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Google Doodle – Good for the web
If you have seen the latest Google doodle today it is a giant zipper that you zip down the screen to see what is behind the doodle. Google has been doing their doodles for a while, and they serve the purpose of celebrating some significant event. In the case of the zipper doodle, it celebrates […]
PIPA and SOPA Bring Protest
January 18, 2012
If you have looked at many of the popular sites today, such as Google and Wikipedia, and The Techbookshelf home of WordPress, then you may have noticed a change. Today is stop censorship day all over the internet. This is in lieu of the two bills up before Congress and the Senate called SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) […]
Kindle Lending Library Announced
November 4, 2011
Amazon announced it’s Kindle book lending service today. You can borrow up to book a month, if you are a prime member. Unlike the libraries, it looks like as many people as possible can have a book out at the same time, and you can keep the book as long as you want. But it […]
Breaking news: Qwikster is Dead – Netflix to Keep DVDs
October 10, 2011
I just received an email Netflix, (as probably everyone who has a Netflix subscription has) that states Netflix has decided to keep the DVDs in house and has killed off Qwikster before it got started. If you go out to qwickster.com the site now redirects back to netflix.com. Netflix stated that the July price change […]
New Apple iPhone 4s, Nanos, and iPod Touch Features
October 5, 2011
At yesterday’s Apple event, there were quite a few new products announced including a new Nano, new iPod Touches, and a new iPhone. All of these updates were what would be called incremental updates and would not really be considered major updates. Apple also spent some time on new services like the iCloud and the […]
Apple Event Today – New iPhones to be announced
October 4, 2011
There is an Apple event planned today from 10-11 PDT (1-2 EDT) where it is expected they will announce iPhone 5s. We are actually looking at 2 new iPhones at least according to some sources including and iPhone 5 and an iPhone 4S. There may also be an announcement about iOS 5 and the new Assistant which will […]
Amazon Fire – Netflix Killer or Friend
September 29, 2011
One of the big questions coming out of the Amazon Kindle Fire launch is whether Netflix would be allowed to stream apps to the new device, or whether Amazon would use this as an opportunity to try and kill Netflix with their own Amazon Prime streaming video service. According to All Things D’s Peter Kafka, […]
Amazon’s New Kindle Fire Announced
September 28, 2011
Today Amazon took a shot at all the tablet makers by announcing their Kindle tablet, the Kindle Fire. The Kindle Fire is a 7 inch tablet which puts in a category where is doesn’t have to compete against the iPad, but it just may. There are few unique things about the Kindle Fire that most 7″ tablet makers haven’t […]
Netflix to Spin off DVD Division
September 19, 2011
This morning I, and probably many Netflix subscribers received an email from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings apologizing to their subscribers. The apology though was a little half hearted and wasn’t apology for the way Netflix jacked up the prices on it’s users. The apology was more for the way that they did it, without any warning and […]
Cisco Nexus 5000 and 3000 Vunerability
September 7, 2011
Cisco just released a vulnerability on the Nexus 5000 and 3000 running 5.0(2) and 5.0(3) code, prior to version 5.0(3)N2(1). Version 4.0 code is not affected. The vulnerability occurs when you have a remark configured on an ACL prior to a deny in the ACL such as in the example below: ip access-list acl-ipv4-01 remark this ACL […]
April 24, 2012
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