I don’t believe that the idea of being able to take pictures or shoot video in a public place was ever consider to be a public debate about it being a right per se but it sure seems to be becoming one. In ever growing numbers photographers and videographers – both professional and individual [...]
There is no denying that mobile phones are all the rage and there is increasing pressure to make it a primary computing platform. People see no problem with accessing and working with their financial data or developing their social network from within this mobile platform. Then we have providers who want you watching movies, [...]
While the libertarians among us might have hoped that Congress would have had the backbone needed to hold telecoms accountable through the courts for their spying on Americans without court orders the fact is Congress didn’t. The pessimists among us though never believed for a second that Congress wouldn’t toe the line and grant [...]
No sooner than the wave of record setting downloads are drawing to a close word is that a critical exploit has been discovered in Firefox 3. As being reported by c|net news security blog D3F3NS3 1N D3PTH (isn’t that such a cute name for a blog <gag>) the vulnerability was originally reported by Tipping [...]
Have you ever wondered exactly what happens when that link to Britney Spears in that spam email you received get’s clicked on?
Well Sophos has put together this video on their blog that utilize Google Earth to show that happens within the blink of an eye as you click that link.
What happens when you click on [...]
We all know how the movie industry and the music industry love nothing better than to make people who for whatever reason pirate music and movies out to be the worst thing since Atilla the Hun. Sure there might be a small section who do pirate digital goods for immense profit but the reality [...]
In a story the crew of Elite Tech News talked about last week EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) this week is calling for Congressional hearings on the Department of Homeland Security’s ability to search and seize electronic devices at American borders. Cute - but really does anyone believe that other than ordinary people coming home [...]
April 23, 2008 – 11:45 am
For those of you not following this it started when EMI sued MP3Tunes.com for the contents of the online storage that the site offered it users to store their MP3 music files. Well according to a post on TechWag MP3Tunes.com has prevailed in the case which means that some 300 TB of files, users [...]
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