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Tuesday, 31st January 2012

Opera Mini Predicts the Winner of Super Bowl XLVI

I am not going to lie to you. I am a little distracted this week. You would be too if your favorite NFL team were in the Super Bowl. I am spending an inordinate amount of time reading about the Patriots and the Giants when I should, you know, be bringing you the top notch technology news and analysis that you have come to except from…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

Public Sector 4/5ths to Virtualization

Ever since human beings landed on the moon, the state of technology in government appeared to be on a downward slope. Never mind that it was really the U.S. Government that facilitated the original Internet; in public sector offices, the state of computing started lagging behind the private sector ever since IBM mass-produced the…

Scott M. Fulton comments

Blogger's Takedown Policy Thwarts Censhorship

Google's Blogger has found a way to handle local government takedown requests similar to the way Twitter now does. It will now start redirecting readers to country-specific top-level domains (TLD) instead of the usual blogspot.com domain. It does so based on the location of the user's IP address, just as many other Google services do. This gives…

Social Jon Mitchell comments

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How to Take Better Food Porn Photos

Admit it. You're an amateur food porn photographer. But don't worry, you're certainly not alone. Last week, my esteemed Internet ReadWriteWeb-y colleagues Jon Mitchell and Curt Hopkins cooked up this insanely hilarious story about the grossness of amateur food porn. Amazingly, every single photograph in his story was shot by an amateur. And every…

Social Alicia Eler comments

"Anonymous" Fights the Drug Cartels and the Movie Moguls: Reaction

It's being called the "Mexican SOPA," especially by press sources wanting to place highly with Google News. Last week, Mexican Senator Federico Döring announced an anti-piracy bill, which that country's justice ministry describes as establishing a notification service for suspected content pirates, one which would enable the authorities to obtain…

Scott M. Fulton comments

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