Monday, April 23, 2012

Spam: India leads world in junk emails

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From the BBC: Compiled by security firm Sophos, the report ranks nations by the amount of junk mail routed through computers in each countr...
Monday, January 30, 2012

U.S. Government Glossed Over Cancer Concerns As It Rolled Out Airport X-Ray Scanners - ProPublica

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U.S. Government Glossed Over Cancer Concerns As It Rolled Out Airport X-Ray Scanners - ProPublica Is this technology safe and how did it com...
Friday, January 27, 2012

Raiders Of The Lost Walmart Discover Cache Of Ancient Flash Drives

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Get your 256MB Flash drive for the low, low price of $28.83! There are a couple of problems with this story. First, at this point Walmart...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Solar storm could bring bright skies tonight | Cutting Edge

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If you are far enough north, and don't have cloud cover, you could see the Northern Lights tonight. So far I've had no disruption of...

HDD Pricewatch: Prices won’t return to pre-flood levels anytime soon

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With no foreknowledge I bought a new hard drive weeks before the floods and the price increases last fall. I was lucky. Others, including ...

Megaupload Takedown Questioned By Users, Lawyers - Security - End user/client security

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Does anyone besides me think this was timed to counter the SOPA protest? Now it looks like the legal ground may not be as solid as origina...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Hackers retaliate over Megaupload website shutdown

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From the BBC: Hackers have targeted the US government and copyright organisations following the shutdown of the Megaupload file-sharing web...
Sunday, January 01, 2012

The rise and fall of the Sony empire

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This is an interesting commentary on Sony. It offers thoughts on where it has been and where it might go. I can remember a time when the n...

Happy New Year Everyone

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Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year from the On Computers family.

Verizon Wireless Cancels $2 ‘Convenience Fee’ After Backlash

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Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile carrier, canceled a planned $2 “convenience fee” for online and phone bil...
Tuesday, December 06, 2011

IDC predicts PC users won't upgrade to Windows 8, tablet sales will be "disappointing"

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"Microsoft's Windows 8 is still a year away, but IDC is already predicting that the new release will be "largely irrelevant...