ShareBy Jimmy Daniels
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
If you have ever heard of Robert Alan Soloway, and looking at a Google search for his name, lots of you probably have, you’ll be happy to know that he is under arrest after a jury returned a 35-count indictment against Soloway charging him with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, [...]
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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Purdue University, prestigious right? You’d expect someone going to there to be proud and want to learn, and also to show some respect to his professors. Well, nowadays too many people have a ’sense of entitlement’ about things, and this qualifies.
A university student, whose name was not [...]
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By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
I’m a little stunned here. Jeff Hawkins is a hero of mine. He designed the Palm Pilot and made the PDA a viable product category after scores of failures. Even the Treo at one point had many corporate users under its spell. And today when we were told of a new breakthrough announcement [...]
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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
I was told this was a “Smartphone Companion.” “What the heck is that?” I thought. Then I heard it described as a “Laptop for your Smartphone.” Now that kinda clicked with me, especially after I got a look at it. It has a 10-inch screen, a [...]
ShareBy Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Remember ‘Minority Report’? Tom Cruise movie, based on a Philip K. Dick short story, and one of the cool things was interfacing with a computer using gestures only. It was a vertical interface, and it was virtual. What we have here is a table-top (shades of old-style video [...]
ShareBy Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
You may recall the HP pretexting scandal from last year. In response to that, last year CEO Mark Hurd said to Congress “There is no excuse for this aberration. It happened, and it will never happen again.” One definition of aberration is “a state or condition markedly different from [...]
ShareBy Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
When you think about it, this should probably not be a shock to anyone. I mean, the temptation is there. And I’ve often wondered about how many passwords and how much access IT personnel have. But still, one-third?
According to a new survey, a third of IT staff take [...]
ShareBy Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
I suppose I should be happy with what I have, but still. Generally I get 5Mbps and sometimes up to 12Mbps from Comcast. But compared to average speeds of 61Mbps from Japan and 7.6Mbps from Canada … it’s really annoying.
The organization conducted its own download/upload speed tests online, which [...]
