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How Egypt turned off the Internet
Egypt is in turmoil as protests against the Hosni Mubarak led government continue. Looting is rampant, hundreds have died, numerous rapes have been reported, and there’s no end in sight. In an effort to quell mounting public demonstrations last week, albeit unsucessfully, Egypt turned off the Internet for its citizenry, preventing data from going in [...]
Continue reading...Egypt shuts off the Internet
Thursday, January 27, 2011
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Renesys report that Egypt’s attempts to quell rising strife within its borders have taken a disturbing turn: Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt [...]
Continue reading...Gabrielle Giffords recovery references iPad use
Monday, January 24, 2011
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In an extremely odd headline that DF’s John Gruber aptly described as Onion-esque, Reuters reported earlier last week that wounded US Representative Gabrielle Gifford was doing better after having been shot in the head by a 22 year old deranged lunatic named Jared Lee Loughner. Just 12 days after she was shot in the head, [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs kicks WikiLeaks out of the iTunes App Store [Video Animation]
Friday, December 24, 2010
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Apple earlier this week removed a $1.99 WikiLeaks app which housed, among other documents, all of the U.S diplomatic cables that generated waves of controversy upon their release just a few weeks ago. But it’s not as if those documents are impossible to read on the iPhone. Indeed, the iTunes App Store is filled with [...]
Continue reading...National Organization for Marriage calls Steve Jobs “Big Brother”
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
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After an app created by the National Organization for Marriage was booted from the app store for being “offensive to large groups of people”, the organization decided to strike back, so to speak, with the following video which could easily pass as an Onion production. They also issued a press release, which reads in part: [...]
Continue reading...Former President Jimmy Carter an iPad and iPod user
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
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Former President and famed peanut farmer Jimmy Carter is apparently quite the Apple fan. We’ve become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don’t produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas…When I was in office, we had the pre-eminent position in the production of alternative sources of energy—windmills, and photovoltaic [...]
Continue reading...iPad shows up in the House of Representatives
Friday, December 3, 2010
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Politico reports: If you were watching C-SPAN on Tuesday, your eyes weren’t deceiving you: That really was an iPad on the speaker’s podium in the House of Representatives. The owner was Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Democratic congressman from Texas and an admitted tech-geek. “I’ve always considered myself a techie,” Cuellar told POLITICO. “I’m always looking for [...]
Continue reading...And then Obama met with Steve Jobs…
Thursday, October 21, 2010
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What a crazy week for Apple news, and one topped off with a report from Bloomberg noting that President Barack Obama recently met with Apple CEO Steve Jobs to discuss all things education, energy, and economics. “They discussed American competitiveness and education, especially reforms such as the president’s Race to the Top initiative,” White House [...]
Continue reading...Ronald Reagan’s son goes off the deep end, calls Apple email “liberal”
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Politics aside, you can’t deny that this is sheer and utter lunacy. Michael Reagan, son of former President Ronald Regan, is starting a new Reagan.com email address that will allow users to fly their conservative colors high and proud. People who believe in true Reagan Conservative Values are unwittingly supporting the Obama, Pelosi and Reid [...]
Continue reading...Obama demos Healthcare.gov using a MacBook Pro
Monday, August 2, 2010
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President Barack Obama may still use a BlackBerry, but when it comes to hardware, he’s a Mac man. In fact, when Obama and his team moved into the White House, his staffers, used to using Macs, were shocked to see a setup of old PC’s running 6 year old Microsoft software. In a recent video [...]
Continue reading...What do NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Apple CEO Steve Jobs have in common?
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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What do Steve Jobs and NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg have in common? The answer might surprise you. Well, for starters, every year Jobs and Bloomberg both refuse to receive a proper salary for their respective services. Instead, they each receive a token $1.00 “salary” from Apple and the city of New York respectively. Second, both [...]
Continue reading...Washington lawmakers question Steve Jobs about Apple’s new privacy policy
Sunday, June 27, 2010
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The Washington Post reported last week that key lawmakers want to have a little fireside chat with Steve Jobs to discuss Apple’s new privacy policy regarding their use of customer geographic information via location-based apps. Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas), co-chairman of the House Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, Thursday sent a letter to [...]
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
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