HAVING MY SAY

ILYA ZHITOMIRSKIY CO-FOUNDER OF DIASPORA DIES AT 22

22 year old tech genius, Ilya Zhitomirskiy has died of still to be determined causes yesterday.  He was one of the founders of the social media site, "Diaspora" that stressed privacy controls.  Very tragic.

Ilya Zhitomirskiy

APPLE I PHONE 4S FANS ALREADY LINING UP!

Apple fans queue at the Regent Street Apple Store in order to be the first to buy the new iPhone 4S when it's launched on Friday, October, 14 in London, England.

FIRST!!!!!!

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IBM WATSON COMPUTER BEATS JEOPARDY CHAMPS?

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Did Watson, IBM's sharp supercomputer beat former Jeopardy champs, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter?  The results will be televised for the next three evenings on Jeopardy! 

iPAD DATA STOLEN FROM THOUSANDS OF USERS!

120,000 users of the very popular iPAD had their data allegedly stolen by two men who were charged, despite the fact that they were apparently only doing this to one up each other and boast that they were able to exploit the security vulnerablities of A T and T.  Reportedly celebrities are also included as victims in this crime, New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Diane Sawyer and former White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel.

LOT MORE ON THIS STORY HERE

KAMA SUTRA VIRUS DON'T DOWLOAD!

Computer users should avoid downloading a Kama Sutra Powerpoint presentation or risk having their machines infected by an insidious Trojan virus that could totally destroy their PC.

SCARY DETAILS HERE

IS NETFLIX KILLING REDBOX? NOT SO QUICK

Redbox, a subsidiary of Coinstar, saw its sales fall 25% in the fourth quarter because people were renting less DVDs than predicted, even for $1! (lack of good titles) This would probably bode well for its main rival, Netflix, (that is progressing rapidly from rental by mail service to an on demand video streaming over the Internet company), but their sales were down too, just not nearly as much.

MORE ON THIS STORY HERE

SHARP IBM SUPERCOMPUTER WATSON BEATS JEOPARDY CHAMPS!

IBM Watson supercomputer took on Jeopardy's biggest champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter and soundly beat them in an exhibition round of the popular game.

FULL STORY AND VIDEO HERE

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MYSPACE TO CUT HALF ITS STAFF

MySpace has announced that it is going to cut about half of its staff, about 600 out of 1000 workers effective immediately.  The onetime very popular website has been usurped by trendier social network sites like Facebook and Twitter in recent years.

FULL STORY HERE

FACEBOOK NOT ENDING BY MARCH 15TH

Rumors that the social network giant, Facebook was shutting down on March 15th have spread across the Internet in warp speed, but the hoax was most likely the work of the wacky Weekly World News website that caused the worldwide panic and had Facebook's half a billion users wondering what they would do with all of their newly available free time! 

MORE ON THIS STORY HERE  

APPLE MAC APP STORE OPENED 1/6/11

Computer giant Apple launched its MAC App Store, a place where consumers can buy, download, install, re-download and update their apps.

FURTHER DETAILS HERE