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Microsoft Makes $42B Bid for Yahoo: Financial News - Yahoo Finance Ohhhh Shit!
AOL to Charge Same for Dial-Up, Broadband - Yahoo! News
Monday, February 27th, 2006NEW YORK - America Online Inc., seeking to encourage its subscribers to sign up for high-speed connections, is raising the price of its main dial-up plan to equal that of its new broadband offerings. That means most subscribers will pay $25.90 a month for either dial-up or broadband beginning March 9, ...
Microsoft to Unveil Paid Security Service - Yahoo! News
Tuesday, February 7th, 2006Step 1, release unsafe software, Step 2 extort users for security, step 3 profit SEATTLE - A new security service from Microsoft Corp. will charge users $49.95 per year to better protect its Windows operating system from spyware, viruses and other Internet attacks. Yahoo! News
2002-2006 RIP
Monday, February 6th, 2006This poor optical mouse died today, it will be missed.. Now I'm stuck using the original mouse on my work machine, until I find something to replace it. Yes this optical mouse had a PS/2 connector, it was cheap.
MS Refuses to Release Patch for Friday’s Kama Sutra Worm In Time
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006Microsoft has a patch for a worm set to go off on friday that deletes office documents. Instead they're waiting for the next patch Tuesday. Its a heck of a time to keep protocol. read more | digg story
Wordpress 2.01 OUT!
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006The long-awaited 2.01 release of Wordpress fixes uploading, rpc, caching, and permalink bugs, as well as improving support for old version of php and MySQL in strict mode. read more | digg story
Google readying its own Google OS!!
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business - desktop software. A version of the increasingly popular Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution, based on Debian and the Gnome desktop, it is known internally as 'Goobuntu'. read ...
Girls’ encrypted USB stick locks parents out of diary and MSN Messenger
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006The ThoughtSafe is an encrypted USB memory stick with its own version of MSN Messenger: it's marketed to young girls who want to keep a private diary and prevent their parents or others from spying on or controlling their IM activity. read more | digg story
RIAA Sues Woman Who Has No Computer For Sharing Music
Thursday, December 1st, 2005Recording Industry vs The People: Oklahoma Woman Fights Back Against RIAA
Chinese Love spells give new life to old art
Monday, November 28th, 2005The Standard - China's Business Newspaper
Meet the IT Gigolo
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005"Systems Engineer "Ray Digerati" enjoys fixing computers and having sex. So he combined the two." LINK
Sony DRM is worse than you might think
Friday, November 4th, 2005By Charlie Demerjian: Thursday 03 November 2005, 09:40 SONY SCREWED UP WITH its rights removal to protect its profit margins philosophy and there is no way the use of rootkits can be justified. Caught with its pants down, what did it do? Make things right? Heck no, it blamed the user, and ...
Man turns entire town into hotspot
Friday, November 4th, 2005Wish we had a few more of this guy. Dissatisfied with the telephone/data networks in the small town he lives in, one man made his entire town a wifi hotspot. Use bugmenot.com for the login/passread more | digg story
AOL hit by IM virus
Friday, October 28th, 2005AOL’s instant messaging service has been hit by a virus which downloads spyware onto computers via a special website.read more | digg story
Remote Control Device ‘Controls’ Humans
Friday, October 28th, 2005"We wield remote controls to turn things on and off, make them advance, make them halt. Ground-bound pilots use remotes to fly drone airplanes, soldiers to maneuver battlefield robots. But manipulating humans? Prepare to be remotely controlled. I was. Just imagine being rendered the rough equivalent of a radio-controlled toy car. "
DS Goes Wayport
Tuesday, October 18th, 2005"Nintendo of America on Tuesday will announce a groundbreaking partnership with Wi-Fi provider Wayport to make available free Internet access to DS owners at McDonald's restaurants across the nation. Nintendo and Wayport will offer complimentary Wi-Fi hotspots at McDonald's establishments, enabling DS owners to use the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, which ...
Network feud leads to Net blackout
Friday, October 7th, 2005We'll isn't that nice of them. CNET News.com
30gigs.com breaks at 500MB
Wednesday, October 5th, 2005This figures, the ideas was ridiculous. They bank on you never really using any of the space. "The newest kid on the email block seems to be littered with lies, false advertisement, no features, oh ya and it your inbox breaks at 500MB..not quite 30GB by my math...to top that ...
Google, Sun to Challenge Microsoft With OpenOffice
Wednesday, October 5th, 2005Say goodnight Microsoft. It seems no matter what it is lately, Google has it's hands in it somehow. Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide
