The case involving Julie Amero was decided the day after Thanksgiving. For those that are not familiar, Amero is the substitute teacher in Connecticut that was convicted last year of 4 felony counts of “Risk of Injury to a Child” stemming from a 2004 incident involving porn popups displaying on a classroom computer while students [...]

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Most of my Twitter conversation yesterday focused around data loss, identity theft and credit cards. The point of the discussion was that while consumers must be vigilant to protect their personal and financial data, most of it is out of their hands. The bigger problem is protecting the organizations that collect, transport, and store this [...]

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Yesterday Jen Nedeau wrote a post on the Women’s Rights blog at Change.org where she talks about sexist comments that her post “Top Ten Moments of Feminism in 2008″ received on Digg. She got comments like “11. Making a sammich 12. Ironing my shirt 13. Cooking/Cleaning” and “Feminism. lol. Aww that’s precious. Now get me [...]

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I’m seeing a lot of articles about Koobface, trojan horse malicious software that was designed to travel from user to user via Facebook. You’d get a message from one of your Facebook friends mentioning a video allegedly starring you. When you click on the link, you are taken to a site that gives a message [...]

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I was able to attend XOHM’s WiMAX launch event in Baltimore yesterday.  The event started with an ethernet cord cutting ceremony (I missed that) followed by a presentation by Barry West XOHM Sprint Nextel, Sean Maloney of Intel Corporation and Dan Hesse of Sprint Nextel. There were a number of demos including the On the [...]

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