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Well our hunt for a sponsor continues but I have six of the team from TechPodcasts.com all packed up and ready to head that way. We have heard from several companies that may be interested in doing the sponsorship so we hope that comes together. Time is short but for any company that will be at CES this is a
Those of you still using Internet Explorer need to realize that you are running one of the most dangerous applications on the Internet today! Do you realize that IE7 which was announced to be available summer of 2005 is still no where to be seen. Do you know that people are actually trying to compare Firefox version 1.5 with IE7?
Do you carry a cellphone? Do you know that your cellular service provider knows where your phone is? By extension, if you carry your phone with you, your cellular service provider knows where you are. Cellular phones can be located, accurate to within about 300 yards, whenever they are turned on. Since most cellular phone users keep their phones on and with them most of the time, it is quite probable that their ongoing whereabouts are being automatically tracked.
Rack another victory up to the RIAA, you already know, that I think, the organization tactics is about the same as a mobster coming in and saying pay up or else. Seems one of the original people the RIAA went after a couple of years ago will likely have to pay $22,900 to the organization. I am sure they will
Great for the folks at del.icio.us but is this good for the greater net. I keep seeing great social networks getting picked off by Major companies. I am beginning to wonder if the machine that we have created as a community through need to route around the man is just being bought up by the man. Personally I would have
Gmail has introduced a mini RSS reader in Gmail. I for one do not use the Gmail interface but instead pop the e-mail, it just takes to long to organize everything in the reader. Nice little edition and will be good for public education if nothing else. [Gmail Clips]
Lot's of content and someplace in this show is the contest for show 127 where I will give away $127.00 to a lucky listeners for Christmas. The BBC Interview is at the end of this podcast along with voicemail comments. Sponsor: Save Money with all our GoDaddy Codes see our Promo Code Page Show us where you listen to the
Are you ready for another TechPodcasts.com Roundtable? We are and we have a very good lineup of Gadgets to talk about, for the guys if you are looking for that special gift to buy for your wife or girlfriend then Jennifer will be showing off some gadgets and tech items for the ladies. The guys have some cool gadgets to
Seems the US Government spent some money to find out how many domain registrations contained false information, in their sampling nearly 5.5% contained false information. Which in my opinion is not at all surprising. The question now is will they try to do something about it. [BBC]
Sound like an advertisement for some fly by night telephone company. Seems it's not just some company but Yahoo trying to kick Skype's teeth in. The drawback is you have to use Yahoo messenger. I'll be honest I have not loaded Yahoo Messenger in about 3 years. I only use Trillian and I'll be honest I have used Google Talk
Seems Sony went back to the drawing board and now all you poor saps that still have that Rootkit on your computer it appears at face value that this will remove it. Interesting what they have to say on the page that has the link to the removal tool. [Sony]
First is was ask Jeeves now it's Answers.Yahoo.com need an answer to something ask Yahoo an hopefully someone will answer it in a way that is not only correct. So lets do a little experiment. The question I asked on Yahoo was this. What is the best resource on the net that explains unix file and folder permissions. Lets do
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