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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 […]

I am a professionally trained designer and I have to say the invention of the Macintosh really released design to the masses. Now for $3500 you could get a Mac Plus and produce a quality of publication that would have taken a team and tens of millions of dollars in typesetting equipment. The bad part […]

Ever since I found out that my first dialup isp way back when was implementing a cache server I have always had a problem with anyone getting between me and the content that I want to view. Most of my day I push very few bits.. I don’t sit there all day downloading videos just […]

Google announced yesterday that it would give the owners of residential Wi-Fi routers worldwide the option of removing their devices from a registry Google uses to locate cellphone users. This is interesting because the routers were used for location of cellphones but does it really fix the core problem of collecting locations of devices without […]

Microsoft has made available a developer preview of the next version of their operating system but will people accept its new style? Most large buyers are saying they will skip this OS just like they did Vista and Me and if the visuals we have seen are representative of this new OS I probably will […]

South Korean officials have raided Google’s offices to collect information about improper collection of user information and locations with their Android OS for Phones. “The Seoul police raided Google’s office Tuesday on suspicion that its mobile advertising unit, AdMob, had illegally collected users’ location data without users’ consent, the police said. The raid represents the […]

Here we go again Apple is going out of their way to act like assholes it seems… So far all we have heard is that the Galaxy Tablet made by Samsung is considered a little too good looking and too functional for Apple to compete with. In a statement Apple says “it’s no coincidence that […]

Well its interesting where these heavy wealth accumulators end up Gates is off to save the children of Africa so there is over population that leads to massive starvation and war…  The guy who started PayPal wants to create Libertarian Gay Island and Bezos wants to fly in a space ship… Anyway nice to have […]

Almost all of my friends have had a Netflix account at one time or another but I have never been one to rent movies online or in a store. The news about Netflix increasing their base fee from $10 to $16 in hopes to steer users to online rentals doesn’t really matter to me except […]

Many online businesses understand that the difference between a sale and a click away from your site can be as simple as the cost of shipping. Nordstroms has announced that they will offer free shipping on all orders.  This is expected to place them ahead of other higher end product retailers in the up coming […]