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The launch of 4G services in the UK by Everything Everywhere today has been heralded by the majority of the tech blogs and news sites as a long-overdue success. But is this a victory for common-sense or has Ofcom simply managed to cover-up its own incompetence? (For those outside the UK, Ofcom is the regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries.) Here's
Ouya was the darling of the tech news cycle not long ago as they rocketed up the KickStarter charts to (likely) record donations (no real records seem to exist). If you aren't familiar, Ouya is a proposed gaming console that will be based on the Android operating system, and is expected to launch in early 2013. The box has been
Home automation has become a hot topic these days, with more services and hardware becoming available at increasingly better prices. Now another new product has hit the market, this one from a company called Visible Energy. The item, known as the "Monostrip", provides some unique features at a very good price. The Monostrip essentially looks like a mini powerstrip, but has
Very bad day for GoDaddy. I spend some time talking about what hit them today, while we are waiting on their official announcement I talk about what you can do to make sure your site stays online when DNS DOS attacks happen. Subscribe Today: Audio | Video (HD) | Mobile Video | iTunes | Zune Download the Audio Show File
Blizzard Entertainment is getting ready to do a massive amount of Launch Events for their newest expansion to the World of Warcraft game. The Launch Events will be happening in several different places around the world on September 24, 2012. In other words, the events will take place right before the Mists of Pandaria expansion is released on September 25,
There has been lot of controversy the past couple of days surrounding the line of Kindle Fire tablets that Amazon announced on Thursday. If you haven't heard, the talk has been around the ads that Amazon will be displaying on the lock screen. It was widely believed that there would be no way to prevent these ads from showing up,
You are probably are aware that Google frequently transforms their usual logo into a variety of interactive ones called Google Doodles. They created one to celebrate the 46th Anniversary of Star Trek. It's awesome! The letters in the word Google have been given eyes and are wearing Star Trek uniforms. The crew of the NCC-1701, from Star Trek: TOS (that's
I am a sucker for trivia games. In fact, I pride myself on being what my wife has called "a fountain of useless information". I think (hope) she means that lovingly. That being said, she's not bad at these games herself and, in fact, is quite good at those involving music. When an Android app called "Songpop" came to
This has been one of my busiest weeks in ages and the hits keep on coming. Possible travel plan change so I may have a surprise for you in a few days ;) This is an absolute monster show... Also pretty amazing to have the trolls come out at night in the chat room. They seem to expect a 100
Amazon is expected to release a new line of Kindle devices when they hold their big Santa Monica, California event later today. Rumors seem to indicate not one, but two new Kindle Fire tablets, as well new versions of the Kindle e-reader. All of this has been expected for a little while now, especially when Amazon mysteriously announced last week that
This is a followup post on the Vizio Co-Star. One of the hardest problems I was having was trying to play the media that was on my local network. First I tried to figure out PlayPoint which comes as a default app on the Vizio Costar with no luck. I then installed Plex since I have a Plex server installed on
For Linux fans, there's a new version of OpenSUSE out today, bringing the version number to 12.2. Albeit a little late, this new version sees some significant upgrades and changes which improve performance and reliability. OpenSUSE is one of the big 5 Linux distributions so it'll be a solid release. In additional to the 3.4 kernel, KDE is bumped to 4.8.4
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