Technology Category

There’s a lot of really bad things about the pending Stop Online Piracy Act, but today, one of the worst has been removed. Representative Lamar Smith, the main sponsor and author of SOPA (or, as we like to call him around these parts, internet enemy number one) has removed the [...]

In a high-tech world like we live in, there are many ways spies and snoops can keep a bead on you. Is you life interesting enough to elicit such dubious actions as spying and snooping? For the high-tech snoop, almost any tool can be used for their deeds. What if [...]

Cuba, as a closed communist country happens to be behind the times a bit and some of the technology that we take for granted on a daily basis is a little harder to come by there. A nonprofit organization is working to help the youth in Cuba by getting them [...]

The police are on a role again with two more devious hackers in custody and more warrants on the way. The kind folks of the hacker groups LulzSec and Anonymous took another hit recently with a member from each in the slammer. This time one of them were homeless. A [...]

Sometimes today’s technology, such as smartphones, gets a bad rap when it comes to health and wellness. Technology, however, is also making quite an improvement to our lives, and those in developing nations as well.

Linux has been around for quite a while now. It is still toted as one of the slimmest, stablest operating system around and it open source. Yesterday it turned 20 it being the date it was actually released to the world.

Windows has had a rough go at it in the last few years. Basically Windows Vista (AKA Beasta) was quite the failure and many, if not most, companies decided to stick with Windows XP even though it’s a decade old. Now Microsoft makes sure we know that support will be [...]

British military company BAE Systems has developed the ability to weave an antenna right into the clothes of soldiers. The benefits of such an idea is numerous. First, the whip antennas in use can become cumbersome to carry adding weight to already heavy loads soldiers have to carry. Next, whip [...]

The condition is a debated one but to many people it is very real. It’s called electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) and they say that exposure to electromagnetic fields emitted by cell phones, WiFi and other wireless equipment can cause symptoms in these people such as headaches, chronic pain, skin burning and [...]

As Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility brings in thousands of patents into Google’s fold, Eric Schmidt says it’s not just about the patents.