Online Streaming Overwhelming Internet?

Experts warn video streaming boom could bring web traffic to a crawl

82 Counterfeit Websites Shut Down on Cyber Monday

"Reuters is reporting that 82 websites selling counterfeit and pirated goods were shut down on Monday in a move that was timed with the start of the online holiday shopping season.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said, ""As of today -- what is known as 'Cyber Monday' and billed as the busiest online shopping day of the year -- anyone attempting to access one of these websites using its domain name will no longer be able to make a purchase.""

The crackdown, also known as ""Operation In Our Sites II,"" was aimed at counterfeit retailers, including sports equipment and apparel, shoes, handbags, sunglasses and illegal copies of DVDs, music and software.

Visitors to these sites are greeted with a message declaring the domain name has been seized by federal law authorities and warning that buying counterfeit goods is federal crime with penalties of up to 10 years in jail and a $2million fine."

A Tech-Savvy Wish List

Nov. 24 2010 | Consumers and investors are gearing up for another holiday shopping season, with Lance Ulanoff, PCMag.com.

China Unicom Binds iPhone 4 Users

In a measure to attach mobile service plans to the iPhone, China Unicom says it will freeze deposit monies if the SIM card is removed from the iPhone 4.

DNS Spoofability Test - Security Now 276

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Safari update, HTTPS Everywhere, FBI wants to wiretap the Internet, comprehensive DNS spoofability test, and more.
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Flexible phones & graphene gadgets in RT Technology Update

What exactly is 'nano'? It's become a buzzword, spawning many gimmicky products over the recent years, but what role will the real nano technology play in our lives? From smart metro tickets to futuristic flexible electronics, RT's Technology Update's got the future covered.

New Challenger to the iPad

FNC's Clayton Morris on how Samsung's Galaxy compares to the Apple iPad.

Leo Laporte - The Tech Guy 719 & 720

The Tech Guy Video for November 20 & 21, 2010 - Shows 719 & 720
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Syncing the iPhone, TV tuners for Macs, creating a podcast, upgrading to Windows 7, camcorder recommendations, and your calls.
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Who Really Edits Wikipedia Articles?

Who Really Edits Wikipedia Articles?


Long Conversation, an epic relay of one-to-one conversations among some of the Bay Area's most interesting minds, took place over six hours in San Francisco on Saturday, October 16, 02010. Interpreting the Long Conversation in real time was a data visualization performance by Sosolimited; an art and technology studio out of M.I.T.

Long Conversation was presented with a live performance of 1,000 minutes of composer Jem Finer's Longplayer. - Long Now Foundation

Danese Cooper is a programmer, computer scientist, and advocate of open source software. Known as the "Open Source Diva" after stints as an open source community builder at Sun Microsystems, Intel, and REvolution Computing, she is currently Treasurer on the board of the Open Source Initiative. Since February, 2010, she is the Chief Technical Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Stuart Candy, a.k.a. the sceptical futuryst, is an experience designer, consultant, writer, educator, and activist. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa for work on experiential scenarios, an approach to immersive storytelling at the intersection of foresight, design, and politics. Originally from Australia, he also holds an LLB and a BA in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Melbourne.

Security Now 275: Your Questions, Steve's Answers #105

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Big Apple update, IE6/7 0-day unpatched, infected Chinese cell phones, Stuxnet's probable target, your questions, and more.
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China Tianhe-1A Becomes World Fastest Supercomputer

With horsepower equivalent to 175,000 laptops, China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer has been named the fastest computer in the world, overtaking rival units in the U.S. and Germany.

Located at China's National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, the Tianhe-1A has topped the 'Top 500 supercomputers' list.

Tianhe-1A is nearly 1.5 times faster than its closest rival and reaches peak speeds of 2.57 petaflops, while the US XT5 Jaguar performs at 1.76 petaflops. One petaflop is the equivalent of one-thousand-trillion calculations per second.

The supercomputer will be used by scientists across several fields and also be made available to other countries. It will also be used to create simulations to aid Chinese weather forecasts and to help locate undersea oil fields.

According to computer chipmaker Nvidia, 7 of the world's most powerful computers are in the United States, then 2 in China and 1 in Germany.

Facebook Launches Integrated Messaging Service

Facebook Launches Integrated Messaging Service November 16, 2010 BBC World News

Microsoft Office President on Lync

Microsoft Office Division President Kurt DelBene on how its new communications server will drive sales for the company.

US Cellular Plans To Begin Customer LTE Trial Next Year

"U.S. Cellular (NYSE:USM) has been conducting a technical trial of LTE in Wisconsin for the last nine months and plans to begin a customer trial next year, according to a Light Reading report, followed by commercial launches.

CFO Steven Campbell first announced the company's plans at a Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) conference last week.

CTO Michael Irizarry says, ""We believe in femtocells and think it's an important technology, but one thing we believe in is having a diverse product ecosystem. We figured out pretty quickly that interoperability between different femtocell gateways and boxes isn't quite where it needs to be. The management algorithms between macrosystem and femtocells still need some work to optimize the experience."""

China Hijacked The Internet For 18 Minutes On April 8th

China Hijacked The Internet For 18 Minutes On April 8th
November 16, 2010 News Corp

DNS Rebinding - Security Now 260

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Windows .LNK vulnerability fixed, Google's WiFi "overcollection" in the UK, news from Blackhat, DNS rebinding, and more.
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Apple Amps Up iPad & iPhone

Nov. 12 2010 | Apple is turning the heat on Google, with CNBC's Jon Fortt.

Steve Gibson Answers Your Questions

Security Now 273: Your Questions, Steve's Answers #104

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Firesheep firestorm, Flash 0-day exploit in the wild, another iPhone lock screen bypass, your questions, and more.
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Benchmarking DNS - Security Now 274

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Second Tuesday updates, critical Outlook fix, Android risks, Google expands "bug bounty", GRC's DNS Benchmark, and more.
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The MacBook Air - Daily Giz Wiz 1217

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Thin, fast, and wakes from sleep in an instant, it's the new MacBook Air.
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HP Dell new tablets

HP Dell new tablets

Droid Pro Now Available to Verizon Customers

The Droid Pro, the first Android smartphone made for business use, by Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) will be available for Verizon (NYSE:VZ) Wireless customers starting on Nov. 9 online and in stores on Nov. 18.

The Droid Pro features a QWERTY keyboard, pre-loaded Quickoffice Mobile Suite and wireless voice service in more than 220 countries and data coverage in about 200 countries.

The phone will be priced at $179.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and a new two-year customer agreement. The $100 rebate will be sent to customers who purchase the Droid Pro in the form of a debit card.

Motorola closed flat at $8.20 and Verizon closed flat at $33.43 on Friday.

FACEBOOK & SOCIAL MEDIA: A CONVENIENT COVER FOR SPYING

By Ralph Forbes

Longtime AMERICAN FREE PRESS readers may recall that DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has some creepy tentacles: the Information Awareness Office (IAO); TIA (Total Information Awareness, renamed Terrorism Information Program); and TIPS (Terrorism Information and Prevention System). By 2003, an irate American people forced the government to drop these spooky command-and-control police state operations—or did they?

The “vampire coven” was seemingly dead and buried—but was the stake actually driven through its evil heart?
In 2002, Divya Narendra had an idea for a social network site. By the fall of 2003, she and twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss were looking for a web developer who could bring their idea to life. On Nov. 30, 2003 they hired Mark Zuckerberg to finish their program’s codes. Little did they know what a monster Zuckerberg would hatch.

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Above, Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg bragged about taking their money so he could make his own social networking site. He boasted that his creation, which became the popular “Facebook” online social network, would naturally succeed. While pretending to work on college projects, he was sabotaging his clients by stalling. He claimed he was backed by the “Brazilian Mafia”—but AFP’s revelations will show, it is dangerous to believe anything Zuckerberg says.

Notably, The Social Network, is a new movie based on Zuckerberg and the pre-CIA founding years of Facebook, starring Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg. Check upcoming issues of AFP to see how closely the script depicts the shocking facts.

But as bad as the beginning of Facebook is, the parallels between the CIA’s backing of Google’s dream of becoming “the mind of God,” and the CIA’s funding of Facebook’s goal of knowing everything about everybody are spookier.

Congress stopped the IAO from gathering as much information as possible about everyone in a centralized nexus for easy spying by the United States government, including internet activity, credit card purchase histories, airline ticket purchases, car rentals, medical records, educational transcripts, driver’s licenses, utility bills, tax returns, and all other available data. The government’s plan was to emulate Communist East Germany’s STASI police state by getting mailmen, boy scouts, teachers, students and others to spy on everyone else. Children would be urged to spy on parents.

Facebook, however, does what no dictator ever dreamed of—it has a half billion people willingly doing a form of spy work on all their friends, family, neighbors, etc.—while enthusiastically revealing information on themselves.

The huge database on these half a billion members (and non-members who are written about) is too much power for any private entity—but what if it is part of, or is accessed by, the military-industrial-national security-police state complex?

We all know that “he who pays the piper, calls the tune,” therefore, whoever controls the purse strings controls the whole project. When it had less than a million or so participants, Facebook demonstrated the potential to do even more than IAO, TIA and TIPS combined. Facebook really exploded after its second round of funding—$12.7 million from the venture capital firm Accel Partners. Its manager, James Breyer, was formerly chairman of the National Venture Capital Association and served on the board with Gilman Louie, CEO of In-Q-Tel, a venture capital front established by the CIA in 1999. In-Q-Tel is the same outfit that funds Google and other technological powerhouses. One of its specialties is “data mining technologies.”

Dr. Anita Jones, who joined the firm, also came from Gilman Louie and served on In-Q-Tel’s board. She had been director of Defense Research and Engineering for the U.S. Department of Defense. This link goes full circle because she was also an adviser to the secretary of defense, overseeing DARPA, which is responsible for high-tech, high-end development.

Furthermore, the CIA uses a Facebook group to recruit staff for its National Clandestine Service.



Ralph Forbes is a a free-lance writer who lives in Arkansas. Email him at at rforbes@centurytel.net.
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The Secrets of the Digg Algorithm

This week Alex and Kevin Rose come at you from the PayPal X Developer Conference! to cover the top Dugg stories including Google's test 1GB internet speed, the truth behind being intelligent and an alcoholic, DeNA planning to buy ngmoco for $403 million, Myspace is getting a facelift, and Kevin addresses all the layoffs at Digg.

iPhone vs. Android

Nov. 5 2010 | Which company stands to win the iPhone vs. Android wars, with James Brehm, mobile and wireless senior consulting analyst, Frost & Sullivan; and Gene Munster, senior research analyst, Piper Jaffray, and CNBC's Maria Bartiromo.

Leo Laporte - The Tech Guy 713 & 714

The Tech Guy Video for October 30 & 31, 2010 - Shows 713 & 714
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Google TV first look, rules for safe computing, Mac recommendations, fixing upgraded routers, and your calls.
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