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Well, it's like every paranoiac warned us, we are being tracked unawares, especially if you own an iPhone or an iPad.
Two British researchers have uncovered a hidden feature in iPhones and iPads that surreptitiously records its owner's location. Such...
DATE: Apr 27, 2011
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About a month after I got my Kindle reader the screen suddenly became streaky, with vertical lines on it, making the device useless. I phoned Amazon and described the problem. The guy at the other end made a decision and immediately offered to send m...
DATE: Apr 20, 2011
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As the bellwether for the rest of the year, the annual Consumer Electronics Show is a four-day extravaganza of what companies plan to release in 2011.
At the end of the four-day show in Las Vegas, Acer's Iconia Windows 7 laptop was voted as the best ...
DATE: Jan 12, 2011
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Yes, all those CDs and DVDs you started collecting after you threw out your records are also on their way to obsolescence, the in-between period before you can no longer find the equipment to play them.
You may think I am being overly early in declar...
DATE: Apr 16, 2008
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It is quite true these days that sometimes the free software is as good or is just enough to beat paying the price for the retail counterpart, if one exists. I just have to think of OpenOffice.org and GIMP, both of which I sometimes use instead of Mi...
DATE: Mar 05, 2008
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Camfrog Video Chat represents a still struggling attempt by a site to catch a ride on the "online video community" phenomenon. Basically, this industry is composed of sites that gather huge numbers users by allowing them to interface in a wide variet...
DATE: Feb 27, 2008
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What a shame that the Computer Society of Bermuda (CSB) is unable to offer an overseas International Computer Driving License (ICDL) scholarship to a deserving student for the fall semester.
The ICDL, the sole funding source for the scholarship, had ...
DATE: Mar 14, 2007
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AFTER my initial review of Office 2007 was published last week a reader wrote to say how overwhelmed she feels about having to constantly update software... expensive software. She uses Microsoft Office 2000 a lot as she publishes a quarterly newslet...
DATE: Feb 07, 2007
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not stupid, just befuddled by new technology ? which is understandable given that this is not just the information age, but the age of information overload.
Or is it the age of "time famine" as commentators are fond of stating. Whatever the age, it m...
DATE: Jan 24, 2007
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After looking at the results of a recent survey I have to repeat this advice again: Beware of phishers.
This describes an e-mail masquerading as a trusted Internet site, such as eBay, Amazon.com or a banking service. The e-mail details some fictitiou...
DATE: Oct 18, 2006
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