It turns out that no matter how technologically savvy we get in the world, we could always be betrayed by the meat puppets behind the servers. Thanks for that one, Donald. And human error does appear to be what happened to Amazon, and also the Yankees. DSLReports, on the other hand, just plain got hacked. …
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Dear every company on earth who’s apparently selling our data to anyone who will buy it and/or collecting it in fat, juicy databases that are like candy to hackers: can you just, like, try to be a tiny bit more careful? And maybe we will, too? Ok, thanks, great. Verizon’s LTE service is creeping back …
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Sony comes clean about six days after its network intrusion and admits that its hack attack actually led to the reveal of tens of millions of usernames, addresses, dates of birth, and maybe even passwords, security questions, and credit card numbers. So, that’s a pretty bad day over at Sony. Also, Apple comes clean on …
Read the full post →“BOL 1457: PlayStation Network hack: This is bad, man.”
Facebook is unveiling, Youtube’s going Hollywood, Nook Colors are Flashing, Netflix is growing, The White iPhone is coming, & Location Gate continues with Microsoft joining in the mix. All this while the USA tries to catch up with it’s super slow download speeds. I’d like a Tech Wrap Supreme please to help me digest all …
Read the full post →“BOL 1456: Sony’s new Taburrito: the Tech Wrap Supreme”
On today’s show, the iPhone is apparently storing your location data even when you’ve turned off the location tracking services. And law enforcement agencies and a cottage industry of iOS forensics companies have been taking advantage of these logs for years. Nevertheless, Steve Jobs appears to insist in an email to a customer that Apple …
Read the full post →“BOL 1455: Steve Jobs to you: shut up and eat your hummus”
On today’s show, a brilliant solution to the problem of science education, and which tech companies have the best and worst green records (it is Earth Day, after all — for real this time)! Also, Google and Apple are sending your location data back to the Mother Ship, Amazon is making everyone nervous about the …
Read the full post →“BOL 1454: Don’t make more kids smart … just make more smart kids”
On today’s show, prep is minimal, but the news is pretty interesting: Amazon’s cloud service went down overnight, taking lots of sites with it — including the Cydia jailbreak app delivery store. Apple blew it out with earnings, and so did Verizon — and HTC Thunderbolt sales. We continue to debunk the iPhone tracking discovery, …
Skynet is self-aware and special guest Brian Cooley is flying to space to get off this rock. SPAM and an underground man cave seems like a better option for BT. We’ll also talk about the revelation that Apple is tracking our location data, but not using it…yet. Kindle users will like going to the library …
Tong stood in line all night for Mortal Kombat, while Molly went to bed with her laptop and her brand new Keynote download. Impressive, right? In the actual news, Apple files a major set of patent and trademark lawsuits against manufacturing partner Samsung, Netflix is doing family plans, and what happened to all those 1-800 …
Can you tell Brian Tong is back on the show? Actually, we’re legitimately wondering whether a home-brew electroshock like battery licking could produce video game skill improvements like DARPA is seeing with their electroshock research. No, really. Also, Google shuts down Google Video, President Obama wants a universal login that’s not Facebook Connect, and Match.com …
