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Bank Of America Says Deposit Your Checks By Camera Phone Scary

Bank Of America is not alone in this but they are one of the few banks now testing a system that will allow you to take a picture of a check and have it deposited in your account. This process has been in the works for some time and has been used by some businesses […]

Google Executive Convicted In Italy Over Video Postings

An Italian court has convicted three Google executives in a trial over a video showing an autistic teenager being bullied. The Google employees were accused of breaking Italian law by allowing the video to be posted online. Judge Oscar Magi absolved the three of defamation but convicted them of privacy violations. Prosecutor Alfredo Robledo told […]

Google Says To IE6 Users Upgrade Or Don’t Come Back After March 13th

Google is extending its push into the Browser Wars by limiting access to it’s sites for users of Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6. As of March 13th sites like YouTube will begin using features that block the browser from accessing content. Some zealots say that this is a good thing but maybe they should consider […]

Free Software Foundation Tries To Strongarm Google Over On2 Video Codec

HAHAHA you got to really admire some of the Open Source Community and their Pontificating Bullshit that they spew… If you don’t know .. Google just bought a not so well known company On2 Technologies that makes Video Codecs most of us have on our computers right now… A What? Video codecs are the software […]

Updating To OpenOffice 3.2 Not As Fun As You Would Think

Ok so I have been using OpenOffice for some time now actually a few years.. The two main reasons is cost of other options and the ability to be platform independent. This is not to say that I don’t like Microsoft’s products its just that there isĀ  no way in hell I can justify the […]

Apple To Sell $350K or 2500 Ipods From Obama Stimulus Money? Really?

It seems the Polk County School District that serves 90,000 students and is one of the largest in the State and Country almost got away with buying and giving away 2,500 Apple IPods to parents of children with disabilities if they went online and submitted a 20 question form describing the teaching abilities of some […]

Oracle Lays Off Gnome Accessibility Project Developers Failing Special Needs Users

The Linux Operating System may be a open source community with lots of great code coming from people that write code after dinner once in a while if they have time and an interest in the project but when it comes down to it some of the developers need to be paid. Having been a […]

Cesar Alierta At Telefonica Networks Has Lost His Mind Intends To Charge Google / Bing For Traffic

Cesar Alierta President of Telefonica located in Spain but which serves 250 Million customers around the world has either completely lost his mind or is having some serious problems serving his customers. Alierta is suggesting that the company will begin charging or … trying to charge Google, Bing, Yahoo and other portals for the use […]

Facebook To Release HipHop PHP To C++ Compiler

Facebook is about to release some Open Source code that may change the way we write PHP. The project is called HipHop PHP or HHPHP and is a converter and compiler of PHP Code into a static & C++ Runtime. The project is said to be live on the Facebook site for about 8 months […]

Amazon Forced By Macmillan Publishing To Raise Prices

Its pretty sad when a publisher can force the prices of books up the way Macmillan just did to Amazon. Amazon is a discount broker and Macmillan does not need to use them for their primary releases if the publisher wants to keep the prices up for a short period of time but it seems […]