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Have you looked at your Amazon Kindle recently, well if you purchased the book 1984 by Orwell on it, it's no longer there. That is right, Amazon removed it remotely at the bequest of the publisher. This was first reported by David Pogue of the NY Times in his article Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others. This isn't a
According to a recent study by the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, subtitled "Of course, I never reply to spam - except sometimes," we are clicking on spam more often than may be assumed. According to the survey, half of the respondents clicked and/or replied to spam messages for the following reasons: Clicked on it by mistake: 17 percent Not sure
One of the more important things I do in my day job is to be sure our clients/customers get what they are expecting. As an educational institution, our customers are faculty and staff. They come to us with their needs, and sometimes with their wants, and we, as the IT department, need to be open to their needs and their
Your geek here at Geek News Central is looking for some info from the Ohana and I am sure you will come through for me. Looking for a lot of feedback on a couple of issues. Lots of great tech tonight as always that you are going to find very stimulating. Please support the Show Sponsors as they keep the
Apple has done its best to thwart the running of iTunes syncing on the Palm Pre this morning. There will likely be a workaround within a few days, but in the long run, what the heck is Apple thinking? We can't use iTunes syncing unless it is on an Apple device? What kind of logic is that? Those of us
You have something to say, its going to take more then 140 characters, however its not really long enough for a full blog post. So what is the answer. The answer maybe Posterous. To post something to Posterous you just email the item to post@posterous.com and that's it. Posterous accepts, text, photos, videos. Its a perfect compliment to the Iphone or any smart phone. Take a picture or video and email it to Posterous and its on the net within seconds It also provides a bookmarklet so if you see something on the web you want to post, you just click the bookmarklet and it is sent to Posterous.
A divine revelation came to me in a construction induced traffic jam on the interstate. Three were lanes reduced to one and slowed to a safe speed as we passed construction workers. New cars entering the road compounded the issue as we plodded along. It was then I realized this was the example I needed to explain the speed of
Last week, news of a run of Denial of Service (DOS) attacks on South Korean and United States' government websites was announced. Almost immediately, blame for the attacks was being placed on North Korea and North Korean servers, probably due to some of the escalating tensions between the U.S./South Korea, and North Korea. It is really easy to make such
Like a goof ball I forgot to announce a winner tonight on the PodcastMadness GNC giveaway. Promise to do it first thing next show. Lots to catch you all up on including some minor construction that is going to take place here in the Studio. Time to update the electrical capacity so we don't stress and circuits. Bringing some serious
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This will likely be the shortest article I'll have ever written. Longer than 140 characters, but still, short. The question is, is Twitter a fad, or here to stay? I saw a reference to Twitter as a fad in a recent article in the USAToday. The author of the article was interviewing Robert Bartholomew about the book he just co-authored,
I, along with every other geek this week, have invariably heard about the new operating system to be produced by Google. I have read multiple articles and really haven't formed an opinion one way or the other about whether it will be good or not. My real concern is about the ability of any operating system to truly overtake Windows
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