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This might be old news to some of my readers but I did have some friends who were unaware of this useful information, so I’m posting about it to make sure everyone knows.
That’s right, as my post title says RegisterFly.com lost it’s ICANN accreditation.
In an notice to RegisterFly on March 16, 2007 they no [...]

Just when you think that our security and privacy is under control and Homeland Security is doing their job, out comes the news that the Transportation Security Administration has lost a computer hard drive containing Social Security numbers, bank data and payroll information for about 100,000 employee records.
According to the report, the hard drive was [...]

Dear Microsoft,
Thank you for your concern about the lack of interactivity in my television. I realize that your researchers have only my best interests at heart but please tell them that interactivity isn’t necessary.
TV is passive entertainment and I’m fine with that. If I want to interact, I’ll do so using the computer at [...]

Man, cell phones just can’t catch a break these days, can they?
New Scientist Tech reports that a study at University of California, Irvine, indicates that old cell phones dumped into landfills could be leaking zinc, copper, nickel and other pollutants into the groundwater supplies.
The only solution, the researchers point out, is total phone redesigns [...]

Popular myth - those tidbits of received wisdom that use the typical phrase, “Of course it’s true, everyone says so!” - is as evident in the technology community as it is in any other society.
The only difference is that this particular community isn’t divided by geographical location but by language - namely, the language [...]

Most of us, if not all of us, use mobile devices whether it’s a cell phone, a smartphone or a Pocket PC. We all pay the monthly fees, the necessary taxes and sometimes even those obscure charges that show up on our bills.
We all deal with dropped calls, “dead zones,” and lack of features [...]