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So remember a little while back that I said I was sticking with the iPhone? Yeah, well, things change, and about two weeks ago, I took the plunge away from the iPhone and AT&T (a limited phone with an awful carrier…yeah, I said it) to go to Sprint and the HTC EVO 4G. Why do [...]

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Since I can’t think of an article to write today, I’ll post a question to y’all, if you don’t mind. I have a lot of friends who are of opposing sides to this argument. Some feel cloud computing isn’t secure enough to trust with their data. Others, like me, who put all of their information [...]

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According to an article on Ars Technica entitled, Apple loses big in DRM ruling: jailbreaks are “fair use”, the Library of Congress has added a bevy of new exceptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act altering the way we’re allowed to use much of the digital media and devices we have.

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I’m admittedly something of a Google fanboy. I’ve got all of my email accounts (many self-hosted) set up through Gmail, I use Google Calendar and Google Contacts to sync to my phone and PC-based calendars and am mostly quite happy with these services. However, sometimes Google releases something that either makes you go “WTF?” (Wave, [...]

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In an interesting blog article entitled, Fuck you, Google, the author takes Google to task, and rightfully so I think, for major privacy concerns in the wake of Buzz’s release, concerns I wasn’t even fully aware of. Here’s a clip: Oh, yes, I suppose I could opt out of Buzz — which I did when [...]

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According to both Reuters and Download Squad, our overlords at Google have launched Google Buzz. What’s Google Buzz? Apparently it integrates social networking into your currently existing Gmail account (if you have one). According to the web-page, it allows you to track the people most important to you, share stuff and so on. It hasn’t [...]

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