Don’t believe the spyware hype.

August 17, 2006

I’ll let all the readers in on a little tech journalism secret. Media outlets run stories about viruses and spyware solely to scare the crap out of you. Now, some of the time these warnings are truly legitimate, and other times it’s sensationalism meant to drive traffic to the media outlet’s website, and to pump […]

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RIAA: Mussolini and Hitler’s love child? Radio Shack won’t take batteries back, but Dell will

August 16, 2006

In its effort to become the most hated organization ever, the Recording Industry Association of America or RIAA brought a file-sharing lawsuit against a man who died. Having the sensitivity of a love child between Mussolini and Hitler, the record association offered the mourning family a 60-day grieving period before they began to depose the […]

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Verizon’s DVR. Apple and the Pod people. Kawasaki’s advice.

August 15, 2006

Verizon is set to launch a multi-room DVR tomorrow. Similar to a TiVo, but you can access all your saved shows on two other TVs as well. The unit also doubles as a media hub to store your pictures and music. Media centers and multi-room DVRs are not new, but Verizon is tying this new […]

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Cell phone traffic reports. SMS fingerprint. BetOnSports leaves U.S.

August 13, 2006

Your cell phone could soon be delivering the traffic report. IntelliOne Technologies has developed a system that determines road speeds by the location of drivers’ cell phones. The technology has been tested and delivered accurate roadway speeds within three miles an hour. You have a unique style of handwriting. Could you also have a pattern […]

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Google says don’t fear us, fear the government. Men who play BINGO are pansies.

August 11, 2006

Google CEO Eric Schmidt says you shouldn’t worry about his company releasing your personal data, but rather the government. And not just the U.S. government, but any government that forces Google to give up a customer’s search history. Schmidt had in the past fought a request by the Department of Justice to release user search […]

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Kevin Rose not worth $60 million. Search AOL data. Protect your searches.

August 10, 2006

Today is a follow up on a couple of stories I reported on earlier. First, Kevin Rose has spoken out on Business Week’s gross valuation of his company, Digg. Unlike what Business Week claimed on its cover, Rose says he’s not worth $60 million. He’s not worth any million. His company isn’t profitable and in […]

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The Public Interest for 8/9/06

August 10, 2006

This is the game I played with Will and Willie on their show this morning. It’s all about people’s behavior searching online. See how well you do. Scroll down afterwards to see the answers. 1: On Ask.com, which of the following questions appears every single day on the list of top 20 questions? (A) How […]

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Nokia Tunes? Mylo’s Wi-Fi calls. Peeing in public.

August 9, 2006

While everyone waits for Apple to finally launch the iPhone, Nokia has already moved into the online music arena with the purchase of Loudeye, a digital music distributor. It’s all part of their master plan to tie their phones with a music download service which will probably be pretty uncomfortable for their operator customers who […]

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My arrival to The Quake

August 9, 2006

The Quake’s announced my arrival.

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AOL’s search "screw up." Mac’s Time Machine. SpongeBob for money.

August 8, 2006

An individual’s search is revealing. And when AOL released twenty million to the public it was quite embarrassing, or as they like to say, “a screw up.” Although none of the search results identified any individual user, they were tied to a unique user number. For example, user 17556639 wanted information on “How to kill […]

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