The US Government is plowing straight ahead with something they call net neutrality. What it is and what it means varies from person to person. What it’s about is one thing: Control.
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December 24, 2010Net Neutrality FiascoDecember 22, 2010December 21, 2010The Beginning of the End of the InternetThe US Government is going to be regulating the Internet. It starts slowly. It seems innocent and good. But there has never been anything that the Government touched that hasn’t turned to crap. Things will get worse from here. Mark my words. December 20, 2010Managing Your Google CalendarsIn my books Droid X For Dummies and Droid 2 For Dummies, I write about using the Google calendar. If you really want to take advantage of managing your schedule, you can employ multiple calendars.
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December 17, 2010The Smartphone Becomes a Shopping WeaponNothing beats a savvy consumer, Christmas shopping with a smartphone. It drives a stake of fear into the heart of retailers.
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December 15, 2010My Latest Book: Droid 2 For Dummies
December 14, 2010The Top 50 Gawker PasswordsHackers breached the nerdy Gawker site recently, snatching up lots of passwords. The surprising thing was the weak quality of the passwords, most of them really silly and useless. I confess that I was a Gawker user with a silly password as well; there was nothing serious I did on Gawker, so I didn’t see the point in crafting a beefy password, though my password didn’t make the top 50 list.
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December 13, 2010My First Digital CameraCan you believe a 14 megapixel camera? Apparently they’re available now. I’m not a professional nor a “prosumer,” so I don’t follow digital photography updates as closely as that crowd. But 14 megapixels? Holy cow December 12, 2010Ten Big Computer Boo-BoosFrom PC Mag (UK), the top ten computer errors in the world. Oddly, reformatting your hard drive isn’t one of them. That was a popular computer problem in the 1980s. Oh, those days!
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December 10, 2010Killing the InternetI figured it would be the government that eventually kills the Internet. I keep my hopes up, especially with the current war on WikiLeaks, but I really think that what will kill the Internet will be Netflix. |