It seems as though the more daily life becomes inter-connected with the Internet, the more that our personal information is available to just about anyone who wants it. Forget about National Security Agency conspiracy theories, the real danger to keeping our private lives to ourselves are the various commercial data collection warehouses that exist throughout the world. These agencies provide information to third parties which include background check websites without explicitly obtaining your o
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The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is a remodeled version of the earlier accursed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), both counseled by the US Government.
CISPA was first introduced by Michael (Mike) J. Rogers (US representative for Michigan's 8th congressional district, member of the Republican Party and Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence) on November 30, 2011 along with 111 other co-sponsors.
The publicly showcased objective of CISPA is to allow
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Research in Motion has long-held a stranglehold on all things mobile with the U.S. DoD. Time goes on, and things change. After being turned down by Apple to have access to the iOS codebase, both the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), have announced the release of separately developed hardened versions of the Android operating system (OS) in the past year. More notable was the related DARPA pilot program that deployed smart phones runnin
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Google has rolled out yet another update to their troubled search engine algorithms. This update, belatedly dubbed "Penguin", was supposedly targeted towards sites which engaged in spammy SEO tactics, but instead it appears to have penalized a wide range of legitimate and high quality web sites.
Some of the biggest losers are sites many Tech-FAQ readers know well, including:
comcast.com is one of the largest cable television companies and Internet service providers in the world. Comcast lo
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Recent changes by Google have created a boom in the SEO industry, but perhaps not quite the one Google engineers envisioned. Google has been fighting a losing battle against "web spam" for many years, and this motivated them to engage in more aggressive tactics to keep their search results clean. In the past, Google stated that there was nothing that a competitor could do to hurt your rankings in their search engine, but a few years ago they updated it to add "almost":
There's almost nothin
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Consumer Electronics Show is one of the biggest technology shows on the planet. It is like christmas after christmas for techies as they get to see and try the latest and greatest gadgets, some of which could be months before their actual release to market. On top of that the show happens in Las Vegas providing attendees with an opportunity for a great post-show nightlife.
In a nutshell CES 2012 was mainly about ultrabooks, yet more tablets, yet more smartphones, and the emergence of incr
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There's a whole slew of new memory technologies coming up, all of which could be on the market within just three years, and all of which promise tremendous improvements in speed, capacity, and power efficiency.
Those of us tech savvy enough to at least know we have DDR3 memory in our machines might expect DDR4 to be the next generation of memory, running at even greater speeds, and perhaps supporting even greater capacities. But as it turns out DDR4 is just one of the runner ups for the futur
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How quickly do things change when it comes to HP this year. Just earlier this year they were talking about emulating Apple's strategy of end-to-end control of both software and hardware where webOS would be HP's equivalent of iOS. Fast forward to now and under the guidance of the new CEO they are giving it up to the open source community, hoping other device makers pick it up and use it.
The reaction of the technology press has varied from proclaiming this as the beginning of the end for
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The first tablet running the brand new Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, is priced at only $99 USD. The tablet is called Novo7 and is made by Ainol Electron from Hong Kong.
At such a low price we might expect modest specs, but this tablet actually delivers respectably. It features a 7-inch capacitive touch screen, a front facing camera and a 2 megapixel back camera, both WiFi and 3G connectivity, USB 2.0, HDMI 1.3, and a microSD slot.
Its internal architecture is a bit of a no
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As the bigwigs of the content industry tries to sponsor bills that would give them legal power to effectively censor web sites over mere suspicion of "intellectual property" infringement opposition is getting stronger and more vocal.
As a reminder the bills in question are the PROTECT-IP Act in the US Senate, and SOPA (“Stop Online Piracy Act”) in the US House of Representatives. They are aimed at fighting online piracy, but provide powers that allow them to be used for far more than
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