The New Hackerspace Global Grid

Hackers wearing white hats (meaning the good guys) are hoping to build a world-wide network of people donating funds, energy, and expertise to help create a private network of orbiting satellites capable...
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Amazon Kindle Explodes

Kindle Sales Explode During the Holidays… E-book Sales Too! Amazon proudly announced they sold over 4 million Kindle devices during the Holiday shopping season (late November through December). ...
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Firefox Taken Down a Notch With Google Study

Google commissioned a study on browser security from Accuvant, a security firm, which published in the first part of December. The study ranks browsers by security features and the implied secure nature...
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Who Owns Your Social Profiles?

No, this isn’t some conspiracy rant about how all of the information you put out on the Interwebs is owned by persons other than you. Nor is it a delving into the Privacy Policy of one social network...
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My Social Media Predictions for 2012 … in just 53 words.

More Focus. Video & YouTube gains ground. Real-Time becomes more relevant. Strategy regains its rightful position before tactics. More Outsourced Content Creation to cope with demand. Further need...
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SOPA, RIAA, ICE And You (Part 2)

In the first half of this series, we talked about what SOPA and the PROTECT IP Act are as well as the Justice Department’s procedures for seizing and controlling a domain name under its current rules...
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SOPA, RIAA, ICE and You (Part 1)

I rarely get into politics here and it’s even more rare for me to have any interest or discussion about politics in the U.S. There are, however, times when politics are important to everyone, whatever...
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Online Music Changing (Again)

Online music streaming and access is about to change in a big way. Again. New kid on the block (there’s a music reference for ya) Spotify announced that they’re changing their application...
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5 Ways iTunes Has Changed Music

The modern music industry is known for two things: ripping off artists and suing 8-year-olds for stealing music. That, sadly, is the basic public perception of the music industry at large. All of this...
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XXX Domain Gets First Major Lawsuit

Two major porn companies have come together to sue ICANN and ICM over the new top level domain .XXX. The suit is an anti-monopoly claim against the non-profit ICANN and the for-profit ICM, which administers...
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