A New Black Market

Because I’m bored: Go sell sex toys in Alabama.

You Like My Electronic Clothes, Sahib?

CNN: A London designer is designing handbags that won’t open unless you’re the owner. Through the use of biometrics, she’s designing handbags with a simple, small, discreet fingerprint device that only opens for the user.
For those women who carry their entire lives in their handbags, this is quite handy indeed.
You can see the purse hereInformation [...]

The Future of Broadband

In 1996, the FCC passed the Telecommunications Act that fostered the growth of the telecommunications industry. CNET has written an informative article on the need to change policies. Since 1996, internet and communications technology has dramatically changed. We no longer use our 28.8kb modems to dial-up to our ISPs. Instead we use cable, DSL, or [...]

Who’s Invading Your Country

CNN: Iraqi militants have taken seven hostages – three Indians, three Kenyans and an Egyptian. They demanded that the companies and governments of these men immeadiately withdraw their presence from Iraq. If their demands were not met, they would begin beheading a hostage every 72 hours.
India, Kenya, and Egypt do not have any troops in [...]

No Kidding! File Sharing May Not be Harmful After All

Guardian: A new study is out that claims that file sharing is not the cause for the decline in music sales. The study hypothesized that if file sharing was the cause, then the songs that were the most abundant in the file sharing world, would have the lowest sales. They showed that the opposite happened. [...]