Ever heard of social WiFi? Well, we know that using any password to authenticate users of a WiFi network, even a simple one posted on…
OPLIN 4cast #387: Social WiFi
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Ever heard of social WiFi? Well, we know that using any password to authenticate users of a WiFi network, even a simple one posted on…
On May 13, the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) in Luxembourg ruled that an individual can demand that Google remove certain search…
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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…