TABLETS OF SILICON
Consolidating my life with the Toshiba M200 — I should have figured that Moses was onto something when I read he returned from the top of Mt. Sinai with the Ten Commandments on tablets of stone—afte...
Putin tells telecom minister Leonid Reiman he does not have mobile phone
MOSCOW, December 30 (Itar-Tass) - President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with Russian Telecommunications Minister Leonid Reiman Friday one of the things that makes him different from the vast ...
Chitika Reporting System and Monthly Audits Update
We are working on upgrading our back-end filtering and fraud detection systems to dynamically detect and prevent fraud, improve the quality of the overall network and help minimize the difference betw...
Windows WMF Metafile Vulnerability HotFix
This week a new vulnerability was found in Windows: — Browsing the web was not safe anymore, regardless of the browser. Microsoft will certainly come up with a thouroughly tested fix for it in the ...
Patents Rejected for BlackBerry
Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry wireless e-mail device, said yesterday that the United States Patent and Trademark Office had issued preliminary rejections of two wireless e-mail paten...
What The F**k is with Dell Technical Support?!
I'm on hold waiting to speak with a Dell Tech Support representative, presumably in India. The Dell 2405FPW UltraSharp Flat Panel LCD Montior I recently purchased (using our corporate discount at wor...
Australia looks to legalize VCR recording, CD ripping
Our friends in the Land Down Under (where women glow and men plunder) have been living under an awful plight, but the need to run and/or take cover is coming to pass. See, while the rest of the world...
Sigh @ Netgear Support
Sometimes I wonder about companies. I really do. I got a new wireless router this month and decided to try and set it up. It's a Netgear router, which you'd think would work flawlessly. At least I...
Pokemon Diamond & Pearl - Online Capability
Junichi Mysada has released the first actual details about Diamand and Pearl. — In his diary, that can be found at the Gamefreak website, he wrote that the game isn't finished yet and that they need...
Identity question for world's encyclopaedia
"In my vision of the future of journalism what we will see is an increasing amount of citizen participation in the gathering of news and in feedback and in reporting and analysing the news. At the sa...
Poll: Google the best of the Web
(CNN) — The search engine Google is the most significant development in the 15-year history of the World Wide Web, according to a poll of CNN.com users. — Nearly 18,000 CNN.com users voted in the th...
Voice control coming to XM radio
XM Satellite Radio and VoiceBox Technologies announced a multiyear alliance Thursday to bring voice control to the satellite broadcast service. — The partnership will let drivers issue voice command...
Cookie monsters
The government cookie story is getting stupider by the day. The AP — having naively believed they had some investigative scoop when they discovered that the NSA site, like most every site on earth, s...
Anti-Virus Protection for WMF Flaw Still Inconsistent
Days after the revelation of a flaw in Windows' handling of WMF graphics files, dozens of exploits are being spread from thousands of adware sites. But good protection is available. — At the same t...
10 Web Trends That Should Die in 2006
Here's a new years resolution for the web at large: stop doing silly things to users. Following are top trends that I just hope will not see 2007. — 1. "Our article is too long, let's split it up i...
VeriChip Files IPO
VeriChip Corp., a subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions Inc., known for its radio frequency identification technology, said Friday it has filed for an initial public offering (IPO)of shares of its c...
Naked Conversations
I've read most parts of this book twice, and some parts more than that. So this post is not based on a skimming, or a hasty reading, or even a single reading. I recommend Naked Conversations very hi...
Alienware's m3400 ultraportable
Looks like Alienware couldn't be bothered to launch at CESand announced their latest Sentia today, the m3400 14-inch widescreen laptop. This is one of thosestraddles-the-ultraportable- line laptops t...
RIAA lawyers bully witnesses into perjury
If you're into reading legal proceedings verbatim, here's a doozy for you. It gets even better if you like to see RIAA lawyers dragging themselves, rather than their chosen targets, through the dirt....
jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #8- OQO video review
Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #8 here (WMV format, 640x480, 39.5 MB, 9.14 minutes) — Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #8 here (MP4 format, 320x240, 18.4 MB, 9.14 minutes) — No you're not seeing thi...