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by Kevin Fogarty

Kevin Fogarty writes about enterprise IT for ITworld.

Brit Bikers smash and grab at Apple Store

Posted Oct 10, 2011 - 10:51 am

Apple has a reputation for being popular among schoolchildren, artists and the beatifically inclined.
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NASA set to market headset that lets pilots (and drivers?) see through fog

Posted Mar 19, 2012 - 02:36 pm

NASA has taken the next step toward turning real life into a video game:
Is it a great gadget if its best trick is turning into something else?

Posted Jan 10, 2011 - 02:47 pm

Despite the rush of phones and tablets at CES, two products stood out for their ability to turn a favorite gadget into something less cool and more useful.
Apple sics Secret Service on artist for demonstrating demo computers in Apple Store

Posted Jul 08, 2011 - 03:22 pm

More evidence Apple is Big Brother, not the insurgency:
New York artist Kyle McDonald likes to use candid photos of people as part of his art, and he's willing to be mildly inappropriate to get them.
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Details on CableGate WikiLeaker Bradley Manning

Posted Mar 03, 2011 - 01:21 pm

After months in what was often solitary confinement, the U.S.
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Ellison to speak (and speak and speak) at Oracle/SAP trial

Posted Nov 08, 2010 - 03:33 pm

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is scheduled to speak this week at the copyright infringement trial Oracle lodged against SAP.
Microsoft, Google, Mozilla unite, pointlessly, on 'Do Not Track'

Posted Feb 14, 2011 - 04:40 pm

The Do Not Track features in IE, Firefox and Chrome add a pleading note to your HTTP header asking that you not be taken advantage of.
Boy Scout award promotes eventual Robot/Human Apocalypse

Posted Apr 14, 2011 - 10:36 am

If a new merit badge inspires them to tech-inspired inventiveness, Boy Scouts will soon be doing more in the woods that cutting things, setting fire to things and learning to swear by repeating the same couple of bad words over and over again, as I did as a kid and as I've seen my own kids' friends do.
Why it matters if the iPhone is spying on you

Posted Apr 25, 2011 - 03:20 pm

I don't know if it's the creepiness or iPhone's own celebrity, but news that Steve Jobs' adorable little device is tracking the movements of its owners in appalling detail got the kind of public reaction you usually see only following a declaration of war or another Lindsay Lohan sobriety outrage.
Cool third-party cloud security apps miss one big problem

Posted Feb 16, 2011 - 01:51 pm

A whole series of startups have cropped up to try to address concerns about the security of the cloud. Most of them don't really address the core issue, though.

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