Author Archives: doris

Pricey ‘stingray’ gadget lets cops track cellphones without telco help

By doris | Published: April 3, 2012

Full Story at RedTape.msnbc.msn.com Why would the well-heeled suburb of Gilbert, Ariz., spend a quarter of a million dollars on a futuristic spy gadget that sounds more at home in a prime-time drama than a local police department? The ACLU caused a stir Monday with its extensive report of cellphone surveillance by local police departments, [...]

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Navy: We’re 4 Years Away From Laser Guns on Ships

By doris | Published: April 1, 2012

Full Story at Wired.com The dream of sailors, nerds and sailor-nerds everywhere is on the verge of coming true, senior Navy technologists swear. Within four years, they claim they’ll have a working prototype of a laser cannon, ready to place aboard a ship. And they’re just months away from inviting defense contractors to bid on [...]

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Lost data may have exposed 800,000 people in Calif

By doris | Published: March 31, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo! News.com LOS ANGELES (AP) — A disaster preparedness exercise to ensure California’s child support system could be run remotely went smoothly, except for one casualty: the names, Social Security numbers and other private records of about 800,000 adults and children. Four computer storage devices for the California Department of Child Support [...]

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Microsoft Unveils New Plan to Speed Up the Web

By doris | Published: March 27, 2012

Full Story at Webmonkey.com Microsoft wants in on the drive to speed up the web. The company plans to submit its proposal for a faster internet protocol to the standards body charged with creating HTTP 2.0. Not coincidentally, that standards body, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), is meeting this week to discuss the future [...]

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NetZero to launch free wireless broadband service

By doris | Published: March 22, 2012

Full Story atmsnbc.com NEW YORK — It’s like the ’90s never left: Billy Crystal hosted the Oscars. Internet IPOs are back. And NetZero is returning with free Internet service — only this time it’s wireless. United Online Inc. announced Monday that it will offer free wireless Internet service under its NetZero brand, the one that [...]

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iPad review: It’s a renovation, not a revolution

By doris | Published: March 18, 2012

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.com At 12:05 a.m., moments after Thursday turned into Friday, my new iPad was in my hands. I tucked it under my arm and looked around. There was no magic, there were no lines and there were no applauding Apple Store employees. It was just me, three other sleepy-looking customers, and four [...]

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Walmart to start selling new iPad at 12:01 a.m.

By doris | Published: March 16, 2012

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.com Not feeling like lining up at an Apple Store for the new iPad? Walmart’s 24-hour stores will start selling the least expensive version of it at 12:01 a.m. Friday, eight hours before Apple Stores open around the country. One version, the 16GB model retailing for $499 will be available (in black [...]

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IPad chip designer ARM wants to crush Intel

By doris | Published: March 15, 2012

Full Story at .cnn.com BARCELONA, Spain (CNNMoney) — The company behind the lightning-fast processor in the new iPad thinks it can soon become the predominant microchip business in the world. Chips designed by ARM (ARMH), the British microprocessor company you’ve probably never heard of, are in a stunning 95% of the world’s mobile phones and [...]

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Judge deals death blow to copyright troll Righthaven

By doris | Published: March 14, 2012

Full Story at RawStory.com Righthaven LLC., a law firm that became known as a “copyright troll” for filing hundreds of lawsuits against media companies and bloggers, was forever banished from its business model on Tuesday by a judge who ordered a transfer of all their copyrights to settle the company’s substantial debts. After a series [...]

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Walmart’s DVD-to-digital service will sell you a copy of your own movie for $2

By doris | Published: March 13, 2012

Full Story at arstechnica.com Walmart is starting a service to let customers create digital versions of DVD movies they own for a small fee, the company announced Tuesday. A new collaboration with Vudu will allow people to bring their discs into Walmart, pay $2 or more to get a Vudu-facilitated digital copy of the movie [...]

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Apple accuses Samsung of violating court order, withholding source code in U.S. suit

By doris | Published: March 12, 2012

Full Story at Androidapps.com Samsung and Apple continue their worldwide court battle royale over device patents. The latest shot has been fired by Apple in U.S. courts claiming that Samsung hasn’t complied with court orders there. According to a story from Bloomberg, Samsung hasn’t released source code for devices as it was ordered to do [...]

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9 Essential Skills Kids Should Learn

By doris | Published: March 11, 2012

Full Story at DailyGood.org Kids in today’s school system are not being prepared well for tomorrow’s world. As someone who went from the corporate world and then the government world to the ever-changing online world, I know how the world of yesterday is rapidly becoming irrelevant. I was trained in the newspaper industry, where we [...]

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