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Israel Testing UAV Ambulance

The Israel Defense Force is testing a new UAV called the “Air-Mule” that’s being used as an unmanned aerial ambulance for emergency evac. It’s a pretty cool little vehicle that can pull injured people out of some tight spots that conventional aircraft…

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Computers |

Net Neutrality May Worsen BitTorrent Experience

TorrentFreak has an article that takes a look at the ongoing Net Neutrality battle and explains how things could actually be worse for BitTorrent users when all is said and done. This means that the blocking going on by Comcast and other ISPs worldwid…

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Computers |
 

Google Docs and Sites Ending Support for Old Browsers

If your company is using Google Docs or other Sites applications but still forcing you to use IE 6.0, Firefox 2.0, Chrome 3.0, or Safari 2.0, you’ll want to let them know it’s time to give up the ghost and move to a more modern browser, as Google is ph…

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Computers |

NVIDIA Says Patent Settlement With Rambus Unlikely

In an interview with BusinessWeek, NVIDIA’s top lawyer said that a settlement with Rambus is unlikely. I am not trying to be funny here but isn’t this what every company says…you know…right before they settle?

“Rambus and Nvidia talked fo…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Computers |
 

New York Investigating Scumbag Scammers

When you think of scumbag scammers, usually these companies don’t come to mind. Well, they should now. Any time a company allows someone else to charge your credit card $20 a month without your knowledge, they are officially “scumbag scammers” until th…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Computers |

Report Shows Cyber Attacks Rampant

McAfee has released a new report that says cyber attacks are running rampant. Making maters worse, most of the companies surveyed said they do not believe they are prepared to deal with cyber attacks.

Attacks that lead to down time can cost more t…

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Computers |
 

Print Media Hope for a Payday with Apple’s Tablet

It looks like print media bigwigs have their own ideas for Apple’s rumored iTablet…the ability to finally charge for content. What a great idea!

People who have seen the tablet say Apple will market it not just as a way to read news, books and o…

[ More ] January 26th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Computers |

Data Breaches Doubled Last Year

C|Net says that data breaches from malicious attacks doubled last year and that the average cost per breach was the highest since 2005.

Data breaches at U.S. companies attributed to malicious attacks and botnets doubled from 2008 to 2009 and cost s…

[ More ] January 25th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Computers |

NVIDIA Violated Rambus Patents on GPU Memory Controllers

Speaking of the ITC, a judge there ruled that NVIDIA has violated three Rambus patents, though two other patents in the complaint were cleared. The patents involve memory controllers related to the GPU. This complaint was originally filed back in 200…

[ More ] January 23rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Computers |

75% of Linux Code Written by Paid Developers

According to this guy, almost seventy five percent of Linux code is now written by paid / corporate developers.

The most striking aspect of the analysis, however, was where those lines of code originated from. 18% of contributions to the kernel w…

[ More ] January 22nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Computers |