ShareBy Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
While it’s surprising that secret MI6 (AKA SIS) documents should show up in something sold on eBay, it shouldn’t be that surprising. After all, personal banking information showed up on a hard drive sold on eBay, and so did Democratic party data, on a different hard drive.
But a camera?
According to The [...]
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By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
I wrote earlier about RealDVD, a new product by RealNetworkswhich purported to make DVD ripping legal by not just maintaining the original DRM on the disc, but adding yet another layer.
While I’m not sure just how popular this software would be — after all it locks down the DVD further with that [...]
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By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
This design is straight from the future, don’t you think? And yet Igarashi Design has unveiled an innovative single-seat helicopter you can buy and fly someday soon. (No word on pricing) The catch? you can’t have an instructor on board to help you fly it, so you need to take flight lessons first [...]
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By Scott Martin
Guest Writer
The Garmin Nuvi 755T, 765T, 775T and 785T were recently announced and will be available on the store shelves here in the coming weeks. I was able to get my hands on a Nuvi 755T unit ahead of their launch for a review of their new offering that includes a nice handful [...]
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By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
You might laugh at those Zits comic strips, which have shown a teenager text messaging his mother from across the room (and more), but you shouldn’t. A recently released Neilsen Mobile report indicates that using a cell phone to actually talk to someone has become passe, and that text messaging is [...]
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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Since Congress mandated increased royalties last year for Internet radio “stations” webcasters like Pandora have been struggling to stay in business. On Friday, things reached a climax as the House of Representatives was nearing a vote on bill H.R. 7084, the Webcaster Settlement Act, which would allow Internet radio stations [...]
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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
It appears that not telling people about your battery replacement plan prior to them buying the product is not quite the same as really, really poor battery life. Unlike the iPod battery lawsuit, which eventually led to an out-of-court settlement, this one has been thrown out of court.
Jose Trujillo’s lawsuit claimed [...]
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RealTechNews
You have to hand it to Oracle’s Larry Ellison. He’s not known for being a blushing flower, and this week he unleashed a fine tirade on the computer industry’s over-use of faddish terms. Case in point: Cloud Computing. Here’s an excerpt from Larry himself:
The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined [...]
