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Flash Vulnerabilities Affect Thousands of Sites

I noticed a posting on Slashdot (/.) about Flash Flash Vulnerabilities that have been disclosed by a private group and some other security experts. The article in itself is not the most shocking thing, but more importantly the last line of it. No patch in sight...

Wireless onboard

JetBlue has recently announced a beta service they are offering on select planes. This service "BetaBlue" is wireless im and email from 10,000 feet. Basically you can email and use IM (live and yahoo) from the comfort of your seat and any wireless smartphone or...

iTunes getting prerelease content

Getting advanced copies of music has never been a problem because of torrents and other means, but this is the first time I have seen iTunes with an advanced copy. The latest Armin van Buuren is slated for a December 4th release, but I was just...

Leave my credits alone

Earlier today I received an email from iStockPhoto stating that I had some credits set to expire in 90 days. Fair enough, they give me warning that this is going to happen, but I came to an interesting thought, why do electronic credits expire? I...

NBC Direct, missed the memo

Well NBC decides to leave iTunes, roll there own video player and then thinks a non cross-browser/os applciation is going to take off? Then to top it off they used Windows Media Player to distribute the video? I am going to pass on this one even...