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The more I read about this SOPA Software Piracy Act the less I like about it but it has me wondering what the real consequences are for the Internet. Today I was reading a post on WordPress.org where they announced that they are breaking tradition of  being nonpolitical HAHAHAHA if anyone sucked obama’s dick harder […]

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said the nonprofit company that runs the site is trying to attract new contributors to replace the ones that have left the site. Noting that there are 90,000 active accounts the number of people that actually contribute to the site has fallen dramatically in the past few years. Wales says that […]

Some cross site scripting issues were found in WordPress 3.3 and this patch version should be installed to correct those problems. About 20 files are updated however most of the updates are not related to the security problems they are simply format updates to show the new change in version. For all you GoDaddy blogging […]

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich was released today for updates and new phones. There are a number of new features that some people will like but first I want to hit on the things I don’t.. It seems that they are starting to place options that you can use before unlocking the phone. You can […]

Google has decided to encrypt connections between its search pages and users for those that login to their account. In one sense this is good for people from foreign dictates like Iran where search information may be tracked on local routers with sniffers but the fact is with China excluded most of the world is […]

Well if you haven’t visited their home page in a while you may not have noticed that today microsoft finalized the purchase of Skype. This is probably not a bad idea for Microsoft since Google offers telephone services through their Gmail accounts and Microsoft never offered a full featured chat / telephone service even though […]

On the one hand Google Plus just started not too long ago so when you compare it to other services that took a decade or two to come to life it is good to keep in mind that expansion will happen as the product matures… With that said one of the developers of the plus […]

Faced with Macy’s and Amazon offering free shipping options for their customers it seems that the world’s largest retailer has now got into the game. This is not bad timing for Walmart because Black Friday is just around the corner and lots of customers that may have turned elsewhere may decide that sticking with the […]

Now we aren’t saying looking at adult content is good or bad but the fact is the internet was built by the Porn industry. Many people may want to say FaceBook or Twitter or any of the dozen or so sites like Yahoo, Google and so on were the reason the Internet grew to its […]

Competitor Barnes & Noble will know what you’ve bought from the now bankrupt Borders retail group. Federal bankruptcy court allowed the sale of the company’s assets including some personal data of approximately 45 million former Borders customers. And last week, the court approved the sale of Borders data to Barnes & Noble. The information includes […]