“We Want to See!”
A local case is making the news here, and I suspect, will hit the bigger news feeds soon. A fight outside a bar in November, 2008, is at the center of the case. An off-duty, and now fired, police officer…
Nuance Snaps Up MacSpeech
Nuance Software, makers of Dragon Naturally Speaking for the PC and the iPhone, has purchased MacSpeech. MacSpeech was voted Best of Show at MacWorld 2008, but that’s not saying a whole lot, because there just aren’t any other products like…
“We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Net Neutrality”
AT&T loves their double-speak and “we know what’s best for everyone” attitude. Whenever they get the chance, they trot out that same old tired argument about how they must have control over network traffic in order to “manage” it. We…
What’s That Buzz?
By now, most of you have probably heard about the backlash against Google regarding some of the pre-sets on their new Buzz social networking push. What sounded like a little fun turned out to be a nightmare of privacy violations…
Attacked!
Something has happened to my laptop that has never happened before. It has been infected with a virus. I “caught” it through an unsecured wireless connection at my favorite coffee shop last night. The first symptom was an Internet Explorer…
How Much Time Can You Afford to Waste?
What did you do with your time 10 years ago. Or even 20? If you’re like me, in your 40’s, you can easily remember a time before computers, and even before cable television. You can probably remember writing letters (by…
Is Amazon the New Walmart?
In the recent dust-up between Amazon and MacMillan books, in which Amazon tried to set the sale price of McMillan-published eBooks for the Kindle, it occurred to me that I’ve seen such behavior before. This is the same sort of…