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Wow this is just utter incompetence or maybe the whole staff took off for three months and used this BS as an excuse. The U.S. Economic Development Administration, a small sector of the U.S. Department of Commerce, lost all email service due to a virus for about 75 days Branches of the bureau across the […]

Basically books were sold to stores at 50% of the face price so if the cover says $10 then the book store bought it for $5. However E-Books are a little different then paper versions. They basically cost nothing to distribute and the publishing process is just a click to save it in PDF form […]

Its report claims that about 600,000 Macs have installed the malware – potentially allowing them to be hijacked and used as a “botnet”. Apple has released a security update, but many users who have not installed the patch and remain exposed. Once the Trojan was installed it sent a message to the intruder’s control server […]

Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment says that the company needs to layoff 600 employees but most of the cuts will come from the nondevelopment teams. Constant evaluation of teams and processes is necessary for the long-term health of any business. Over the last several years, we’ve grown our organization tremendously and made […]

Amazon will most likely lower manufacturing orders for the company’s flagship tablet device Kindle Fire, by almost 50 percent during the first quarter of this year. According to industry experts, the move could be the outcome of a gradual slowing down post holiday season sales, as well as the expected arrival of the third generation […]

Amazon.com is promising to bring between 2,500 jobs and 3,000 jobs to Florida if state lawmakers and Gov. Rick Scott agree to a deal that would exempt the online retailer from collecting sales taxes for the next two years. The retail giant, which has offered similar deals in other states, has told top state officials […]

If you haven’t heard by now and you probably haven’t .. Google has made some pretty dramatic changes to their product privacy notice. Alma Whitten, Google’s director of privacy, product and engineering says… “In short, we’ll treat you as a single user across all our products which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience,” […]

Google stock prices dropped 8% from yesterday and just after opening on the 20th of Jan 2012 they have lost $52 a share. For any other stock this may be dramatic but when you consider that the price of a single share of Google Stock still costs $587.57 then you have to take this with […]

US Federal Agents shutdown the file hosting site MegaUpload yesterday because of requests from Hollywood claiming half a billion in losses from illegal downloads. The website offers free and paid hosting and distribution of files and is owned by a European multimillionaire that was living in New Zealand. Unfortunately for many users of the service […]

Well it seems that a lot of websites will be taking the day off january 18th in protest of the new US SOPA Laws. Wikipedia has decided to go offline and its owner has already tweeted an announcement that kids better do their homework early before they can’t get it from Wikipedia. WordPress is also […]