Clarifying the Possible Canadian Surveillance Legislation
A report has surfaced that has received a fair bit of attention. The report suggests that Canada is facing a piece of internet surveillance legislation that would pretty much ...
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Will Prior Art Doom Apple’s Anti-Theft iPhone Patent?
There's a bit of commotion with a new patent request by Apple over on Slashdot today. The claim is that Apple is creating a new patent to ...
Canadian Copyright Bill Unlikely In This Government?
Russell McOrmond yesterday pointed to the fact that the Canadian Copyright Bill has been put on the notice paper, but there appears to be no sign ...
Pay By Credit Card With Your Cellphone
Visa, the well-known credit card company has come forth with a plan to globally mesh cellphone users with their customer base. Nokia is heavily involved with this ...
Nokia’s Wibree and the Wireless Zoo
Wibree, ZigBee, WUSB, Wimax, WIFI, RFID - So many wireless protocols so much confusion. Trying to sort the wireless mess TFOT explore some of the differences between the standards focusing ...
MRAM – The Birth of the Super Memory
With the continual release in recent years of new types of computer memory (RAM, ROM, DRAM, Flash, SRAM, PRAM…), the memory chip industry has become an ever more bewildering world. ...
The Opposite of RSS? ZNITCH.com
Most bloggers that lead the race have full time jobs elsewhere and try to fit the blogging lifestyle into their schedule after work. Many utilize RSS feeds to avoid ...
Xupiter author orders critics to cease and desist
"A culture is made - or destroyed - by its articulate voices" - Ayn Rand
"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards ...
Water Powered Car
Came across this cool article about a guy who invented the technology enabling a car to be powered by simple tap water. Looks to be the real deal, his site ...
Researchers deliver drugs using Wi – Fi implant
Medicines can't work effectively if patients don't follow their dosing schedule — a problem researchers hope to overcome by delivering drugs using an implanted microchip linked to a wireless control ...
House panel OKs bill to stop Net gambling
A House committee Wednesday approved a bill aimed at stamping out the $12 billion Internet gambling industry by stopping businesses from accepting credit cards and other forms of payment.
VeriSign Acquires P2P Firm Kontiki
Verisign said Monday that it had entered into a definitive agreement to purchase file-sharing firm Kontiki. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company was bought for $62 million, and the transaction is ...
