Symantec, the company that launched the popular Norton Antivirus product in 1991, grabbed IT headlines last week when several company officials declared that antivirus is…
OPLIN 4cast #385: More than antivirus
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Symantec, the company that launched the popular Norton Antivirus product in 1991, grabbed IT headlines last week when several company officials declared that antivirus is…
Last Thursday, the FCC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that laid out changes the Commission will be considering in order to comply with…
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We are inundated every day by words on the web. We are constantly reading emails, tweets, news headlines, and, of course, the OPLIN 4cast every…
If you haven’t heard of the Heartbleed bug, we can’t imagine where you’ve been all week. The Heartbleed name and logo seemed to be everywhere…
After we wrote a post about the woes of the e-reader industry a couple of weeks ago, we saw an article in the British press…
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On Monday, the FCC announced that they would expand the amount of broadcast spectrum available for use by Wi-Fi devices in order to reduce Wi-Fi…
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Libraries should probably be happy that they are not in the e-reader hardware business. While libraries have plenty of issues when it comes to ebooks…
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Several months ago, the 4cast looked at the possibility that shorter lines of text delivered on digital devices could be easier to read, especially for…
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Probably more than a few libraries have been on the receiving end of the unpopular Getty Images demand letter. For many years, these letters were sent…