Defining SOPA Solutions

If SOPA is unacceptable to stop online piracy, what are the answers? And are you a cyber criminal?

Defining SOPA SolutionsSource: Getty Images

Is uploading a video you shot at a Lady Gaga concert illegal? Are you a cyber criminal under SOPA?

Thanks to yesterday's Web blackout, we are aware of efforts to curb cyber piracy. But if SOPA's no good, what are the solutions? And are we part of the problem?
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Why is Wikipedia Dark? What is 'SOPA'?

Congressional bills to limit online piracy by foreign-based Web sites seen as censorship

Why is Wikipedia Dark? What is 'SOPA'?Source: Stewart Wolpin

Today's Wikipedia front page, dark in protest of SOPA.

Wikipedia goes dark today in protest of SOPA, legislation many consider Internet censorship. What exactly is SOPA, and why is there so much protest?
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What the Google-Motorola Deal Means For You

Google buys Motorola's cell phone business – does it matter and should you care? I do.

Source: Motorola

Motorola executives John Mitchell and Martin Cooper with the first cell phone in 1973.

How will Google's purchase of Motorola's cell phone business affect you? Perhaps not much, but Motorola's fall is a sad day in the technology business.
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What is 'Cloud Computing'?

A recent survey indicates few understand what 'cloud computing' means – so here's a primer

Cloud computing explainedSource: Getty Images

Sitting on – and computing on – the cloud

Survey says most of us don't know what "cloud computing" means. It's really quite simple. Cloud computing is – well, read this and find out.
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Toyota Venza Commercials Remind Us We’re Cool

New car ads show middle-aged people in a hip, new light.

Toyota Venza commercials feature this crossover carSource: Getty Images
Hilarious new Toyota Venza commercials show how fun, vital and active we really are.
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6 Things You Didn't Know About Google

What You May Not Know About the Silicon Valley Search Giant

July 18, 2011

Everybody knows Google: it's the site you visit when you want to find something online, or, depending on your viewpoint, it is the evil corporation that is mining data on your daily Internet searches. But how well do you really know Google?

google logo
google logo
Larry Page
google tool bar
google ski trip
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What Apple's iCloud Means For You

Pictures, music, documents no longer trapped on devices on which you bought or created them

Source: Getty Images
Photos we shoot, music we buy, documents we create on Apple portable devices will be automatically available on all our Apple devices and PCs via Apple's new iCloud service.
Read More

No New iPhone This Summer

But on Monday, Apple will unveil a new iPhone operating system and music streaming service

Source: Getty Images

This scene won't be seen this summer.

Steve Jobs will not announce a new iPhone Monday morning. Instead, he'll announce a new operating system for iPhone/iPad/iPod with iCloud music streaming, voice dictation and better multi-tasking.
Read More

Why Privacy is a 21st Century Myth

How the Internet, your cell phone – and you – create a technological fishbowl

Source: Getty Images
Thanks to the Internet and our cell phones, everyone seems to know everything about us or can easily find out – but are we willing participants in our own shrinking spheres of digital privacy?
Read More

What the H*** is This Thing?

It's called a QR code. Just aim a smart phone's camera at it to be taken to wondrous places.

Source: Stewart Wolpin

By "this thing" I mean the thing in the picture at left that looks like an overhead shot of a poorly designed hedge labyrinth like the one Jack Nicholson gets snowed-in in The Shining. Or a crossword puzzle designed by a drunk. Or a Rorschach test interpreted by Picasso during his Cubist period. You've probably started seeing them on ads and other places.

And, no, they're not a square barcodes. They're more like a barcode square(d) or cubed or some other geometric increase which explicates a QR code's expanded and versatile capabilities.

Read More

Defining SOPA Solutions

If SOPA is unacceptable to stop online piracy, what are the answers? And are you a cyber criminal?

Defining SOPA SolutionsSource: Getty Images

Is uploading a video you shot at a Lady Gaga concert illegal? Are you a cyber criminal under SOPA?

Thanks to yesterday's Web blackout, we are aware of efforts to curb cyber piracy. But if SOPA's no good, what are the solutions? And are we part of the problem?
Read More

Why is Wikipedia Dark? What is 'SOPA'?

Congressional bills to limit online piracy by foreign-based Web sites seen as censorship

Why is Wikipedia Dark? What is 'SOPA'?Source: Stewart Wolpin

Today's Wikipedia front page, dark in protest of SOPA.

Wikipedia goes dark today in protest of SOPA, legislation many consider Internet censorship. What exactly is SOPA, and why is there so much protest?
Read More

What the Google-Motorola Deal Means For You

Google buys Motorola's cell phone business – does it matter and should you care? I do.

Source: Motorola

Motorola executives John Mitchell and Martin Cooper with the first cell phone in 1973.

How will Google's purchase of Motorola's cell phone business affect you? Perhaps not much, but Motorola's fall is a sad day in the technology business.
Read More

What is 'Cloud Computing'?

A recent survey indicates few understand what 'cloud computing' means – so here's a primer

Cloud computing explainedSource: Getty Images

Sitting on – and computing on – the cloud

Survey says most of us don't know what "cloud computing" means. It's really quite simple. Cloud computing is – well, read this and find out.
Read More

Toyota Venza Commercials Remind Us We’re Cool

New car ads show middle-aged people in a hip, new light.

Toyota Venza commercials feature this crossover carSource: Getty Images
Hilarious new Toyota Venza commercials show how fun, vital and active we really are.
Read More
More Stories About: , , , , All Categories
| tech

6 Things You Didn't Know About Google

What You May Not Know About the Silicon Valley Search Giant

July 18, 2011

Everybody knows Google: it's the site you visit when you want to find something online, or, depending on your viewpoint, it is the evil corporation that is mining data on your daily Internet searches. But how well do you really know Google?

google logo
google logo
Larry Page
google tool bar
google ski trip
View Slideshow

What Apple's iCloud Means For You

Pictures, music, documents no longer trapped on devices on which you bought or created them

Source: Getty Images
Photos we shoot, music we buy, documents we create on Apple portable devices will be automatically available on all our Apple devices and PCs via Apple's new iCloud service.
Read More

No New iPhone This Summer

But on Monday, Apple will unveil a new iPhone operating system and music streaming service

Source: Getty Images

This scene won't be seen this summer.

Steve Jobs will not announce a new iPhone Monday morning. Instead, he'll announce a new operating system for iPhone/iPad/iPod with iCloud music streaming, voice dictation and better multi-tasking.
Read More

Why Privacy is a 21st Century Myth

How the Internet, your cell phone – and you – create a technological fishbowl

Source: Getty Images
Thanks to the Internet and our cell phones, everyone seems to know everything about us or can easily find out – but are we willing participants in our own shrinking spheres of digital privacy?
Read More

What the H*** is This Thing?

It's called a QR code. Just aim a smart phone's camera at it to be taken to wondrous places.

Source: Stewart Wolpin

By "this thing" I mean the thing in the picture at left that looks like an overhead shot of a poorly designed hedge labyrinth like the one Jack Nicholson gets snowed-in in The Shining. Or a crossword puzzle designed by a drunk. Or a Rorschach test interpreted by Picasso during his Cubist period. You've probably started seeing them on ads and other places.

And, no, they're not a square barcodes. They're more like a barcode square(d) or cubed or some other geometric increase which explicates a QR code's expanded and versatile capabilities.

Read More

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