At LA PC Fixer we also try to stay on top of coming developments in the IT industry that is just beginning to radically change our ways of doing business and interacting with one another. Toward that end, we've been following developments at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to report back to…
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TSA Security Leaks- TSA Blames Bloggers
While the government investigates how an alleged terrorist was able to bring a bomb onto a U.S.-bound plane and try to blow it up on Christmas Day, the Transportation Security Administration is going after bloggers. Steve Frischling and Chris Elliott both wrote about a directive to increase security after the incident, and both were served…
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Word Works Around the Court
Microsoft has just started offering something of a patch for its extremely popular Word software, allowing it to comply with the recent court ruling which banned the software giant from selling copyright infringing versions of the word processing product which contained a custom XML feature. Kevin Kutz, Microsoft’s director of public affairs, said in a…
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Congress Commits to Fighting Piracy
Recently, the United States Congress agreed to provide $30 million in new funding to put towards the battle against piracy. On Monday, authorities reported another victory on the piracy front- great success on a recent year-end piracy crackdown which is code-named Operation Holiday Hoax. These new pledged funds will target personnel and programs which were…
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Microsoft Promises Choices to the EU Commission
Microsoft's offer of allowing Windows users to choose which Internet browser they use has been accepted by the European Commission, ending its antitrust investigation of the company's impressive position in the browser market. The company promises it will offer users of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 a choice screen through which they can…
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Russia and U.S. Talk Internet Security
The United States has begun planning talks with Russia and a United Nations arms control committee to strengthen Internet security and limit military use of cyberspace. American and Russian officials have very different interpretations of the talks so far, but the simple fact that the United States is even participating represents a significant policy shift…
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Hackers Use Amazon’s Cloud
Security researchers for Amazon recently spotted the Zeus botnet running an unauthorized command and control center on the company's EC2 cloud computing infrastructure. This is the first known time that Amazon Web Services' cloud infrastructure has been used for this type of illegal activity, according to onw of the security researchers in question. The hackers…
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Companies Train Autistic Employees
A steadily growing movement has begun around the world, in an effort to help transform the unique attributes of high-functioning autistic adults into sought-after job skills. This movement would also, some proponents say, make use of a large portion of the population that has been completely ignore up till now. The company Specialisterne in Denmark…
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Electronic Textbooks Finally
Novels and newspapers especially have been moving briskly from paper to pixels, with textbooks having yet to find the perfect electronic home. They are readable on laptops and smartphones, but the displays can be seriously eye-taxing due to the nature of textbooks. Even dedicated e-readers with their crisp printlike displays have trouble handling textbook staples…
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UK Woman is Allowed to Identify her Wikipedia Wrong-doer
A businesswoman who had been harassed by an anonymous Wikipedia contributor just won a landmark legal battle to have her accuser's identity revealed. The victim reportedly had someone write 'confidential and sensitive' details about her professional life and that of her child's on her online encyclopedia page. She also received anonymous threatening letters suggesting that…
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