According to Regretsy, the seller of an antique French violin on eBay is now out both the instrument and the $2,500 she received for the initial sale. Erica claims she sold the pre-WWII era French violin to a buyer in Canada, who then disputed the authenticity of the instrument. As would be understandable under the […]
Popular web hosting service and domain registrar, Go Daddy, reverses their initial stance supporting SOPA, after losing over 21,000 domains on Friday alone. Angry customers flocked to other registrars in droves over the weekend, when word got around that the company officially supported the proposed legislation. Other high-profile customers threatened to leave, including Wikipedia’s co-founder […]
According to a FAQ updated today, Intuit is proceeding with earlier rumored plans to update their Quicken for Mac 2007 product with OS X 10.7 Lion compatibility. Since it was originally developed for PowerPC based Macs, Quicken required the Rosetta emulator to run on modern Intel-based Macs. Apple removed Rosetta support in Lion. I suppose […]
The Megaupload versus Universal Music Group saga continues, with Universal demanding Monday’s episode of Tech News Today be yanked from YouTube, simply for reporting on the situation. The show’s producer, Tom Merritt, says he wasn’t even aware of the takedown of his show until fans alerted him via Twitter. He filed a complaint via YouTube’s […]
In a bizarre twist, file sharing service Megaupload files suit against record label Universal, claiming censorship. Megaupload recently put together a music video promoting their service, featuring a number of prominent music artists including Kayne West, P Diddy, Snoop Dog, Chris Brown, Macy Gray, The Game, and Mary J Blige. As word spread and the […]
An ancient flatbed scanner at my day job decided to take immediate retirement from the scanning business, leaving one of our employees in need of a replacement. Luckily, I have an unexpected opportunity to take a brand new Epson WorkForce Pro GT-S50 document scanner for a run and put it through its paces. These days, […]
Every company needs an email system, right? Wrong. At least according to French tech firm Atos who launches an initiative to eliminate corporate email within the next year. CEO Thierry Breton claims only ten percent of the emails his employees receive each day contain any useful information, and eighteen percent is simply junk mail. Middle […]
Columbia University professor Salvatore Stolfo warns of a potential security issue with HP printers (and quite possibly other brands as well). Stolfo, while doing research with his Ph.D student Ang Cui, discovered most HP laser printers allow unsigned remote firmware updates, meaning anyone can upgrade the printer’s internal software without it verifying the update comes […]
Were all the stores sold out of the tech gadgets you wanted at today’s Black Friday sales? Did you avoid going to any stores today out of fear of getting trampled on? Here are a few suggestions for holiday gifts for your techie friends that won’t break the bank and are already a good deal. […]
When AOL first built AIM back in 1997, the messenger was well received as a major contender in the popular new genre of instant messaging clients. By 2006, AIM had more users than any of the other major competitors. With the more recent growth in popularity of “one client connects all” IM software, the ubiquitous […]
