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  • McAfee Reveals Simple Safety Tips for Securing New Internet Connected Devices This Holiday Season

    McAfee Reveals Simple Safety Tips for Securing New Internet Connected Devices This Holiday Season

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  • Rumor: Pegatron tapped for CDMA iPhone manufacture

    Rumor: Pegatron tapped for CDMA iPhone manufacture

    The rumor mill is churning a bit more today with a brief piece on Digitimes about Pegatron, a Chinese electronics manufacturer, grabbing the contract for the manufacture of a CDMA iPhone compatible with, presumably, Verizon, Sprint, and international CDMA technologies. Again, this is complete conjecture and Digitimes is often use to seed and power pump and dump scams, so we need to take things with a grain of salt. Generally, however, there is a grave confluence of "rumors" pointing to a potential Verizon iPhone but, as Sascha Segan, noted Verizon iPhone bear, tweeted yesterday, "Tomorrow you could be hit by a bus. And you'd have a lame phone. BC you were waiting for that Verizon IPhone."

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  • Steorn to show off overunity Saturday: Where will you be when we discover limitless free energy?

    Steorn to show off overunity Saturday: Where will you be when we discover limitless free energy?

    This Saturday I’m probably going to wake up a little later (we have kids so that means like 8am) and maybe make some breakfast. Then maybe we’ll go for a walk in town here or the wife will take the kids to the Children’s Museum and I’ll do some writing. Then I’ll eat lunch with [...]

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  • Why are people falling victim to Facebook scams?

    Why are people falling victim to Facebook scams?

    The beauty of essentially quitting social networking, as I have, is that I don't have to worry about all of the associated nonsense. “Facebook's new privacy settings cause uproar.” Really? Not if you quit the site it doesn't. “Malicious programs causing social network malaise.” Again, not an issue if you're not all-consumed with tweeting every 10 seconds about what you're eating for breakfast.

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