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- Jeff Bezos offers apology for Orwellian mistake
- Jeff Bezos offers apology for Orwellian mistakePerfect! The reason I will NEVER buy, use, or recommend a Kindle......or its equivalent, in easy-to-swallow, poison-pill form.Thanks so much for this story.Huh?Why wrong?If you as the end consumer, buy stolen goods, you don't get to keep them!So I'm guessing you are protesting the...
- Tags: E-books, Viruses and worms, Jeff Bezos, Orwellian, Amazon.com Inc., refund
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- App Store "duplicate functionality" forced underground
- App Store "duplicate functionality" forced undergroundAnti Competitive monopolistic behaviorThis is typical anti-competitive behavior. Locking operating system to hardware platform and then killing off all competition by controlling what gets installed. What if Microsoft didn't allow firefox or any other to be installed on windows because it duplicated Internet Explorer's functionality....
- Tags: Web browsers, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Orwellian, App Store, Ford Motor Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
- These photos illustrate AT&T's phone, Internet tracking activities for NSA
- These photos illustrate AT&T's phone, Internet tracking activities for NSAThe WiMAX Steamrollerwill set us free. With no external control over "the MESH", and encrypting ALL traffic - there will be no way to tap into the traffic. Meshing technology will randomly route traffic, and since its all encrypted - you...
- Tags: Internet, Orwellian, phone, plastics, AT&T Corp., What-If, photograph
- Discussion threads 2006-05-24
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- What the Google Privacy Dashboard can mean for health
- I'm with the "Oh noes".Giving an advertising company access to all my health data just so I can find out if someone like, say, an advertising company has access to it, strikes me as a bit of on own goal.Trust Google with more data?Google already has- my IP address- my...
- Tags: E-mail, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Google Inc., health care, dashboard
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Apple confirms malware protection in Snow Leopard
- They say Americans don't understand ironyNo irony there, Jason. Any degree of immunity that OS X has to malware is exactly because of such measures.I am gonna love.....to see the people make excuses for the reason for this. You can't say one thing and then do another in the...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Spyware, Pwn2Own, virus, malware, trojan horse, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-27
- FSF petitions against Amazon's Big Brother attitude
- The Free Software Foundation has a new campaign - Defective by Design - and an online petition over Amazon's Orwellian take-back of "1984" from Kindle customers. Sign it here: We believe in a way of life based on the free exchange...
- Tags: Free Software Foundation, Amazon.com Inc., Petitions, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Government, Monitors & Displays, Digital Media, Security, Hardware, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Jeff Bezos offers apology for Orwellian mistake
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has offered up an apology for using the Kindle's remote wipe feature to delete illegal copies of 1984 and Animal Farm mistakenly sold to customers. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Jeff Bezos, Apology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from Kindles
- Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from KindlesDTPALet's hope somebody decides to sue their butts off under a state's Deceptive Trade Practices Act -- claiming that an item sold has qualities, characteristics, source, certification, approval or etc., which in fact it does not have (e.g., claiming non-kosher products are kosher)....
- Tags: E-books, Amazon.com Inc., e-book
- Discussion threads 2009-07-17
- IBM gives Mobile County Public Schools power to be proactive
- When IBM PR folks sent me their press release on their recent efforts with the Mobile County Public Schools in Alabama, I was moderately impressed. They were harnessing a lot of data for educators but it hardly seemed revolutionary in this era of data-driven instruction. Then...
- Tags: Performance, Mobile, Student, Teacher, IBM Corp., Performance Management, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Databases, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-12
- Intel publishes social media guidelines for its employees
- Intel publishes social media guidelines for its employeesTelstra's Social Media 'Guardrails' - the 3 RsYou might also be interested in the social media policy Australian telco/isp Telstra my client released earlier this year: http://www.nowwearetalking.com.au/opinion/blog-how-the-3rs-empower-telstra-staff-online-225Telstra's social media 'guardrails' are designed to protect both the brand and employees, and focus on the...
- Tags: social media, social media guideline, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-24
- State DMV: Facial recognition requires 'No Smile' rule
- State DMV: Facial recognition requires 'No Smile' ruleWowNext step, match your DMV photo with the street camera image to track you everywhere. The robot traffic cameras will send the ticket directly to your home. The jay walking ticket automatically deducted from your bank account.RE: State DMV: Facial recognition...
- Tags: Alice, State DMV, facial recognition, smile
- Discussion threads 2009-05-28
- Can Microsoft claw back lost market share from Apple?
- Can Microsoft claw back lost market share from Apple?Yes, unless M$ shoots itself in the foot ...... by making W7 more expensive than Vista ... in which case Apple will have a field day :-(I can write the ad now.MAC Hello PC ... you're looking sad today.PC Yeh there's a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., PC, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- General: NSA doesn't want to control cybersecurity
- General: NSA doesn't want to control cybersecurityThey cant control itThe same org that needs backdoors, and vulnerabilities for spying operations, surely cant be in charge of security Americas Mainframes and Servers LOL. That would be a house divided against itself, and a conflict of interest.Also..Remember these same Govt organizations...
- Tags: SECURITY, NSA, cybersecurity
- Discussion threads 2009-04-23
- How to make Government 2.0 a reality
- Today was the final day of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. This morning's mixed bag of keynotes included a fireside talk with the founders of Threadless.com and a great demo of chartbeat, a new real-time website monitoring tool. After the keynotes, I decided to let...
- Tags: Web, Agency, Tool, Government, Web 2.0, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Vertical Industries, Internet, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- Australian police may get license to hack
- Australian police may get license to hackLaw enforcement is taking advantage of politico's lack of tech knowledge.There is a big difference between intercepting transmissions passive and hacking into PCs active.Would they change wiretapping laws to include 24x7 audio/video surveillance inside the suspect's home without their knowledge?Laws like these; no matter...
- Tags: Vertical industries, government
- Discussion threads 2009-03-09
- Sacked for mentioning job was boring on Facebook...
- Sacked for mentioning job was boring on Facebook...Not a big deal to me....The internet is public and when you post on the internet you can expect it to be public. That meaning anyone in the public can see it including your boss or whatnot. If you are really...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, work place, Internet, job, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2009-02-27
- Another Mac clone: say hello to PearC
- Another Mac clone: say hello to PearCThis is good for consumers. Companies, such as Apple, try to use legal machinations to dictate the shape of the market. People should have the freedom to combine different products and create new ones. Apples and Pears. Clever.They may even play some "almost but...
- Tags: Games, Game players, Operating systems, Apple Inc., game, Microsoft Xbox, leach, PearC, Apple Mac OS X, hardware, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-02-09
- Fun with speed cameras, teen-style
- Fun with speed cameras, teen-styleScore one for the kids!Ok, now however illegal this may be [though im not expressly condoning the actions either], its about time that the truth behind the "Speed/red light cameras" come out. Its simply denying the presumption you are innocent until proven guilty. A serious weakness...
- Tags: camera, speed camera, car
- Discussion threads 2008-12-22
- Microsoft signs major deal with Dell for Live Search
- Microsoft signs major deal with Dell for Live SearchPatience, MikeIt's premature to write: "The future is now, the past is prologue, Microsoft has won."Until Microsoft's victory, savor the slow process of Google's disintegration moment by moment. You wouldn't slug down that Merlot or Cab Sav, would you?!Salute to...
- Tags: Chad Myers, Microsoft Live Search, Chad, Microsoft Corp., Dell Computer Corp., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-05
- Tag you're sick
- Sometimes the technology just isn't up to your Orwellian fantasies by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Papua, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
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