Archive for September, 2009

Welcome to the fourth week of the daily edition of CobWEBs, the flagship podcast of the Cynical Bastards! For those who don’t remember from the other episodes, this is a new format for the show as we are going to try giving you daily bite sized chunks of our patented brand of cynicism over everything in SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "CobWEBs Daily Edition – Behavioral ads – an ... Full story

Tonight’s show with myself and Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins is about the whole idea of behavioral targeting of ads and a result of a post of his today over at SiliconANGLE. As usual we don’t see eye to eye on the idea but maybe not as much as you might think. We also have a few words Full story

Someone seems to be forgetting to tell large corporations that there is a recession going on. Disney recently bought Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion, Dell is buying Perot Systems for $3.9 billion, Xerox is purchasing Affiliated Computer Services for $6.4 billion and now there is a rumor that all of these deals will pale in comparison SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Rumor: Comcast Buying NBC Universal For $35 Billion", ... Full story

I didn’t plan on writing anymore at this point about Sidewiki since I figured I had already said my piece but I ran across this via Doc Searle’s blog in the comments (where I left one as well but seems to be caught in the moderation queue). W. Ian Blanton expressed his feeling about Sidewiki Full story

I’m not suggesting that this will fix any spelling errors or shorten any possible rambling posts but thanks to Google’s just released Translate widget you can now select your language of choice to read our content in. At this point there are 51 languages available to be translated in and when you visit this blog Full story

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It was expected that Microsoft would attempt in some fashion to downplay Google’s Chrome Frame plugin that is designed to replace Internet Explorer’s web rendering engine with the one that power’s Google’s own Chrome browser. Of course they didn’t let us down in that fashion calling the plugin as a security threat for users Full story

This one is really hard to let you know about without wanting to bang my head against the keyboard.It seems that the growing business of restoring a woman’s virginity in Egypt is making at least one Egyptian scholar very angry. Now of course we all know that once that cherry is plucked there’s just no Full story

We’re not a health technology blog here at SiliconANGLE, but about once every month or two, a piece of tech from the health business comes along that’s so advanced and utterly cool that it’d be irresponsible not to pass it along. Casey Kazan at The Daily Galaxy translated into plain English some truly remarkable and bizarre Coming Soon: Anti-AIDS Cream is a ... Full story

The saga of Google and Wilson, Wyo.-based Rocky Mountain Bank just keeps getting odder and odder. According to CNET, it has now been confirmed that the unintended recipient of the email containing sensitive information on 1,300 customers of Rocky Mountain Bank was never even opened: “Rocky Mountain Bank, working with Google (through court order), confirmed on Thursday Article originally published by StarterTech.comGoogle Says Mis-Sent Email ... Full story