing Office into th...
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Monday, April 24, 2006

Another Zero-Day Bug For Microsoft Internet Explorer

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Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which was just patched with 10 fixes two weeks ago , suffers from yet another zero-day vulnerability th...
Sunday, April 23, 2006

Notes from the Access to Knowledge (A2K) conference, Yale

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Live from the Access to Knowledge (A2K) conference, Yale; Moderated by Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation. Notes here .

"Save the Internet" Campaign for Network Neutrality Launched

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This Monday, a coalition of Internet activists from across the political spectrum will officially launch the Save the Internet Campaign to ...
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