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It’s a pretty slow news day ’round these parts, which explains why I have time to blog about the Tacocopter, a brilliant and insane new invention that involves sending unmanned military drones to your house to deliver tacos.  Think I’m joking?  Here …

My friend and Network World editor, Ellen Messmer posted an article yesterday about the results of an analysis by Aspect Security of the Central Repository maintained by Sonatype. The study was announced by Aspect and Sonatype yesterday. Read more

As though today’s office workers don’t have enough to distract them from being productive, BlueStacks has now released the Beta version of its Android app emulator for desktop PCs. Read more

G’day, Apple!  Bet you didn’t expect to be hit with a legal challenge from Down Under this mornin’. did ya?
Well, that’s just what’s happened.  Here’s the complaint filed by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission:
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On the Drupal Gardens site, you’ll see a big yellow button that says Create a free site:

Click the button and then pick your URL, user name, and password:
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Facebook has a message for creepy bosses who ask their workers for their Facebook passwords: You’re icky, we don’t like you, and we reserve the right to sue you.  Check out this note posted late last week by Facebook chief privacy officer Erin Egan:

With the GigOm Structure Data conference going on this week in NYC, there is lots of news around the still red hot Big Data space. One of the big announcements (no pun intended) was from DataStax, the Cassandra company annoucning that they have release…

I’m pretty sure no one actually reads my live blogs on various events but guess what?  They’re incredibly useful for me in terms of note taking for my articles.  Ergo, I’m gonna do it regardless of whether anyone cares or not
This hearing should …

Today’s big news around Apple is that they are going to pay one of the biggest dividends in corporate America to their stockholders and they will buy back as much as 10 billion dollars worth of stock.  While this is great news for shareholders and exp…

Above: The New iPad on the left, iPad 2 on the right.  This picture doesn’t do the new iPad justice but trust me: You can tell the difference when you see them side-by-side in person Read more