John’s Blog

Since I am an avid reader of tech news, I thought I would integrate that into my blog. I tried a few different methods of doing this and have found the best way is to add rss agragation to this page and have it pull from a feed of news stories I have read. I am still in the process of testing it, but it should be working. Right now it will show the top 10 latest stories. Feedback is always welcomed.

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1. Chrome suffers first security flaw - On Wednesday, researchers announced a flaw in how the Google Chrome browser behaves with undefined handlers. An exploit provided as a demonstration crashes the new browser. In an article on the Securiteam site, Rishi Narang from Evilfingers says a crash can occur without user interaction. If a user is provided a malicious link with an undefined [...]
2. Broadband price war brews - Verizon Communications and AT&T have thrown the first blows in an impending broadband pricing war. Last week, Verizon Communications said it will offer six months of free DSL service to new customers who sign up for a one-year contract and also use the company’s traditional landline voice service. The promotion is available until the end of [...]
3. Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces - Google wants to help you put a name to that face. With a face recognition feature set to launch at noon PDT Tuesday, Google’s Picasa Web Albums will help users label their photos with the names of subjects. That and other changes to the photo-sharing site are joined by a new beta version of the accompanying [...]
4. Comcast to place limits on Internet use - Starting October 1, Comcast will cap its customers’ monthly use of the Internet to 250 gigabytes per account. That’s the equivalent of 50 million e-mails or 124 standard-definition movies for all residential high-speed Internet customers, Reuters reported. Comcast said customers who exceed the limit may be called by Comcast’s Customer Security Assurance group, and those who go [...]
5. Feds want to cut off cell phone cancellation fees - The Federal Communications Commission is taking on telecom companies and trying to bring down the costs when you cancel your cell phone plan. Early cancellation fees can cost as much as a car payment. “You cancel, they charge you. You wanna change providers they charge you. It’s terrible,” said Shane Coakley, who had to pay $275 to [...]
6. Apple’s IPhone Must Avoid The Razr Trap - SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- The maker of a hot-selling revolutionary phone cuts its price to spur more mass-market demand. Sound familiar? That happened to the Razr, and while the move spurred sales for a while, Motorola (MOT) couldn’t duplicate the success because it failed to innovate. Motorola’s stock is trading now near multiyear lows as the [...]
7. Five Reasons NOT To Buy The 3G iPhone - To be sure, the 3G iPhone announced during yesterday’s WWDC keynote is a big improvement over the original. But there are still a few detractors to keep certain people away. Here are five reasons explaining why you may want to avoid the 3G iPhone. 5. The Camera. Apple made no improvements to the camera at all, [...]
8. Apple releases Mac OS X 10.5.3 - Apple has released the latest version of Mac OS X Leopard, just weeks before its annual developers’ conference. Mac OS X 10.5.3 is now available for downloading from Apple’s site or through the Software Update process. Dozens of bugs are fixed with the new release for products like iCal, Mail, Time Machine, and others. Apple is getting [...]
9. Windows 7 demo at D6: Really? Thats it? - During the joint Gates/Ballmer opening interview at the D6 conference on Tuesday (all stories), the audience was treated to an early look at Windows 7, which, according to Ballmer, will ship to customers in late 2009. The demo showed a full-screen multitouch interface embedded in the operating system. We saw a demo of a Surface-like [...]
10. Samsung Shows 256GB SSD, Plans Launch This Year - Samsung Electronics plans to launch within this year a flash memory-based solid-state disk that boasts a 256GB capacity and high-speed interface, it said Monday. The drive, which was unveiled in prototype form at a Samsung event in Taipei, has the same form factor as a 9.5-millimeter high 2.5-inch hard-disk drive for which it is designed to [...]