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Comcast Hijacking DNS? Pushing Customers To Their Own Advertising Pages

Well maybe hijacking is a little strong but comcast is playing games with DNS Services. Today was the first we noticed because we never type in the wrong url when we want to get to a site…. yea right but while clicking on a bad url we found that that the domain we typed in […]

Gary McKinnon AKA SuperWang To Be Extradited To USA From UK For Hacking NASA Computers

Gary McKinnon who got busted for hacking NASA and Pentagon computers tried to use claims of Autism as reason he should not be extradited from Britan to the USA. He really didn’t hack computers he used blank passwords of Administrator Accounts to get into systems that didn’t have passwords set …. thats dam sad on […]

Looks Like Someone Hacked Elance’s User Database

In an email announcement to all of their developers Elance one of the Internets largest freelance developer work sites warned that their database has been hacked. “We recently learned that certain Elance user information was accessed without authorization, including potentially yours. The data accessed was contact information — specifically name, email address, telephone number, city […]

New GMail Feature Designed To Stop Email List Spam

Google has added an Unsubscribe feature that will help you end email from unwanted email lists. The Unsubscribe feature will be available for all KNOWN email lists that Google collects information about and if you are receiving mail and can’t find a way to stop it google will send a request on your behalf to […]

Amazon Pays Almost A BILLION For Zappos Shoes

Online sales of Shoes alone is a 4.5 BILLION dollar industry and Zappos is one of the leaders. With almost 5 million visitors a month zappos out scores many content driven sites and with extremely lenient return policies of up to a year with free delivery and return mail paid their customers tend to stay […]

Disney Looking To Turn HULU Into A Pay Site

Disney executive Rober Iger who took a share of News Corp’s Hulu may force the site into a Pay Service. The main reason that Hulu is so popular as a content provider is that visitors can view free content and not feel underlying guilt associated with downloading shows from a Torrent or other unofficial site. […]

Apple Steve Jobs Is Poster Child For Medical Records Not Being In Government Hands

Recently Steve Jobs Founder of Apple Computer had to undergo a pretty drastic operation for a transplant of his liver. Now once the announcement of the operation being a success was public everyone was relieved that he should be ok but there were many investors that felt his nondisclosure of his health condition was a […]

Are Twitter HashTag Trends Simply Bots Out To Rule The World?

Its a slow Sunday with a lot of people either on vacation or taking that weekend break so why are there so many users posting to stale topics on Twitter? Well anyone that clicks can see for themselves that 80% of the conversation is generated by Bots. Bots are applications that generate information like tweets […]

Sun Agrees To 7.4B Oracle Takeover – How This Screws Every Website

In a week where people are wondering if they will have a job or one with health care the take over of Sun by Oracle did not make big headlines. This very quiet deal where Oracle has obtained their main competitor mySql and now will control the development of that open source project. Gaining control […]

Amazon Kindle Books Deleted From Users Devices – Reasonable? Probably

If you are a george orwell fan you may have noticed a few books missing from your Kindle last week … It seems that someone had uploaded copies of the books to Amazon’s Self Service Publishing service which we reviewed last week and tried to sell them under their account. As of now we don’t […]