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Is Google guilty of enabling piracy?
Last week's Backspin column on the United States government's attempts to extradite Richard O'Dwyer, a British citizen, to the U.S. to be prosecuted for "criminal copyright violation" for providing a website, TVShack.net (since shuttered by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE), that was an index of sites that hosted pirated television shows and movies got some great feedback. Read More


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Tablets in the Enterprise
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Beyond Marissa Mayer: Top women in tech
With ex-Google honcho Marissa Mayer taking the reins of Yahoo this week, she joins other prominent females in leadership roles at some of the tech industry's largest companies Read More

Microsoft code contains the phrase 'big boobs' ... Yes, really
Some chucklehead working for Microsoft thought it would be funny to slip a thinly camouflaged sexist remark -- "big boobs" -- into software code that connects the Linux kernel to Microsoft's HyperV virtualization product. Read More

A camera in a pen and a kiosk in an iPad
We start this week with stealthy, James Bondish stuff: Let's say you're at a trade show and want to record your conversations as you pose as a prospect to the competition, or maybe you want to surreptitiously record the life-sucking, brain-damaging ennui of a staff meeting so you can show your better half what life is like at the coal face. Read More


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IPv6 Migration Deployment Guide
Enterprise networks must adapt to meet new and evolving business requirements. The introduction of cloud services (private, public, or hybrid) poses new challenges to current enterprise network designs. View Now

Just linking could get you 10 years in jail
UK citizen Richard O'Dwyer faces the possibility of ten years in the slammer for having a site that linked to pirated content Read More

The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2012 (so far!)
From Apple to NASA and Stuxnet to robots, it's been a busy year Read More

Purposeful pollution: An Apple patent, but not an Apple idea
It would be nice if Apple were going to implement the technology in U.S. Patent No. 8,205,265, which was issued to the company in June. There's no reason to think that it will, but I hope Apple at least won't block others from doing so. Read More


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IPv6 Migration Deployment Guide
Enterprise networks must adapt to meet new and evolving business requirements. The introduction of cloud services (private, public, or hybrid) poses new challenges to current enterprise network designs. View Now

Cisco's Roller Coaster July
It seems that so far July 2012 has been a bit of a microcosm of what Cisco has been like the past few years. They've taken huge leaps forward with technology and the potential doors they can open for users, but taken some steps backward in the handling of their business practices. It's frustrating and unnerving to see the networking giant simultaneously excite and then annoy consumers. Let's... Read More

Shopaholic Cisco buys Virtuata
Cisco added to its long list of acquisitions after recently plucking off Silicon Valley-based Virtuata. Virtuata is a provider of virtual machine and cloud security and will be incorporated into Cisco's data center group, which is run by former Q-Fabric chief David Yen. No financial details were given but the company only has 15 people, so it's likely to be a relatively small deal for Cisco. Read... Read More

Office 2013: Finally, a true cloud Office suite
For some time, Microsoft has had two separate-but-unequal Office suites, one installed on a PC and one available on-demand. Now, with its latest Office, Microsoft has finally merged the two. One sign of the blurring of the lines was that during the press conference to introduce the new suite, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and guests kept flipping between names, referring to the suite as "Office 2013,"... Read More

EFF: Americans may not realize it, but many are in a face recognition database now
People are not going to, nor should they have to, start walking around outside with a bag over their head to avoid security cameras capturing images of them. Yet "face recognition allows for covert, remote and mass capture and identification of images -- and the photos that may end up in a database include not just a person's face but also how she is dressed and possibly whom she is with. Read More

A better Todo List with Backbone
JavaScript, which has absolutely nothing to do with the Java language, has become a remarkable platform for elegantly solving programming problems and delivering effective solutions. Read More



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