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Weekend tech reading: Google Music to launch sans Sony, Warner

Weekend tech reading: Google Music to launch sans Sony, Warner
  • Posted November 13, 2011, 1:53 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • Google sent invitations today for a press event, to be held in Los Angeles, where the company is expected to add downloads to its cloud music service, as well as unveil social-networking features. CNET has learned that Google has signed a licensing agreement for the new service...

Weekend tech reading: Former IBM chief John Opel dies at 86

Weekend tech reading: Former IBM chief John Opel dies at 86
  • Posted November 6, 2011, 11:00 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • John R. Opel, who presided over IBM in its final period of dominance in the information-processing industry and oversaw the company’s move into personal computers, died on Thursday in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 86...

Weekend tech reading: iPhone 4S has battery life issues

Weekend tech reading: iPhone 4S has battery life issues
  • Posted October 30, 2011, 4:03 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Apple, News Around the Web
  • iPhone 4S battery life problems: bug in location services suspected A flaw in Apple's location services system in its new iOS 5 software is increasingly suspected of being the cause of rapid battery drain for some owners of the iPhone 4S. A…

Weekend tech reading: The best of BlizzCon 2011

Weekend tech reading: The best of BlizzCon 2011
  • Posted October 23, 2011, 2:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • It's that time of the year again when Blizzard -- makers of the popular gaming triumvirate of Warcraft, Diablo, and Starcraft – fire up the dog and pony show in southern California and give eager gamers a taste at all the new titles, expansions, and...

Weekend tech reading: Who killed video games?

Weekend tech reading: Who killed video games?
  • Posted October 16, 2011, 2:52 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • Who killed video games? (A ghost story) Here I am: The Worst Journalist In The World. I was once a person who wrote about technology and entertainment; then I figured that, in order to ask better questions while talking to people…

Weekend tech reading: Apple after Steve Jobs

Weekend tech reading: Apple after Steve Jobs
  • Posted October 9, 2011, 3:53 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • Apple after Steve Jobs: The men who will decide tech giant's fate The day before Steve Jobs’ death, newly minted Apple chief executive Tim Cook strode across the company’s vaunted showroom stage in much the same way as his predecessor: decked…

Weekend tech reading: Massive HTC Android vulnerability exposed

Weekend tech reading: Massive HTC Android vulnerability exposed
  • Posted October 2, 2011, 2:39 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web, Security
  • I am quite speechless right now. Justin Case and I have spent all day together with Trevor Eckhart (you may remember him as TrevE of DamageControl and Virus ROMs) looking into Trev's findings deep inside HTC's latest software installed on such phones as...

Weekend tech reading: EA's user agreement forbids lawsuits

Weekend tech reading: EA
  • Posted September 25, 2011, 3:48 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • Electronic Arts has updated its Terms of Service Agreement for the Origin platform. Following Sony's lead, and taking it even further, EA has added a new clause that prevents users from suing them in both class action and jury trial forms...

Weekend tech reading: Ivy Bridge architecture exposed

Weekend tech reading: Ivy Bridge architecture exposed
  • Posted September 18, 2011, 2:20 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • Five years ago Intel announced its ambitious tick-tock release cadence. We were doubtful that Intel could pull off such an aggressive schedule but with the exception of missing a few months here or there tick-tock has been a success...

Weekend tech reading: Google creating new Web language, Dart

Weekend tech reading: Google creating new Web language, Dart
  • Posted September 11, 2011, 2:44 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • Google's at it again with a new programming language, this one called Dart. In 2009, Google launched Go, a language designed for writing server software and handling other chores often handled today by C or C++. Dart, though, is "a new programming language...

Weekend tech reading: 7" Amazon Kindle Tablet coming for $250

Weekend tech reading: 7" Amazon Kindle Tablet coming for $250
  • Posted September 4, 2011, 4:05 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • Amazon's Kindle Tablet is very real. I've seen it, played with it It's called simply the "Amazon Kindle". But it’s not like any Kindle you've seen before. It displays content in full color. It has a 7-inch capacitive touch screen. And…

Weekend tech reading: US anti-piracy bill to cost taxpayers millions

Weekend tech reading: US anti-piracy bill to cost taxpayers millions
  • Posted August 21, 2011, 2:34 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • PROTECT IP, the U.S. government’s legislation to target individuals and domains connected with allegations of copyright infringement, is set to cost millions of dollars to enforce. According to a Congressional Budget Office estimate...

Weekend tech reading: Intel to sell CPU upgrades via software

Weekend tech reading: Intel to sell CPU upgrades via software
  • Posted August 14, 2011, 2:28 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • Intel has posted an upgrade service page on their website which indicates that Intel will again be offering upgradeable CPUs. This is not totally unheard of since Intel offered a similar service for Pentium G6951 a year ago. Back then, $50 bought you Hyper-Threading...

Weekend tech reading: Anonymous breaches US government sites

Weekend tech reading: Anonymous breaches US government sites
  • Posted August 7, 2011, 1:48 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • The group known as Anonymous said it hacked into some 70 mostly rural law enforcement websites in the United States, a data breach that at least one local police chief said leaked sensitive information about an ongoing investigation...

Weekend tech reading: Study says IE users have lower IQs

Weekend tech reading: Study says IE users have lower IQs
  • Posted July 31, 2011, 3:08 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • Study: IE users have lower IQs An online IQ assessment test was offered on our website. Most of the subjects came to the website either by organic searches from search engines, or advertisements put on various search engines for keywords targeting users who…

Weekend tech reading: 10 reasons not to buy an iPad for students

Weekend tech reading: 10 reasons not to buy an iPad for students
  • Posted July 24, 2011, 11:18 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • 10 reasons not to buy an iPad for students With summer coming slowly to a close, that means back-to-school shopping is in full swing. Your college-bound child is probably in the midst of asking for more and more money to buy…

Weekend tech reading: Grandma threatened over torrent download

Weekend tech reading: Grandma threatened over torrent download
  • Posted July 17, 2011, 3:11 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • As the mass-BitTorrent lawsuits continue to pile up in U.S. courts, more stories of what appear to be wrongfully accused persons hit mainstream media. A 70 year-old retired widow from San Francisco falls into this category. The grandma was recently ‘caught’ sharing porn...

Weekend tech reading: MSI Master Overclocking Arena 2011 Final

Weekend tech reading: MSI Master Overclocking Arena 2011 Final
  • Posted July 10, 2011, 3:14 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • Evaporating liquid nitrogen in a humid equatorial country like Indonesia is a spectacular sight. The gargle and spit of liquid nitrogen stirring vehemently in an evaporator is the very sign of life in a healthy benchmarking setup. The coordination necessary for sub-zero overclocking is difficult to fathom for those who have never attempted so. 

Weekend tech reading: Original Crysis coming to consoles

Weekend tech reading: Original Crysis coming to consoles
  • Posted July 3, 2011, 3:52 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • It is rare that part 1 of a series comes out after the sequel, but on consoles, Crytek is about to make it happen.  It has recently been discovered that the ESRB has given the original 'Crysis' for both PS3 and Xbox 360 a 'Mature' rating...

Weekend tech reading: Download Firefox 5 final early

Weekend tech reading: Download Firefox 5 final early
  • Posted June 19, 2011, 2:06 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • The official release date of Firefox 5 has been set to June 21, which is three days from today. If you do not want to wait until then to play around with the latest stable release of the popular web browser, you can go ahead and download...

Weekend tech reading: 1Gbps fiber for $70 in America

Weekend tech reading: 1Gbps fiber for $70 in America
  • Posted June 12, 2011, 2:05 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • American ISPs have convinced us that Internet access is expensive—getting speeds of 100Mbps will set most people back by more than $100 a month, assuming the service is even available. Where I live in Chicago, Comcast's 105Mbps service goes for...

Weekend tech reading: Facebook, Twitter banned from French media

Weekend tech reading: Facebook, Twitter banned from French media
  • Posted June 5, 2011, 3:37 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • "Facebook" and "Twitter" banned from French airwaves The French are notorious for their obsession with maddening, micro-meddling rules and regulations. Anglo-Saxons who live in France, as I do, constantly struggle with the puzzling paradox in a society universally admired for its splendid…

Weekend tech reading: RadioShack calls for DIY community's input

Weekend tech reading: RadioShack calls for DIY community
  • Posted May 29, 2011, 2:23 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • We can all agree that RadioShack isn’t exactly the DIY mecca it once was. What used to be a haven for amateur radio operators, tinkerers, and builders alike has devolved into a stripmall mainstay full of cell phones and overpriced junk.

Weekend tech reading: Llano GPU 325% faster than Sandy Bridge

Weekend tech reading: Llano GPU 325% faster than Sandy Bridge
  • Posted May 22, 2011, 4:09 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • AMD - Llano offers 325% better graphics performance than Sandy Bridge AMD continues to ride the GPU performance before the launch of the new mid-range processor Llano. Recently leaked documents from the company points to that the Llano-based Fusion A series…

Weekend tech reading: Sony brings PSN back online

Weekend tech reading: Sony brings PSN back online
  • Posted May 15, 2011, 2:36 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in News Around the Web
  • Sony brings PSN back online, new security measures in place Sony Online Entertainment brought its PlayStation Network back online in parts of Europe and the U.S. Saturday following a three-week outage resulting from the hacking of the network by unknown individuals,…

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