Many visitors to the site constantly ask me about how they should go about setting up their own blog. It is actually a very easy process, and something that I encourage everyone to do. As a thank you to everyone that reads and supports the El Paso News I am offering an online coupon you …
Category Archive: Technology
News and opinion on technology and the future of the Internet.
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Aug 07
Automatic Renewal Scams: How to beat them: XM Radio, a case study
In my opinion, one of the most abusive techniques employed by companies is the “give me your credit card” and by the way; “you are signing up for automatic renewals”. The most obvious reason companies do this is because the sales cycle is the most expensive component of the company’s revenue stream. Eliminating sales efforts …
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Jul 02
Facebook is changing your address book without your knowledge
If you use the Facebook app on your smartphone chances are that your telephone’s address book has been changed by Facebook. That’s right, the friends and family members on your phone’s address book have been updated to show a @facebook.com email address. It didn’t add the alternate email address and it didn’t ask your permission; …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.elpasonews.org/2012/07/facebook-is-changing-your-address-book-without-your-knowledge/
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Feb 09
What, my browser is too new for your website?
As a web developer I constantly run into situations that remind me that clients and advertising agencies do not fully comprehend the website development industry. It is as if the marketplace considers an Internet presence as nothing more than a necessary exercise designed to be able to state; “yes, we have a website”. The Internet …
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Feb 01
MegaUpload: A Warning to Users of Free Services
The potential loss of millions of user’s legitimate data is a wakeup call for those who rely on free services for business and other data protection services. The Internet has dramatically changed the way we do business but it has also created a self-serving mentality that everything is free for the taking, even for business …
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Oct 25
AT&T Scam: Landline Early Termination Fees
I have recently noticed that AT&T has quietly begun to tack on Early Termination Fees to landlines. As a cell phone user, for many years, I am cognizant of Early Termination Fees by cell phone providers, but it appears that one of AT&T’s reactions to its eroding market share by cell phone and VoIP service …
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Oct 13
RIM Outage Reinforces the Need to take Control of Business Assets
The recent outage of the Blackberry network reinforces the need for all businesses to start analyzing the danger of relying on one provider to provide critical business services to companies. Research in Motion, the back-bone of the Blackberry connectivity tool, suffered a world-wide system shutdown on Monday, October 10, 2011 and three days later it …
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Aug 26
Blogging and Personal Responsibility; Flights of fancy should be ignored
“I am David Karlsruher. Some time ago, I wrote a blog about Stuart L. Leeds wherein I made statements regarding him which were inaccurate and which I should not have made. I publicaly (sic) apologize to Stuart L. Leeds for having done so.” A public apology, by a local blogger, for words written in defiance …
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Feb 29
Wikileaks and STRATFOR: Mexican/Israeli/Russian/Georgian Conspiracy and Mexican Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), oh and sexual shenanigans
Opinion, Technology, World news
by Martín Paredes
February 29, 2012
As some of you already know and for the edification of those that do not, some of the most significant things that interest me are technology, international intrigue and Mexican geopolitics. So when Anonymous accessed and Wikileaks started publishing internal emails from the private intelligence firm STRATFOR, I just couldn’t wait to get my hands …
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Tags: cartels, commentary, drug violence, intelligence, julian assange, México, spies, STRATFOR, uav, wikileaks
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