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Category: Tech News

  • Sony vs teh world

    Well Sony has managed to do it again…They pissed off the world including me. For months, I was trying to figure out why my laptop computer was acting like Charles Manson in a mental hospital. After following the direction on locating the files, I found the Sony rootkit on my…

  • A blonde Bond moment and Desperate Housewives to go

    We have a new James Bond and he’s blonde. Read this article here, to read about the new James Bond. Daniel Craig, 37, is the first blond actor to play agent 007. Relatively unknown outside Britain, he has had a busy career that includes roles in the landmark 1990s British…

  • EDS says banks should increase their internet security

    NEWS.COM has this article about EDS and the global leader of financial services, Jean-Louis Bravard, calling on banks to increase their online security. Now it is more critical than ever for banks to be vigilant on their security. After Katrina or any national disaster like 9/11, banking services are the…

  • Got Google IM?

    Do you want to use Google’s new IM service that is going to be announced tomorrow?? Or download Google’s own application here: http://www.google.com/talk/index.html Well there are the instructions everyone. Enjoy! Google IM You have to use an @gmail.com address to login from now on. Server: talk.google.com Username: youremail@ gmail.com Password:…

  • Tulsa has been Slashdotted

    Well for once, my home town has done something right. Being an avid reader of Slashdot, I always head there first when I log online, not any other news site. I’ll quote the write up and translate it for the non geeks. Weather Service Becoming More Tech Friendly United States…

  • Are washing machines next?

    Source used: Businessweek Has the FCC gone to far in preventing customers from recording their favorite TV shows by enforcing the “broadcast flag” that was pushed by the MPAA? The answer is simply, yes. The broadcast flag would have prevented TV viewers from recording their favorite TV shows or movie…

  • Latest technology news

    Tech news from the wild side: TechTV is back on the air…sorta. Leo Laporte explains in his blog that the old gang is doing the show again, this time using the internet to broadcast the show. Grab the podcast and have a spin. Darth Vader, lord of the Sith, has…

  • TechTV is dead

    I used to watch TechTV all the time during the summer and some of my favorite hosts of the The Screen Savers and Call for Help were Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Cat Schwartz, et al. have pretty much left. TechTv was bought by Comcast and since then, G4 and Comcast…