August 9, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: The Web Will Kill Universities According to Bill Gates, in the next five years free content and lectures available online will be better than any single university. Gates believes that universities don’t need to be “place-based”, and a system should be developed Continue Reading →
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August 6, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: Pentagon Goes After WikiLeaks WikiLeaks is in possession of 15,000 additional secret Afghan war records, that haven’t been published. The Pentagon has demanded that WikiLeaks hand over the sensitive documents and remove the 70,000 documents they’ve already published to the site. If Continue Reading →
July 26, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: Chatroulette.com, the random video chat sensation, is trying to block users who expose themselves to minors. The company says it has captured and saved thousands of IP addresses of alleged offenders, along with logs and screenshots that prove illicit behavior. While I Continue Reading →
From Google News: June 11, 2015 Washington, D.C. — Representatives from AT&T, Verizon and Comcast were up on The Hill today trying to persuade Congress to take aggressive action against the millions of ProxyNets that have popped up around the globe. With two of the major content companies in bankruptcy and the others on the Continue Reading →
June 4, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: Hulu Premium To Debut: Hulu’s much anticipated premium service could debut on XBox Live sometime in the next two weeks. While little is known about the service, it is expected to work just like Netflix Watch Instantly. Whoo! Whoo! The Kno Tablet: Continue Reading →
May 25, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: Facebook Privacy Still An Issue: Is Facebook finally listening to you? Maybe. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been both contrite and apologetic about Facebook’s unpopular privacy policies. He’s promising simpler privacy controls in the coming weeks. Sounds great. Just remember Facebook is Continue Reading →
May 13, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: Putting A Hurt On Illegal Downloaders: The producers of the Hurt Locker are working directly with the US Copyright Group in an effort to sue “tens of thousands” of people who illegally downloaded the film online. The Hurt Locker, which won an Continue Reading →
April 30, 2010 – Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: Facebook Not Cool For School: A principal in Ridgewood, NJ is trying to ban Facebook for his students. Anthony Orsini, principal of Benjamin Franklin Middle School, sent a note to parents urging them to track their child’s computer and cell phone use Continue Reading →
Today’s most interesting stories in technology, media and entertainment: Facebook is making a not-so-subtle change in the way users will connect with brands and celebrities. All you will have to do to give a fan page access to your wall, is click the “like” button. So long “become a fan of.” Hello, “like.” Good idea Continue Reading →
Imagine buying a new SD card for your digital camera. You go into the store, find a nice 32GB Class 6 SD card at the right price and take it home. It’s sealed in one of those plastic display cards that takes remarkably sharp objects to open them. It’s new, and perfect. You are very Continue Reading →