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Remember the first time you found out that if someone turned on the microwave that your Wi-Fi connection would go to heck?  Maybe you’ve noticed that on certain wireless devices a statement saying that it is designed to accept any interference caused by radios?  Kyocera may have put something together… Continue Reading »

Ah, summer.  Time to relax, go visit friends, vacation.  No worries, right?  Well, there may be a small one if you like to use public Wi-Fi on your travels. The latest trend for the in hacker is what has become known as “vacation hacking.”  It works by the hacker setting… Continue Reading »

Siemens AG and Nokia Corp. should be so proud as they watch the news.  A joint venture between the two companies helped lead to the massive spying technology being used by the Iranian government.  They’re using a practice called deep packet inspection.  This practice is one that is even more… Continue Reading »

Microsoft has certainly been the charmer at E3 this year.  People went gaga over their new Project Natal (as well they should!), they announced a way to deliver movies in 1080p format…no disks and no waiting for download.  And also, they worked with the uber-social networking site of the time,… Continue Reading »

The Pogoplug, the tiny device connects any USB drive to the internet, is rolling out some new features this week.  These features streamline things allowing you to send out links to more than one person at a time.  You’ll be able to find files faster via the web or the… Continue Reading »

Today on its blog, Pogoplug answered the burning question: “What happens if Pogoplug goes out of business?”  The group over at Pogoplug has taken the impressive and humbling step of thinking about what will happen to their customers if Pogoplug should ever go belly up.  You don’t come across such… Continue Reading »

There’s a fairly new file syncing program in town, and it is getting lots of positive feedback from its users.  Dropbox is an online sync and storage service that is able to be used over Windows, Linux or Mac.  It relies on Amazon S3 storage, and has both a free… Continue Reading »

When, oh when, are they gonna learn it is pretty much senseless to even attempt to hunt down the pirates?  Right or wrong, P2P file sharing happens.  And suing the creators of the popular Pirate Bay isn’t gonna stop it.  And now, in a rather obvious attempt to support that… Continue Reading »

Well, the Conficker worm is still alive and well and out there on the move.  Though some thought it was just an April Fool’s joke, the fact that it is still here, still coming up with new mutations, kind of dispels that theory. Just last week, Symantec detected the latest… Continue Reading »

Fon, the European company that specializes in sharing Internet connections between its users is set to release its new router soon.  The Fonera 2 will still have the same basic functions of the Fonera 1 that makes it a Fon router.  The routers create two networks, one private and one… Continue Reading »