UPDATE –Microsoft Banned From Selling MS Word
A recent court injuction preventing Microsoft from selling Word (from mid-October, 2009), after a patent dispute with I4i, has been overturned. The BBC reports that following the ruling, Microsoft...
View ArticleREVIEW: Wikileaks
Image via Wikipedia Before today, most people only identified the term ‘Wiki’ with Wikipedia. However, more recently Wikileaks has gained tremendous popularity howbeit in controversial circumstances...
View ArticleShould Internet Copyright Laws Be Relaxed?
Image via Wikipedia As the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, announced that Britain’s intellectual property laws will be reviewed in order to ”make them fit for the Internet age”, to allow greater use...
View ArticleOpenLeaks Set To Launch As WikiLeaks Alternative
Image via Wikipedia A former assistant to Julian Assange – WikiLeaks founder, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, has revealed plans to launch an alternative to WikiLeaks called OpenLeaks (www.openleaks.org). The...
View ArticleSOPA On A Rope
We went through the many Napster lawsuits that put a scare into file sharing world; also, we read first- hand how traditional file sharing went bit torrent to attempt to hide what people were sharing....
View ArticleSOPA and ‘The Big Bang’ On Censorship
As we were all taught at some point in early education, the big bang theory entailed an explosion in space that produced this earth we live in as well as the millions of other moons and planets. In...
View ArticleWikipedia Threatens Site Closure
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has threatened a ‘strike’ which would black out the English-language site as a protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act. If the anti-piracy bill currently under...
View ArticleFight Internet Censorship! Do You Dare To Go Black?
Do you have the courage to stay off the Internet for just one day – a mere 24-hours? If so, you’ll be joining one of the most important websites and voices on the World Wide Web. Jimmy Wales, founder...
View ArticleSpyware – A New Weapon In Politics?
Back in 2005 the Internet was buzzing over so called “spyware wars” between the US government and the use of spyware. Back then, spyware was the enemy, and authorities tried to kill it with pieces of...
View ArticleRecycling Your Old Computer Parts The Right Way
Not your normal techy blog this week we are going to get dirty! Since I was a young boy I loved taking things apart. I have dissected more microwaves, toasters, radios and computers than I can...
View ArticleHow Technology Is Helping Fight Obesity In Georgia’s Oldest City
With America’s spiralling obesity epidemic showing no signs of slowing down, one Georgia city has decided to tackle the problem head on, and is taking advantage of technology to help reach its...
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