The Federal Bureau of Investigation Office of General Counsel (GLU) sent a letter to Wikimedia Foundation (the parent company of Wikipedia) ordering them to remove the FBI shield from it’s pages (“Unathorized posting of the FBI Seal”) and threatening litigation. The image in question is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US-FBI- ShadedSeal.svg. The letter states that “the site itself notes, [...]
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FBI demands that Wikipedia remove it’s shield
August 6th, 2010 · 5:42 am
Tags: government, publishing
Consumer Reports Does Not Recommend iPhone 4
July 13th, 2010 · 7:53 am
Consumer Reports did a study on Apple’s new iPhone 4 and found that the antenna problem along the side bars of the device significantly effects the ability to maintain a signal and make phone calls. By holding the iPhone a certain way (as demonstrated in the video below), the iPhone will experience a reduced signal [...]
Tags: apple, iphone
Free Wifi With Your Coffee
July 2nd, 2010 · 7:04 am
Starbucks has finally begun to offer free wifi. The no-charge, limitation-free and no-registration wifi initiative will take place in both the US and in Canada. Starbucks has been working on it’s own network, called Starbucks Digital Network, in partnership with Yahoo!. The idea of the network will be to offer a seamless entertainment service for [...]
Tags: business, internet
Don’t hold your iPhone 4 that way!
June 29th, 2010 · 1:48 am
Apple released the iPhone 4 with a potentially critical flaw. If you hold the iPhone a certain way, the device will lose it’s signal, as the antennas are placed on the left and right side of the device. The flaw is especially bothersome for left-handed users. Apple’s response will not go in the textbooks for [...]
Tags: apple, iphone, mobile
Multi-domain support added to Google Apps
June 24th, 2010 · 7:57 am
A great new feature was added to Google Apps–Google’s business fleet of web-based office software. Google Apps now supports multiple domains. Prior to this update, if you owned multiple web domains, you would need to have several Google Apps accounts–one for each. As part of the upgrade, there is a new admin control which gives [...]
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Facebook Revenue Just Shy Of 800 Million
June 19th, 2010 · 6:47 pm
Facebook’s 2009 revenue was almost 800 million, according to a report by Reuters. Facebook also turned part of that revenue into solid net profit. This revenue is higher than previous estimates of 500 million. “They are downplaying their performance…” stated one Reuters source. If Facebook is heading towards an IPO, than they would be better [...]
Tags: business
Half Of Android Market Dominated By Android 2.0 Users
June 18th, 2010 · 2:19 am
Google has made strides to move many of the Android users over to the Android 2.0 environment. Google recently released statistics that show that 50.4 percent of all Android devices that connected to the Android marketplace in the past two weeks of early June 2010 were running Android mobile OS 2.0 or higher. There has [...]
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Overnight Prints List of Top 5 Marketing Products
June 16th, 2010 · 3:20 pm
Overnight Print’s blog featured an interesting article on “Top 5 Small Business Marketing Products” that provide ideas like instead of “getting t-shirts printed with your business name on, go a step further and find out if a local sports club would like to have their uniforms sponsored by your business!”. The idea of printing on [...]
Tags: marketing
HTML 5 Why Is It Important?
June 11th, 2010 · 8:41 pm
Web Designer NY put out a brief outline of HTML 5, and what it will be for web designers. It is a very high-level look at the new core language for the web. We found this useful for those that are not familiar with the features of HTML 5, but might be interested in learning [...]
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The Price And Release Dates of iPhone 4 | Ironpaper: Current
June 8th, 2010 · 7:18 am
The new iPhone is coming out this summer. Here are the prices and the dates of release for the US. The Price And Release Dates of iPhone 4 | Ironpaper: Current.
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