Month: October 2013

When Koset Surakomol decided to have a sex change operation, the company she worked for told her co-workers that the man they’d labored alongside for a dozen years should be addressed as a woman going forward. Read the original post by Boston.com

Don’t let hackers get at those love letters you sent with your Gmail account! Read the original post by Nick Mediati

LinkedIn released what, on the surface, sounds like a great new feature: Intro. It lets you have fancy business-centric HTML content injected right in your emails. If the word injected seems odd, it should. The way Intro is implemented, it destroys security and privacy in mail. Scratch the great sounding […] Read the original post…

Cameta Camera via eBay offers the factory-refurbished Nikon Coolpix S9500 18.1-Megapixel WiFi Digital Camera in Black for $179.95 with free shipping. (Adorama Camera via eBay offers it for just pennies more.) It’s the lowest total price we could find for a refurb by $43. It features built-in WiFi and GPS, […] Read the original post…

New versions of Apple’s signature consumer photo editing and management software—iPhoto for Mac and iPhoto for iOS on both the iPhone and iPad—have been updated with fresh enhancements to emphasize iCloud integration and 64-bit compatibility alongside its debut of OS X 10.9 Mavericks. While Apple has been more active on […] Read the original post…

1SaleADay via eBay offers the Vivitar Digital Slave DSLR Camera Flash, model no. SF-3000, for $12.99 with free shipping. (B&H Photo-Video charges a buck more.) That’s the lowest total price we could find by $2; several stores charge beyond $20. This slave flash can be used with any digital camera […] Read the original post…

Software-defined networking might mean fewer jobs as some tasks get automated, but there will still be room for skilled networking pros to build and manage the new systems. Read the original post by Tom Hollingsworth

A federal jury in Texas found that Apple had not infringed on a patent related to CDMA and HSPA communications technologies owned by patent-licensing firm Wi-LAN. The jury also found Wednesday that two of the claims of U.S. patent no. RE37,802 patent were invalid. Wi-LAN began litigation against several technology companies for […] Read the…

Adorama via eBay offers the Canon Powershot SX280 HS 12.1-Megapixel WiFi Digital Camera in Black, model no. 8224B001, or Red, model no. 8225B001, for $189.99 with free shipping. That’s $17 under our mention from just three days ago, and the lowest total price we could find now by $49. The […] Read the original post…

Like Apple, rival Samsung is apologizing to Chinese consumers after the country’s state media criticized the vendor for failing to fix glitches in several of its phones. Read the original post by Michael Kan, IDG News Service

B&H Photo Video offers the Canon EOS 6D 20.2-Megapixel Digital SLR Camera with the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM Lens, model no. 8035B009, bundled with the Canon PIXMA PRO-100 Color Wireless Inkjet Photo Printer, model no. 6228B002, Canon 13×19″ Semi-Gloss Photo Paper Plus 50-Pack, model no. 1686B064, and SanDisk […] Read the original post…

It’s the end of an era. At Tuesday’s iPad and Mac Event, Apple refreshed the MacBook Pro with Retina Display with Intel’s fourth-generation “Haswell” Core processors and other enhancements. In the process, the company quietly put to bed the last remaining Mac computers that include an internal “SuperDrive.” For now, the […] Read the original…