A new bill before Congress would add some new features to the Americans With Disabilities Act, to insure that all Americans have equal access to TV and the Internet. But the one feature that stands out is providing close captioning for Internet videos. The bill would mandate that the FCC have in place guidelines for [...]
Our Canadian neighbors to the north are up in arms to what they feel are extremely high rates they will have to pay to use an iPhone from Apple. Seems that there is only one official, Apple approved company called Rogers that offers services which do seem high at $115 for the fastest speed. In [...]
This group of people known as the ‘Internet For Everyone’, is trying to address America dropping to 15th in the world when it comes to broadband access. With the Internet being an American invention, one would think that we would be the leaders of the world when it comes to access. On their website is [...]
Make sure your system is up to date and has the latest protections in place.
AVG anti-virus: 06/29/08
Norton anti-virus: 06/25/08
McAfee anti-virus: 06/25/08
Lavasoft Ad-Aware: 06/26/08
Spybot Search and Destroy: 06/25/08
Microsoft Windows Defender: 06/25/08
Nod32: 06/27/08
Updates as of June 29, 2008 6:00am CDT.
Starting next month, July 2008, there will be a new site on the Internet which is going to dedicate itself to the teenage crowd. Called ‘Teen In Tech’ the site is being run by a 15 year old who is the CEO of the new company. This new crop of web people are called ‘teentrepreneu’ [...]
This sounds familiar. Not keeping your equipment in tune with demand causes users to bail out and hit the road to a new service. So it was when Twitter turned off the reply feature that was a favorite of many users to save the system from slowing down. So is the darling of social networks [...]
An unemployed German poured gas over his 1995 BMW and torched his own vehicle to protest the high price of gasoline. According to an article by the BBC it states:
An unemployed German man has set his car on fire in protest at rising fuel prices, police say.
He drove the black 1995 BMW 3-Series [...]
Google - the one trick pony according to Steve Ballmer, has anoher toy for the masses to play with. Called Google Media Server, the Windows only software will change the way we interact with our TV now and in the future. In their description Google says that Google Media Server works in conjuntion with Google [...]
FireTune for Firefox is a free optimization tool that claims to improve the performance of Firefox, depending on the connection and computer choice you select. After downloading Firetune, which is small at 1MB, you are presented with a screen asking you to check which of the settings applies to you. I chose fast connection and [...]
Over at Gizmodo they have what I believe is one of the best articles I have read about why Vista isn’t that bad. What I enjoyed about the article was the way it was written and the choice of wording. Some positive points were almost apologetic in the writers view. There were also 5 things [...]
Back on April 5, 2007 I wrote a piece about he Intel 915 Express Card and how it would not support Aero in Vista. [Story is here.]
So today I received a comment from reader Hubbak Khan who indicates there is a way to enable Aero on non-WDDM video cards. I personally have not tried this, [...]
What happened to Yahoo? LOL Microsoft has decided to buy semantic search engine Powerset to help to improve its image aa s search rival to Google. In a statement Steve Ballmer has mentioned that search is going to be Microsoft’s number one priority. In the article it states:
By buying Powerset, Microsoft is hoping to close [...]
Microsoft is claiming that the PC is still the largest based gaming device, even larger than the game consoles that are so popular. In an interesting take on the gaming industry, Microsoft is presenting their contention that it is still the PC that has the lion share of gaming. In the article it also states:
We [...]
It took six years in the making but the Icann, the group that regulates the Internet, has approved an overhaul on domain names. The overhaul will allow companies to use their own brand names and not be saddled with .com, uk, or others. Icann also is going to allow Asian, Arabic and other script as [...]
Chrysler is gearing up for their 2009 models to be rolling Wi-Fi hot stops, that will allow Internet connection right from your vehicle. What a great idea! Now I will be able to spend more time on the Internet and never get a break. According to the story from the LA Times:
Is there anything [...]
Today Dell introduces their new ‘Studio’ brand of computer designed for what they call ’self-expression and creative living.’ The new models are the Dell Studio 15 and Dell Studio 17. Yes, you are correct. The number designate the screen size. Pricing for the new models are $799 for the Studio 15 and $999 for the [...]
There seems to be some concern whether the US Border Patrol should be allowed to search laptops, whether there is suspicion of illegal activity or not. Two US Senators, as well as others are questioning the policies that the US Border Patrol has in place and whether they are necessary to protect the US or [...]
Microsoft has posted a patch for those running Windows Vista with SP1 installed that fixes some reliability and performance issues that some users may experience. Microsoft explains the following situations in which the patch may be needed:
This update resolves issues that may affect some Windows Vista SP1-based computers. These issues have been reported by customers [...]
American Airlines will begin testing broadband service on a flight from New York to Los Angeles. The new service is a joint effort of American Airlines and Aircell and will expand to other flights in the next few weeks for further testing. According to the report:
Passengers will be able to download videos, use email, instant [...]
I was watching CNN yesterday and was surprised to learn just how high prices were heading in Hawaii. Having just been to the islands last October, I thought prices were high than, but now they have skyrocketed out of sight. To add to the high cost of staples, is also the high cost of plane [...]
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