House rejects Net neutrality rules

House rejects Net neutrality rules

By a 269-152 vote that fell largely along party lines, the House Republican leadership mustered enough votes to reject a Democrat-backed amendment that would have enshrined stiff Net neutrality regulations into federal law and prevented broadband providers from treating some Internet sites differently from others.
The U.S. House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of Net [...]

Waterproof, Interactive, iPod Protection

Waterproof, Interactive, iPod Protection

Hey Apple iPod fans, I found a pretty geektastic case for your iPod that offers waterproof protection. That’s right, you can go swimming, run around in the rain, jump into a lake, whatever you want and never miss a beat thanks to this new iPod case from SKB Cases out of Orange, California.
SKB Cases introduces [...]

Google Spreadsheets

Google Spreadsheets

I posted yesterday afternoon that Google would be launching Google Spreadsheets, a Web-based spreadsheet application that will be able to read and write Microsoft Excel files.
As of this morning you can take it for a spin at http://spreadsheets.google.com
According to a Google report, Google Spreadsheets is considered to be “alpha” software. The testing will be limited [...]

Google’s Web-based Spreadsheet Application

Google’s Web-based Spreadsheet Application

Google is expected to launch a Web-based spreadsheet application sometime tomorrow, a move that would be latest challenge to Microsoft. Can you smell what the Rock’s… uh, I mean can you smell what Google’s cooking? Hehe.
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, the Google Spreadsheet would follow by a couple of months the [...]

Mozilla Patches 12 Firefox Flaws

Mozilla Patches 12 Firefox Flaws

Mozilla Corporation updated its Firefox browser last night to patch a 12 vulnerabilities, 5 of them tagged “critical.”
Firefox 1.5.0.4 is the fourth security update to the 1.5 edition of the browser since it released last November. The number of holes plugged in 1.5.0.4, however, is only half that of April’s mega-patch, when 24 total, 11 [...]