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I don’t want to get involved in the political situation in Iran, but would rather address how technology could actually topple a regime. One Iranian youth believes that he and others can overthrow the current government of Iran using technology and the Internet to present their case to the world. In a recent news article [...]

Back in 1974 when AT&T was the only phone company in the United States, the company was split into a bunch of baby bells in the hopes they would provide competition in the market place. One must recall that back when AT&T had their monopoly, phone calls were expensive compared to what we pay today. [...]

It is being reported that about $33 million in poker winnings have been seized by U.S. banks. The U.S. government had asked the banks to seize the funds which is owed to some 27,000 poker customers. The investigation started when some of the checks being issued to winners had bounced,  which caused the government to [...]

The Cuba government has launched a new operating system for the Cuban people. A variant of Linux, the new system is called Nova, and it is hoped that 50% of Cuban computers will be running the new OS in about 5 years. The purpose of using Linux is to have non-Microsoft machines running since the [...]

After suffering through the DTV commercials, banners running across our TV screens and news agencies that need to have classes on switching to DTV, it now appears the change over could be delayed. It seems that there is concern that some folks are still not ready for the change. It is estimated that some 2 [...]

President elect Obama has picked a new head of the FCC. Julius Genachowski is an Obama insider who has been not only a staunch supporter but also a friend for many years. Mr. Genachowski takes the helm of the FCC during a time of transition from an analog to digital age. He also supports net [...]

The current FCC chairman has been trying to get free broadband moving before the end of his term. But there are powers in Congress that have blocked his endeavor. So will we the public ever get free broadband some day down the road?
I believe that we may just eventually have a good chance of getting [...]

So you have a system that is easily hacked. You have a group of students who have presented the information to the government agency, which seems to be now running to the courts to stop them for presenting their findings to a conference, which is basically a hackers convention. Interesting. From C/Net we have this [...]

The web site Missing Money provides a fast and simple way of checking to see if any organization may owe you some money. The service is free and takes just seconds to perform. There is also a listing of all state agencies who you can contact for additional information concerning monies owed to you. In [...]

I just read a story over at the SJ Mercury News which describes the plight of a Fremont, CA. blogger who was held in a Singapore jail after criticizing a Singapore judge. Apparently this blogger is originally from Singapore, now an American citizen, and used the word ‘prostitute’ to describe the judge. In the article [...]

Several years ago the promise of free wi-fi in some of our countries major cities looked extremely promising.  I personally was keeping an eye on the progress of the wi-fi experiment that was taking place in San Francisco which was being sponsored by the likes of Google and others. The hope was that a free [...]

During the past month we have all read about the major shift in policy in the Cuban government that is slowly allowing its people more access to technology. The Cuban government is even allowing folks to buy computers as reported by the Associated Press.
HAVANA (AP) — Cubans are getting wired. Computers went on sale to [...]