This is what I get for reporting news on this blog – having to report change: Facebook will temporarily disable the new contact information sharing it just announced. PC Magazine reports: Facebook announced Tuesday that it will temporarily disable a feature that allowed the social-networking site to share user phone numbers and addresses with app [...]
Facebook announced they’ll be sharing phone numbers and addresses of users with platform application developers. I recommend removing personal information from your Facebook profile (I’ve done it a long time ago.) Also, if you haven’t already turned off Facebook applications in the applications privacy section, maybe it’s time. If you don’t use Facebook applications – [...]
My days in the US are coming to an end. I went over the pictures from the trip and it felt like someone else was on that trip, not me. Did I drive all that distance? Was I in all those places? Flights are a long forgotten hassle. After a relaxed week in San Francisco [...]
As expected after yesterday’s workout and bicycle ride, I woke up with my leg muscles aching. The day was supposed to be rainy but started out nice, so I used this as a chance to walk to Presidio National Park, an urban park inside San Francisco. I walked to the park through the famous Lombard [...]
It begins… The Prodigy announced that the title track from their forthcoming album, Invaders Must Die, will be released for free November 26th. The place to get the track will be The Prodigy’s official website. Invaders Must Die is a track that was never played live, so no one knows what it sounds like. I [...]
Yesterday night Liam Howlett, the mastermind behind The Prodigy, announced that the band’s 5th studio album will be named “Invaders Must Die” and will be released March 2nd. Additionally, an “Invaders Must Die” UK tour dates have been announced. By pure magical coincidence, the tour dates overlap the dates I plan to be in the [...]
It’s all over the news: IBM acquired Diligent Technologies, the place I work for (or worked for, I wonder what the right term is.) I think IBM made a good choice because I truly believe that ProtecTIER, our flagship deduplication product, is a great product of great value to customers. I joined Diligent Technologies just [...]
A class-action suit against Microsoft’s “Vista Capable” stickers is scheduled to go to trial in October. Microsoft decided to lower the bar on what would be considered a Windows Vista capable computer, and so if you bought a computer that had one of these stickers on it you would basically have a computer that wouldn’t [...]
There has always been speculation that Google is developing a mobile phone (a gPhone, as most articles called it), but Google always does things differently. This time announcing the Open Handset Alliance, which is a bunch of companies that develop an open, Linux-based hardware and software platform with an open API. The platform is called [...]
Required background knowledge to read this post: What is AACS protection for HD-DVD – just the basic term, no need for the math behind it. The story of the first processing key discovered Now that you have the background, here’s the interesting modern geek story of the second processing key revelation.