FBI's Controversial Tracking Device No MacGyver Special |
- FBI's Controversial Tracking Device No MacGyver Special
- Using the Cloud for Backup? You're Missing the Point
- Natty Narwhal Offers Unity but No Clarity
- The Talk of the App Store
| FBI's Controversial Tracking Device No MacGyver Special Posted: 10 May 2011 09:00 AM PDT  Every now and then -- or possibly a great deal more often -- the FBI will plant a car-tracking device on someone's automobile to track their movements. How do we know this? Occasionally, these devices are found by the persons being monitored. Some incidents have found their way into the court system. And some have made their way into the media's hands, quite literally. Wired magazine and tech site iFixit.com have gotten hold of one such gadget and promptly conducted a teardown of the technology. The device appears to be jury-rigged with items that can be easily purchased. |
| Using the Cloud for Backup? You're Missing the Point Posted: 10 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT  Cloud storage systems are different from the storage systems that we are accustomed to today in that cloud service providers -- companies such as Amazon and Google -- began their efforts a decade or more before they actually opened their public services. When they were first establishing themselves more than decade ago, they were focused on constructing an infrastructure with tremendous scalability to support storage demands of their large Web properties -- we're talking about tens of thousands of servers distributed throughout the world. |
| Natty Narwhal Offers Unity but No Clarity Posted: 10 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT  My reaction to the latest version of Ubuntu can be summed up in just three words: Far from awesome! That impression largely results from the switch to the new Unity desktop. Canonical, the developer of the Ubuntu Linux operating system, released version 11.04, also known as "Natty Narwhal," on April 28. This latest version marks the official roll-out of the redesigned Unity scheme as the default desktop. The company first designed Unity as the preferred interface in its Netbook Remix in the version 10.04 release. |
| Posted: 10 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT  At times I think some magazines and newspapers are making the act of getting their content on an iPad a little more difficult than it has to be. It seems each time a major periodical launches its new iPad app, it has to give a long talk to explain how exactly it expects readers to pay for it. New readers need to do this; if you have a subscription to the print edition already, you'll need to do that. If you have a subscription to the online edition and you want the iPad edition also, fill out these forms on this site. |
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