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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
In March, Cook County, Illinois Sheriff Tom Dart announced that his office had sued Craigslist over the websites “erotic services” section, which the sheriff said facilitates prostitution. Despite this, and despite the highly publicized “Craigslist Killer,” the site says it has no intention of pulling the section.
On Friday night, both Craigslist [...]
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Contributing Writer, RealTechNewsÂ
What’s a dashboard Donut? It has nothing to do with anything edible that might have been stuck to your car’s dashboard. Neither is it a device to ease one’s haemorrhoids pain as one uncharitable co-worker remarked the other day. Nor is it a parking space for a desktop rodent. It’s big [...]
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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
With the phenomenal growth of data and a better awareness of the need to back it up, there is always a market for a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. Last I really knew of Iomega was back in the ZIP drive days where they ruled the home storage world. But with [...]
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Contributing Writer, RealTechNewsÂ
Call me carbon-dated — says DigitalReviews’ Kevin Cheng – but I can still remember when Nero Burning Rom was still in digital diapers and Easy CD Creator ruled the ROM burning world. Those were the days when Nero had a decent product but was always playing second fiddle in hardware support. [...]
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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Following closely its Q3 2009 quarterly results, Microsoft’s annual company picnic has been canceled. Obviously, this is simply a cost-cutting move, and one that probably many companies are taking.
Still, Microsoft’s company picnic has always been a rather elaborate affair, held in North Bend, WA, and attracting employees from around the region. [...]
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Here’s our usual weekly summary of featured items from Gizmos For Geeks:
Here are some of our notable articles for the past week. First we pondered whether Twitter’s popularity would last. Google News now has a Timeline of Events – nice feature.
We noticed that YouTube were looking to accept full length and legal content, while Fuijitsu [...]
ShareA recent study commissioned by Intel and conducted by the Ponemon Institute shows that a lost or stolen laptop is worth far more than just the hardware. When everything is taken into account, such losses cost a company as much as $115,000 and an average of $49,000.
The study analyzed 138 cases of lost and [...]
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Contributing Writer, RealTechNewsÂ
Arguably the most important page on any computer or mobile device is the homepage. Spb knows that and have spent significant time and money on developing the best interface for your phone in the market today. They already had a winner in version 2.0 which was shipped by many device makers [...]
