NASA CIO Linda Cureton recently blogged about NASA decommissioning the last of their mainframe computers this month. Although not the massive, room-sized machine depicted in so many sci-fi movies, NASA’s seven-year-old IBM z9 was still about the size of a large refrigerator. While there are organizations out there that require the capabilities of a mainframe […]
Time for Olde Tyme Techcitement, where we take a look back at technology relics. It’s basically your grampa talking about the good old days, but sooner and totally more reasonable than dumb boring stories about how all this used to be farmland. It’s hard to believe 30 years have passed since Kodak attempted a revolution […]
It’s only been four months since Iris, the leading imitator of Apple’s Siri, was released to the Android Market, and Dexetra, the app’s developer, has a lot to crow about. The company claims to serve up to a million answers every day, and the number only seems to be increasing. Fortunately, the fledgling company and […]
Honeywell Corporation stings Nest Labs and Best Buy retailers this week with a surprise patent lawsuit over the Nest learning thermostat. Honeywell claims their patents were infringed related to “controlling a thermostat with information stored in a remote location,” “a thermostat’s inner design,” “simplified methods for operating and programming a thermostat including the use of […]
Rumors are circulating the internet, like they do, about the next-gen Xbox console lovingly but stupidly dubbed the “Xbox 720”. Among those rumors is talk about how much more powerful the game system will be. Of course, it’s going to be stronger than the Xbox 360, but “six times more powerful” is a pretty vague […]
Marianne Oleson was charged Wednesday with multiple counts of theft and forgery for the sale of fake Facebook stock. The Oshkosh, WI resident conned four men out of thousands of dollars, including Randy Stafford, a construction worker who did concrete work on Oleson’s house worth $18,000. After she couldn’t pay for the work, Marianne told […]
Did you store personal files or other legitimate content on Megaupload before the FBI seized the service and shut them down? It looks like your window of opportunity to recover it is now open! Carpathia hosting, one of two services formerly powering the Megaupload site, just created MegaRetrieval in partnership with the EFF. This site […]
At what dollar amount would you sell your concern for others? As American consumers, we unknowingly do so every day, in myriad ways. While some shocking cases of sweatshops have come to light over the years, the average person doesn’t put much thought into who creates the products they use. Or, more importantly, how. In […]
On January 23, the U.S. Supreme Court issued three concurring opinions in U.S. versus Jones, two of which express strong concerns about government use of ostensibly public information about private citizens. As it turns out, the FBI hasn’t been idle either, and the Supreme Court’s worries aren’t at all theoretical. On January 19, the FBI […]
Twenty-four men have been to the moon; of those 24, only 12 have ever walked on the surface, and, even in his alternate history novels, none of them was Newt Gingrich. This didn’t stop Gingrich from making absurd promises to a gathering of 700 space industry employees and their families this past Wednesday on Florida’s […]
