Monthly Archives: January 2013

A Hack-a-thon…

If the stories circulating within America’s Mainstream Media are true, the threat of Chinese hacking is not only widespread (in the nation) one has to wonder in what other nations / agencies, etc. that it is also occurring / on … Continue reading

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A Triple Play?

A judge has refused to triple Samsung’s (financial) penalty of $1.o5 Billion Dollars against Apple (which if set-down could’ve in all probability bankrupted the firm if it actually paid said amount out). (Source) Information Week: http://goo.gl/kBUW8

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Timeless Wisdom.

“A free Nation can rise no higher than the standard of excellence set in its schools and colleges.” – JFK.

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Classroom Flipping.

Perhaps long overdue… (Source) Huffington Post: http://goo.gl/P6klr

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Vine’s Too ‘Sexy’ For…

In short order, Vine just might go from achieving an overwhelming vindication (for their creators) to being vilified (from Apple) due to the proliferation of adult content (e.g., p*rn) therein and the high likelihood said application will get removed from … Continue reading

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A Free-for-all?

Antigua could be the next (big) P2P base if the nation’s plan to be granted permission to run a piracy web-site is granted (by the WTO of all entities!) (Source) BBC: http://goo.gl/Jc3kS

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(Grape) Vine.

Look for Vine to potentially be the ‘next big thing’ within the Social Networking space… as Facebook seems to be playing catch-up again… (Source) Techcrunch: http://goo.gl/F7Ydb

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< 1 Billion Sold.

With roughly 700 million Smartphones sold (1/2 of the overall market was dominated by Samsung & Apple – in that order globally last year)… the market is indeed slowing down. Potentially the biggest caveat in all of this is simply: … Continue reading

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A Troubling Trend.

With more than 2/3 of all governmental requests for individual / end-user data originating from within America (aside from continuing to increase globally) two points are worth noting: one) how unaware the vast majority of people are the world-over regarding … Continue reading

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Dear Prudence.

Add 500px to the list of (now) former iTunes’ applications that Apple has removed due to inappropriate content. (Source) Digital Trends: http://goo.gl/G6cFi

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